Sci-Fi Lists - Top 100 Sci-Fi Books. The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2012. Isaac Asimov - The Last Question. The last question was asked for the first time, half in jest, on May 21, 2061, at a time when humanity first stepped into the light. The question came about as a result of a five dollar bet over highballs, and it happened this way: Alexander Adell and Bertram Lupov were two of the faithful attendants of Multivac. As well as any human beings could, they knew what lay behind the cold, clicking, flashing face — miles and miles of face — of that giant computer. They had at least a vague notion of the general plan of relays and circuits that had long since grown past the point where any single human could possibly have a firm grasp of the whole.
Multivac was self-adjusting and self-correcting. For decades, Multivac had helped design the ships and plot the trajectories that enabled man to reach the Moon, Mars, and Venus, but past that, Earth’s poor resources could not support the ships. The energy of the sun was stored, converted, and utilized directly on a planet-wide scale. “Sure you are. 10 Science Fiction Novels You Pretend to Have Read (And Why You Should Actually Read Them) 10 great science fiction novels that have been banned. @djscruffy: And that's why you're a heathen and should be burned at the stake. @djscruffy: In defense of public schools, I would suggest that the reason many of these books are challenged so often is that they're frequently included in school curriculums and libraries. I grew up in a state that, according to these links, engaged in book-burning less than a decade before my birth.
That makes me shudder. But I'm also the child of a public school teacher and am familiar with my mother's and many of her peers' views on children's reading materials. Despite the generally conservative views in my community, my elementary school encouraged me to read A Wrinkle in Time and The Giver and Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret.
In high school, an English teacher steered me towards Animal Farm and a social sciences teacher encouraged me to try Consider Phlebas. I suppose I've wandered a bit. Most of us really try to teach the kids to think, rather than becoming nice little automatons. 50 Sci-Fi/Fantasy Novels That Everyone Should Read. Science Fiction - A Nerd’s Guide to Reading. 365 tomorrows : A New Flash of Science Fiction Every Day. Science Fiction Books | Top Science Fiction | Sci Fi Books | Free Ebooks. Sci-Fi map. How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later. First, before I begin to bore you with the usual sort of things science fiction writers say in speeches, let me bring you official greetings from Disneyland.
I consider myself a spokesperson for Disneyland because I live just a few miles from it — and, as if that were not enough, I once had the honour of being interviewed there by Paris TV. For several weeks after the interview, I was really ill and confined to bed. I think it was the whirling teacups that did it. Elizabeth Antebi, who was the producer of the film, wanted to have me whirling around in one of the giant teacups while discussing the rise of fascism with Norman Spinrad... an old friend of mine who writes excellent science fiction.
We also discussed Watergate, but we did that on the deck of Captain Hook’s pirate ship. Little children wearing Mickey Mouse hats — those black hats with the ears — kept running up and bumping against us as the cameras whirred away and Elizabeth asked unexpected questions. “What does that mean?” An Interactive Guide to NPR's List of Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books.