Here's one: Joseph Heller - Catch 22. Read THAT, and the world begins to make more sense.

I've read it three times. First time it was funny. Second time it was funny yet bit sad and though provoking. Third time it turned out to be all fucking truth, from beginning to the end, including all completely absurd parts. It's way more than usually quoted witty bits.

Here's one: Joseph Heller - Catch 22. Read THAT, and the world begins to make more sense.

I've read it three times. First time it was funny. Second time it was funny yet bit sad and though provoking. Third time it turned out to be all fucking truth, from beginning to the end, including all completely absurd parts. It's way more than usually quoted witty bits.

im interested becuase it stimulated some idea of Meshuggah - Catch 33

The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawkins (A more modern version of Brief History of Time with pretty pictures. )

Cosmos by Carl Sagan (just a really amazing mind with a gift for teaching)

seconded!

Can anyone recommend me a creatively written sci-fi?

Can anyone recommend me a creatively written sci-fi?

NEUROMANCER NEUROMANCER N--okay I'll stop. A friend lent me a compilation of short SF stories a number of years back, I think it was just called the "Penguin books sci-fi anthology"-- replace 'anthology' with 'compilation,' perhaps. Can't quite remember. Some of the best and most creative SF I've read, in any case. Some real gems in there.
~Josiah

Any Iain M Banks is a good bet creative sci-fi wise - Consider Phlebas or Use of Weapons, or Feersum Endjinn if you're feeling brave.

I'm re-reading now a book called "de Tales a Demócrito" (from Thales to Democritus), one amongst the books they threw to my face when I was studying philosophy. It's fun, those pre-socratic guys said a lot of crazy non-sense... For Heraclitus, the sun is as big as a bucket!

Can anyone recommend me a creatively written sci-fi?

Great question - I've been looking for some good, non-cheesy sci-fi as well. Good suggestions people!

Are comic books *cough* graphic novels *cough* allowed?

Im currently reading Midnight Express by Billy Hayes and William Hoffer. really good so far for a recollection book. i heard the movies awesome too.

Swan Song - Robert McCammon.

Easily one of the best books ever written.

Swan Song - Robert McCammon.

Easily one of the best books ever written.

I love his "Boy's life", mundane story with supernatural stuff added seamlessly. I love such kind of writing.

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Swan Song - Robert McCammon.

Easily one of the best books ever written.

I haven't read any McCammon in YEARS. Need to pick some up, again. Good call!

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Im currently reading Midnight Express by Billy Hayes and William Hoffer. really good so far for a recollection book. i heard the movies awesome too.

The movie made an impression on me certainly. Shock mostly. Hard movie, but it was good. Not sure if it will have dated by now or not.

From wiki...

The Forever War is a 1974 science fiction novel by Joe Haldeman. It won the Nebula Award and Locus Award in 1975 and the Hugo Award in 1976. Both an action-laden and contemplative story of an interstellar war between humanity and the enigmatic Tauran species, it deals with themes like the inhumanity of both war and its attendant bureaucracy, as well as with the results of time dilation space travel which may cause a soldier to return to his home only after centuries have gone by.

One of my favourite sci fi books ever!