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Interesting list. For ease:

Dune (Frank Herbert) - read it
Ender’s Game (Ender Quartet) (Orson Scott Card) - read it
Starship Troopers (Robert Heinlein) - read it
Foundation (Foundation Series) (Issac Asimov) - read it
The Stars My Destination (Alfred Bester)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Author C. Clarke) - saw the movie (?)
Hyperion Cantos (Dan Simmons)
Neuromancer (William Gibson) - read it
1984 (George Orwell) - read it
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy (Douglas Adams) - read it
Ubik (Philip K. Dick) - why Ubik? The description doesn't even talk about Ubik. It talks about Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.
The Forever War (Joe Haldman) - read it
Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson) - read it
A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought) (Vernor Vinge)
Old Man's War (Cold Fire Trilogy) (John Scalzi) - read it
Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs Novels) (Richard Morgan)
Book of the New Sun (Gene Wolfe)
Player of Games (Culture) (Ian M. Banks)
The Night's Dawn (Peter F. Hamilton)
Gateway (HeeChee Saga) ( Frederick Pohl)
Spin (Robert Charles Wilson)
The Windup Girl (Paolo Bacigalupi)
Anathem (Neal Stephenson)
Blindsight (Peter Watts)
Miles Vorkosigan Saga (Lois McMaster Bujold)

So, quite a few I've read, quite a few I haven't. Of the ones I've read, I agree that they're pretty damned good, though there are others I enjoyed that aren't on this list. Also, some of these aren't really Sci fi, like Neuromancer and Snow Crash. Those are more cyberpunk.

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The ones I've read:

Dune (Frank Herbert)
Ender’s Game (Ender Quartet) (Orson Scott Card)
Starship Troopers (Robert Heinlein) -saw the movie
Foundation (Foundation Series) (Issac Asimov)
The Stars My Destination (Alfred Bester)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Author C. Clarke) - saw the movie
Hyperion Cantos (Dan Simmons)
Neuromancer (William Gibson)
1984 (George Orwell)
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
Ubik (Philip K. Dick) - why Ubik? The description doesn't even talk about Ubik. It talks about Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.
The Forever War (Joe Haldman)
Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson)
A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought) (Vernor Vinge)
Old Man's War (Cold Fire Trilogy) (John Scalzi)
Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs Novels) (Richard Morgan)
Book of the New Sun (Gene Wolfe)
Player of Games (Culture) (Ian M. Banks)
The Night's Dawn (Peter F. Hamilton)
Gateway (HeeChee Saga) ( Frederick Pohl)
Spin (Robert Charles Wilson)
The Windup Girl (Paolo Bacigalupi)
Anathem (Neal Stephenson)
Blindsight (Peter Watts)
Miles Vorkosigan Saga (Lois McMaster Bujold)

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Jeez Ox, aren't you the one with a literature degree or something? Hop to it.

So... um... are the bolded ones the ones you read or something? Also, Starship Trooper the movie and the book are two entirely different things. Like, no relation at all.

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That's like saying someone with a history degree knows every historical period. :P You also have to imagine I was a slacker so I was trying to get out of any 'mandatory' reading as much as possible. In a way my university career was not so much about gaining knowledge but about how I could get a degree without doing much at all and relying solely on my wits. It worked, but it turned out to have been a terrible decision. :roll:

Yeah, I would do things quite a bit differently if I was to start university now.

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Wouldn't we all?

No regrets though.

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I have some. :P Glad to hear you ended up where you wanted to be though J!

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Yea, I'd change a few things. Though as it turns out, I didn't need a 'real' degree to make decent cash. Makes me wonder how I'd be doing if I did have a real degree. :roll:

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I think a 'proper' degree is mostly a shortcut to better-paid jobs; i.e. it can save you a few years of toiling in the entry levels jobs. But if you are very good at what you do and are a bit lucky (maybe more than a bit, depending on your professional situation) I think it's perfectly possible to go to places without one.

I have a Master's degree and am not doing nearly as well as you are, so there you go. :roll: And while it's partially due to severe laziness on my part in my early years, I've been working pretty hard the last 2-3 years.

Exceptions are perhaps highly specialized jobs - law, engineering, medicine, etc.

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I'm still waiting to strike it rich so I can afford to go back to college and get a Phd. :(

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Just do like me and play the lottery, ie pay the fool tax. :lol:

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btw, back on topic, I just recently started reading PKD's 'The man in the high tower'. I was encouraged by the Netflix tv show, tbh, but I've only seen the first episode of that, and know the two have little in common besides the general state of the world.

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I haven't seen the series yet, but yes from what I've read about it the two are mostly similar in spirit. Not that that needs to be a problem.

On a side note, even though it's one of PKD's most appreciated novels I never really liked The Man in the High Castle much.

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I think I'm about a quarter through the book. If it continues to be what it's been so far, it's really more like 'a day in the life of an alternate universe' than some sort of cohesive story. This is fine. I like the world building and the people. It's just well written, imo, though parts are a bit hard to swallow.

Nazis colonizing Mars? In the ... err... 60s? 70s?

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:lol: Hey, if the Soviet Union could do it in Red Alert 2...

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