Classic Sci-Fi recommendations

[Esceptico]

I have a bit of free time and want to do some reading. Thinking of filling in some blanks of classic Sci-Fi that I haven’t read - as an example two on my list are The Forever War and Stranger in a Strange Land.

Other classics that anyone can recommend?

[Esceptico]

Thanks for the recommendations. I’ve read several of those suggested. Currently retreading Kurt Vonnegut. Also read some more Iain Banks.

[Esceptico]

MrBrightSi said:

Which of his books?

Slaughter house 5 on audiobook is brilliantly done and adds a lot more to the book than i ever got reading it. One of the things i've always kicked myself about is never going to the actual place, i was in Dresden, walked the old city saw the rebuilt frauenkirche and where the centre ends and the newer soviet architecture starts but never stayed on the other side of the bridge long enough to stumble upon the place even behind all the fencing.

Cat’s Cradle and Sirens of Titan but going to read Slaughterhouse 5 next.

[Esceptico]

popeyewhite said:

Phillip K Dick has written a number or short story anthologies, they include some modern classics you may, or may not, have heard of. Personally I found some of his lesser known stuff far more enthralling than the easy-to-transfer-to-cinema more popular tales. In terms of hard technical space opera Arthur C Clarke is quite dull I thought and something more modern like House of Suns (Reynolds) fufils my requirement for a more modern 'classic'.

I tried reading Dick when I was younger but frankly found it confusing. I think Ubik in particular stands out as a novel where I was wondering what the hell was happening! I would like to read some of his short stories as several have been used for films.