32 Sci-Fi novels that you should add to your reading list

Re:32 Sci-Fi novels that you should add to your reading list by Retric on Wednesday July 02, 2008 @12:05PM (#234196)

Interesting list.

Timeline by Michael Crichton is only worth reading because of how it portrays history. As sci-fi or entertainment it’s horrible and it basicly assumes everyone is an stupid but it does show history far more accurately than most books.

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Re:32 Sci-Fi novels that you should add to your reading list by marcus on Wednesday July 02, 2008 @12:35PM (#234238)

The entire Timeline plot is a bit pathetic, your company builds a time machine and what does it do with it? Go back to the 1960s and buy Berkshire Hathaway stock? Of course not where is the money in that...

They go and study the 14th century using the time machine so they can build an accurate historical theme park.

Fail

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Re:32 Sci-Fi novels that you should add to your reading list by william42 on Wednesday July 02, 2008 @06:01PM (#234609)

There's a 2004 movie called Primer where the main characters made a time machine and the first thing they think of is making money off the stock market(though at lower levels, since their machine can only go back to the point it's turned on)

After that, though, it gets weird.

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