Engineers...

"I'm standing here in pieces, and you're having delusions of grandeur." - C-3PO

Many of the earliest Sci-Fi writers of this century and the last were scientists or military men in their other lives. The legacy they left was a strong grounding in scientific principles that keeps Sci-Fi believable and helps maintain its reputation.

• David Brin
  • Uplift War (An alien race plans to invade a Human/Chimp world using superior technology)
  • Sundiver (Humanity finally discovers how to enter the corona of the sun)
• Joe Haldeman
  • The Forever War (A physics student is conscripted into a war that takes him beyond theory)
• Larry Niven
  • Integral Trees (Humanity adapts itself to a free-fall environment in an attempt to regain its freedom)
• Lois McMaster Bujold
  • Falling Free (A genetic masterpiece, the four-armed Quaddies are about to become obsolete)
• Neil Stephenson
  • Cryptonomicon (A complicated WWII classic from a programmer's twisted mind)
• Orson Scott Card
  • Ender's Shadow (Bean was only 4 when he was sent to the Battle School to learn to kill the enemies of mankind)
• Robert Heinlein
  • I Will Fear No Evil (An old man's brain is transplanted into a young woman's mind)
  • Starship Troopers (A boy who joins the infantry learns what warfare is like in a high-tech environment)
  • Beyond This Horizon (Humanity has been altered genetically for generations, but some want to change this system)
  • Tunnel in the Sky (Students in a wilderness survival class are transported to a deserted planet- but no one picks them up)
  • The Number of the Beast (4 people discover how to travel through time, between dimensions, and into worlds that exist only in an author's imagination)
• Ursula K. LeGuin
  • The Dispossessed (A scientist from a democratic socialist anarchy discovers the secrets of instantaneous communication- and revolution)

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