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Listopia > Curtiss's votes on the list Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books (26 Books)
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Startide Rising (The Uplift Saga, #2)
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"The dynamic style and the variety of aliens and the overall circumstances, with the action already under way."
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rated it 5 stars
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Dragonflight (Dragonriders of Pern, #1)
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"I read this as a serial in Analog Magazine, and it was the precursor to a wonderful series of stories about characters I have grown to love over many years."
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rated it 5 stars
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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
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"This first believably sentient machine I ever read about."
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rated it 4 stars
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The Mote in God's Eye (Moties, #1)
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"I loved the Crazy-Eddie philosophy; "
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rated it 4 stars
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The Uplift War (The Uplift Saga, #3)
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"In some ways even better than Startide Rising (at least humanity has some new friends), but I have to rank Startide Rising higher as the precursor to the series."
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rated it 5 stars
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Inherit the Stars
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"An intriguing concept on which to base a story, even a series; what if we found a 50,000 year old human corpse on the moon?"
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rated it 5 stars
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Lucifer's Hammer
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"The ultimate disaster story."
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rated it 5 stars
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The Demon Princes, Volume One: The Star King, The Killing Machine, The Palace of Love
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"My favorite of the Demon Prince series for the build-up to the cosmic joke on the last page."
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The Space Willies / Six Worlds Yonder
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"The Space Willies is my second faorite humorous Sci-Fi story; Alamagoosa also by Eric Frank Russell is my favorite."
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rated it 5 stars
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Have Space Suit—Will Travel
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"My favorite of Heilein's Juvenile-oriented Sci-Fi stories."
Curtiss
rated it 4 stars
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Flowers for Algernon
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"Always have a box of tissues handy when you read this or the original short story version."
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rated it 5 stars
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Downbelow Station (The Company Wars, #1)
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"One of the first stoies in C.J.Cherryh's connected universe series, I also liked Merchater's Luck which is a more intimate tale about one down-and-out ship and its crew."
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rated it 4 stars
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Dune (Dune #1)
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Mutineers' Moon (Dahak, #1)
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"Another interesting "
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rated it 5 stars
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In Death Ground (Starfire, #3)
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"The third of David Weber's dbooks based on the wargame developments he created for the boardgame Starfire."
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rated it 5 stars
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The Killing Machine (Demon Princes, #2)
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"The Kirth Gersen pulls off the biggest counterfeit money scam in Sci-Fi against an agency whose business facilitates interplanetary kidnapping syndicates."
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rated it 5 stars
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Ishmael (Star Trek: The Original Series, #23)
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"A pesonnal favorite for the inclusion of characters from the contempraneous T.V. series Her Come The Brides in a Star Trek story; not really great SF, but a fun story!"
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rated it 5 stars
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Dragonquest (Dragonriders of Pern, #2)
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Dragon Flight (Dragon Slippers, #2)
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Double Star
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Mission of Gravity (Mesklin #1)
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The Foundation Trilogy (Foundation, #1-3)
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Ringworld (Ringworld #1)
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The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda, #1)
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The Demolished Man
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The Gentle Giants of Ganymede
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