Recommend five (and only five) sci-fi books

[Pozatronic]

Like Whizbang's fantasy book post.....

Here are mine, in no order:

Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Dune by Frank Herbert
The Carpet Makers by Andreas Eschbach
Girl, In Landscape by Jonathan Lethem
Nova by Samuel R. Delaney

 

[Jamdin]

My top five picks in no particular order:

I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
The Stainless Steel Rat by Harry Harrison
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells

 

[papastebu]

This Alien Shore, by C.S. Friedman.
The Faded Sun Trilogy, by C.J Cherryh.
Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card.
The Integral Trees, by Roger Zelazny.
The Protector's War, by S.M. Stirling.

 

[Storm Raven]

The Integral Trees, by Roger Zelazny.

Larry Niven actually.

My five:

Foundation - Isaac Asimov
Starship Troopers - Robert Heinlein
Ringworld - Larry Niven
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke

 

[Wombat]

I have a far harder time trying to determine which scifi books to take -- they tend to date themselves very quickly.

But to that end, I shall come up with a list:

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea -- pure classic, especially in the more modern translations
Childhood's End
Ender's Game
Hyperion (multiple books in one!)
Lathe of Heaven

 

[Voadam]

Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Foundation - Isaac Asimov
I Robot - Isaac Asimov
Starship Troopers - Robert Heinlein
Any of the battletech books written by Michael Stackpole

 

[Michael Tree]

The Sparrow, by Mary Doria Russel
Light, by M. John Harrison
A Canticle for Liebowitz, by Walter M. Miller
Dune, by Frank Herbert
Red Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson

I'd also include something by William Gibson, but I'm not sure that cyberpunk counts as sci-fi.

 

[Mallus]

Valis, Philip K. Dick
Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany
Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
Neuromancer, William Gibson
Light, M. John Harrison

(psst, Michael, why wouldn't cyberpunk be consider SF?)

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

Dune, Frank Herbert. (And stop there, it's a long downhill slide).
Revelation: Space, Alistair Reynolds
Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
Foundation, Isaac Asimov
Time for the Stars, Robert Heinlein

 

[Zaukrie]

Dune
Ender's Game
Foundation
Farenheit 451
Something by Simak, but I'd have to look through the list...