What are some good science fiction books with no humans?
The characters in Charles Stross's Saturn's Children and Neptune's Brood are literally post-human - the characters are all synthetic life forms left behind by a long extinct human race.I'll second Greg Egan's Incandescence, but I think that even better than that is his earlier novel Diaspora, in which there are a handful of incidental human characters early on, but the main characters and the thrust of the story concerns post-humans who are mostly algorithms instantiated in a hardened polity of computational substrate.Strictly speaking, the citizens of Iain M. Banks's Culture novels aren't human - something he points out explicitly in Surface Detail, but which is easy to forget in most of the novels.
If humanity became extinct and only three books survived, which three books together would give possible alien visitors the most absurd picture of us?
Arthur C. Clarke wrote a science fiction short story on that subject. The title of the story was “History Lesson”. It wasn’t one or three books that they found, but an old cartoon.Aliens from another planet come to Earth, where life is extinct. They find an old cartoon, figure out how to replicate and run the film. The scientists spend years studying the cartoon, trying to get a handle on prehistoric mammalian life on earth.History Lesson - Wikipediahttps://siliconshelf.files.wordp...
Are there sci-fi books where humans coexist with dinosaurs?
A Sound of Thunder and Other StoriesWith his disarmingly simple style and complex imagination, Ray Bradbury has seized the minds of American readers for decades.This collection showcases thirty-two of Bradbury's most famous tales in which he lays bare the depths of the human soul. The thrilling title story, A Sound of Thunder, tells of a hunter sent on safari -- sixty million years in the past. But all it takes is one wrong step in the prehistoric jungle to stamp out the life of a delicate and harmless butterfly -- and possibly something else much closer to home ...
Ramayana and Mahabharata - a science fiction ?
I was just wondering if is it possible that Mahabharata and Ramayana maybe just science fiction ? I have gone through different websites which have published proves that the events of Mahabharata and Ramayana are correct as per the " Astronomical Dating " and the places mentioned in the epics actually exists. But my point of view is, what about Harry Potter ? The places mentioned in Harry Potter are also real and actually exists. So, lets consider a scenario when a catastrophe occurs on earth and human life become extinct ( like those of dinosaurs ) and somehow the whole of Harry Potter gets preserved. So, after thousands of years life starts again on earth ( just like what happened after dinosaurs - humans evolved ) and they found the Harry Potter, so for them its a piece of history since there is nowhere written in it that its just a fiction and not a reality. So they would start considering Harry as a god and they will also find that the places mentioned in it also exist. So for them, someone called Harry Potter existed and he have magical powers. Same analogy can be considered for the events of Mahabharata and Ramayana. Maybe they wrote the whole text just as a sci-fi with actual reference to the places known to them at that time and npw we are consodering that events as real ?
Good title for my sci-fi novel?
I'm writing a sci-fi novel directed toward the teenage crowd. I've got some good characters and a decent plot, but I've been banging my head against the keyboard for weeks trying to think up a title. I'm looking for something not too long that ties into the plot if possible. Here's some background information about the story: Fifteen-year-old Oliver Stubbs leads a monotonous life as a wanna-be animal researcher. One night, he sneaks out of the house to follow a shadowy figure that has been lurking around his house for days and ends up stowed away in an alien spaceship. Oliver is inadvertently taken back to the mother ship, where he befriends the callous but shy alien Kel. He learns that the aliens, called Bluebloods, have been collecting specimens of every type of plant and animal on Earth in an effort to keep the creatures from going extinct due to human influence. Although Oliver is stunned to discover the intergalactic society, he nonetheless wishes to stay on the ship and never return home. But when a plot to kill the humans off with an alien plague is uncovered, Oliver and Kel must overturn the Bluebloods' corrupt government and save the human race. (Side details: Bluebloods look almost exactly like humans, but are slightly taller with pale blue skin and dark blue hair, plus a pair of emotion-sensing antennae called 'vectors'. Kel's character is really interesting. His personality is that of a rude and snappy yet easily embarrassed teenage boy. He at first finds Oliver's enthusiastic and curious personality extremely annoying, but eventually warms up to and grows to care deeply for him.) There is also a subplot following the life of bumbling CIA agent Kent Fletcher as he tries to keep his job while proving that he Earth is under tthreat from an alien attack. The story overall has a lighthearted and humorous tone, but does get dramatic in some parts. Please suggest some titles! Or any feedback you may have! Thanks, Gina (PS: I did have one idea that might work. The aliens call the plague the Flood, so maybe I could call it that. Tell me what you think!)