Thanks for this, I have the original Mount and Blade but getting Warband would be nice due to the mods that moved over there.

Of those books, I only read Fahrenheit 451 and Ender's Game (although I have read Ender's Game multiple times, I love it). I still am meaning to read Snow Crash though and The Legacy of Heorot sounds interesting. As for Asimov, I read some of his short stories but would like to read more.

One of my favorite Science Fiction books that I just read recently was Dune.

Thank you! You've got some pretty taste in books

Damn, I thought I would be the only one here....must sabotage the others :P

Thank you.

My first thought was that the fourth book was "The War of the Worlds" but I understood it was wrong later.

Wait, this isn't Skyrim...

Thanks! With books sci-fi isn't my favourite genre, so of those ones I only read Fahrenheit 451 (which I liked quite much).

Btw: 4th was rather difficult to find.

Thanks for the nice puzzle! It wasn't hard for me even though I only read Fahrenheit 451 and The Gods Themselves. My favourite fiction authors are Strugatskie brothers (though they are kind of local scale authors, not sure if their works are translated into English).

Very nice giveaway! Thank you!
(Already owned though, so good luck to the entrants!) :)
Of the books in the puzzle, I'm afraid I've only read Ender's Game, but was also able to guess the answer for "Fahrenheit 451". The clue for Ender's Game was also one of the toughest, but it's the second book that came to mind, after "War of the Worlds" like edse also first thought. :)
The other clues are, imho, great. Especially the second one -- that had me on a nice chain of small discoveries. :) And I hadn't actually run across a description of Snow Crash before -- I think I'll definitely need to give it a read someday.

As for my favorite sci fi book... haven't read as many of the standards as I probably should, so I guess Andromeda Strain might be it for me. It was my first Crichton book (post- watching Jurassic Park) and it hooked me into the rest of his catalog.

Great puzzle, and interesting books! I've read Fahrenheit 451 and have heard of Ender's Game but never actually read it myself. As well, I've read other Asimov works but not The Gods Themselves in particular. Favorite sf.. that's a hard question. I have a strange soft-spot for dystopian or attempted utopian themes, so the two that spring to mind are Brave New World and 1984, but I've enjoyed The War of the Worlds, Fahrenheit 451, The Invisible Man, etc. There are a lot more that I like but just can't recall right now. Thanks for making this and for creating the giveaway :]

Thanks for the puzzle. Brute forced number 4 which is sad because I loved Ender's Game. It makes sense now but the hints aren't exactly the most descriptive.

Thanks for the puzzle. I have read Fahrenheit 451, but have not read the other novels mentioned in the puzzle. The puzzle was definitely challenging for those that aren't familiar with any science fiction novel. Though, I have read Ringworld by Larry Niven and the Hyperion series by Dan Simmons. The only thing I thought was difficult was number 4 until you updated the clue.

Thanks for the giveaway, the puzzle, AND the reminder to read more sci-fi.

Read Snow Crash and Fahrenheit 451, while the rest you referenced there are still on my neverending list of must-reads.

Hard to say what I'd consider a favorite. Some days I'll say Neuromancer by William Gibson, other days Snow Crash or Jack Vances novels involving Cugel from his Tales of the Dying Earth.

Thanks for the puzzle. It took me a while to remember it was 451, not 471. :-] (Not entering, I already have the game.)

Also, good luck everyone, I really want to win but someone will get a great game :)

I found all the correct books (having only read Ender's game and Fahrenheit 451) and just cycled through the alphabet for the 'The Gods Themselves' question :D Good thing it was C :D

Also my favorite Sci-fi novel is the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

had to brute force number 4 but it was a good challenge :)

I've read the Ender series (and the Shadow series) as well as Fahrenheit 451. Great stuff. Had some problems with #1 since I've actually never read any Asimov, but was able to work through it.

Thanks for the great giveaway, and the fantastic puzzle!

Thanks for the great puzzle! Had no idea on 4 (ironically I've wanted to read Ender's Game for some time) and I was confused by the wording of 1. I kept thinking Susan Calvin, but also kept looking for a famous fictional biochemist, lol.

One lesser known short story I enjoy is The Nine Billion Names of God by Arthur C. Clarke. The last sentence is chillingly memorable.

Thanks a lot for the giveaway first :DDD
(I will enter tomorrow when I will have 30P)
The puzzle was seriously hard! but really fun :)
I made it with friend help xD

So I got a kick out of this:
List of the top 100 banned/challeneged books 2000-2009

-69. Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
The irony. It is palpable

Puzzle solved. :) Thank you for this short itinerary in science fiction literature. I knew a little about Asimov and Bradbury only as I read some novels written by them, but I didn't read the books of this puzzle. I saw the François Truffaut's Fahrenheit 451 movie version though. I am going to read it as it was a nice story.

Nice puzzle, thanks :D I only read Fahrenheit 451 and Asimov's stories. Brute forced 4, it was hard to find.

I grinned when I read "digital samurai" and immediately knew you meant Snow Crash :)

That's the only one I've read, although I've got Ender's Game on my DS (which I use as an ebook reader) and it's in my backlog, so to speak.

Fantastic giveaway, lots of fun. Gotta compliment you on those clues - they were just hard enough to make me stubborn and persistent but not so hard to make me ragequit :)

only read fahrenheit, probably wont read the rest since i already know what happens cause of googling the answers to this giveaway.

Thanks for the giveaway and the puzzle. So many great sci-fi novels I have yet to read...

Thanks for the puzzle, I've read Ender's Game otherwise I would never have found this link. Looking back from the answer I can see there are lots of clues but trying to google them didn't lead me anywhere near the right place so I probably would never have found it if I hadn't read the book. I could have brute-forced it but I had #1 wrong due to an error on my part, somehow I got Robert Silverberg's name coming up when I searched for an author who used a quote from Schiller.

I don't have a favorite book but I enjoy the Rama series by Arthur C. Clarke as well as the Hitchhiker's Guide series and pretty much anything by H.G. Wells.