Tornado Alley (PROG)

[Alex G]

machines will replace lifeforms?

nahhh

have you taken the red pill? lol

as for sci-fi, when i was a youngster i loved reading Arthur C. Clarke

i think this one's my favorite

Childhood's End... written in 1953
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood%27s_End

http://www.amazon.com/Childhoods-End-Arthur-C-Clarke/dp/0345347951
This review is from: Childhood's End (Mass Market Paperback)
It sounds like a story you've heard before: great alien masters descend on Earth and take control of the world, ushering in a golden age that may be cleverly disguised creative slavery. But Clarke's legendary novel (equal to _Rendezvous with Rama_ and _2001: A Space Odyssey_ in fame) isn't about a human rebellion against alien overlords, but the evolution of humanity into its next stage, and the ultimate dwarfing power of the unknowable order of the cosmos. The narrative glides between different characters and different eons, occasionally with a seeming clumsiness that turns out to be purposeful plotting devices. The pay-off is sublime science-fiction poetry that shows the genre's power to transcend human drama and fly into the infinite. The sheer scope of its conclusions leaves the reader wiser and sadder, the sign of a superb novel.