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Let's talk sci-fi. For the longest time I avoided SF literature even though I always loved the genre TV shows and films. I recently got into reading since I've seen pretty much everything good and most of the less good stuff out there. So far I've gone through
The Foundation trilogy
The Gods Themselves
The End of Eternity
The Hyperion Cantos
Rendezvous With Rama
Blindsight & Echopraxia
The Forever War
Neuromancer

and I loved every one of them except the last 2 Hyperion novels (what the fuck Simmons!?) Now I've checked out some of the really recent SF novels like the 2014 Nebula award winner Ancillary Justice but after reading about 25% I found myself not interested one bit in the characters or whatever the hell was going on and I can't help but wonder if anyone these days even writes good sci-fi. Anyways I was wondering if you guys had any favorites from the last 10 years or so that aren't complete garbage?

>> No.6580182

Just stick with the older stuff. Maybe check out some of Harlan Ellison's stuff.

>> No.6580189

>>6580182
Adding more on topic Gene Wolfe's recent books are good.

>> No.6580201

>>6579879
>SF literature
contradictio in adjecto

>> No.6580475

Look into Alfred Bester

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>>6579879
> favorites from the last 10 years or so that aren't complete garbage

pic related

>> No.6580562

Recently read Childhood's End and it was good. The last third is probably a love-it-or-hate-it situation.

I thought it was good; it developed pretty interestingly, but it's pretty "out there".

You could also check out Philip K. Dick and 2001: A Space Odyssey.

>> No.6580644

>>6580475

alfred bester GOAT

demolished man and the stars my destination

>> No.6580656

>>6580481
this

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>>6579879
Have you tried Banks?

>> No.6580677

>>6579879
>Anyways I was wondering if you guys had any favorites from the last 10 years or so that aren't complete garbage?
Nope, which has gotten me to stick to the olduns too, which means nope.

Bester, Wolfe, Lafferty, Ellison, Ballard.

>> No.6580780

>>6579879

I don't know how hard you're looking to go, but I enjoyed Greg Egan and Ted Chiang, too. Can't think of any others who haven't been mentioned already

>> No.6580878

>>6580201
don't be so stuck up, tally
it's unbecoming

>> No.6580971

>>6580644
>the stars my destination
Just started this book and I'm really enjoying it.

>>6579879
If you liked The Forever War, checkout Old Mans War and Starship Troopers.

Also Dune and Dune Messiah.

>> No.6581010

If you liked blindsight and echopraxia, try the authors earlier rifters trilogy.

ive read a couple of arthur c clarke's novels (rendezvous with rama, childhood's end) and i really didnt care for them. The ideas were cool but the writing was so flat that it ultimately left me unsatisfied.

>> No.6581032

along the lines of blindsight, i was recommended Hull Zero Three by Greg Bear and Ship of Fools by Richard Paul Russo.

Id read Blood Music by Greg Bear before and I really liked it, but Hull Zero Three, while starting decently, ultimately disappointed me.

Ship of Fools was ok, It didn't really do much for me.