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I’m going to get into The Expanse, but what are some good books that are worth rewarding in the genre? I already read Dune.

>> No.14475873

>>14475861
*Reading
Fuck autocorrect.

>> No.14475895

>>14475861
vance, lafferty, wolfe.

>> No.14476079

>>14475895
Gene Wolfe?

>> No.14476209

>>14476079
yup,

>> No.14476226

>>14475861
>James S. A. Corey is the pen name used by collaborators Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck

>> No.14476238

>>14475861
The Expanse has some cool ideas and the physics are interesting but man the writing is bad

>> No.14476799

>>14475861
I'm bumping Stardust by niel gaiman even though it's fantasy instead of scifi

>> No.14477230

>>14475895
All of these are good. I recommend Zelazny and Dick as well.

>> No.14478018

>>14475861
Peter f hamilton, pretty much all earlier works except the latest series where he went full sjw

>> No.14478023

>>14475861
Get some Dick in you.

>> No.14478054

>>14476226
thanks for sharing this relevant and important information.

>> No.14478057

A Fire Upon the Deep

>> No.14478116

>>14475861
Closest to the expanse are Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space (better than The Expanse imo) and Peter Watts' Blindsight (which you can read for free on his website).

>> No.14478151

>>14478057
This.

A Fire Upon the Deep, Dune, Hyperion, Armor (by John Steakley) and Santiago: a Myth of the Far Future will together make most other space sci-fi seem like shit after you've read them

>> No.14478163

Fire upon deep is horribe, I really dont understand why it gets recommended so much

>> No.14478171

>>14478163
What do you not like about it?

>> No.14478177

>>14478171
The story, characters, plot.

>> No.14478188

>>14478177
Strange. Those are all things I really like about it. Especially the characters, I find Vinge writes better and more believable characters than most sci-fi authors

>> No.14478267

>>14478163
The only problem with Fire is the ending. Vernor spent so much time building the world and then rushed the ending.

>> No.14479180

>>14475861
The Foundation trilogy by Isaac Asimov. It's all around the best work of Sci-Fi I know to this day. I also recommend the Old Man's War series by John Scalzi.

>> No.14479198

ursula k. le guin

>> No.14480018

Blindsight by Peter Watts

>> No.14480214

>>14478023
I’m a man silly fuck!