books

[Anonymous No.6132897]

Hey guys I have been looking for some new
science fiction novels to read. I done read every classic there is Recommend your favorite books

[Anonymous No.6132903]

what did you like?

[Anonymous No.6132912]

Blindsight - Peter Watts

[Anonymous No.6132922]

>>6132897
Dan Simmons' Hyperion Cantos is excellent.

[Anonymous No.6132951]

Anon, here Well I like all sub genres within Sci-fi but books like Philip K.Dick really get me books that have a deep meaning really get me thinking

[Anonymous No.6132959]

>>6132951
Philip K. Dick aint no book I ever heard of

[Anonymous No.6132961]

Yea I heard Hyperion is good. is Armour any good?

[Anonymous No.6132965]

No he's a author- Ever seen the movie Blade Runner ? It's based off of his novel "Do andriods dream of electric sheep?"

[Anonymous No.6132971]

>>6132959
I'm not that anon but PKD is great, try Ubik, The Man in the High Castle, and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

also:

Gene Wolfe - The Fifth Head of Cerberus
Ursula Le Guin - The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed
China Mieville - The City & the City
Ted Chiang - Stories of Your Life and Others

I didn't like Simmons' Hyperion but enough people here and elsewhere do that it's probably worth a try

[Anonymous No.6132986]

Yea Ubik is one hell of a book "The Man in the High Castle" not so much. Got any more I wanna read as many books as possible.

[Anonymous No.6132991]

stanislaw lem if you haven't
charles yu - how to live safely in a science fictional universe is a really cool recent one with some literary bent to it

[Anonymous No.6133007]

you must have a thing for Asian books. I need an entire list of books

[Anonymous No.6133088]

Rudy Rucker's Ware Tetralogy is super fun and funny...

China Mieville is my current favorite...

Ursula leGuin's Hainish cycle is my all time favorite...

I cut my teeth on Christopher Stasheff and Douglas Adams

[Anonymous No.6133095]

>>6133007
lem is polish, and you're welcome you little shit

[Anonymous No.6133099]

Douglas Adams is genius read all the books ha ha ha. Got any army military sci -fi books for me?

[Anonymous No.6133117]

Charles Yu is Asian not Lem I know that

[Anonymous No.6133139]

Warhammer 40k books.

Don't laugh. Dan abnett can write.a ripping yarn.

I recommend the eisenhorn trilogy, brothers of the snake, maybe the ravenor trilogy.

Stuff with the space marines is usually enjoyable and full of action.

[Anonymous No.6133234]

I'm about to finish Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds. I like it.

[Anonymous No.6133488]

>>6133234

I swear your trolling because that's the reply I get at Goodreads

[Anonymous No.6133500]

>>6133139
Thanks OP! Will look into those books

[Anonymous No.6133535]

+1 for Lem, everyone always goes on about Solaris, but my favourite is His Master's Voice

Also Stories of Your Life And Others by Ted Chiang

[Anonymous No.6133920]

>>6133488
I actually really like it. Just finished.

My only complaint is that it sometimes introduces concepts/factions/etc. without fully explaining them, and I wasn't sure if they were things I was supposed to know about. Theres a list of terms on the author's website, but it might be a bit spoilerly. Also some characters aren't fully fleshed out.

I'm not a huge scifi reader (so I don't have much to compare it to), but I wholeheartedly suggest reading it.

For a rating: I bought the second book / 10

[Anonymous No.6133936]

Gateway by Fred Pohl. Stations of the Tide by Michael Swanwick. Bleh, I should have more, but I can only think of fantasy.

>>6133234
>>6133488
Revelation Space is decent. It's harder than I usually like but the hard SF ideas are used in a way that's both interesting and contributes to the atmosphere that Reynolds is trying to create. And that atmosphere is really good and strong, probably the strongest part of the book. Don't think much of his other books, though, personally.

[Anonymous No.6134455]

>>6132912
good book

[Anonymous No.6134589]

What's a good book to get into scifi?

[Anonymous No.6134752]

>>6132922
no it's not, the first book is mediocre at best and the quality really drops off from there

>I'm not that anon but PKD is great
i think you misunderstood what that anon meant
they asked for books and someone gave them an author
furthermore, your list is made almost entirely of books considered classics of the genre in some way or another
why would you think them good recommendations when op clearly says they've read every classic?

[Anonymous No.6134837]

>>6134589
There's a /lit/ image, 'recommended sci-fi reading' or something like that, which has good recommendations. I don't have it saved, but am sure someone here does and will post it.

[Anonymous No.6135040]

>>6134837
I've seen that actually, but it doesn't exactly pose a start point, just a general list.

[Anonymous No.6135061]

>>6133139

Dan Abnett's the best hack in the world.

[Anonymous No.6135072]

just started Stranger in a Strange Land myself
breddy gread

[Anonymous No.6135217]

>>6132971
>no A Scanner Darkly

the fuck are you doing anon, leaving out his masterpiece

[Anonymous No.6135424]

>>6135072

It's garbage tier libertarian erotica.

Belongs nowhere but in the trash tbh.

[Anonymous No.6135428]

>accidentally read the synopsis of chapter house dune before finishing dune messiah
>now know that arrakis gets destroyed
Fuck

[Anonymous No.6135471]

>>6135428
SHIT. I'm sorry to hear that, anon. The Honored Matres are the ultimate feminists and supreme bitches.

[Anonymous No.6135473]

>>6135428
>Accidentally mouse over spoilers on /lit/
>now I know as well.
Damnit.

[Anonymous No.6135482]

Ender's Game is a piece of shit loved only by autistic 'tards who didn't have friends growing up and don't know how to behave out in public.
>prove me wrong

[Anonymous No.6135753]

>>6135424
And this is why I don't stop by /lit/ very often.

[Anonymous No.6137414]

it's me again thanks for suggestions will look into them.

[Anonymous No.6137849]

the stars my destination
mars chronicles
rendevouz with rama
childhoods end
solaris
city
the city and the stars
lord of light

[Anonymous No.6137899]

Reading The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch right now and loving it.

[Anonymous No.6137965]

>>6135482
That's probably why it's my second favourite sci fi series

[Anonymous No.6138476]

>>6135040
bump, anyone?

[Anonymous No.6138571]

>>6134589
What exactly do you like ?
The Stars My Destination is pratically The Count of Monte Cristo: Reloaded - Space Edition; so you can't really go wrong with it. One my personal favourites, as far as scifi goes.

[Anonymous No.6138735]

>>6132897
If you haven't done so yet OP, read The Forever War by Joe Haldemann

>pic related

[Anonymous No.6138771]

Voyage to Arcturus.

Also, Cyberiad is best Lem.

[Anonymous No.6139106]

>>6138571
Noted anon, any suggestions for something that isn't a space opera? Or something more horror-ish?

[Anonymous No.6139162]

>>6133139
Seconding that.

[Anonymous No.6139899]

bump

[Anonymous No.6140028]

Foundation by Asimov

[Anonymous No.6140093]

>>6139106
>horror-ish

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

[Anonymous No.6140810]

>>6137849
>the stars my destination

I just finished that, is The Demolished Man good also?

[Anonymous No.6140994]

>>6132971
>Ursula Le Guin - The Left Hand of Darkness

Should I? Google worried me showing feminist citantions everywhere.

[Anonymous No.6140995]

>>6140994
Harold Bloom thinks it's superb, so you know it can't be bad.

[Anonymous No.6141000]

>>6140810
it's great
not QUITE as good imo but still rad

[Anonymous No.6141037]

>>6140994
>Google worried me showing feminist citantions everywhere.

[Anonymous No.6141133]

>>6140093
Read it, enjoyed it. That and blindsight were good. Anything else you can thin of?

[Anonymous No.6141917]

>>6141133
bump, anyone?

[Anonymous No.6141971]

>>6132897
Gene Wolfe is probably the best sf author and I mean by far. His style, the symbolism, the characterisation, dreamyness, the points he is making with a novel as a whole... The Book of the New Sun is truly an amazing work, read it twice so far and its simply a masterpiece. I mean I like other sf authors, but Wolfe just blows everything away.

[Anonymous No.6142136]

bampu

[Anonymous No.6143743]

>>6132971
>China Mieville
Thank you for reminding me I must finish his books

Started twelve years ago and never made it all the way through

[Anonymous No.6144120]

>>6140994
Gender is pretty secondary to the story, but there are some interesting subtle implications to the way the book treats the topic.

It takes place on a planet where there are no men or women, only androgynes who develop male or female sex organs once a year for a few weeks. If you're worried about reading a screed, it certainly is not.

[Anonymous No.6144295]

How good is Dune as a standalone book? It's on my backlog but I don't see myself reading the rest of the series, so I'm not sure if it's even worth the time investment.