READING SCIENCE FICTION BOOKS 🌳📖 🎮 | GIVE ME YOUR RECS!

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1. Raoden Aybara

   August 5, 2021 at 3:48 am

   I know you didn't like The Martian, but Andy Weir has matured a lot as a writer. Project Hail Mary is my personal book of the year. Hyperion by Dan Simmons is also one of my fav sci fi books. Heroes Die by Matt Stover is my all time fav sci fi book though.
2. Braxalus

   August 5, 2021 at 3:48 am

   I haven't read much SF… a bit of Asimov, some William Gibson but Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep are classic. Also, Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game is pretty good.
3. Cora Foerstner

   August 5, 2021 at 3:48 am

   I’m a big fan of the Expanse series; the tv series is excellent. Even when they deviate from the books, they stick to the spirit and story lines of the books—your husband might enjoy watching with you. Scalzi’s Interdependency Series is excellent. He has an odd sense of humor I enjoy; he pokes fun at society. expect crazy characters. Murder Bot series, and try some Vonnegut and Philip K Dick.
4. Rehan Ansari

   August 5, 2021 at 3:48 am

   A little off topic here but I needed to ask you guys about your thoughts on A house of salt and sorrows, as I was planning to read it.
   So is it worth buying?
5. Natalia Weronika Petersson

   August 5, 2021 at 3:48 am

   Murderbot, Children of Time, Three Body Problem and The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet. I am about to dive into A Memory Called Empire which also sounds fantastic. 👍
6. Dahabo w

   August 5, 2021 at 3:48 am

   I don't know if you've picked up The Ones We're Meant to Find by Joan He yet, but it's set in a futuristic world that has unfortunately succumbed to climate change. It follows 2 sisters trying to find each other and it's also been compared to Studio Ghibli and Black Mirror. I feel like you'd appreciate the setting and the themes it explores such as family, love, grief and climate change.
7. snakebeard

   August 5, 2021 at 3:48 am

   Sad to hear that you couldn't get in to The Martian. I am reading it for the 2nd time now and it's quite enjoyable. Also his next book Artemis is really awesome too.
8. Nick Hamblin

   August 5, 2021 at 3:48 am

   Murderbot, The Calculating Stars, anything by Andy Weir, Long Way to a small and angry planet.
9. Fyrearm USA

   August 5, 2021 at 3:48 am

   The Book of Koli reminds me of a book I read in my childhood called "Dark Is the Sun" by Philip José Farmer, in the aspect that technology has been lost and people wonder at the artifacts left behind. Anyway, older book but you might like it. Not nearly the same story line though so might be ok.
10. Lisa Goldstein

    August 5, 2021 at 3:48 am

    Yes! Read skyhunter next! I loved it! Also recommend even though you didn't want to read it…the iron queen series by Julie kagawa. Also the immortal rules series, same author, apocalyptic. Then the talon series also same author, has lots of advanced technology. Happy reading!
11. GORDON HANSEN

    August 5, 2021 at 3:48 am

    Try Feed by Mira Grant, best book I've read in the last couple of years the others in the trilogy are not as good
12. Kari Christiansen

    August 5, 2021 at 3:48 am

    C. J. Cherryh and Lois McMaster Bjould , Alan Dean Foster, just pick a series any series and dive in.
13. Jane Kaye

    August 5, 2021 at 3:48 am

    Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor is great. She has a large backlist if you like it. And read Saga if you haven't. It is amazing and epic and weird with great found family. Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant is great sci-fi/horror with huge diverse cast and super page turning. And I also loved A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers, as mentioned by EVERYONE here! It is awesome.
14. Metu Mortis

    August 5, 2021 at 3:48 am

    I think this immortal by Roger zelazny is a fun short pupl fiction Sci fi that is very funny. But for a harder Sci fi I love the foundation by isaac asimov
15. Terri Simon

    August 5, 2021 at 3:48 am

    Read "The Parable of the Sower" by Octavia E. Butler. It's fantastic and accessible. Try "The Fifth Season" by N.K. Jemisin. Give yourself a chance to get into it, get a feel for the world and characters. I'm in the middle of the 2nd book in the trilogy now and I love it.
16. Tegan J

    August 5, 2021 at 3:48 am

    My recs: anything by Octavia butler (although I haven't read all her work I've read most of it), children of time and murderbot ❤️
17. Not Rich

    August 5, 2021 at 3:48 am

    have you read any isaac asimov? caves of steel is a great introduction (very short book from olden times – mystery sci-fi)
18. JAF30

    August 5, 2021 at 3:48 am

    Do you want more recent sci fi (publication date) or just what books/novellas we loved the most regards of how old it might be?
19. panda ä

    August 5, 2021 at 3:48 am

    one of my dogs likes sleeping in/under the curtain too 💕
20. herbstwerk

    August 5, 2021 at 3:48 am

    Some great books not yet mentioned: Blindsight (Peter Watts), House of Suns (Alistair Reynolds), Consider Phelbas or The Player of Games (Iain M Banks)
21. Kathryn

    August 5, 2021 at 3:48 am

    I don’t really read Sci-fi but I enjoyed the Across the Universe series.