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The Zones of Thought books by Vernor Vinge are my go-tos. It's a toss-up as to which you'll prefer to read first. A Fire Upon the Deep has the galactic scope, A Deepness in the Sky the more character-based story.
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neurotech posted:I'm looking for some solid science fiction recommendations. I read Children of Time a few years ago and enjoyed it. Apart from that, the only other scifi book I can recall reading (and enjoying!) is Hyperion by Dan Simmons (aaaages ago). Pushing Ice - character dynamics, megascale structures, tense plot, survival at scale Passage At Arms - space combat doesn't get much better than this
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neurotech posted:I'm looking for some solid science fiction recommendations. I read Children of Time a few years ago and enjoyed it. Apart from that, the only other scifi book I can recall reading (and enjoying!) is Hyperion by Dan Simmons (aaaages ago). G i d e o n
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neurotech posted:I'm looking for some solid science fiction recommendations. I read Children of Time a few years ago and enjoyed it. Apart from that, the only other scifi book I can recall reading (and enjoying!) is Hyperion by Dan Simmons (aaaages ago). Read THE RISEN EMPIRE/THE KILLING OF WORLDS by Scott Westerfeld
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FPyat posted:The Zones of Thought books by Vernor Vinge are my go-tos. It's a toss-up as to which you'll prefer to read first. A Fire Upon the Deep has the galactic scope, A Deepness in the Sky the more character-based story. Yeah if you like children of time then Vinge’s A Deepness in the Sky will feel very comfortable for you, CoT was definitely inspired by it.
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The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastards #1) by Scott Lynch - $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000JMKNJ2/ A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan #1) by Arkady Martine - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07C7BCB88/ She Who Became the Sun (Radiant Emperor #1) by Shelley Parker-Chan - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08GZXND63/ Marcovaldo: Or, The Seasons in the City by Italo Calvino - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ALJH6AM/
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Since Banks died I don’t know what to read anymore. Why won’t people spend more time writing books instead of shooting TikTok videos
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Ihmemies posted:Since Banks died I don’t know what to read anymore. Why won’t people spend more time writing books instead of shooting TikTok videos Have you read anything by CJ Cherryh?
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neurotech posted:I'm looking for some solid science fiction recommendations. I read Children of Time a few years ago and enjoyed it. Apart from that, the only other scifi book I can recall reading (and enjoying!) is Hyperion by Dan Simmons (aaaages ago). You already enjoyed Tchaikovsky’s writing, you could try Shards of Earth (book 1 in his “The Final Architecture” series).
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neurotech posted:I'm looking for some solid science fiction recommendations. I read Children of Time a few years ago and enjoyed it. Apart from that, the only other scifi book I can recall reading (and enjoying!) is Hyperion by Dan Simmons (aaaages ago). pradmer posted:A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan #1) by Arkady Martine - $2.99 RDM fucked around with this message at 16:31 on Jul 31, 2023 |
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HopperUK posted:I liked Otherland fine back in the day but oh boy there's a lot of it. I remember when I was deciding whether to read it or not I saw something on a blog about how life's too short to read Otherland, and I thought lol I have all kinds of free time and read it anyway. By the time I finished, I 100% agreed with the idea that life's too short to read Otherland.
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neurotech posted:I'm looking for some solid science fiction recommendations. I read Children of Time a few years ago and enjoyed it. Apart from that, the only other scifi book I can recall reading (and enjoying!) is Hyperion by Dan Simmons (aaaages ago). House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds?
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neurotech posted:I'm looking for some solid science fiction recommendations. I read Children of Time a few years ago and enjoyed it. Apart from that, the only other scifi book I can recall reading (and enjoying!) is Hyperion by Dan Simmons (aaaages ago). I always recommend the Paradox series. Lots of ships and space marine action, with really solid character work and a neat plot. It's a fun read without being stupid.
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neurotech posted:I'm looking for some solid science fiction recommendations. I read Children of Time a few years ago and enjoyed it. Apart from that, the only other scifi book I can recall reading (and enjoying!) is Hyperion by Dan Simmons (aaaages ago). I've heard a lot of recommendations for The Lost Fleet series.
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neurotech posted:I'm looking for some solid science fiction recommendations. I read Children of Time a few years ago and enjoyed it. Apart from that, the only other scifi book I can recall reading (and enjoying!) is Hyperion by Dan Simmons (aaaages ago). Greg Egan's Diaspora, Greg Bear's Blood Music
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neurotech posted:I'm looking for some solid science fiction recommendations. I read Children of Time a few years ago and enjoyed it. Apart from that, the only other scifi book I can recall reading (and enjoying!) is Hyperion by Dan Simmons (aaaages ago). I'd check out Neal Asher. The Transformation trilogy is fantastic.
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Wow, so many recommendations! Thank you all, that should give me plenty of options.
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AcidCat posted:I'd check out Neal Asher. The Transformation trilogy is fantastic. As much as I enjoy his books, he has some pretty weird politics, so read carefully.
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his most recent work is brutalist fashwank
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Kesper North posted:his most recent work is brutalist fashwank I did not know that  (I have read like, three of his books)
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neurotech posted:Wow, so many recommendations! Thank you all, that should give me plenty of options. For cherryh, The pride of chanur is a good entry, she's peerless at tense politics, fairly hard sci Fi and interesting aliens. Gideon is Gideon the ninth, which is basically indescribable in a way that won't make it sound awful but is actually phenomenally good. Three books written, fourth and last coming next year probably.
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Everyone posted:I've heard a lot of recommendations for The Lost Fleet series. These aren't great. It's okay for reading about space battles, but the prose isn't great, the characters are paper thin, and while I adore well-executed competency porn - this really isn't. I did just finish KJ Parker's Siege trilogy, and that really is well-done competency porn. If smart, sarcastic, competent protagonists are your thing, read these books.
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Do you have any sci-fi competency porn?
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sebmojo posted:For cherryh, The pride of chanur is a good entry, she's peerless at tense politics, fairly hard sci Fi and interesting aliens. escape room mystery about lesbian space necromancers I don't see the problem
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Ihmemies posted:Since Banks died I don’t know what to read anymore. Why won’t people spend more time writing books instead of shooting TikTok videos ngl I'd watch an Iain banks or cj cherryh tiktok
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neurotech posted:I'm looking for some solid science fiction recommendations. I read Children of Time a few years ago and enjoyed it. Apart from that, the only other scifi book I can recall reading (and enjoying!) is Hyperion by Dan Simmons (aaaages ago). Ninefox Gambit
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Kesper North posted:his most recent work is brutalist fashwank Asher went back to the Polity after the Owner trilogy.
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ulmont posted:Asher went back to the Polity after the Owner trilogy. The owner books were completely loathsome libertarian messiah garbage. And looking at where he took the Polity books I think it’s more of the same there under the veneer.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Do you have any sci-fi competency porn? Pushing Ice! It's not structured as such, but most of the characters are very, very good at what they do.
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I feel like this has been discussed here before but is there any good grand scale sci-fi without superluminal travel or communications?
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Absurd Alhazred posted:I feel like this has been discussed here before but is there any good grand scale sci-fi without superluminal travel or communications? A Deepness in the Sky, Children of Time/Memory/Ruin, Revelation Space, Chasm City (only, not sequels), the Three Body problem. To my knowledge none of those have FTL or FTL communication. Of those Deepness is probably my favorite, but all of them are pretty grand in scope at least in terms of the setting. Note that Fire Upon the Deep does have FTL etc, and is the same setting. Charles Stross’s Iron Sunrise (which just came up due to a gratuitous and really gross scene) has FTL communications with logical consequences. Velius fucked around with this message at 01:21 on Aug 1, 2023 |
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neurotech posted:I'm looking for some solid science fiction recommendations. I read Children of Time a few years ago and enjoyed it. Apart from that, the only other scifi book I can recall reading (and enjoying!) is Hyperion by Dan Simmons (aaaages ago). You want CJ Cherryh. Start with either Pride of Chanur or Cyteen, imo.
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Chanur if you like spaceships, cyteen if you like meetings
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Thanks all, I'm starting with A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge 
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What happened with Vernor Vinge anyway? He was pretty prolific for a time, then just stopped.
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GrandpaPants posted:What happened with Vernor Vinge anyway? He was pretty prolific for a time, then just stopped. Serious illness, iirc. Dude is 78.
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Finished Light Bringer, the 6th and latest entry into the Red Rising series by Pierce Brown. It was typical of the series. Propulsive, tense, space opera with some still hanging on bits of the YA trappings it had from the first book and which it's increasingly left behind. And a bunch of swerves in the plot that make sense, but make me sad. Major spoilers because I need to vent and my brother hasn't finished the book yet: Lysander au Lune cannot die a painful enough death.I should have known Cassius was going to actually die when he and Darrow had made peace and agreed that they were brothers until the end. gently caress that Pixie. They're very good yarns about ridiculous space Romans and Vikings, especially the second series which sheds pretty much all the YA stuff and goes entirely with "So you beat the big bad running the system. What happens after that? And, btw, you and your closest compatriots are wracked by the trauma of what happened to you when you were in your late teens and early twenties." Strong recommend, regardless of the copypasta about the first pages of the first book. If you really can't stand YA stuff, skip the first book. I appreciate that the second book follows up the first's sequel hook of "similar poo poo, but ON SPACESHIPS" by having the very first chapter be the final day of that naval academy. habeasdorkus fucked around with this message at 03:33 on Aug 1, 2023 |
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Yeah, it's a pretty odd feeling to see Gene Wolfe namedrop him in The Fifth Head of Cerberus all the way back in 1972.
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Google Jeb Bush posted:escape room mystery about lesbian space necromancers 40K harry potter for zoomers
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