A few months ago I heard about the book Project Hail Mary. I got it and read it and finished it in a week. Are there any other Sci-Fi books that I may not know about that are amazing?
*Children of Time* by Adrian Tchaikovsky is a masterpiece.
I enjoyed *House of Suns* by Alastair Reynolds as well.
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Red Rising- Pierce Brown
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Forever War by Joe Haldeman – sci fi allegory about the experience of coming home from vietnam (if you’re traveling far enough, at high enough speeds, to get to a battle, when you get back things might have changed a *lot* back home)
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If you love classic then you should try The Time Machine & War of the Worlds by H. G Wells. Or if you prefer a short one you could try to read I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream.
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Dan Simmons: Hyperion / Endymion
Martha Wells: Murderbot
Ivan Ertlov: Generation 23
Alfred Bester: The Stars My Destination
Isaac Asimov: Foundation
…and probably 100s more
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Old Man’s War
Starship Troopers
The Mote in God’s Eye
The Complete Robot (short story collection by Isaac Asimov)
The Expanse
Altered Carbon
Snowcrash
That would give you nice sampling of 70 years of sci-fi
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Ancillary Justice is a favorite alongside murderbot
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-**The Positronic Man** by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg (Expanded from Asimov’s short story ‘The Bicentennial Man’)
-**Fahrenheit 451** by Ray Bradbury (the temperature at which book paper burns, they say. Its a dystopian fiction, science fiction)
-**Dark Matter** by Blake Crouch (There is also a TV series on it)
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Going with the obvious: I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
I’d also add Everything Jules Verne wrote
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Neuromancer
Permutation City
I prefer Illium & Olympos to Hyperion but it’s the same author
The Illuminatus Trilogy
Gene Wolfe’s solar cycle, though if you lack the attention span or lexile level you won’t dig
Gnomon by Nick Harkaway
Honor Harrington is the military scfi tsundere waifu you never knew you needed
Zelazny. Lord of Light and Amber
And honest honest? Go back and read the late 90’s and Early 2000 volumes of the Years Best Science Fiction when Gardner Dozois was still editor – they released a hardback collection each year (do they still? ) and they’re still available in various places including libraries and kindle – but srsly many of those novellas and short stories are better than some of the stuff I’ve listed here. Skull detonating scifi.
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Ender’s Game. I’m also a huge fan of the Arc of a Scythe trilogy, though I’m not 100% sure it counts as sci-fi.
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The Firefall Series by Peter Watts….very dark ending…
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A lesser known one that I truly loved (and, in fact, consider on par with Jules Verne) is Orb by Gary Tarulli
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Murderbot.
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*Children of Time* by Adrian Tchaikovsky is a masterpiece.
I enjoyed *House of Suns* by Alastair Reynolds as well.
Red Rising- Pierce Brown
Forever War by Joe Haldeman – sci fi allegory about the experience of coming home from vietnam (if you’re traveling far enough, at high enough speeds, to get to a battle, when you get back things might have changed a *lot* back home)
If you love classic then you should try The Time Machine & War of the Worlds by H. G Wells. Or if you prefer a short one you could try to read I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream.
Dan Simmons: Hyperion / Endymion
Martha Wells: Murderbot
Ivan Ertlov: Generation 23
Alfred Bester: The Stars My Destination
Isaac Asimov: Foundation
…and probably 100s more
Old Man’s War
Starship Troopers
The Mote in God’s Eye
The Complete Robot (short story collection by Isaac Asimov)
The Expanse
Altered Carbon
Snowcrash
That would give you nice sampling of 70 years of sci-fi
Ancillary Justice is a favorite alongside murderbot
-**The Positronic Man** by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg (Expanded from Asimov’s short story ‘The Bicentennial Man’)
-**Fahrenheit 451** by Ray Bradbury (the temperature at which book paper burns, they say. Its a dystopian fiction, science fiction)
-**Dark Matter** by Blake Crouch (There is also a TV series on it)
Going with the obvious: I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
I’d also add Everything Jules Verne wrote
Neuromancer
Permutation City
I prefer Illium & Olympos to Hyperion but it’s the same author
The Illuminatus Trilogy
Gene Wolfe’s solar cycle, though if you lack the attention span or lexile level you won’t dig
Gnomon by Nick Harkaway
Honor Harrington is the military scfi tsundere waifu you never knew you needed
Zelazny. Lord of Light and Amber
And honest honest? Go back and read the late 90’s and Early 2000 volumes of the Years Best Science Fiction when Gardner Dozois was still editor – they released a hardback collection each year (do they still? ) and they’re still available in various places including libraries and kindle – but srsly many of those novellas and short stories are better than some of the stuff I’ve listed here. Skull detonating scifi.
Ender’s Game. I’m also a huge fan of the Arc of a Scythe trilogy, though I’m not 100% sure it counts as sci-fi.
The Firefall Series by Peter Watts….very dark ending…
A lesser known one that I truly loved (and, in fact, consider on par with Jules Verne) is Orb by Gary Tarulli