i’ve realized that i fell victim to the booktok/booktube/bookstagram recommendations that EVERYONE seems to have read in the past 3 years. i end up hating every recommendation i get from book influencers. they just aren’t… good? i’ve found recently that i enjoy sci-fi a lot more than i expected to and was hoping to get some lesser known recommendations you ACTUALLY enjoyed, NOT just because the internet told you you’re supposed to 🙂
so far i’ve gotten to (and enjoyed):
– dark matter by blake crouch
– project hail mary by andy weir
– and just started the murderbot diaries by martha wells
these are pretty popular but i can’t find any recommendations besides red rising, hunger games, divergent, blah blah blah and it’s so frustrating!
by broccolisoup_
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I read many of my favorite sci-fi books before the internet was conceived.
A sampling:
* Way Station by Clifford D. Simak
* The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
* 1984 by George Orwell
Some of my more modern favorites:
* Wool by Hugh Howey (also 2 sequels: Shift and Dust) [This is my all-time favorite series.]
* 11/22/63 by Stephen King (it’s time travel — not horror)
* Split Second by Douglas E. Richards (also 1 sequel: Time Frame)
MURDERBOT DIARIES IS SO GOOD.
I’m listening to the audiobooks and the narrators tone and inflection is perfect for muderbot.
*Artemis* by Andy Weir is also excellent. *Station Eternity* by Mur Lafferty was a sci fi murder mystery which i really liked.
If you like short stories, Arrival by Ted Chiang is very good. It is one of my favorites, actually.
It’s an old book, but Battlefield Earth by L Ron Hubbard.
Kurt Vonnegut, Sirens of Titan
David Gerrold, When Harlie Was One
Avram Davidson, Rork!
Greg Bear, Forge of God/Anvil of Stars
Olaf Stapledon, Star Maker
Jeff Vandermeer, Southern Reach tetralogy
Emily St John Mandel, Station Eleven
Devil in the pale moonlight by d. Hollis Anderson – a new cyberpunk psycho thriller just released a few months ago, it’s like a black mirror episode, it’s creepy and dark and way too real. Hunting a serial killer through a simulation controlled by Nazis
Honestly, starting with the Hugo award winners for the last decade is probably a pretty good idea, some will be more fantasy than sci-fi but the line is blurry anyway.