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    Good day everyone. I'll gladly use this sub because I'm currently book-less and I'll be travelling in the near future.
    I normally don't read sci-fi but I really want to get into it more. Some books that I read and really liked include:

    Annihilation by Van der Mer
    Children of Earth (the trilogy) by Adrian Tchaikovsky – I couldn't finish the Final Architecture first book tho. It just didn't click. Also by him, loved Alien Clay.
    The Hyperion Cantos by Simmons
    Most of Dune (I was much younger and I don't remember at what point I stopped…)
    Left Hand of Darkness (in my top 5 books of all time)

    Things I like for sure: challenging narrative, current books (nothing older than 10 years, I tend to daydream too much about the zeitgeist of the novel otherwise), written by women. Ideally kindle format.
    Things I don't like: translated books. I do this for a living and I get lost in dissecting the word choice. It spoiled the Three-Body Problem books.

    Bonus: books can be in French, Spanish, Italian and -if there is such thing- Dutch. Could also maybe try Portuguese.

    Thanks in advance!

    by Automatic_Piece_6587

    5 Comments

    1. Space Trilogy by CS Lewis

      John Carter of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

      Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

    2. failedtheologian on

      The Fifth Head of Cereberus by Gene Wolfe. Three inter related short stories that come together to make a captivating, delicate novel about colonialism, shape shifting and knowledge.

    3. The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
      – not space science fiction but science fiction based around water scarcity.

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