I'm in a reading funk, and I hate it. My entire personality growing up was centered on "always has a book in their hand" and I'm just struggling to sit down and read these days. I'm hoping that maybe if I can find some books that fit into my favorite category, it'll help jump start me back into reading.
I love scifi, and there are two types of stories that I've always adored. Stories about exploring the ruins of a civilization, be it archeology in space or an abandoned space ship or whatever, with stories about first contact coming in at a close second. Stories that have both tend to catch my interest even more.
Over the years I've found more than a few books that fit the "exploring the ruins…" category.
Annoyingly, I have a garbage memory when it comes to remembering the books I've read, though off the top of my head, these are a few. (I know I've read other books that would fit, but these are the ones that come to mind.)
- Giants series, James P. Hogan
- Eon, Greg Bear
- Battlefield Earth, L. Ron Hubbard
- Ringworld series, Larry Niven
- Expanse series, James S. A. Corey
Some good, some bad (looking at you Battlefield Earth.)
I do find that I sometimes struggle with some of the older scifi stories due to things not always holding up as well as they did when I was a teen. (Seriously, the number of times an old scifi story has a smart woman secretary who is perfectly ok with a man taking credit for her ideas is incredibly annoying to me, and don't get me started on every other man smoking when they're in space ships.) I've grown since then, and honestly, so did a lot of the authors as time went on. (Please don't take this as me hating on older scifi, I don't. I just find it frustrating to read sometimes.)
Anyway. I'd love to get some suggestions.
by Melkain