My husband needs long books to listen to while at work. Here is the weird list of vibes he is going for:
- realistic Sci-fi
- books similar to bioshock (he already read Atlas Shrugged and Rapture)
- books with intense and beautiful world building
- something that are more thriller/horror
- He seems to be veering into dystopian genres
Based off that list, feel free to suggest anything. I don’t think any book will cover all of these parameters, but if you have anything that fits any of these boxes, take a chance and suggest it. He is desperate for new reads.
by NudlePockets
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Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
The Murderbot Diaries series
Project Hail Mary
Has he done the dungeon crawler Carl series?
Has he done the Southern Reach series? Or the Rosewater Trilogy?
The last policeman trilogy by Ben Winters
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Feed by Mira Grant
Ya’ll are doing great. He is very excited right now
I just said this on another post but it works here too:
The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch
I just started The Rook by Daniel O’Malley which kinda hits on the thriller and sci fi aspects (at least that’s the feel in the first couple of chapters)
Paradise-1 by David Wellington
Sphere by Michael Crichton
The Bobiverse series by Dennis E Taylor
Project Hail Mary and The Martian by Andy Weir
Wayward Pines by Blake Crouch
Annihilation!
Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson
Has he read Ender’s Game?
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky!!!
“Children of Time” by Adrian Tchaikovsky is a science fiction novel that follows two parallel storylines: one about the evolution of a spider civilization on a terraformed planet, and the other about the last remnants of humanity searching for a new home. The novel explores themes of evolution, communication, and the nature of intelligence, as the two civilizations eventually collide.”
Wool by Hugh Howey- a society living in a silo 100+ floors deep after the end of the world, where the worst crime is expressing the desire to leave, and the worst punishment is being made to leave. (I think it hits all his notes perfectly)
Not sci-fi, but Twelve, by Jasper Kent
He might like some of John Brunner’s work such as The Sheep Look Up, Stand on Zanzibar and The Shockwave Rider. These are from the 60s and 70s and are socially complex dystopias, and quite prescient re scientific developments.
Starfish by Peter Watts
Wool by Hugh Howey
The Martian and Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
The Murderbot Diaries (first book All Systems Red) by Martha Wells
Another vote for Hyperion!
I wonder if he would like White Noise by Don Delilo.
Parable of the Sower
Almost anything by William Gibson – dystopian and realistic sci-fi is where he lives