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    [A repost from printSF sub- please suggest me more!]

    Recently I finished Ted Chiang's "Hell is the Absence of God" and it sparked my interest in reading again (I haven't read properly in years). I usually only consume similar themed media from movie/games, but now I really wanna venture into books. I am not sure if this could help, but here's a list of some things I like:

    • Ted Chiang: Hell is the Absence of God, Story of Your Life, The Great Silence (I haven't finished the others, but these three left such a good impression)
    • Arthur C. Clarke: Nine Billion Names of God
    • Isaac Asimov: The Last Question, The Last Answer
    • Movies: Annihilation, Arrival, Close Encounter of the Third Kind, Contact, Interstellar, Sunshine, The Endless
    • Videogame: No Man's Sky (the lore of the game, about Atlas)

    What I am not looking for:
    – Space opera/space wars
    – Political allegories
    – Dystopia "we rebel against the authority" stuff

    Thank you so much.. 🙇‍♀️

    by themachinedoll

    2 Comments

    1. Lil_Brown_Bat on

      Man you love scifi, so I really want to recommend The Three Body Problem, but there’s lots of space stuff in it?

      I still think you should give it a shot. 🤷 It does take place mostly on earth. At least the first book.

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