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I've finished the "Old Man's War" series from John Scalzi. It was great!

Can you recommend any other good sci-fi series playing in space for my next read?

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[–] hdsrob@lemmy.world 14 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

It's older, but Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama is one I've read several times.

There are a couple of sequel books that are kind of partially written by Clarke, but do expand the story and characters quite a bit.

I read them all years ago, but opted to skip the sequels on a recent re-read, but my wife actually prefers the sequels for the characters and story development.

[–] Davel23@fedia.io 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

No disrespect to your wife, but the Rama sequels are fucking terrible.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 4 points 11 hours ago

My secret shame is that I lowkey love the Rama sequels, though I fully acknowledge that they are political soap operas in space and tonally absolutely nothing like the original.