Lockstep by Karl Schroeder Hard scifi about how a intergalactic empire being run without developing any faster than light technology.
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The Martian. I’ve read it twice, and would love to read it again. It’s so good.
I've read Terry Pratchett's Night Watch three times, currently reading The Color of Magic for the first time and then I'm going to re-read Mort
I've read Ellen Raskin's The Westing Game three times, but that was for school. Pretty good children's mystery book, though
The Malazan Book of the Fallen saga is so long that I tend to forget most of the plot of the earlier books by the time I finish.
But does that mean you'll gladly read through again? I'd rather take notes of notable events...
Synchronicity because I just put a book on hold at the library that I'm going to read again. It is called "Galileo's Dream" by Kim Stanley Robinson, and it's half historical fiction, half science fiction about: "what if future humans living on the Galilean moons of Jupiter discovered time travel and needed Galileo's help?"
Neuromancer moves faster than some movies. Absolutely worth rereading
There are so many, but here are a few from the top of my head:
The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien.
The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien.
Time Enough For Love, Robert A. Heinlein.
Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein.
Don Quijote, Miguel de Cervantes.
Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri.
Dune, Frank Herbert.
Paradise Lost, John Milton.
Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke.
The Riftwar Saga, Raymond E. Feist.
Most of those hold up.
Time enough for love did not imho.
Need to look at rift war.
Yeah, "Time Enough For Love" ended up on that list mostly because it's so different. That made an impression on me when I read it in high school, in the way of "Huh, I guess it's actually possible to write a book like this". It had a lot of interesting ideas but the narrative sprawls around pretty wildly.
Riftwar Saga basically takes Tolkien's Middle-earth setting and mixes it with our own world's Middle age cultures, plus magical stargates and an invasion from an another world. It's not a ripoff in any way, it carries it own story proudly but the similarities with names from Tolkien's works was a bit distracting at first. These were the first books I was able to read entirely in original English in my early teens.
Infinite Jest. Takes about like 2 years to read though lol.
Clemens p suter’s two journeys series.
The bridge trilogy.
A few I've read at least twice and will definitely read again at some point:
- Catch 22
- Infinite Jest
- The Windup Bird Chronicle
- The Handmaid's Tale
- Full 5 part Hitchhiker's Guide trilogy
- His Dark Materials Trilogy (plus the Book of Dust series, if we ever get that last one!!)
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Brave New World
- Slaughterhouse Five
Hitchhikers guide part 1 is worth it for the forward alone not to mention the book itself
It's 2025 and I'm reading Slaughterhouse Five again. So it goes.
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The bone comic book omnibus from Jeff smith Bone omnibus amazon link
The book is basically Tolkien+Disney, it is aimed at a kid audience but it tackles some heavy topics that adults will enjoy, its great because it tackles metaphysics a lot in ways that are interesting for all ages.
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