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Science Fiction
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But...
They're all worth reading!
I'm sure some of them will show up in future votes. Maybe some day we will get to everything. 🙂
Well my arachnophobia rules out children of time for me…
Children of time is amazing imo. Love the concept and the characters.
The trilogy is amazing. The last book in the series Children of Memory is maybe my favorite. Some real heady hard sci fi.
HYPERIONNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
I absolutely love Hyperion, but the second book is almost necessary for these stories to end properly. Fall of Hyperion is my favorite of the series (...that I've read so far).
This may be a hot take cause I know most people don't like the latter 2 books but I'd argue you need to read them too to get the full picture. Also fuck em cause those books were awesome too.
Ooh, Children of Time, please!
That's my first suggestion for anyone who wants to try sci-fi. What a legendary book!
Been a Tchaikovsky fan ever since.
Not enough sci fi fans seem to read neuromancer, it's what got me into it and I recommend to anyone who likes fast paced cyberpunk. Such a vivid book to me.
It's good but I can understand why many people don't read it, the way it uses language can make it difficult to decipher what is going on and it doesn't really hold your hand.
22/11/63 - Stephen King
Is this the sequel to 11/22/63? /s
Sensible Date Format Edition
Both are a prequel to 1963-11-22.
oh shit it’s a trilogy??
I’ve read five on the list (Martine, Tchaikovsky, Corey, Howey, and Weir) and I’d put them all on the same (excellent) tier. But if I had to rank them, that’s the order I’d put them in.
I've read 4, and I would probably order them: Weir, Howey, Tchaikovsky, King.
It's a very close call though. If asked to rank them again next week I'd probably have a different answer.
Just subscribed! I have read more fantasy than science fiction, but I'll vote for children of time based on some of these comments! I'll join the collective read next month, that sounds like a healthy change for me (:
Thanks for joining us. Perhaps you will some day become a science fiction enthusiast. 🙂
I vote necromancer.
I'll have to read children of time next tho as I haven't read it yet. Currently reading through anathem.
Voting for Leviathan Wakes as it’s the only one I’ve read so far. That being said, the majority of these titles are on my list of books to read, and the ones that aren’t, I’m looking into now!
Children of Tiiiiiiime
I vote for Leviathan Wakes because it's the only one I haven't read but have heard of the author.
Sounds super fun!
Voting for Wool as it makes sense to read the book before checking out how AppleTV have (maybe) destroyed it
Apple's series is very enjoyable. I loved the books, and it does a good job of translating them to screen. Howey is an executive producer on the show.
Sounds good, still not forgiven them for foundation, although if you forget the books it is quite an enjoyable story in its own right
I read Foundation quite a while back, so I just enjoyed the TV show. There weren't that many bits that sounded familiar, but I wasn't sure if I'd just forgotten parts of it.
Thx you for the poll, I just read Simmons's in this list, I will have a look at the rest of it :)
I have to vote for Martine.
This is a very good selection of books, but I would like for "classic" sci-fi to have it's own category. I love Hyperion, necromancer and the expanse series, but I think they start to choke out newer/fringe books. Especially if the the plan is to vote on what book is next.