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I just finish: A Fire Upon the Deep - Vernor Vinter - 1993 Hugo Award Starting: The Three Body Problem - Cixin Liu - Excellent thus far, is trilogy -Sigga |
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Currently reading ‘’The Martian: stranded on Mars, one astraunaut fights to survive’’, that inspired the Ridley Scott movie. Love it so far ! Previously I had read all the ‘’Jack Caffery’’ series of books from Mo Hayder (police, murders...). I started las summer in August and got caught in it... |
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Jérémie: I read that one was good! |
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The Three Body Problem - Cixin Liu - Excellent thus far, is trilogy That's my favourite sci fi trilogy. The second book, The Dark Forest, is the best out of the three IMHO. The last sci fi books I read were the last two volumes of the Bobiverse series by Dennis E. Taylor - hilarious :-) Another recommendable series is The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter! |
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Stefan Böckler:The Three Body Problem - Cixin Liu - Excellent thus far, is trilogy I check out thank you Stefan! |
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Sigga: Oh yeah, "The Three Body Problem 三体" is a great one. |
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| Red rising series by Pierce Brown is amazing. It’s Lawrence of Arabia in space with GoT and Hunger games flavors. |
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Satwant Kumar: I add to list, thank you Satwant! |
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Currently reading « Artemis » from Andy Weir, the author of « The Martian », and enjoying it so far. Next on the list is the Three Body Problem : you all made curious about it :-) Thanks for that ! |
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| Ringworld by Larry Niven is good. |
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Ringworld by Larry Niven is good. My favourite SciFi author - sooo many great stories. Try 'Inferno' - an update of Dante's classic with Mussolini as a guide  Or for a lighter tone - any short stories from his 'Draco's Tavern' series are great fun!  |
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I can recommend Neil Stephenson, any book of him is very well written, captive and very well researched. His SciFi books Anathem and Seven Eves are among my favorites. Anathem is elaborating the idea how you keep a civilization over thousands of years and it has a lot of astronomy playing a role. A bit older but still very good is SnowCrash - the idea that a computer virus has the ability to infect user's brains, a classic. I can second to the recommendation of Ringworld, there is a whole series of Ringworld and a related one Fleet of Worlds. The idea of a artifical torus world and the different species with their conflicting interests/mind set is very well thought out and written in a captive style. Another excellent author is Dan Simmons, the Hyperion triology is a great read; I did not so much like the Illium story. John C. Wright's Count to a trillion and the Eschaton series are good reads, timeline spanning thousands of years and how mankind is evolving. I'm just stopping here, don't want to go to further lengths ... Cheers Gernot |
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hi folks, thanks for the recommendations, i wil definately check some of them out. i can recommend: "Delta-V" by Daniel Suarez. Its a more near-future, realistic sci-fi about the first asteroid mining endeavour with a great storyline. "Children of time" by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Millenia-spannnig epic, mainly focussing on extrateresstial life and the descendents of humanity "Paradox - On the brink of eternity" by Philip P. Peterson. Great sci-fi in our present time with amazing plot-twist. cheers and clear skies! Franz |
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| Neil Stephenson is great, though i think Cryptonomocron is my favorite, but not very ‘sci-fi’. I reread Frank Herbert’s dune books (his, not the posthumous stuff) and they still stand up. I also went on to read his earlier books which though not of the same….umm, magnitude… Are well worth reading. Most recently i was turned on to iain banks culture series and though the ‘story’ sometimes leaves me scratching, his invention is amazing, and sometimes quite twisted. The hells..... One good thing about the series is you can jump in anywhere even though its roughly sequential time-wise. Anyhow, on the last book and sorry there aren’t anymore.... Also gotta’ give a shout out to Mr. Asimov! His books might seem a little dated now but he was the Man! |
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| Just started "The Mote in God's Eye", another Larry Niven book. So far so good. |
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| Reading "Old Man's War" series right now... |
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A relatively new book I just finished, and found extremely enjoyable, is “Wherever Seeds May Fall” by Peter Cawdron. It’s a “first contact” book, with lots of good science. CS, Ara |
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Favorite SciFi - I first read it in 1968 - Dune - Frank Herbert - a new movie coming soon! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9xhJrPXop4&ab_channel=WarnerBros.Pictures Then... Stranger in a Strange Land - Heinlein Foundation series - Asimov Robot series - Asimov The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury As She Climbed Across the Table - Jonathan Lethem - one weird story about black holes Player Piano - Kurt Vonnegut - seems that is coming true today! Just started "Klara and the Sun" by Kazuo Ishiguro, pulitzer winner. Finally, I have not read the books, but I love the tv series, "The Expanse", based on the novels by James Corey. |
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David Goldstein: *** Ok you've got some of my favorites of all time on here: Dune, Foundation, Robot Series, Martian Chronicles, and I like the Expanse too but never read the books. I should check out the others on your list. BTW, I really wish one of the streaming services would do something with Foundation Series and shoot it in a retro sci-fi style*** |
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| I just ordered Stranger in a Strange Land. I just read Arthur C Clarke’s Childhood’s End and liked that very much. |
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Thought I might suggest: anything by Lois McMaster Bujold--gifted writer, creates believable, live-in societies and worlds seemingly effortlessly David Brin--especially the Uplift War series. like LMB, just about anything by John Scalzi. Start with Redshirts for a one-off, or Fuzzy Nation. Don't miss the Collapsing Empire series, his latest work--fantastic! And the Old Man's War stuff. Speaking of war: Joe Haldeman --start with the Forever War and go on from there. Lucifer's Hammer--what happens when a comet hits the Earth. Great science, great fiction. Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle co-authors. Orson Scott Card--the Ender series, starts with Ender's Game and goes on. All interesting in my opinion Ann Leckie--her Ancillary series raise a number of interesting ethical/moral/societal issues I could go on...might add a few more another time. I agree with some of the above, like Herbert, Niven, Asimov, Clarke, some Heinlein (how can you not?!) but I really didn't care for the Three Body Problem. Folks have probably thought of this and other sources, but just go to the Hugo Awards website and look up a list of nominees and go from there. Enough to keep you going for a while, and all nominated as the "best of the year". You can make up your own mind.... Lots there to read on cloudy nights (or days) Norm |
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Stefan Böckler:The Three Body Problem - Cixin Liu - Excellent thus far, is trilogy Wow! Similar tastes! My favorite series as well with Three Body Problem and I just wrapped up Heaven’s River. I hope they’re still going to make Three Body Problem into a show after the mysterious murder and all. |
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| For a slightly more adult Tom Swift (and remember Tom Swift!...) Brandon Sanderson’s Skyward is fun. It’s been a very long time but I remember liking Frederik Pohl’s Beyond the Blue Event Horizon and Gateway — jump in an ancient alien shuttle, press go and see where it takes you… hopefully not to a star that has since become a black hole...; ) |
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| Also, for the hardcore post-modernists in the crowd, there’s an unpublished (but viewable at a research center in Austin) space opera by thomas pynchon and kirpatrick sale called Minstrel Island.... |
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Wow! Similar tastes! My favorite series as well with Three Body Problem and I just wrapped up Heaven’s River. Thanks for the reminder! Last time I had a look it has been only available as an audio book. Now there's also an ebook and printed version. Great! But I will need to read the third book again. Otherwise I get lost in to many Bobs  |
