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Any book in particular you'd recommend?
by SRTP 7y ago
Any book in particular you'd recommend?
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- Jorge1o1 7y agoThe Baen Free CD has always been a great source of free sci fi books for me
- vermilingua 7y agoAnything in the Culture series by Iain M. Banks; The Expanse series by James S. A. Corey; The Commonwealth and Void trilogies by Peter F. Hamilton, and the Night’s Dawn trilogy also by Peter F. Hamilton; The Dune saga by Frank Herbert.
- ddeck 7y agoI'll add the Ancillary (Imperial Radch) series by Ann Leckie to these good suggestions.
- SirHound 7y agoHamilton’s The Reality Dysfunction was the stupidest book I’ve ever read and took hundreds of pages to expose itself. Are his others any more grounded (like your other suggestions)?
- vermilingua 7y agoYeah the Night’s dawn series was a bit out there compared to the genre average. The Commonwealth series is considerably closer to baseline, and his best books IMO. The void trilogy (and the newer trilogy whose name escapes me) follow on from the Commonwealth books, and while good, don’t hold up to the first three.
- SirHound 7y agoThanks for the heads up! I liked his writing style so I’ll put them on the list.
- boznz 7y agodid you read the same book as me.. it was pretty awesome
- simon1573 7y agoIs Pandoras Star worth the effort?
- k_ 7y agoDefinitely. I still have some series to read, especially the dark tower from Stephen King which I already started, but I think I'll re-read the whole commonwealth saga in the near future.
- bestest 7y agoYep, the Commonwealth series got solid 4s out of 5s from me, which is very good — I very rarely give a book a 5.
- bakuninsbart 7y agoFoundation Trilogy is not really an Opera, but definetely up there with the big guys. Also an incredibly quick read.
- noir_lord 7y agoNeal Asher's Polity Series as well. It's the culture with more detailed worlds and villains.
- arethuza 7y ago"reality is so limiting compared to what we can imagine" This is actually a central theme of the Zones of Thought novels by Vernon Vinge where a character in the far future describes our current time as the "Age of Failed Dreams" (GAI, nanotech etc.) - turns out that he is wrong but for rather neat reasons.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fire_Upon_the_Deep https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fire_Upon_the_Deep https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky