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1. Update, a year later. A lot of these were on the schedule and got delayed to 2022 due to the change in the Malazan read along schedule. But they haven't been forgotten.

   A Space Odyssey – chose to read Childhood's End instead
   Foundation – would still like to fir it in prior to the Apple TV series
   Bobiverse – starting book #1 next week!
   Murderbot – read book 1 & decided the series wasn't for me
   Hyperion Cantos – read the Hyperion duology, no current plans for the Endymion duology
   Remembrance of Earth's Past – on deck this fall if the schedule works out
   Expanse – continuing in 2022

2. I just finished the Bobiverse, all 5. Brilliant really enjoyed them 🙂

3. Came back to this video after starting the expeditionary force series to see if you've heard of it

4. No list of books in the description. Thumbs down!

5. I've finished The Expanse saga and I absolutely loved it, especially 1-3, 7-9 books

6. Such a cool list – I found some new things to add to my list alongside the decent chunk that were already there. Very true about scifi being SO serious – I' love to see more lighthearted stuff out there.

7. The Sparrow by Maria Doria Russell is one of the best sci-fi (apart from Dune).

8. You should try E.E. Smith and his Lensman and Skylark series. They are out of print so they may be hard to find but they got me started into scifi back in the 70's. Wonderful space opera! Loved your list.

9. I havent finished the Gap series but I really enjoyed what I have read. It is definitely an adult read. I have read all of his fantasy series.

10. Don’t overlook this quote if you are a fan of something. “You know what is better than 1 good thing? 2 good things!”

11. Mike, have you ever got around to reading the Gap series yet? I recently finished it and was blown away. I’ve read a lot of sci fi (but not everything on your list) and I put it up there with the best.

    The Foundation books are great. Asimov came back to it in the 1980s, and added some connections to his (nearer future) Robot novels.

    I’d recommend the Foundation and Robot ovens from the 50s first, then order of publication for what came out in the 80s, such as Foundations Edge, the Robots of Dawn, etc

12. No Neuromancer or Culture? Oof

    Hey, everyone enjoys different things for different reasons. Scifi even more so. Depending on your interests, those books could be all over the map in terms of whether they work for you or not.

    For me, Dune series, Neuromancer series, and Culture series (minus Inversions, plus Algebraist) stand out because of their impact on my brainstorming of the conceptualizing of real world developments. Something that isn't exactly even about story telling. I'm not sure how meaningful that niche is for most people, or if they'd remotely get the same experience and mileage I've gotten.

13. Verne had a sci-fi cycle with: In Search of the Castaways, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, The Mysterious Island

14. Enders saga… For me Book 2 Speaker for the dead is the best in the series. It is wildly different than Ender's game, but still very deserving of the Hugo.
    Bean's saga is very interesting, but by far Ender's shadow aka book 1, is fascinating because it has a great peak behind the curtain of Ender's game.

15. Revelation Space needs to get bumped way up in your list! It’s a must!

16. I highly recommend you read the Wayfarers series by Becky Chambers. It starts with The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. It’s absolutely wonderful!

17. Not trying to be mean, but wondering what you have read???? I mean, these are the cornerstones of the genre. Advice:
    Take a Staycation, go to the bookstore, get Reynolds, Tchaikovsky, Morgan, and Cixin, order a lot of food and READ!

18. 18:06 … The Culture books are nothing like Dune! (And here I just deleted a long winded section of the whys and wherefores, I reread it and thought "wow, who am I kidding?" Suffice to say The Culture and Dune are not the same)…

19. Dude pass on the Odyssey series. Clark has zero characters. Zero narrative. Zero good writing. Odyssey 3 was probably the worst sci-fi book I’ve ever read.
    But Old Man’s War is great!!

20. Some excellent series' mentioned here.

21. I have been binging the Three-Body Problem series this week. Halfway through book 2 and am blown away. It is a top series for me instantly. I really am amazed.

22. I'm halfway through The Culture and it is NOTHING like Dune. Still good, though. Hella weird, but good. Sorry to hear you didn't like the Murderbot diaries. I love them to bits. I also really enjoyed the Old Man's War series. I'm curious about the Vorkosigan saga, might look into that soon.

23. hyperion then culture. dont do foundation its for babies

24. Nostalgia For Infiniti!!!!

25. Where's The Lensman series?
    E.E. Doc Smith.
    Spanning millennia, fall of Atlantis, Rome and the World War III. A pair of genetic lines destined to save the universe from trans-dimensional anti-life parasites.
    Square jawed heroes, epic space battles with fantastic weaponry and mind boggling technology,
    All dodgy pseudoscience mumbo-jumbo but that doesn't detract from the epic scope of the story arc. Just a great read overall.
    Good versus Evil. What's not to like?
    Dated but it is a true classic and has certainly inspired writers of today.

26. Martha Wells, The Murder Bot Series area really excellent read. 10/10.

27. THE ALIEN PLAN by Jack Fleming. The follow-up book is PILLAR OF HONOR also by Jack Fleming. These books are found on Amazon.

28. The Takeshi Kovacs trilogy is top 3 all time for me. I think each book gets better than the last. So good, hope you had time to get to it! I realize this video is old now.

29. I'd like to suggest – and I think you'd enjoy reading it – Jean Johnson's "Theirs not to reason why" series… space opera, military, It's about Earth after contact with aliens, an Earth (and space colonies) where a small part of humanity gains "powers" (telekines, pyrokinetics, telepathy, sound projection, ability to learn languages easily etc) due to interference from an alien species… and the main character gains a very rare ability, to see her timeline and timelines of people around her. She discovers that hundreds of years in the future Earth and our corner of the universe would be destroyed by some aliens but there's a ridiculously small percentage humanity would win against that alien species provided the right people are in the right places over the years… so she makes it a mission to manipulate events and people and put things in motion that would increase the chances of humanity surviving in the future. The author has a 3 book series "The first Salik war" which is first-contact series, how humanity discovers aliens.. it's good series but a bit too descriptive, there's lots of pages where the same thing or ideas are explained in detail to characters so it can be a bit annoying.

30. Yes the hyperion series was very good.

31. Everybody has his and her preferences. But what I completely miss in many reviews by many reviewers is Ringworld by Larry Niven a five book series. Furthermore I would like to recommend the Exordium by the authors Sherwood Smith and Dave Trowbridge, the starting novel being "The Phoenix in Flight".

32. I am sorry but Dune is no good without the other books. The first book is just kind of a jumping off point. By no means does anything get settled.

33. While I realize your time is valuable , limiting your new series choices to short series is very limiting. Two very popular series are David Weber’s “Honor Harrington” and “Safehold “ series the first started almost 30 years ago and is still extremely popular the second is sometimes. Considered fantasy but I disagree with that label and started about 15 years ago. The Honor series are almost stand alone especially the first 4-5 books which are also relatively short reads . The Safehold books are all long but very interesting. In both Weber puts you in realities which have ties to current or past real civilizations here on earth twisted slightly to fit the theme of the books. Very enjoyable and each new book is always eagerly awaited by his fans

34. The Saga of Seven Suns by Kevin J. Anderson was great too. I have yet to see anybody recommend these 7 books!

35. Speaker for the dead is as good as Enders Game in a completely different way.

36. How about some love for Gordon R Dickson's Childe Cycle or Harry Harrison's Deathworld series?

37. I quit "Consider Phlebas" after about 100 pages. It is BAD, poor written space opera trash. On the other hand, I would move the Bobiverse books to number one

38. Taylor Anderson's destroyermen

39. you arent even close about what you think children of time is about!!! you are so missing out this is a fascinating twist onthe building of an alien civilisation

40. Alistair Reynolds Revelation Space trilogy is amazing and benefits from him being a professor of Astrophysics IRL. Iann Banks Culture novels are nothing like Dune, at all, however they bebfit massively from Banks being a genuine top drawer literary author – sometimes the writing will leave you staring at the page in disbelief at how good it is. The storyies are exceptional. They call all be read independently, dip in and out as you like. Recommended to start with understand about the Culture (which is useful for all the other stories) are "Excession" which deals a lot with the Culture's ship minds (AIs) and "Matter" which deals mainly with the adventures of a Special Circumstances agent.

41. Ok, I was just listening along, thinking that I still haven't liked any Asimov books yet, when I hear 'Bob'. LOVE the series, and then you say Dresden. I must read them as soon as they come out. I really liked Scalzi's series. 'Old Man's War' is fascinating.

42. night's dawn was ok, but pandora's star onwards by PFH are far better. Night's dawn paints itself into a corner by the end so is a bit disappointing.
    Foundation is pretty good, ignore Apple's interference.
    Murderbot is pretty decent. Gets a little samey after the first 3 stories but not bad and fun.
    Hyperion is good.

43. I'd suggest Poul Anderson's Nicholas VanRijn/Dominic Flandry novels might be interesting for you

44. You seem to have a lot of reading to do. Check out the Emberverse Series by S. M Sterling. It is not Science Fiction but the base premise is that god like aliens change the laws of physics just a bit such that no modern technology works and it goes on for about 19 riveting books. Thank you for mentioning Peter Hamilton. I think his works are AWESOME and under appreciated. I would really love an attempt to make a movie from his stories and LOSE TRANSFORMERS. FINISH THE EXPANSE series it is worth it. I am starting the culture series as per your recommendation. Not all books are on Audible!

45. I enjoyed those series you listed. Currently finished the latest book in the Odyssey One series by Even Currie. I would recommend just cause it reads like action scifi movies, may not be the best written but entertaining enough.

46. The Culture series jumps all over the timeline so you can either read them in published order, timeline order, or any order you like. There are occasional references to events in other books but they're not really material to individual books. As they're standalones, they're good to dip into between the books of other series if you're binge reading. They are superb – though I found Inversions the weakest perhaps, it's more of a fantasy novel, or maybe a medieval political thriller that draws parallels to the Culture though being only loosely associated with it. You wouldn't be missing much of the Culture as a whole if you skipped it (sacrilege, I know!). Matter is sort of similar but I found it a more interesting read because of the setting.

47. Ever try "The Dragonriders of Pern" series?

48. Your descriptions of the Bobiverse are close but off.

49. Hyperion, YES! I’ve read all four books at least five times. Can’t get enough.

50. How about trying the Ringworld books by Larry Niven?