31 odpowiedzi

1. I'd love to know your favourite science fiction books and/or series! Give me all the recommendations 😍📚🚀✨

2. I have a new sci-fi book series that I posted at Amazon, which will be available on 23 of October.

   – Crusaders of Nadia: Tragic Beginnings

   This is a prequel book of my series

3. Red Rising all day.

4. i love sf so much than any other genre

5. My most recent reads are the Delphi in Space series by Bob Blanton and the Ell Donsaii series by Laurence Dahners. Both are science-based, in a near-future earth with many of our current (pre-Trump) global issues and likable characters.

6. I love the old science fiction series like:

   Bio of a Space Tyrant series by Piers Anthony
   The Damned by Alan Dean Foster
   Orion Series by Ben Bova
   The Mote in God's Eye (Moties series) by Larry Niven
   Foundation by Isaac Asimov
   Ender/Ender's Shadow series
   Hyperion by Dan Simmons
   Ringworld by Larry Niven
   Neanderthal Parallax series by Robert J. Sawyer
   The Conquerors Saga by Timothy Zahn
   Forbidden Borders by W. Michael Gear

7. I have read several on your list but I have now added I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger book to my TBR. I love anything to do with ecology and the environment and climate so this sounds right up my street

8. All chic sci-fi.
   What're the odds?

9. This is me begging more people to read 40k novels. The Forges of Mars series by Graham McNeill and The Nightlords Trilogy by Aaron Dembski-Bowden deserve all the love any other sci-fi novel gets

10. I think you would enjoy Ursula K LeGuin’s The Dispossessed… She is a true master of the genre and her themes tend to be of the sociological/anthropological variety

11. Oohh best scifi! I've read a few of these and I've heard of the rest. Your review might finally sway me to read Annihilation though. What gorgeous covers you have though! I remember you mentioning I Cheerfully Refuse before, so I'll add that to the list. Also, I actually own a copy of Parable of the Sower but I haven't read it. 😳 So I guess this is my reminder to get on that. 😅
    As for recs, probably too many to choose! Based on these:
    Kindred by Octavia Butler – just excellent time travel, moral quandries but also celebration of black people surviving and enduring under racism since slavery.

    An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon – inequality and oppression on a generation ship. Read it if you haven't already!

    Idk if you've read the Broken Earth trilogy by N K Jemisin?

    I think The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters was good? It's a 5 Minutes Before the Apocalypse story about a detective trying to solve a murder a few months before a meteor is expected to wipe out all life on the earth. So society is very much breaking down.

    Also for time travel, I loved Night Watch by Terry Pratchett, though idk if you'd need to read more of the series to get the context? It's one of the best Discworld books, for sure.

    Oh and The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes, which is about a time travelling serial killer and one of his would-be victims trying to track him down.

    Agree with prevs, you should absolutely try the Murderbot series by Martha Wells! It starts with All Systems Red and they're great for those questions about what makes someone human since it's about an AI Security Guard (ig) that achieves Free Will. Also lots of interesting social critique and far future worldbuilding.

    There are also a few feminist scifi classics I haven't read but I've heard are great, like Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy, The Dispossessed and also The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin. Idk if they'd be interesting to you?

    If I think of more, I'll leave more recs.

12. Oohh best scifi! I've read a few of these and I've heard of the rest. Your review might finally sway me to read Annihilation though. What gorgeous covers you have though! I remember you mentioning I Cheerfully Refuse before, so I'll add that to the list. Also, I actually own a copy of Parable of the Sower but I haven't read it. 😳 So I guess this is my reminder to get on that. 😅
    As for recs, probably too many to choose! Based on these:
    Kindred by Octavia Butler – just excellent time travel, moral quandries but also celebration of black people surviving and enduring under racism since slavery.

    An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon – inequality and oppression on a generation ship. Read it if you haven't already!

    Idk if you've read the Broken Earth trilogy by N K Jemisin?

    I think The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters was good? It's a 5 Minutes Before the Apocalypse story about a detective trying to solve a murder a few months before a meteor is expected to wipe out all life on the earth. So society is very much breaking down.

    Also for time travel, I loved Night Watch by Terry Pratchett, though idk if you'd need to read more of the series to get the context? It's one of the best Discworld books, for sure.

    Oh and The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes, which is about a time travelling serial killer and one of his would-be victims trying to track him down.

    Agree with prevs, you should absolutely try the Murderbot series by Martha Wells! It starts with All Systems Red and they're great for those questions about what makes someone human since it's about an AI Security Guard (ig) that achieves Free Will. Also lots of interesting social critique and far future worldbuilding.

    There are also a few feminist scifi classics I haven't read but I've heard are great, like Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy, The Dispossessed and also The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin. Idk if they'd be interesting to you?

    If I think of more, I'll leave more recs.

13. Thank you, fine choices. To anyone interested, the novel “Assunta” by a writer named Greco is a thought-provoking trip through hell (thanks to a virus-like thing) in a modern-day variant of the epic 14th century poem, The Divine Comedy; three books in one—Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. It’s a forceful love story, but heavy on depravity and slaughter. Great horror-sci fi.

14. Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro is very good as well! I think you may especially like if it you are interested in exploring the line between humans and artificial intelligence, what makes a human human, and the ramifications of scientific advancement on economic structures. It's very thought provoking and heart wrenching!

15. Just finished The Memory Police on your recommendation, and I really loved it. I don't know if I would have stumbled onto it without watching this video. Thanks!

16. If the Annihilation is the book of the film, it is plagiarised from JG Ballard.

17. Im currently reading Annihilation and would adore a deep dive into this series! Its been a long time since Ive had to what feels like physically peel myself away from a book like I do with this.

    I have parable of the sower, I cheerfully refuse and the city we became on my tbr currently

18. The girl with all the gifts was AWESOME!
    If you haven't read it already, I suspect the sparrow would be one you may enjoy.

19. Camp zero was great

20. I found some of my all time favs on this list! Definitely putting the others I haven't read on my TBR now!!

21. also, if you're taking suggestions, you should read my book! i think you'd like it, it's called ARKDUST from Rosarium Publishing.. queer, afrofuturist, cyberpunk, chaos, lgbt, fat/chubby bodies SF/F

22. i just knew octavia would top your list… rad

23. One of my favourite sci fi is The Hail Mary Project. It's so hopeful and super sweet with a dash of humor. I jusy really loved it and that book made me want to read much more scifi

24. Well shoot, if you’re into books about “what it means to be human”, you have to read the original, and imo, best, Frankenstein!

25. Thanks so much for this great video! Here are my favourite sci-fi classics:
    • Ursula K. Le Guin – The Left Hand of Darkness: A groundbreaking novel set on a planet where humans are ambisexual and genders do not exist.
    • Joanna Russ – The Female Man: A bold exploration of parallel worlds, each shaped by different gender politics and historical developments.
    • Ursula K. Le Guin – The Dispossessed: A physicist travels between two planets—one capitalist, Leninist, and war-torn; the other anarcho-socialist—revealing the tensions between utopia and reality.

26. You might like a pair of books by Aimee Maree Brown, Grievers and its sequel, Maroons, which describe a dystopian society set in Detroit where a kind of plague has affected only the Black population. I read it as an allegory for systemic racism and white flight, but it’s not explicitly that. Central character is a Black queer woman who is trying to understand the events around her as her family slowly falls prey to the plague.

27. I just read “To Be Taught, if Fortunate” on your recommendation and really loved it! Thank you!

28. Such a great video. Finally a top 10 that isn’t just “Herbert and Asimov” lol. Nothing against those authors but this was a much appreciated fresh perspective. Will definitely be adding a couple of these to my TBR

29. Y’all, PLEASE don’t believe the vicious rumor that reading “Prion Mind (A Saga Into Delirium)” has driven some readers insane. There is not any reliable evidence of that.

30. where do you get your beautiful editions- like the parable series, annihilation, small angry planet?

31. I feel like I never see anyone mention Becky Chambers' work, and I'm so happy that her books are on your list!! She's the first author that I intentionally set out to read their entire bibliography, and I dream of the day that we get another cozy scifi novel from her. Also high up on my list of favorite scifi is Rosewater by Tade Thompson and To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini.