I’ve been getting through more and more sci-fi books and would love recommendations on the books you’ve all enjoyed.
For myself I thought the Xeelee series was brilliant. Taking us from the dawn of time through to the end of the universe and around again. Fighting aliens from other dimensions and the creators of the universe themselves.
Some of my favourites:
Murderbot series by Martha Wells
Imperial Radch series (Ancillary Justice/Sword/Mercy) by Ann Leckie
Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold
Dogs of War duology by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Expanse series by James S A Corey
Monk & Robot series by Becky ChambersI’ve not read the Xeelee series so can’t say if there’s any similarities, but they are all excellent sci-fi series and well worth your time.
Stumbled across murderbot on Scribd. Absolutely loved it. New one came out this year that I haven’t got around to reading yet.
Imperial Radch gave me so much extra to think about outside of the plot and that made it even better.
Love the Expanse (who doesn’t?), one I really liked is the Silo series. It’s not based in space so a bit different to the ones mentioned.
I liked the Silo series too. Hoping to watch the TV adaptation at some point.
For me it’s “The golden age of the solar Clipper” series by Nathan Lowell.
It’s not about the captains and pew pew laserfights, it’s about the people working on trader ships, their small and big problems, their friendships and how they get along. It’s a wonderful series of books where “nothing happens” and it still is strangely compelling. I have read the whole series multiple times, and it’s one of the few book series that I’ve done that with.
Others have said, but The Expanse series by James S A Corey is amazing. Couldn’t put it down and read it in a month or two. Excellent characters, intrigue and hard science.
Seveneves was pretty good, if a bit depressing through a lot of it.
I also really enjoyed the first Dune book, still working through the second.
Hyperion by Dan Simmons was really unique – a pilgrimage kind of story with a crazy thing called the Shrike. Still reading that series as well.
Hmm, none of them except maybe expanse fits to me, I read the whole series as it came out, and it was decent, I liked the different genre for each book schtick that they were doing.
I’m not much for the depressing and horror stuff, I need optimistic happy stuff with good people being good to each other. The world is shitty enough as it is.
The hyperion is hyped up so much by pretensious people that I just never wanted to read it. I did go in that trap with the Banks books, I thought there must be something I’m missing, since so many people love them, but I just never did.
