What are some good sci-fi reads? Just finished pic related+Urth and I'm looking for something that tingles my imagination.
Not looking for
>hamfisted space operas
>futuristic noir aping blade runner films
>"AI are people too" themed works
What are some good sci-fi reads? Just finished pic related+Urth and I'm looking for something that tingles my imagination.
Not looking for
>hamfisted space operas
>futuristic noir aping blade runner films
>"AI are people too" themed works
You have already read the best there is, move on to another genre
Have you read A Canticle for Leibowitz?
god i have to stop coming to Veeky Forums, now i feel that i must absolutely MUST read these books
i'm leaving now... to read
just look up Bradbury, Heinlein, Clarke, Vance, Delany, Wells etc there are dozens of good sci-fi writers
>A Canticle for Leibowitz
What I came here to suggest.
Also, in addition to what 10270098 suggested, Piers Anthony and Isaac Asimov
Read Lem, the best sci-fi author in my opinion
Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
Kefahuchi Tract series, particularly if you liked Roadside Picnic.
The story is very good. Every book was better than the last. It reads much more like a single book than four episodic installments. I thought book one was far better than average sf/f, but it didn't seem quite like the masterpiece I was expecting. I started to see it in the second book and was convinced by the time I finished the fourth.
Ashes, Ashes by Rene Barjavel.
Blindsight by Peter Watts
The Culture of Critique by Kevin MacDonald.
Is that the one with the shapeshifters?
that's because it is a single book, split into four volumes
STAR SHIP TROOPERS
Gormenghast
Perdido street station
Neuromancer
Stanislaw Lem, especially his later works.
Solaris, The Invincible, His Master's Voice, Return from the Stars
buuuuh hurrr *slaps himself in the ass* i'm retardeddd
You should read The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu.
oh, and also check out The Cyberiad from the same author for something more humorous and light hearted
what's the big deal with book of the new sun? i always get so eager to read it when i see someone posting about it but i don't know why it's so highly regarded.
A Scanner Darkly by Phillip K Dick.
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