What are some science fiction novels that you would recommend?

What are some science fiction novels that you would recommend?

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>final story is just descriptions of a woman's tits at various stages of her life
Not Hyperion.

>A Fall of Moondust, Arthur C. Clarke

This one was pretty good. but bear in mind it was written before the moon landing.

Children of time

IHNMAIMS, A Boy And His Dog, basically anything by Harlan Ellison

Revelation Space
Leviathan Wakes
The Windup Girl
Dune
Ringworld
I, Robot
The Algebraist
Aurora

Stop after the second book.

The Gods Themselves

this. good book.

Lets see..

>Blood Music
>Ringworld
>The Ringworld Engineer
>Protector
>Footfall
>Rendezvous With Rama
>Rama II
>Dune
>Dune:Messiah
>Forever War
>The Martian Chronicles
>Childhood's End
>The Island Of Doctor Moreau
>Starfist series if you like serialized military sci-fi
>War Of The Worlds
>1984
>The Man In The High Castle
>Roadside Picnic
>Day Of The Triffids

That's just some of what I've got on my shelf

>Revelation Space
Nice taste. Rereading the series now.

The Red Rising Saga
Is one of the best futuristic space tales I've ever red. Its got elements of age old Romanesque elitism. Genetic modifications separate people into color coded social groups. The main character was born a red (miner) on mars. Which is the lowest rung on the social ladder. Of course. And he ends up leading such a huge revolution that it nearly tears the solar system apart.

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"I live for the dream that my children will be born free," she says. "That they will be what they like. That they will own the land their father gave them."

"I live for you," I say sadly.

Eo kisses my cheek. "Then you must live for more."

Canticle for Leibowitz

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Lucifer's Hammer is so good mayne. truly one of the best sci-fi novels

Peter Wats, John C Wright, Liu Cixin, Wil McCarthy, Stephen Baxter (if you really like PHYSICS), Charles Stross for some pretty hard, high concept stuff.

right, if you like klaus kinski tier ranting and screaming.

op, ignore ellison, he only ever wrote one good story and that was "god bless you, little life hutch". go read some Iain M Banks instead. "The Player of Games" is pretty good.

>>Rendezvous With Rama

yeah!

>>Rama II

naw. Gentry Lee took a beautiful universe and shat all over it.

Slan or Galactic Patrol for the very very old stuff

This, the culture saga is (imo) the best scifi setup youll find. Fresh stuff. I also loved Excession a lot, but i see it rarely reccomended here

This is a bit biased, but I like the Halo novels (Yes, the ones based off the games.) I enjoy the adventures and the unique situations characters are put in.

It helps if you've played the games, because they help with descriptions for specific aliens.

I'm not here to promote the company or anything, but I just really enjoy the Halo universe.

If you were to start, I'd recommend buying; The fall of Reach.

I have good memories of enjoying Mass Effect 1 and 2. anyone read the books?

This, definitely.

Agreed. It was a great universe he set up, but the later books got trite and dull.

Greg Bear writes some broad, fantastic sci-fi! He wrote some of the Halo novels. But, his best work was Eon.

Theodore Sturgeon wrote some good, (though definitely dated) sci-fi. I'd check out "More than Human" and "To Marry Medusa" (a.k.a. "The Cosmic Rape")

Samuel R. Delany has a collection of short stories called "Driftglass". Some may not agree with his overall life outlook, but I really enjoy that each short story is very tragic on a personal level, while the overarching theme throughout is one of triumph.

Are there any classic science fiction, that could stand their own in the literary canon? Most SF I have read consist of a beginning, a muddle, and an end. Cool and edgy ideas that are sometimes poorly executed. I read some Harlan Ellison short stories which were excellent, but are there actually any decent SF novels which aren't shit?

Anything you can find by Dennis Schmidt

>picking reddit and goodreads's favorite YA book
Jesus

City by clifford d simak

>miners are the lowest rung

What about sewage people? I guess they live fancy lives.

>everyone is color coded hurr durr

Fucking garbage for special ed highschool kids.

A Deepness in the Sky is still one of my favorites.

Flowers for Algernon
Starship troopers(its better than the movie)

This

S o l a r i s

>>everyone is color coded hurr durr
>Fucking garbage for special ed highschool kids.
This

all memes aside. hyperion is a bad book

excession implied that the Culture wasn't quite as good as it pretended to be. the ships occasionally did shitty things. they were fallible.

which is, i guess, a good thing. more realistic. but the Affront were a bit over-done in their enthusiastic assholery, i thought. sort of like the Empire of Azad turned up to eleven.

I'd recommend:

>I read some Harlan Ellison short stories which were excellent

how old are you? jesus christ.

read this. come for the implied frog - human sex and stay for the court scene where the judge gets a spear in the chest, and it's alllll perfectly legal.

The dosadi experiment was way too self indulgent for my tastes. It just comes across as a half baked ego trip which kills any interest I might have had for the premise, which is itself kind of laughable once you take a step back and think about it. If dune is anything like it, I'll probably pass on that too.

Finally, another Lafferty shill
Lafferty is the secret master of scifi, him along with Wolfe

The Demon Princes by Jack Vance

Look into Robert McCammon, Swan Song And Stinger are some of his best.

China MiƩville

Schilds ladder

get some dick in you

Ubik
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Neuromancer and the Sprawl trilogy
Snow Crash
Software (Rudy Rucker)

Anything by - Robert A. Heinlein
Anything by - Isaac Asimov
Anything by- Arthur C. Clarke.
Those were the big three of sci-fi back in the golden days of the genre.
Tho Hyperion and Dune also are nice

>heinlein
god-tier
>asimov
literally shit tier
>clarke
mid-tier writer, top-tier concepts tho

>Forever War
this was good

Forever Peace was weird

>>asimov
his book about the pocket demon was ok if you like raunchy comedy about big-titted girls

who was that guy that wrote that american sci-fi was about robots, by robots, for robots?

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Although I will agree that Asimov is more pop-lit than the other too, he was one of the classic big three in the golden age of sci-fi.
His foundation series is quite the joy.

>he was one of the classic big three in the golden age of sci-fi
that's what other say
i respectfully disagree
foundation is terrible. if anything the robot stuff was his best work

Raunchy, you say?

>What are some science fiction novels that you would recommend?
If you like stuff that is humorous too I recommend the Vorkosigan saga by Lois McMaster Bujold. It's a pretty huge series by now but entirely worth it. Incredibly good worldbuilding and swashbuckling space opera like very few authors have pulled off.

The Foundation trilogy
Rendezvous with Rama
The Book of the New Sun

h-how raunchy?

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Frederik Pohl is GOAT

That book was fucking AMAZING

Too Like the Lightning
Blindsight
Revelation Space
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Everything by Lem and the Strugatskys

Neuromancer

is this really difficult to read or am I just a brainlet

this.

Scholar > Consul > Soldier > Poet > Detective > Priest.

Talking about their tales of course

oh cool I am about to read the Scolar's next. I liked the poets the least so far, desu. Soldier's is gonna be tough to beat

Only book that's hooked me from the first sentence.
Difficult to read in what way?

I almost like Deepness but the spiders' dialogue is fucking atrocious.
What is it with SF writers being unable to write good dialogue?

Hard to keep track of jargon, the story and the scenes
It felt very confusing in general

It's actually a very simple heist story with SF trappings, you're thinking about it too much because of its reputation and setting.

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Solaris (Lem)
The Ugly Swans (Strugatzki Brothers)

Somewhat.

Dune
The Left Hand of Darkness
Bleeding Edge
The Slynx
Ubik
Xenogenesis (Lilith's Brood)
Never Let Me Go
The Wild Boys

It is poorly written which makes it difficult to read imo.

I am reading my first Delany right now and I love it.

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absolute classic
how people can near deify trash like asimov when gems like this were published at the same time is utterly baffling

Titan (baxter)

The Forever War (haldeman - also highly recommend the graphic novel, if you can find it)

Next (crichton)

Day of the Triffids (wyndham)

We're talking about the guy who wrote a poem about banging his gender-bent clone.

Been meaning to read Gateway ever since I played the text adventure. I've read Murasaki though, it was cool.
What's wrong with that?

Theres a gateway game?

Yeah, as I said it's a text adventure but it has cool pics that illustrate the scenes. It has quite a good atmosphere.
abandonia.com/en/games/540 (play it in dosbox if you want to try)

I really enjoyed The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Heinlein

Solaris for real best sci fi novel

Seconding this. I enjoyed those as well.

Came here to post this
>Obese pony fucker

Is he good? I've got kraken lying around but everytime I end up watching lexx. .. your personal rating for kraken will do inform me, thanks in advance even if you didn't read it, then just an author opinion.

Riddley Walker

I've read PASS and it was good although the plot was somewhat weak.

*PSS

Hmmm yes, the plot was what I was worrying about, because the lover aft hype. Are you the op of the post I replied to or a random helpful stranger? Because I would have guessed he even read his pic related. But yeah a reply warrants me a free Sunday to read it I guess. Thanks, whoever you are and so on.

>Forever War
Love this book

Nothing, I'm just a brainlet that responded to the wrong one. Meant to be about Asimov.

Probably my all-time favorite book.

>"You are what you do when it counts."

Blindsight by Peter Watts

YA garbage

Based on those descriptions, no Dune is nothing like that at all. Of course, I have not read Dosadi.

>I really enjoyed The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Heinlein
of course you did
anybody who says otherwise is lying

Time Out of Joint

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