What are some good sci-fi/fantasy/history books i should read?
What are some good sci-fi/fantasy/history books i should read?
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Lucifer's Hammer
Starship Troopers
Forever War
Wheel of Time
Catch 22
Dune
Metro 2033, 2034, 2035
malazan
The only book you will ever need.
anything by H.P. lovecraft
Anything Heinlein.
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
The Culture series
When Gravity fails if you want Cyberpunk mixed with middle east setting.
>sci-fi/fantasy
The Book of The New Sun is way above anything in the genre.
Seconding this, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls is one of my favorite books
I also liked The Green Hills of Earth
This, "we" is another good one
You ever read the foundation series by Asimov? It's pretty neato
That's a good entrypoint, but I wouldn't say anything Heinlein. I like him, but he definitely got a little... strange in his later years.
The Sprawl trilogy{Neuromancer ,Count Zero ,Mona Lisa Overdrive} by William Gibson. The Matrix and many other books and movies were inspired/ripped off from Gibson.He even called it the Matrix!All his best work is in these three books written in the 80s.His newer stuff is not worth reading.Rumor is he quit taking psychedelics and lost his mojo.But the Sprawl trilogy lives forever.
The Foundation series by Isaac Asimov.The epic tale of the fall of Galactic empire and the rise of a new empire .The books span several thousand years
And my all time fave" The Diamond Age" by Neil Stephenson.Best American SciFi novel since William Gibsons 80s hot streak.You will lose sleep reading this book all night.You cannot put it down.
The Culture Series my man
Hell yes! The Foundation books set the standard for sci-fi.
Brave new world
Also just buy some sci-fi short story compilations from the 60s/70s/80s
slaughterhouse 5 is pretty good
yeah, pretty good. ringworld by niven is also good
the bible
No one likes the Middle East fuck off
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No Snowcrash? so disappoint.
A book about the holocaust
Redwall series
It's supposed to be a kids series, but the author dident quite grasp the concept of "kiddie"
>drinking
>food porn
>undertones of Christianity and crusades
>heroes treated as if the master races (mice, badgers, moles, ect)
>villains treated as dumbasses and inferior (rats, foxes, weasels, etc)
>village always die horribly
>good guys always win
Only real flaw is that everyone's dialog is phoneticly written in a thick Scottish borugh for no reason and it gets hard to understand without context
Villains always die horribly *
Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. kind of an inspiration for the zone in stalker
I found this one exciting. It larps a bit too much with the world creation, but otherwise 8/10.
Twilight Eyes by Dean Koontz, it's basically about the Jews
Shadow of the torturer
With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa
solaris
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