What is the greatest, most influential work of science fiction within the last ten years?
What is the greatest, most influential work of science fiction within the last ten years?
Gabriel Sullivan
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Colton James
Three Body Problem
Samuel Davis
my gf
Jace Rogers
Annihilation
Bentley Cox
The right answer: Three Body Problem
The underrated book that SHOULD be the answer: Lawrence Burton's Against Nature
One of the best books I've ever read with a stunning take on the intersection between history, mythology, Neil Gaiman urban fantasy, and way-out space science fiction. This novel is criminally under-read.
Adrian Sanchez
>Can't find it anywhere
What it 'bout?
Daniel Thomas
obversebooks.co.uk
There you go! It's really hard to find outside the UK.
There are four plot-threads running concurrently. In Aztec times, there's a priest whose job is to go around and test supposed miracles. He needs to make sure that what people are claiming is magic is actually the work of the gods, and punish those who claim this falsely. He begins to encounter genuine magic at work, and he and the other priests need to deal with this situation. In the present, two people find their reality twisting. Things are WRONG - and their lives are beginning to distort around them. One turns to a neo-pagan approach to the same magic the Aztec investigator-priest was looking into. The final plot involves a space-fairing race who were fleeing from a war - something is stalking their ship, murdering them one by one, and the structure of their lives and narrative is beginning to collapse.
In the end, they all come together at the mercy of the Aztec gods.
That's a bit of a bald summary. The writing is gorgeous, and the depth Burton draws out of the characters is incredible.
Evan Bennett
Sci-fi these days is written by women and blacks as opposed to STEM majored professors, so it all sucks.
Lucas Wilson
I want all /pol/s lined up against a wall and fucking shot. You idiots are the most annoying fucks on the web.
You're like a broken record, shut the fuck up already, we've HEARD it already.
Levi Hughes
Is this your book? Are you Lawrence Burton shilling your book no one cares about?
Come clean now..
Colton Butler
Shockingly, no. A friend dragged me into reading Faction Paradox because he got to write a short story for it, and Burton's book impressed the hell out of me. It's one of those "it's so unknown it hasn't even heard of itself" books I like to recommend hard. The small press scene is really neat.
I dunno if that's especially convincing evidence I'm not Lawrence Burton.
Let's go hard recommending another under-underground book so that at least if I'm one author I'm definitely not two.
Heidi Ruby Miller's Men of War didn't make any splash on release, and that it didn't win any minor award or really get any attention is a crime. Sort of a recontextualization of a kinda sucky Philip Jose Farmer novel from tbe 70s it's a great look at what loving through multiple earths does to a person. It's interesting seeing a 1970s deconstruction of 1940s sci-fi pulp being in turn deconstructed and reconstructed into something else entirely.
Josiah Nelson
hard sci fi is still being written, most genrefags just prefer space fantasy or video games but in book form
Nathaniel Foster
This
It’s heavily disliked by pseuds and poltards but it’s a genuinely good trilogy
Isaac Cruz
I read the Fifth Season trilogy and it was pretty good. 7/10 It's also written by a black woman, has a mmf piratesex relationship, and a tranny. And the main characters are all black. A lot of the story can be viewed through the lens of black oppression in America.
Samuel Ross
Is it written by a kike?
Bentley King
Go away
Blake Lee
Paper menagerie and other stories.
It's a little bit too emotionally manipulatev bit it has good points and impact.
Angel Ward
Oh. I see. Chinkshit.
It hurts to confront but he's not wrong.
I have problems with his epistemology and his morality is essentially rick and morty but you might like Peter Watts.
I don't know what John C. Wright's novels are like and I suspect I won't enjoy it but his book of essays on the genre is an excellent read.
Hunter Foster
Westworld.
Jonathan Davis
Influential? Not necessarily, but I really liked Watt's Blindsight.
Daniel Cook
Any hard scifi books about general AI? I will read any and all.
Jace Thomas
Looks like this Tranny is in a lot of dilating pain
Chase Edwards
Blindsight came out 13 years ago
Brody Richardson
For anyone looking for good sci fi do t fall for blindsight posters.
The book is absolutely trash.
Dylan Thompson
So did you.
So are you.
Jackson Lopez
Thanks n8 I've been meaning to read faction paradox for ages
Christian Kelly
If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love by Rachel Swirsky is possibly the most perfect work of fiction in human history, let alone science fiction.
Robert Harris
Ready Player One, duh
Jackson Flores
first post best post
Easton Davis
Two thirds of these stories are cringe worthy garbage. They all read like the short stories by Terry Pratchett he wrote as teenager, then released by popular demand but felt embarrassed for. They're that bad.
The titular story itself plus the one that got adapted in Netflix' Love, Death and Robots anthology were just fine, but overall this book was a massive disappointment especially if you bought it for the Three Body Problem pedigree (which I did, stupidly).
Man, did this book ever need a competent editor.
Connor Cruz
think blood meridian in space and it's 500 pages
Jack Nguyen
Dougal Dixon's speculative zoology works
Jason Miller
Those are from the 70’s user, no one writes spec-bio books anymore ;__;
Jace Nguyen
>I don't know what John C. Wright's novels are like and I suspect I won't enjoy it but his book of essays on the genre is an excellent read.
If you actually liked reading JCW's bloviations then you'll probably like at least some of his books. His two biggest problems are that he likes to LARP as GK Chesterton and he doesn't have access to a top-tier editor since he fell out with Tor. But he's got real talent.
His best books are The Golden Age trilogy and Awake in the Night Land. Green Knight's Squire is also a good take on the niche "paladin subgenre" because he's both familiar with the original source material and an unironic Catholic fanatic.
Asher Green
Greg Egan's Permutation City has some pretty good speculative biology if you're looking for a recent entry into the genre.
Isaac Lopez
Nice argument, bro.
Parker Cruz
Becky Chambers writes from the soft perspective but it's really quite enjoyable.
Matthew Robinson
>everybody who disagrees with me is a pseudo and from /pol/
Christ, get a grip you giant faggot. The novel is a giant piece of shit and resulting to ad hominem on any who disagree with you shows how high your opinions truly matter
Juan Watson
Also learn to format your posts redditfag
Easton Ross
The TBP couldn't come out of America anymore. It is wildly imaginative in the truest sense, but because of that large parts of it are eye-roll worthy. I'd argue for The Windup Girl which is just at 10 years. A great bit of foundational biopunk, not poorly written, rather prescient as we close the crispr revolution.
Lucas Brown
/pol/ is gay as fuck but i genuinely laughed at this
Logan Peterson
Teehee, would that be so naughty?..
Robert Miller
It's an opinion but if you want an argument 90% of the book is filled with evolutionary philology, and they is the cringiest psedu science today. And you can go on, the MC is really shit with nothing there to make him even remotely interesting, some shit vapire bullshit.
May the alien and the end and the only good parts.