What's your favorite Sci-Fi book and what's it about?
What's your favorite Sci-Fi book and what's it about?
Foundation (the trilogy) too. Because it's quintessential keikakkucore.
not dune
LoGH
a burned or otherwise destroyed one. Fuck sci-fi, fuck fantasy its all dribble for low iq retards. Your time is better spent elsewhere
The Mote in God's Eye. First contact with dangerous, genuinely inhuman aliens.
ok, but is it well written or is it just masturbatory fascination and terror at the unknown
Yes
My favorite is Book of the New Sun. Has anyone here read Viriconium? How did you like it?
to the latter or former?
Gravity's Rainbow, it's basically Lain if it was written during the Vietnam war
Nightfall by Asimov
A planet with two suns has constant light until a solar eclipse plunges it into darkness and muh-fuhs lose their minds.
It's well-written and effectively balances human stories and high concept sci-fi. It won the Hugo, back when that meant something. It doesn't fall into Big Dumb Object or mystery box tropes.
I have been looking for something like this. I feel that when "aliens" are depicted in fiction they are more often than not far too familiar.
>What's your favorite Sci-Fi book
the time machine
>and what's it about?
a time machine
Not necessarily the best but one my favorite is Anathem.
Book of the New Sun. Some teen doofus claps a lot of cheeks while trekking around South America.
Roaside Picnic, is it about coping and searching for meaning in the face of something much greater than humanity
Viriconium is based, very different from BOTNS though.
Childhood's End
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Star Diaries by Lem. Münchhausen in Space
the star by H.G. Wells, it is a very short novel but is science fiction at his best
He's not a doofus. Severian is a professional law enforcement agent, an amateur actor and autobiographer on a journey of self discovery in post-post-apocalyptic South America.
Blindopraxia, for reals.
>The Mote in God's Eye
Oh cool, Brian Reynolds listed this book as one of his sources of ispiration.
Here is the full list:
>"The Jesus Incident" by Frank Herbert
>"Dune" by Frank Herbert
>"A Fire Upon The Deep" by Vernor Vinge
>"Anvil Of The Stars" by Greg Bear
>"Slant" by Greg Bear
>"The Mote In God's Eye" by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
>"The Real Story" by Stephen R. Donaldson
>"Red Mars" by Kim Stanley Robinson
>"The Year's Best Science Fiction" edited by Gardner Dozois
>t. hethor
I need to read more HG Wells. Only thing of his I've read thus far is the time machine but its among the best science fiction I've read
Taking class conflict to a future setting where the monsters who forced people underground to be slaves are now themselves slaves to the monsters they made is actually a pretty neat idea
Also based take
I don't know, Ender's Game? I don't know.
I can't really say for sure. There's alot of scifi that I've read that I liked.
I'd say my favorite scifi author is probably Heinlein.
Starship Troopers and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress are both great but I really liked the Puppet Masters.
I'm planning on reading Double Star soon as it sounded fantastic as well.
I have found though that scifi short stories/novellas tend to be the most consistently good.
A Canticle For Leibowitz leans a bit fantasy in parts, but is incredibly well written. I'll sometimes pick up my copy to find a particular line, and then get drawn into reading a few more chapters after that
I honestly preferred Foundation and Earth to the original foundation trilogy. But then I like the robot books better too
Personally I prefer Sarstroem, but you do you.
Canticle is good. I'm still sad about the monk from the first part of it
I don't know man. That final leg of Second Foundation was ridiculous. I've never read something so awesomely premeditated.
The Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang. It's a short story about language, specifically it's limiting effects on humans.
Gateway
Great book. I wish there was something about ancient aliens n shit like the dark age of technology in Warhammer 40k
-Gunnm and the rest of Battle Angel (cyborg girl and her journey in a futuristic wasteland while being OP)
-When the wind blows (Genetic bird humans seek freedom)
- Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
- Stars my Destination (Count of Monet Cristo in Space)
- Solaris (Ghost planet)
- Sundiver (Story of a future earth after joining the uplift society and their quest to determine whats up with the sun)
- Starship troopers
Very good, don't expect anything like book of the new sun. M. John Harrison is one of my favorite writers
A Canticle for Leibowitz, same as , though I don't find it ever being particularly "fantasy". It's about the workings of a Catholic Monastery over a thousand or so years following a nuclear holocaust. The growth of society and the treatment of scripture (old and new) within the abbey mirrors that of the actual rise of Christianity in Europe. The writing is fantastic, and the Miller clearly knows his history well. Despite being a Catholic himself, he has no qualms about really showing the way in which religion and scripture change over time.
Excellent story, Chiang is one of the best scifi writers today. Story of Your Life gets a little ridiculous towards the end imo, but I can never complain too much about scifi that explores the nature of language and communication. There's nowhere near enough.
Good pick, probably my number two. I wish the ending was a little stronger, but the world it creates is just so excellent. After watching the movie and playing the games that were so loosely based off of it, I never expected the book to be my favorite part of the "franchise".
Bump
hyperion, it's about some AIs who create an AI god who has a fight with human god and the main characters have to slowly figure this retardation out
>it's about some AIs who create an AI god who has a fight with human god and the main characters have to slowly figure this retardation out
Hope these aren't spoilers.
Pseudo intellectual retard
My top 5:
BOTNS
Canticle
The Forever War
Hyperion
Blood Meridian
Also, not a book, but one of my favorite sci-fi stories is from the game SOMA. I've probably thought about that game for longer after experiencing it than any sci-fi book I've read.
The Stars My Destination
It's about revenge.
I really liked Snow Crash.
It had a really steady pace.
This set the standard for me. PKD has excellent pathos.
My next read will be Ubik. How does it compare?
>Fiasco
It's about a first contact with faraway aliens and it all goes like the title suggests.
>A Scanner Darkly
No explanation needed.
>Definitely Maybe
Weird shit is going on around an astronomer in USSR.
>genuinely inhuman aliens
Pfffffff~
>Star Diaries by Lem.
Absolutely based and patrician.
Blindsight is fun, but Echopraxia just flat out collapses as a book. Watts legit wrote a fanfic of his own work and called it a sequel.
Ubik is gr8.
Atomised by michel houellebecq
Its about not getting pussy and then getting pussy
Xeelee Sequence, it's about humanity fucking up Aliens and conquering the universe
>keikakkucore
For a moment I read that as "kike cuck core".
The issue with Echopraxia is that it doesn't compare with Blindsight with materials for reflexion. Also the largest part of the book is a new closed-door setting in a spaceship in space. It's not a bad book but it's definitely disappointing.
its so good
I really don't understand why so many like it. First half is great, with the escape from the ship and then from the hospital prison Caves. Second half was a let down for me though. It goes from a simple revenge story to
>we must free the masses in the inner planets, even though we want the inner planets to defeat the outer satellites
I thought Mars with the people who basically want to feel nothing was unique but that was the last cool thing in the book to me
for me i listened to the audiobook while working 3rd shift security at an aerospace corporation during the cold months. It's kinda ingrained in me on an aesthetic environment level not much on a technical one
The three body problem series, by Cixin Liu. The first two books are a 10/10, the third is a 6/10 at best.
Underrated books/stories that don't get mentioned here as much as some like starship troopers and do androids dream of electric sheep
Space Viking
>guys wife is killed at their wedding. Winds up selling everything he has to buy a ship and hire a crew to go after the killer
Redliners
>soldier who have hit their mental breaking point in War are assigned to guard colonists that are planning to settle an unknown world.
Second Variety
>the Cold War got hot, now, machines used to fight the war have become the enemy on a desolate earth
I legitimately have not read a cyber punk story that I like. I feel like the settings are always wasted and the stories always wind up changing and being dumb by the end
I thought necromancer was meh
Count zero sucked
The stars my destination (if you count it as one) was ok but still not as good as alot of scifi I've read
Is there one that is actually good?
Gravity's Rainbow
Ice by Anna Kaven
it's about a schizo obsessed with chasing after a married pale blue eyed bitch in a post apocalyptic snowy landscape, it reads like a fever dream, at one points aliens pop out of nowhere
>book 3 of the meme trilogy
No
>no one has mentioned John steakleys Armor
easily Solaris
Is it good or is it a meme like the movies
>It doesn't fall into Big Dumb Object
I actually liked ringworld. Thought it was a cool idea and as a result the setting was unique
>inb4 halo
Nah not comparable
havent seen the movie but solaris the book was trippy as hell
I like dicks short stories but legit can't get into his novels. Man in the high castle was so wasted
I remember reading the first of the novels you mentioned, it was about some female-only hive mind cult developing from ancient Roman times to the present. The females reproduce by recruiting male outsiders for a one-off insemination, luring them with advanced pheromones they have naturally developed during millennia of divergent evolution from the rest of humankind. Weird stuff (considering i'd been expecting sci-fi with pew pew lasers and aliens, not female Roman peasants inbreeding) but intriguing. I never got around to reading the subsequent books. Does this female social order plot tie into the rest of the series, or was it just a one of plot for the first book?