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What would you add to this list?Recommendations (i.redd.it)

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Hello friends, I want to get into SF so I made me a list of some of the top recommendations that I'v seen on the web. I'v finished Dune and I loved it but it didnt feel "full SF" to me. Same thing with Hyperion Cantos. I think I'm more into PKD and William Gibson. The noir-ish Blade Runner vibes does it for me but I dont mind other elements like space and a little bit of fantasy here and there.

I'd appreciate it If you could help me add other must-read books and authors to explore.

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[–]Roselia77 30 Punkte31 Punkte  (7 Kinder)

Since you seem to like the weird side of things

Gibson - Bridge Trilogy (or anything by Gibson really)

Charles Stross - Accelerando

Peter Watts - Blindsight

Old Neal Stephenson stuff (Diamond Age, Snowcrash, Cryptonomicon if you're ok with contemporary settings)

Also by Zelazny: Creatures of Light and Darkess / Deus Irae (collab with PKD, it's.... dense) / Doors of his Face, Lamps of his Mouth (anthology)

[–]flyingfishstick 9 Punkte10 Punkte  (2 Kinder)

This right here, OP.

Oh, and Vurt. You should DEFINITELY read Vurt.

[–]Imjustmean 1 Punkt2 Punkte  (0 Kinder)

Second that.

[–]Roselia77 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

Yes!, how could I forget Vurt, sounds right up OPs alley

[–]JGhostThing[🍰] 2 Punkte3 Punkte  (1 Kind)

Anything by Roger Zelazny. He was one of the US's top writers. He is missed.

[–]Roselia77 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

I was a kid when I started reading his stuff, still have originals of most of his work. This thread makes me want to revisit some favorites

[–]Nuke_the_Earth 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

Blindsight was wild. Very well written, a little prophetic in some regards.

[–]Own_Attention_3392 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

I'd add seveneves to the Stephenson list. Love that book even if it's incredibly depressing at times.

[–]goonSerf 47 Punkte48 Punkte  (0 Kinder)

Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama

Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, The Mote in God’s Eye

[–]Head_Wasabi7359 43 Punkte44 Punkte  (16 Kinder)

Iain m banks culture series

[–]misomeiko 3 Punkte4 Punkte  (1 Kind)

And his other sci fi novels
Against a dark background
The algebraist
Feersum endjinn

[–]Head_Wasabi7359 6 Punkte7 Punkte  (0 Kinder)

Yup especially Algebraist it's my fav

[–]Napalmradio 4 Punkte5 Punkte  (13 Kinder)

I’m currently getting through Consider Phlebas and while I am enjoying it, the pacing is really tough. Dense prose (that is awesome) right into frantic paced action back to fantastic scene setting/world building with some philosophy sprinkled throughout is making my brain hurt. I’ve had to read the chapter summaries on reactormag to keep the narrative straight. Definitely the most challenging sci-fi book I’ve come across so far.

[–]SparkyFrog 4 Punkte5 Punkte  (9 Kinder)

Phlebas is pretty action heavy and fast paced compared to the rest of the series. The next one is Player of Games, and it starts more slowly and has quite a lot of world building where it describes Culture and the other civilisation. The third book Use of Weapons is more difficult one, due to the nonlinear storytelling

[–]Napalmradio 1 Punkt2 Punkte  (8 Kinder)

Yeah Banks is definitely the most challenging author I’ve come across so far. His work is incredible but it feels like 80% of it goes right over my head.

[–]SparkyFrog 1 Punkt2 Punkte  (7 Kinder)

Against A Dark Background was pretty challenging to me, but I think the main Culture series books had just the right amount of complexity… well, maybe I didn’t understand all the themes and deeper meanings perfectly every time, but close enough. And Use of Weapons completely blew my mind the first time I read it some 15 years ago

[–]Head_Wasabi7359 1 Punkt2 Punkte  (5 Kinder)

I don't think you are supposed to understand it all there's a lot of mystery and people doing people stuff.

Aadb is about solidism on a micro and macro scale (that's what I got from it)

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    [–]Head_Wasabi7359 2 Punkte3 Punkte  (2 Kinder)

    It's not the best one either. Read The Excession next it's mind-blowing, though that's pretty normal with his sci fi

    [–]WillRedtOverwhelmMe 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (1 Kind)

    The late Dan Simmon's Hyperion Cantos is a similar dense style. (I read all 4 books as an ebook packet.)

    [–]ferretinmypants 21 Punkte22 Punkte  (4 Kinder)

    Asimov's robot books.

    [–]plazman30 10 Punkte11 Punkte  (3 Kinder)

    I like the Robot books better than the Foundation novels.

    [–]Every-Ad-9131 2 Punkte3 Punkte  (0 Kinder)

    Absolutely agree!

    [–]ferretinmypants 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (1 Kind)

    Me too

    [–]plazman30 1 Punkt2 Punkte  (0 Kinder)

    I think the reason why is the Robot novels were written as novels, whereas the Foundation trilogy is really just a collection of short stories.

    [–]Wabbit65 16 Punkte17 Punkte  (3 Kinder)

    Alistair Reynolds - Revelation Space

    Ursula Le Guin - The Left Hand of Darkness

    [–]Delta_Hammer 2 Punkte3 Punkte  (0 Kinder)

    The Left Hand Of Darkness is a classic!

    [–]nedise 1 Punkt2 Punkte  (1 Kind)

    Not sure if TLHOD will feel "full SF" for op (The Lathe of Heaven is more like that for me but op already read it); regardless, it is a beautiful book and op should still give it a try!

    [–]nanana_catdad 1 Punkt2 Punkte  (0 Kinder)

    It’s more enjoyable if you’re in kemmer while reading

    [–]Fedaykin98 29 Punkte30 Punkte  (11 Kinder)

    Tons of Heinlein, starting with The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

    [–]Olityr 6 Punkte7 Punkte  (0 Kinder)

    Starship Troopers is my favorite of his, with the moon is a harsh mistress as a close second.

    [–]Wabbit65 4 Punkte5 Punkte  (2 Kinder)

    Stranger in a Strange Land is a classic

    Time Enough for Love, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, other Lazarus Long books

    [–]SparkyFrog 1 Punkt2 Punkte  (0 Kinder)

    I think people who read Stranger as kids consider it a classic. Nowadays it may seem quite campy and outdated, especially the longer version.

    [–]Vyckerz 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    Solid contribution! I was thinking of those as well

    [–]JGhostThing[🍰] 2 Punkte3 Punkte  (0 Kinder)

    Yes! I'd like to suggest Starship Troopers.

    [–]Every-Ad-9131 3 Punkte4 Punkte  (1 Kind)

    By Heinlein my faves- Friday and I Will Fear No Evil.

    [–]Vyckerz 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    Love Friday!

    [–]Barabus33 1 Punkt2 Punkte  (0 Kinder)

    His juveniles are a good place to start too: Farmer in the Sky, Tunnel in the Sky, Have Spacesuit--Will Travel, just to a name a few. And Starship Troopers was supposed to be part of his juveniles line, but was rejected.

    [–]RogLatimer118 2 Punkte3 Punkte  (2 Kinder)

    But a ton of Heinlein that should not be read.

    [–]nedise 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (1 Kind)

    Which ones though? I've never read heinlein.

    [–]phsidefender 11 Punkte12 Punkte  (0 Kinder)

    I’d recommend going through the Hugo awards lists. It’s a great experience to read sci-fi through the decades.

    But if I had to chose one or two:
    Gateway by Frederick Pohl
    Forever war by haldeman
    To your scattered bodies go by Philip Jose farmer.

    [–]Responsible-Bend6289 11 Punkte12 Punkte  (1 Kind)

    1984 — George Orwell

    A Canticle for Leibowitz — Walter M. Miller

    I Am Legend and Other Stories — Richard Matheson

    Alas, Babylon — Pat Frank

    The Day of the Triffids — John Wyndham

    Dune, God Emperor of Dune, there’s a bunch of dune books — Frank Herbert

    2001 A space odyssey, Rendevous with Rama, Childhoods End — Arthur C. Clarke

    More than Human — Theodore Sturgeon

    A Boy and his Dog, Dangerous Visions & Again Dangerous Visions— Harlan Ellison

    Dandelion Wine, The Illustrated Man, The Martian Chronicles, Something Wicked this Way Comes, Fahrenheit 450, The October Country— Ray Bradbury Classic SF/Fantasy

    The Dispossessed, The Left Hand of Darkness, The Lathe of Heaven, The Word for World is Forest (The Hainish cycle) plus The Earthsea series — Ursula K. Le Guin

    Norstrilia — Cordwainer Smith. Really interesting.

    The Forever War — Joe Haldeman

    Slaughterhouse five — Kurt Vonnegut

    Flowers for Algernon — Daniel Keyes

    Ringworld — Larry Niven

    A Clockwork Orange— Burgess Meredith

    Kindred, Parable of the Sower & Parable of the Talent, Patternmaster series (Wild Seed, Mind of my Mind, Clays Ark, Patternmaster)—Octavia Butler

    Neuromancer, Pattern Recognition, Mona Lisa Overdrive — William Gibson The one who started cyberpunk.

    Yaleen trilogy aka The Books of the Black Current: (The Book of the River, The Book of the Stars & The Book of Being) — Ian Watson

    Enders Game—Orson Scott Card

    Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion then Endymion and the Rise of Endymion — Dan Simmons.

    Shadow & Claw, Sword & Citadel (Book of the New Sun), & others in this series.— Gene Wolfe

    The Inheritance Kingdom & The Fifth Season series — N. K. Jemisin

    The Children of Time trilogy (Children of Time, Children of Ruin, Children of Memory),
    The Final Architecture trilogy(Shards of Earth, Eyes of the Void, and Lords of Uncreation) — Adrian Tchaikovsky

    Three Body Problem — Liu Cixin

    These are books I’ve read I think you might enjoy. There are a lot more great ones out there.

    [–]Puzzled_Hat_5142 2 Punkte3 Punkte  (0 Kinder)

    Very good list!

    [–]kkngs 8 Punkte9 Punkte  (0 Kinder)

    Great list!

    Niven - Protector, Ringworld

    Gibson - Burning Chrome, Neuromancer

    Stephenson - Snowcrash, Cryptonomicon, maybe Anathem

    Glen Cook - Passage at Arms

    Heinlein - Starship Troopers, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Stranger in a Strange Land

    Niven &  Pournelle, The Mote in God's Eye

    [–]orlock 6 Punkte7 Punkte  (0 Kinder)

    Try some Jack Vance. Strange scents, colours, textures, flavours and cultures.

    [–]quinnm54 5 Punkte6 Punkte  (0 Kinder)

    Riverworld books by Philip Jose Farmer

    [–]CourseoEmpire 5 Punkte6 Punkte  (4 Kinder)

    A.E. Van Vogt is my pick. Obscure Golden Age SF writer from Canada; imagine a Canadian Heinlein basically.

    [–]Fedaykin98 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (1 Kind)

    Where would one start?

    [–]CourseoEmpire 1 Punkt2 Punkte  (0 Kinder)

    Voyage of the Space Beagle and the Weapons Shop of Isher are my personal favorites.

    [–]akapalmereldritch 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    Massive influence on PKD

    [–]Funnythingboutregret 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    My dad introduced me to him when I was a teen (many decades ago). Don’t see him called out though in this sub!

    [–]EveningWrongdoer8825 4 Punkte5 Punkte  (2 Kinder)

    Farenheit 451 , Bradbury

    The Roads must Roll, Heinlein

    [–]NationalImpression57 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (1 Kind)

    My unpopular opinion, farenheit is sooo overrated

    [–]EveningWrongdoer8825 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    I disagree respectfully. And it's becoming more and more relevant by the year.

    [–]YungTokyo8 3 Punkte4 Punkte  (0 Kinder)

    For specifically that Cyberpunk Feel

    Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

    Takeshi Kovacs Series by Richard Morgan

    Both Bridge and Blue any by Gibson

    For other books/series

    The Culture by Iain M Banks

    Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C Clarke

    Robot Series by Asimov

    Project Hail Mary and The Martian by Andy Weir

    And my potentially controversial pick, Red Rising. It reads like a block buster movie and is incredibly fun. It’s not the most serious (and the prose is shaky at the start, though this is basically fixed by book three), but if you want something easy to read with enough of a plot to keep you invested and genuinely solid characters

    [–]scizzix 5 Punkte6 Punkte  (2 Kinder)

    Neal Stephenson

    Daniel Keys Moran

    Kurt Vonnegut

    The first two will fill your "full SF" needs quite well. The last will go along with PKD and make you question the nature of your reality, or at least the meaning of it.

    [–]Delta_Hammer 1 Punkt2 Punkte  (1 Kind)

    +1 for Vonnugut. Everyone always talks about Slaughterhouse 5, but The Sirens Of Titan is fun, and Player Piano is really topical now.

    [–]artiface 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    Cats Cradle is my favorite Vonnegut

    [–]Equivalent_Fun_4825 3 Punkte4 Punkte  (0 Kinder)

    Since you mentioned cyberpunk authors - Hardwired and Voice of the Whirlwind by Walter Jon Williams. Cyberpunk 2077 stems from Hardwired. Voice of the Whirlwind is cyberpunk + mystery.

    Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs series) by Richard K. Morgan is noir detective cyberpunk.

    [–]LichenPatchen 4 Punkte5 Punkte  (0 Kinder)

    Ted Chiang

    [–]Eldritch_Dread 4 Punkte5 Punkte  (1 Kind)

    The Solar Cycle. Gene Wolfe.

    [–]Eldritch_Dread 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    I would also add a guilty pleasure, All My Sins Remembered by Joe Haldeman.

    [–]Miserable-Function78 4 Punkte5 Punkte  (0 Kinder)

    Gene Wolfe: Book of the New Sun

    [–]BrilliantPositive184 5 Punkte6 Punkte  (0 Kinder)

    Arthur C Clarke

    [–]wiskinator 5 Punkte6 Punkte  (1 Kind)

    Read the Left Hand of Darkness by LeGuin and then read the Ancillary series by Anne Leckie. You’ll love both.

    I also suggest A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine, it’s a good story and a great example of how language shapes thought and society.

    [–]gunnarbird 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    If you think the Ancillary series was groundbreaking for subverting gender you should read Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand by DeLaney, truly an amazing work

    [–]Ed_the_time_traveler 3 Punkte4 Punkte  (0 Kinder)

    Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy.

    [–]tomassino[🍰] 3 Punkte4 Punkte  (1 Kind)

    Clifford D. Simak Way Station

    [–]UncleToyBox 1 Punkt2 Punkte  (0 Kinder)

    First one that came to mind for me.
    Another classic I don't see mentioned often enough is A Logic Named Joe from Murray Leinster in 1946. Great little short story that predicts machine learning.

    [–]ProstheticAttitude 3 Punkte4 Punkte  (1 Kind)

    John Brunner, The Shockwave Rider and Stand on Zanzibar

    [–]EricQuincyTate 1 Punkt2 Punkte  (0 Kinder)

    Don't forget The Sheep Look Up

    [–]akapalmereldritch 3 Punkte4 Punkte  (0 Kinder)

    J.G. Ballard: Crash, Concrete Island, High Rise, The Drowned World, The Burning World, The Atrocity Exhibition...

    Definitely some select works by Fredric Brown and James White.

    [–]Griffie 4 Punkte5 Punkte  (0 Kinder)

    The Larry Niven Rigworld series.

    [–]markth_wi 9 Punkte10 Punkte  (2 Kinder)

    • The Expanse - SA Corey
    • Hyperion - Dan Simons
    • Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
    • The Story of Your Life - Ted Chiang
    • The Dispossessed - UK Le Guin
    • The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
    • Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

    [–]Relevant_doom 1 Punkt2 Punkte  (1 Kind)

    The whole of the ender saga is stunning - some top tier sci-fi there

    [–]Ok_Programmer_4449 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    Personally I'd stop after Xenocide.

    [–]BaldBombshell 7 Punkte8 Punkte  (3 Kinder)

    John Scalzi's "Old Man's War" series as well as his Interdependency trilogy.
    Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide trilogy. (Yes, it's 5 books. Don't worry about it.)

    [–]WillRedtOverwhelmMe 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (2 Kinder)

    Also 5 CD volumes with multiple CDs in each. It's the radio series, the original. DNAdams also wrote Long Dark Tea Time of the God (and a second book before he suddenly died.) (He was editor, at least, of Dr. Who, and the book is a riff on that.) Starship Titanic, by him, as well.

    [–]BaldBombshell 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (1 Kind)

    Adams wrote the game, but Terry Jones wrote the novel for Starship Titanic.

    [–]WillRedtOverwhelmMe 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    I came across the novel and downloaded it, as I could/can never find it again.

    [–]Appropriate_Yak_7209 5 Punkte6 Punkte  (1 Kind)

    Children of Time by A. Tchaikovsky

    [–]KitsunukiInari 2 Punkte3 Punkte  (1 Kind)

    I Have No Mouth, and I must Scream by Harlan Ellison

    [–]candygram4mongo 3 Punkte4 Punkte  (0 Kinder)

    Just, all of the Ellison. Anything you can get your hands on.

    [–]xpltvdeleted 2 Punkte3 Punkte  (0 Kinder)

    John Wyndham - Day of the Triffids 

    [–]Husseayn 2 Punkte3 Punkte  (0 Kinder)

    Andy weir project hail mary

    [–]Separate-Let3620 2 Punkte3 Punkte  (0 Kinder)

    Bruce Sterling - Skismatrix Plus

    Alastair Reynolds - Revelation Space and the Dreyfus novels

    PF Hamilton - Commonwealth; Void and Chronicle of the fallers.

    Dan Simmons - Hyperion Cantos

    [–]Long_Exercise_7701 2 Punkte3 Punkte  (0 Kinder)

    Heinlein: Starship Troopers  Stranger in a strange land The moon is a harsh mistress

    [–]Fluid-Resident1877 2 Punkte3 Punkte  (1 Kind)

    Clifford Simack City.

    [–]gunnarbird 2 Punkte3 Punkte  (0 Kinder)

    Clifford Simak Way Station

    [–]ZachVDG 2 Punkte3 Punkte  (2 Kinder)

    Olaf Stapledon - Last and First Men

    Olaf Stapledon - Star Maker

    [–]Zagdil 1 Punkt2 Punkte  (1 Kind)

    Sirius is amazing too!

    [–]ZachVDG 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    Agreed, I also quite liked Odd John

    [–]egutierr 4 Punkte5 Punkte  (0 Kinder)

    Larry Niven’s Ringworld saga

    [–]thenationalcranberry 6 Punkte7 Punkte  (0 Kinder)

    The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is the only book you’ll ever need.

    But you should add Miller’s A Canticle for Leibowitz. Even though it is kind of the antithesis of cyberpunk.

    [–]dnext 3 Punkte4 Punkte  (0 Kinder)

    Lots of good recommendations for the older stuff, which is nice to see.

    Some others there:

    The Left Hand of Darkness and the Dispossessed by Ursula K Le Guin

    The Uplift Wars trilogy by David Brin

    The Zones of Thought by Vernor Vinge

    The Commonwealth Saga by Peter Hamilton

    Downbelow Station and Cyteen by CJ Cherryh

    The Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Newer Stuff:

    The Children of Time by Adrian Tchaicovksy

    The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin

    The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells

    The Bobiverse/We are Legion by Dennis Taylor

    More in the Cyberpunk venue like Gibson:

    Hardwired by Walter Jon Williams

    Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

    [–]vagdestroyer97 1 Punkt2 Punkte  (0 Kinder)

    Do androids dream of electric sheep. Doesn't get anymore blade runner than that. Also it's a fantastic and quick read.

    [–]hyperbolic_dichotomy 1 Punkt2 Punkte  (0 Kinder)

    Gateway books by Fredrik Pohl Neuromancer by William Gibson Chanur Saga by CJ Cherryh Cyteen by CJ Cherryh

    [–]SeekersWorkAccount 1 Punkt2 Punkte  (1 Kind)

    Dune and Hyperion are pillars of the sci-fi genre lol, you can't get much more scifi then those books.

    The Expanse is by far and away one of the best sci-fi series and imo the best hard scifi books out there.

    [–]Wabbit65 1 Punkt2 Punkte  (0 Kinder)

    The Expanse adaptation is one of the best done series I've ever seen, too bad they didn't go beyond book 6

    [–]Swimmingbird3 1 Punkt2 Punkte  (0 Kinder)

    House of Suns, Alastair Reynolds

    [–]Blitters17 1 Punkt2 Punkte  (0 Kinder)

    The True Game books by Sheri S. Tepper.
    The Stainless Steel Rat books by Harry Harrison.
    The Smoke Ring and The Integral Trees by Larry Niven.
    Anything by Alan Dean Foster, especially his Flinx and Pip books.
    Anything by H. Beam Piper if you enjoyed Heinlein’s military SF
    The Chthon books and The Apprentice Adept series by Piers Anthony
    I’ll second A.E. Vogt and Jack Vance!

    [–]_thirdeyeopener_ 1 Punkt2 Punkte  (0 Kinder)

    Richard K Morgan's Thirteen, Thin Air and the Altered Carbon trilogy are all great cyberpunk noir.

    [–]saehild 1 Punkt2 Punkte  (0 Kinder)

    I Who Have Never Known Men

    [–]Mr_Tigger_ 1 Punkt2 Punkte  (1 Kind)

    Iain M Banks - Culture series plus the non Culture sci-fi

    [–]DuneMoon2332 2 Punkte3 Punkte  (0 Kinder)

    Yes and yes 🙌

    [–]misomeiko 1 Punkt2 Punkte  (0 Kinder)

    Alastair Reynolds
    house of suns
    Eversion
    Chasm city
    Revelation space

    [–]chunfighter 1 Punkt2 Punkte  (0 Kinder)

    You need much more Le Guin on there. The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed, The Word for World is Forest, Five Ways to Forgiveness.

    [–]OLVANstorm 1 Punkt2 Punkte  (1 Kind)

    Peter F. Hamilton Commonwealth Saga.

    [–]gunnarbird 1 Punkt2 Punkte  (0 Kinder)

    Gateway by Frederick Pohl
    Left Hand of Darkness by LeGuin
    Dispossessed by LeGuin
    Stations of the Tide by Swanwick
    Dying Inside by Silverberg

    [–]Eastern-Judge2729 1 Punkt2 Punkte  (0 Kinder)

    Larry Niven , Known Universe Series, Ringworld series
    Harry Harrison, Stainless Steel Rat series
    H. Beam Piper/John Carr, Paratime Series, Lord Kalvan Series
    Fritz Lieber, Fafhrd & The Grey Mouser series
    Michael Moorcock, Elric Series

    [–]The_McTasty 1 Punkt2 Punkte  (0 Kinder)

    The Zones of Thought Series by Vernor Vinge. Specifically "A Fire Upon the Deep" and "A Deepness in the Sky" with a recommendation to skip "Children of the Sky." Its one of those situations where the first book completes the main story. The sequel book (Children of the Sky) doesn't really have that good of a story to tell so it fails, but the prequel book (A Deepness in the Sky) about a side character has a very compelling and good story. You can read either aFutD or aDitS in either order and they both work.

    [–]Logicasylum 1 Punkt2 Punkte  (0 Kinder)

    The Blood Red Game
    Michael Moorcock

    [–]Xandania 1 Punkt2 Punkte  (0 Kinder)

    Shea - Illuminati-Triology

    [–]CertainDevelopment83 1 Punkt2 Punkte  (1 Kind)

    The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant by Stephen R. Donaldson.

    [–]SF_Bud 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    Truly awesome books, but fantasy not SF. I recommend SRD's Gap Series for great SF.

    [–]HirethianNomad 1 Punkt2 Punkte  (0 Kinder)

    Dennis E Taylor - Bobiverse series
    Martha Wells - Murderbot series
    Jeffrey A. Carver - Chaos Chronicles

    [–]Calm-Kiwi-9232 1 Punkt2 Punkte  (0 Kinder)

    Larry Niven. - Known Space - my fave...

    [–]Vagabond142 1 Punkt2 Punkte  (0 Kinder)

    Neuromancer by WIlliam Gibson. THE book that launched brain-hacking cyberpunk

    [–]MatsuTsaixu 2 Punkte3 Punkte  (0 Kinder)

    NK Jemisin, James SA Corey

    [–]WillRedtOverwhelmMe 1 Punkt2 Punkte  (2 Kinder)

    Blade Runner? PK Dick Do Androids Dream of Electric Sleep ?

    [–]_thirdeyeopener_ 2 Punkte3 Punkte  (0 Kinder)

    PKD is right at the top of the list

    [–]Wabbit65 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    Minority Report is way better than the movie, and the movie was awesome

    [–]Necromancius 1 Punkt2 Punkte  (0 Kinder)

    Jack Vance - Tschai cycle

    [–]Cavewoman22 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    The World of Tiers by Philip Jose Farmer

    [–]MexicanRadio 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe

    [–]Imjustmean 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    Sisyphean by Dempow Torishma

    [–]jfdonohoe 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    Terra Ignota series by Ada Palmer

    [–]JGhostThing[🍰] 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    Kevin O'Donnel: Mayflies

    Pohl Anderson: Tau Zero - The High Crusade

    Julian May: The Saga of the Pliocene Exile

    [–]tehlastcanadian 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    Hyperion cantos

    [–]xPreystx 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    David Zindell, A Requiem for Homosapiens.

    [–]Nyorliest 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    All of Gibson. 

    Recent stuff like the Imperial Radch. Iain M Banks.

    [–]Wrongdoer_Old 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    The Takeshi Kovacs trilogy by Richard K. Morgan

    [–]backinboulder 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    Radix - A.A. Attansio

    Larry Niven novels

    The Real Story: The Gap into Conflict - Stephen Donaldson

    Perdido Street Station - China Melville

    [–]Son_of_Atreus 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    Haldeman’s The Forever War, Pohl’s Gateway, Dune, Ringwood, Snow Crash.

    [–]TopRevenue2 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    Walter M Miller Jr: A Canticle for Leibowitz

    Samuel Delaney: Babel-17

    If we're doing Zelazney recs: Roadmarks

    [–]PartionneofGarth 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    If you want "full SF" then check out James Tiptree Jr. (the pseudonym for Alice Sheldon). Pretty much all the short stories, novellas, and novels will do. In particular, you could try "The Girl Who Was Plugged In," "The Only Neat Thing to Do," "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" and Warm Worlds and Otherwise.

    [–]DJGlennW 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    Robert Silverberg (especially any collection that includes "Homefaring," IMO one of the best novellas ever), Gene Wolfe's Shadow of the Torturer, Greg Bear's Blood Music, Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five.

    [–]fyukhyu 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    You should just read pretty much anything Asimov wrote. Foundation is an incredible series for sure, but so is the Robot series, The Gods Themselves is fantastic, ditto for Pebble in the Sky... so many good stories.

    [–]PureDeidBrilliant 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    Arthur C Clarke: The City and The Stars, or The Lion of Comarre (lesser-known, but still an interestingly "boys own adventure science fiction novella" from Clarke's early Golden-Era works)

    David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas. Once you've done with the nesting, you can then explore the interconnected universe of stories he created over nine novels, aka the Macronovel...

    Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age

    [–]godtering 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    "JV: Lyonesse (read most of his stuff)"

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyonesse_Trilogy

    [–]nedise 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    Babel-17 by samuel delany!

    [–]pierrenoir2017 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect by Roger Williams (not famous, but easy to find online for free).

    [–]DarthHK-47 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    Diane Duane rihannsu series

    [–]ObsceneMachinery 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451

    Also, the illustrated man, the Martian chronicles and something wicked this way comes.

    [–]Top_Understanding343 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson

    Hyperion series by Dan Simmons

    Robot series by Isaac Asimov

    Hitchhiker series by Douglas Adams

    [–]Balaur10042 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    Having recently read the Chronicles of Amber (all in one sitting, I have the omnibus), I can assure you it's not the iconic and game-changing book it might be said to be. Zelazny has two main problems: the main protags are assholes and have little redeeming qualities, defined by their revenge scheme or daddy issues (both), and by Zelazny's (not unfortunately exclusive) inability to write or respect women characters.

    The initial premise of the story, the relationship of Amber (and the Chaos Court) to Earth, are its sole redeeming qualities.

    [–]Unlucky-Cup1043 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    Three Body Problem
    The Dark forest

    [–]Impressive-Eagle9493 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    Robert Silverberg. Book of skulls is incredible 

    [–]Prchst1 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    A fire upon the deep by Vernor Vinge

    [–]Historical_Hyena_552 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    I don’t know why people keep insisting on Asimov’s Foundation. Whilst reading it I could appreciate that this was a sci fi a head of its time. But by gosh you could feel that it was written in the 50’s.

    Or am I on crazy pills? Since apparently it’s on everyone’s top list

    [–]Almog4v3r 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    Mars trilogy, Kim Stanley Robinson Ender's Game series (the first three books), Orson Scott Card Asimov's Robots ... ... ... So many

    [–]smcicr 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    Iain M Banks - Culture series

    [–]SunStreetManteion 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    Gene wofles. Solar cycle

    [–]Effective-Sample-261 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    Greg Bear - 'The Forge of God'

    [–]RUBJack 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    Charles Bukowski - Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness(1972) +. Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts (1965)

    [–]eldontown 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    Book of the New Sun series. Gene Wolfe

    [–]rushmc1 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    Everything.

    [–]DeusExPir8Pete 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    No Iain M Banks? Bloody kids today idk

    [–]qagir 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    You all need to get more into BECKY CHAMBERS for real. She has ships, robots, AI, weird races, and sexy times. Fucking amazing author.

    [–]vagabond_primate 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    Neal Stephenson - browse descriptions and pick one that speaks to you. I recommend starting with Snow Crash.

    And, I can't believe this doesn't come up more often in these threads, but I found it here: Peter Watts, Blindsight. Phenomenal novel. Read it next.

    [–]Chemical-Captain3850 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    J g ballard ... Atrocity exhibition

    [–]AlexMachine 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury,

    [–]schwigglezenzer 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    China Mieville :: Embassytown.

    Greg Egan :: Permutation City.

    Zoltan Istvan :: The Transhumanist Wager

    ---
    If you talk about philosophy long enough, every argument eventually empties out into a dark room with a mirror and a drill. You either make peace with rotting, or you become a transhumanist. There's really no third option.

    People love romanticizing decay until their own bodies start failing them. In The Transhumanist Wager, Jethro goes "A transhumanist must safeguard his own existence above all else. To do anything less is a betrayal of one's own consciousness".

    Fkng beautiful... It's pure biological treason. Nature built us out of meat, stamped an expiration date on our foreheads, and convinced everyone to call it 'the circle of life'. Damn that. Death ain't 'sacred' or natural, it's just bad design... Pick up the drill 🤘

    [–]nanana_catdad 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    William Gibson: Neuromancer
    Richard K. Morgan: Altered Carbon
    Neal Stephenson: Snowcrash
    Robert Charles Wilson: Spin

    [–]JohnRico319 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    I'm an older guy so most of my reading goes back to classics but here goes: Robert Heinlein Theodore Sturgeon Norman Spinrad Cyril Kornbluth James Blish Edmund Hamilton James P. Hogan Greg Bear

    [–]headphonehabit 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    Don't forget Simak.

    [–]circulant_ 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    Qntm - There is no Anti-Memetics Division; Ra; Fine Structure

    Greg Egan - Permutation City

    [–]No-Emu-8717 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    Octavia Butler patternist series Vernor Vinge A fire upon the deep

    [–]the_malabar_front 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    Ursula K. LeGuin - The Left Hand of Darkness

    [–]Ischmetch 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    M. John Harrison’s Viriconium series

    [–]CharlieA44 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    Robert L Forward - Dragon's Egg

    [–]Interesting_Oil_9404 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    Black company!!!! (Glen Cook). Truly epic

    [–]Dadittude182 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    I'm going to give an unpopular opinion: Foundation isn't as good as it could have been.

    The original stories are good, but the later editions were less than stellar and didn't really add anything to the stories overall impact. In trying to flesh out Hari's early life, he just seems like an incompetent doofus. The Flight was actually fairly boring, and his interactions with people seem more robotic than the robot characters. I think this was Asimov's biggest weakness and a writer, and it seemed to really be accentuated through Hari's character.

    [–]CrashUser 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    Look into China Mieville, he writes the same sort of surrealist SF as PKD. Perdido Street Station or The City and the City are good starting places for his work.

    [–]Jareel99 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    Richard Morgan: Altered Carbon / Broken Angels / Woken Furies.

    [–]jcooli09 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    LeGuin - The Dispossessed. 

    Pohl - The Gateway series

    Walter Miller - A Canticle for Leibowitz 

    [–]Ok_Programmer_4449 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    Lots of good ideas listed... If you like noirish mystery, I'd add:

    Michael Chabon "The Yiddish Policemen's Union"

    Alfred Bester "The Demolished Man"

    Jonathan Lethem "Gun, with Occasional Music"

    David Brin "Kiln People"

    Neil Stephenson "Snow Crash", "Zodiac"

    Zelazny's Amber Series

    Robert J. Sawyer (Golden Fleece, Flashforward, Factoring Humanity)

    Non-noir SF, I would add

    George R.R. Martin's SF, especially his short form stuff from his Thousand Worlds universe. "Tuf Voyaging", the anthologies "Sandkings" and "Portraits of His Children." I wish he hadn't mostly given up on SF since the 90s.

    Stanislaw Lem (The Cyberiad, Solaris),

    Samuel R. Delany (Dhalgren, Nova),

    Fredrick Pohl (The Space Merchants, Gateway),

    Vonnegut (Breakfast of Champions)

    Clifford D. Simak (just grab any of his 20 or so novels they are easy and enjoyable reads. maybe start with Way Station or Special Deliverance).

    [–]bobchin_c 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    Asimov - the Robot series (it eventually merges into the galactic empire series).

    Larry Niven's Known Space series

    Frederick Pohl's Heechee saga

    Philip Jose Farmer's Riverworld series

    David Brin's Uplift Saga

    [–]SF_Bud 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    Steven R. Donaldson - The Gap Series

    Donaldson's insights into the human psyche, particularly the darker side, makes these great reads.

    [–]versacesquatch 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    Dune, best sci-fi of all time imo. Would love to hear other opinions! Struggling to find anything i enjoy as much 

    [–]pertante 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    This might have been mentioned but William Gibson's Neuromancer. It may have been one inspiration for aspects of the Matrix.

    [–]hedcannon 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    People are saying The Book of the New Sun but I’d recommend The Fifth Head of Cerberus first, or just The Best of Gene Wolfe because Wolfe was a celebrity among SF writers in the 70s due to his short fiction — a new story by him was an event.

    [–]gevander2 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    Isaac Asimov has THREE series which (mild spoiler) are all one series - Robot series, Galactic Empire, Foundation. Start with the earliest publication date and read in that order.

    Frank Herbert - Dune series. First three books, at least.

    Gordon Dickson - Dorsai series.

    Cory Doctorow - Little Brother.

    Arthur C Clarke - pretty much anything, but definitely the "Space Odyssey" and Rama series.

    [–]djazzie 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    Bradbury’s Martian Chronicles and Farenheit 451

    [–]TemperatureAny4782 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    Gene Wolfe, Book of the New Sun

    [–]cleverkid 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    The Canticle of Leibowitz.

    [–]Deep-Collection-2389 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    Robert Heinlein.

    [–]SylanJerev 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    Ben Bova's The Grand Tour series

    [–]Illustrious_Try478 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    Frederik Pohl and Cyril Kornbluth, The Space Merchants , "The Marching Morons"

    Ursula K. LeGuin, The Word for World is Forest, "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas", The Dispossessed, Four Ways to Forgiveness

    James Tiptree, Jr. "The Girl Who Was Plugged In"

    Samuel R. Delaney, "Empire Star",

    John M. Harrison, The Centauri Device

    Jack Vance, Emphyrio and Night Lamp

    C.J.Cherryh, Downbelow Station and Cyteen

    Harlan Ellison, lots of it but especially "Deathbird" and "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream"

    Howard Waldrop, "The Ugly Chickens"

    [–]Contra_Indicated 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    Larry Niven - Ringworld. That said, a lot of great books mentioned in here. All are great.

    [–]funeralforcargo 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    I’m gonna mention two by an author that doesn’t get talked about nearly enough IMO: Stand on Zanzibar and The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner.

    [–]Natural_Safety2383 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    I might not understand what is meant by full SF but maybe the Culture series by Iain M Banks? Must read sci fi!! (But I would also have added hyperion and dune)

    [–]DEATHbyBOOGABOOGA 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    Gene Wolfe : The Book of the New Sun

    [–]PmUsYourDuckPics 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    Neil Stephenson’s Snow Crash?

    Are you specifically going for the classics? Or do you want more modern works? Becuase everything on your list seems seminal.

    Also are looking for the social commentary aspect of SciFi, or just “This is the future?”

    Solaris, Roadside Picnic, Canticle For Leibovitz, Bradbury, Vonnegut, Atwood, all good additions to your list depending on what your reason for reading is.

    [–]JTitch420 0 Punkte1 Punkt  (0 Kinder)

    Hyperion

    [–]fischziege [Bewertung versteckt]  (0 Kinder)

    All the Gibson. Bridge trilogy is good, although a little less revolutionary that Sprawl. Blue Ant is amazing again, as is Peripheral. Agency dips a little imo, and I hope he finishes the last one in that trilogy, Jackpot. 

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