Sci-fi books that you may never have heard of, but definitely should read

Posted by bwb 10/28/2024

Sci-fi books that you may never have heard of, but definitely should read(shepherd.com)

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ajuc 10/29/2024|

For me:

- His Master's Voice by Stanisław Lem

- Permutation City (and the whole trilogy) by Greg Egan

- Anathem by Neal Stephenson

southernplaces7 11/1/2024||

Late to the list party but, "The First 15 lives of Harry August", by Claire North.

It's a wonderful exploration of reliving your life over and over and over again, but also finding out that there is a small number of others who do the same and communicate with each other across the centuries of past and future. She forms her character dialogue well too, which is always good.

larry314 10/28/2024||

Nunquam by Lawrence Durrell. Not generally heard of because you have to read Tunc first which is not science fiction. Both are great and stylistic masterpieces. Numquam is my favorite robot book along with Caves of Steel.

05bmckay 10/29/2024||

Red Rising is a pretty great one, I would have added it to my list.

yaky 10/29/2024|

Red Rising is often recommended in lists such as this, and that is how I discovered it too. Worth noting though that the 3/4 of the first book is Hunger Games on Mars, with barely any significance to the plot started in the first part of the book.

jlewallen 10/31/2024||

I'm surprised Greg Bear never came up here. I started with Blood Music, but I've enjoyed many of his books.

randrus 10/29/2024||

Samuel Delaney - Nova, Babel-17

Clifford Simak - City

Alan E Nourse - The Universe Between

nobody9999 10/30/2024||

I'd suggest The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi.

It's good stuff. I didn't expect to enjoy it as much as I did.

alphan0n 10/28/2024||

Just finished a very good audiobook, Fractal Noise by Christopher Paolini and started another, To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by the same author.

capecodes 10/29/2024|

To Sleep in a Sea of Stars is my favorite of the last few years.

I thought Fractal Noise was meh by comparison

alphan0n 10/30/2024||

I started with Fractal Noise, which was fairly short, it imparted a hunger to know more about that universe. Also, the audiobook, given the subject matter, was presented in an awesome manner IMO.

pavel_lishin 10/29/2024||

Hugh Howey is a tremendously talented author.

I didn't love Beacon 23, but his Wool series (apparently now a TV series, which I haven't watched yet) is very, very good. Sand is another great novel. Both feature humanity surviving in incredibly hostile environments, doomed to them by their predecessors.

mstevens 10/29/2024|

Random Acts of Senseless Violence - Jack Womack. See https://reactormag.com/randomacts/ for a great review by Jo Walton (also a great scifi author who deserves more attention).

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