Jump to content

Sci Fi recommendations

marlonharewood

By marlonharewood,
in Arts & Literature

 Share

Recommended Posts

Sane

Sane

Posted
Posted
18 hours ago, LaveDisco said:

I’m half way through Qntm’s new collection and I think it’s fantastic. Such good ideas in such easy reading fashion. Thanks for the recommendations. 
 

For those looking for similar - once again I would recommend Greg Egan - he’s got a similar physics first approach, but it’s even harder scifi. 
 

Quarantine, and Computation City and super accessible and fantastic. 

Sounds great, I've added them to my reading list :hat:.

1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Flub

Flub

Posted
Posted

I loved Qtnm's new collection. In fact I love his work so much that I bought my self physical copies of the new book and Antisemetics division. Just to have. I'd struggle to read them in paper form to be honest but I suspect in a small number of years he's going to be regarded as one of the greats. He's got that knack of doing wild dystopias with a modern context. Some really dark stuff.

 

I don't think he ever explains it in the two stories I've read about brain uploads but as it stands with no context "red washing" just sounds horrific.

1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
ZOK

ZOK

Posted
Posted

Oh, I didn’t know there was another one - I’d better get right on that!

 

Somehow I’m currently reading Count Zero again, for like the fifty-seventh time.

1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
theredstar

theredstar

Posted
Posted
On 04/01/2023 at 16:56, Flub said:

I loved Qtnm's new collection. In fact I love his work so much that I bought my self physical copies of the new book and Antisemetics division. Just to have. I'd struggle to read them in paper form to be honest but I suspect in a small number of years he's going to be regarded as one of the greats. He's got that knack of doing wild dystopias with a modern context. Some really dark stuff.

 

I don't think he ever explains it in the two stories I've read about brain uploads but as it stands with no context "red washing" just sounds horrific.


I hope you mean antimemetics division ? That sounds a very different book.

3
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Flub

Flub

Posted
Posted
9 minutes ago, theredstar said:


I hope you mean antimemetics division ? That sounds a very different book.

 

 

Oh wow. That would be a really dark timeline. Even for Qntm :)

1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
  • 3 weeks later...
Flub

Flub

Posted
Posted

I've just started reading Nancy Kress's new book "Observer". It's about the theory that nothing exists until it's observed and apparently how that relates to living forver (53 pages in and they're starting to explain the basics).

 

Not sure where it's going but Nancy does tend to write good sci-fi

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Talvalin

Talvalin

Posted
Posted
On 23/01/2023 at 21:43, Flub said:

I've just started reading Nancy Kress's new book "Observer". It's about the theory that nothing exists until it's observed and apparently how that relates to living forver (53 pages in and they're starting to explain the basics).

 

Not sure where it's going but Nancy does tend to write good sci-fi

 

I've only ever read Beggars in Spain (which I enjoyed a great deal) - what other Kress books would you recommend?

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Flub

Flub

Posted
Posted
Just now, Talvalin said:

 

I've only ever read Beggars in Spain (which I enjoyed a great deal) - what other Kress books would you recommend?

 

Any of them really. Whichever takes your fancy.

1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
  • 1 month later...
Flub

Flub

Posted
Posted

I've been reading this

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Recursion-Bestselling-Author-Exciting-Thriller-ebook/dp/B07LCSPGTN

 

Recursion by Blake Crouch. Basically a sci fi thriller about a scientist developing a way of recording memories. I wasn't too sold for maybe the first third of the book but once it kicks off it hooked me. I'm about three quarters of the way through now and I've just finished a session on my lunchbreak. All I want to do is carry on reading it.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Stopharage

Stopharage

Posted
Posted

I think he’s a decent ideas person but is a really poor writer; suffers from the Stephen King/BBC drama series issue of struggling to write a decent ending. However, his books are real page-turners though, he’s a sci-fi Dan Brown. 

2
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Flub

Flub

Posted
Posted

Finished dark matter after I got home from work in one sitting (Part of it with Smokey sat on the Kindle singing at me). I enjoyed it. Probably not as much as Recursion though.

 

I'm going to read Observer by Nancy Kress next since I got massively distracted after I first had a go.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Flub

Flub

Posted
Posted

I just finished Observer by Nancy Kress. Absolutely loved it. And very unusually for a hard sci-fi novel about upending our perceptions it ends on a positive note rather than chaos and ambiguity. Flub recommended.

1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
  • 4 weeks later...
Flub

Flub

Posted
Posted

I started Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao. Only a little way in so far but it doesn't take long to get going and it's so damn good I've already preordered the sequel out next month (Hopefully. I heard the poor lady was struggling).

 

The boys of Huaxia dream of pairing up with girls to pilot Chrysalises – giant transforming robots that battle aliens beyond the Great Wall. It doesn’t matter that their female co-pilots are expected to serve as concubines and often die from the mental strain.
When 18-year-old Zetian offers herself up as a concubine-pilot, her plan is to assassinate the ace male pilot responsible for her sister’s death. But after miraculously surviving her first battle, Zetian sets her sights on a mightier goal. The time has come to stop more girls from being sacrificed.

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B091QDF9R1

1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
 Share
Go to topic listing

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

We have placed cookies on your device to help make this website better. You can adjust your cookie settings, otherwise we'll assume you're okay to continue. Use of this website is subject to our Privacy Policy, Terms of Use, and Guidelines.

  I accept