Looking for more books like hyperion cantos and book of the new sun (which im reading right now and is pretty good).
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"Favorite Sci Fi Books" is one thing, "Books like the Hyperion Cantos and the Book of the New Sun" is a different question.
I can suggest a number of books, I can't think of many that are like those two. Could you give a little bit more idea of what specifically you're after?
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Favorite is a tough call. I have a soft spot for John C. Wright's Golden Age trilogy, I think it's his best series, but he's not for everyone. Something like Hyperion or Gene Wolfe? That's a tall order. Maybe something by Niven and Pournelle, Mote in God's Eye in particular. Roger Zelazny's Princes of Amber is good, but more fantasy than Sci-Fi. If you just want good series, I second Galaxy's Edge, or really anything by Nick Cole. Pierce Brown's Red Rising series is very good as well.
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Any of Philip K. Dick’s short stories.
The Itch series by Simon Mayo was one I remember enjoying growing up
Alastair Reynolds' books are pretty good, House of Suns and the Revelation Space series in particular. Space opera with gothic horror flavoring.
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I still don't know why he put tons of people into a pool of water and electrocuted them until they turned black and to dust like in half life 2.
The Forever Hero trilogy and really most of L. E. Modesitt, Jr's Sci-Fi comes closeish, The Lost Fleet series by Jack Campbell is an interesting space opera exploring what would happen if a legendary hero of the past actually came back at the time of his nation's greatest need.
The Koban series by Stephen W. Bennett is an exploration of what would happen if a ship of geneticists were imprisoned on a Harry Harrison kind of Deathworld,by aliens bent on conquering the galaxy, as a part of their racial drive to force their evolution into making them the most deadly race in the galaxy, without genetic engineering.
Really need more of an idea on what kind of Sci-Fi you like than just two series. What do you like about them?
The Koban series by Stephen W. Bennett is an exploration of what would happen if a ship of geneticists were imprisoned on a Harry Harrison kind of Deathworld,by aliens bent on conquering the galaxy, as a part of their racial drive to force their evolution into making them the most deadly race in the galaxy, without genetic engineering.
Really need more of an idea on what kind of Sci-Fi you like than just two series. What do you like about them?
Asimov’s Robot stories are always classic, just grab any collection of them but I, Robot is of course a great starting place. His Foundation series is also a great classic, though the books after the third are more controversial among critics.
Moorecock is always pretty fun, he’s like the cool crazy uncle of classic sci-fi.
And if you like future military stuff, the Gaunt’s Ghosts 40k series is a blast.
Moorecock is always pretty fun, he’s like the cool crazy uncle of classic sci-fi.
And if you like future military stuff, the Gaunt’s Ghosts 40k series is a blast.
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Blindsight by Peter Watts has:
An eerily plausible sci-fi take on vampires
A first contact story informed by marine biology and neuroscience
Enough creepy imagery to haunt you for months
Highly recommended.
An eerily plausible sci-fi take on vampires
A first contact story informed by marine biology and neuroscience
Enough creepy imagery to haunt you for months
Highly recommended.
Since the two authors you do list are somewhat ... pre-current-era, and all that entails, let me a toss a couple options out. I can't promise either of them will be what you want, they're not like the books you list, but they're good. Also, don't forget that there are a number of other books in the Solar series by Wolfe beyond New Sun.
First, I'm surprised nobody else has suggested the Dune series, particularly the first one. Maybe it's just assumed you've already read it, and maybe you have. But I'm throwing it out there anyways just in case.
Otherwise... tryThe Faded Sun trilogy, by C.J. Cherryh. (Kesrith, Shon'jir, Kutath)
Although technically part of her Alliance-Union series, which is a pretty large body of work, it's one of the earlier examples, and is absolutely able to stand on it's own - it really never ties in with anything outside itself. (A lot of her Alliance-Union stuff is pretty much stand-alone, even if it technically shares a setting. It's a big galaxy!)
In some ways it's a bit Dances with Wolves-ish. It's a story of cultural acclimation and a character "going native" as part of a mission. But it's a lot better than Avatar. Nor is it really a "nobel savage" story, although it will seem like it is at first. It's a Cherryh book, which means she puts a lot of love into designing her alien races. A few of her races are fairly humanish, but a lot of them aren't, too. This series deals with two, one of which is, physically at least, and one of which isn't.
It's less... Introspective, I suppose. It doesn't deal with big questions so much. It's more an exploration of a person being completely broken and rebuilt.
It kinda gets lost up its own asshole, I felt. And I found the ending... Unsatisfying. It's certainly different, though.
First, I'm surprised nobody else has suggested the Dune series, particularly the first one. Maybe it's just assumed you've already read it, and maybe you have. But I'm throwing it out there anyways just in case.
Otherwise... tryThe Faded Sun trilogy, by C.J. Cherryh. (Kesrith, Shon'jir, Kutath)
Although technically part of her Alliance-Union series, which is a pretty large body of work, it's one of the earlier examples, and is absolutely able to stand on it's own - it really never ties in with anything outside itself. (A lot of her Alliance-Union stuff is pretty much stand-alone, even if it technically shares a setting. It's a big galaxy!)
In some ways it's a bit Dances with Wolves-ish. It's a story of cultural acclimation and a character "going native" as part of a mission. But it's a lot better than Avatar. Nor is it really a "nobel savage" story, although it will seem like it is at first. It's a Cherryh book, which means she puts a lot of love into designing her alien races. A few of her races are fairly humanish, but a lot of them aren't, too. This series deals with two, one of which is, physically at least, and one of which isn't.
It's less... Introspective, I suppose. It doesn't deal with big questions so much. It's more an exploration of a person being completely broken and rebuilt.
It kinda gets lost up its own asshole, I felt. And I found the ending... Unsatisfying. It's certainly different, though.
All other criticisms aside, the society the book presented was so far post-human as to make me absolutely not care if they were about to be wiped out by pop-psych boogiemen. The only people I found sympathetic in the story were the luddite terrorists that are mentioned in passing a couple times. The whole human society felt like the sort of thing the more radical SJWs dream of as their ideal society, and it was so depressing.
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My take is that depiction of human society was purposefully dead-ended to contrast with the simpler mode of communication and togetherness enjoyed by the aliens. But yeah, Watts and depressing is basically synonymous, and the ending does feel very rushed and a little pasted together. I enjoy the book more for its ideas and creepy ambience than the story.
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Anything with a 'SF Masterworks' label on the cover.
Brian Aldiss - more fantasy with a Sci-fi backdrop, a starship with a live ecosystem,a tidal locked earth where plants have filled all ecological niches, or time travel with an unexpected twist.
Strugatsky Brothers - Sci-Fi/Orwell from behind the Iron Curtain, highly critical of the communist regime but doesn't forget to tell the story along the way, whether a city scale social experiment or advanced aliens beings observing a primitive world.
Joe Haldmans The Foerver War - VIETNAM IN SPACCCEE!!! but with good back pay, quite tragic really, man joins army which requires long journeys in suspended amnumition, comes back to a home which no longer resembles what he knew so re-ups, happy ending though.
Brian Aldiss - more fantasy with a Sci-fi backdrop, a starship with a live ecosystem,a tidal locked earth where plants have filled all ecological niches, or time travel with an unexpected twist.
Strugatsky Brothers - Sci-Fi/Orwell from behind the Iron Curtain, highly critical of the communist regime but doesn't forget to tell the story along the way, whether a city scale social experiment or advanced aliens beings observing a primitive world.
Joe Haldmans The Foerver War - VIETNAM IN SPACCCEE!!! but with good back pay, quite tragic really, man joins army which requires long journeys in suspended amnumition, comes back to a home which no longer resembles what he knew so re-ups, happy ending though.
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