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Ask HN: What are the best Sci-Fi books you've ever read?

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Re: Ask HN: What are the best Sci-Fi books you've ever read?

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Post by someotheridiot »

anotherevan wrote: post #93

Farmer in the Sky by Robert Heinlein [1] The Complete Robot by Isaac Asimov [2] The Wrong Unit [3] wasn't a bad little humorous tale. Pretty much anything by Timothy Zahn (sans Star Wars novelisations) [4] or Robert Sawyer [5] floats my boat. The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North [6] Barsk: The Elephants’ Graveyard by Lawrence M. Schoen [7] made me care about sentient elephants. Fuzzy Nation by John…

2nd for The Bobiverse, it has some humour and had some fresh ideas in it.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best Sci-Fi books you've ever read?

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Post by garyklinecc »

You might also try Dream Park by David Niven and Steve Barnes. I've only read the first book, but apparently there are two sequels as well. A detective joins a LARP group when he suspects one of the guests of being a thief and murderer. The bulk of the story takes place in an amusement park that's a cross between Westworld and a holodeck.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best Sci-Fi books you've ever read?

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Post by Davertron »

physicsyogi wrote: post #12

Cryptonomicon and Snow Crash were great. Others you might: - The Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang (superb short story that Arrival was based on) - The Three Body-Problem (Cixin Liu) - Dune (Frank Herbert) - The Parable of the Sower (Octavia Butler) - Lucifer's Hammer (Larry Niven) - The Kundalini Equation (Steven Barnes)

Cryptonomicon is one of my favorite books of all time (I'm probably due for a re-read at this point).

I would also recommend "Seveneves", one of Neal Stephenson's most recent books. "Anathem" was also very enjoyable.

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Post by dnnrly »

zblesk wrote: post #80

I'd recommend the Vatta's War series by Elizabeth Moon. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/284658.Trading_in_Danger... It's a space adventure with a likable heroine and plenty humour, but also some interesting character exploration. Also has a good audio version by GraphicAudio.

This is an excellent series that has suspense and yet easy to digest. If you like the military SF sub genre you should also look at the Honor Harrington series by David Weber followed by the Safehold series and the March To The Sea series. Actually most stuff by David Weber is pretty good.
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