The Culture Series by Iain Banks, quite a good scifi series in my opinion.
Player of Games is amazing.
Ask HN: Great fiction books that have had a positive impact on your life?
91–100 of 599 posts
Re: Ask HN: Great fiction books that have had a positive impact on your life?
#92Hunter x Hunter by Yoshihiro Togashi - I recently started reading manga again and had heard about the series. It's an amazing feat of visual storytelling, jumping genres all the time, an incredible and vast world, and complex characters you can't help but love or hate. On the surface it looks fun and lighthearted but that facade is quickly thrown out to explore mature themes, ultimately culminating in an exploration…
For those who are not up to reading manga, the 2011 anime version is an amazing adaptation and a decent introduction to anime in general.
Re: Ask HN: Great fiction books that have had a positive impact on your life?
#93The Count of Monte Cristo (unabridged of course), it really rose my bar for great storytelling. Also the sandwich is pretty good.
Have you read The Stars My Destination?
Re: Ask HN: Great fiction books that have had a positive impact on your life?
#94- Anna Karenina: Tolstoy knows people better than they know themselves - Brave New World: Aldous Huxley is a genius and a wordsmith - Dune: a sci-fi masterpiece, highly recommended to anyone into sci-fi - Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: not purely fiction but an amazing book I will surely re-read during my lifetime
Lila, the sequel to Zen... had an even bigger impact on me.
I also found some of the ideas easier to take away and hold onto.
Re: Ask HN: Great fiction books that have had a positive impact on your life?
#95- Anna Karenina: Tolstoy knows people better than they know themselves - Brave New World: Aldous Huxley is a genius and a wordsmith - Dune: a sci-fi masterpiece, highly recommended to anyone into sci-fi - Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: not purely fiction but an amazing book I will surely re-read during my lifetime
Karenina is amazing all these decades later.
Re: Ask HN: Great fiction books that have had a positive impact on your life?
#96The Millennial Project, Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Millennial_Project
Not a fiction book as such, but the subject matter border on science fiction.
It did make me think of how to start contributing to humanity in better ways than I was doing. It took some time for me to change my trajectory, but eventually I did.
Through several steps partially parallel to step one in the book I ended up doing what I do today.
Re: Ask HN: Great fiction books that have had a positive impact on your life?
#97- Brave New World
- 1984
- Fahrenheit 451
Basic kit to understand the world today.
Re: Ask HN: Great fiction books that have had a positive impact on your life?
#98esp this week, vernor vinge's 'fire upon the deep'
it perfectly captures the weird information environment surrounding a global crisis
(people communicating via letter, people closer & farther from the crisis having different skews and perspectives and beliefs)
and the house of cards effects around collapsing civilizations
Re: Ask HN: Great fiction books that have had a positive impact on your life?
#99We just read “Where the Mountain Meets The Moon”, by Grace Lin, to our kindergartener. We all enjoyed it. Despite being a kids book, it had some really great themes — lifted my spirits and changed my outlook.
I realize the question was targeting adult books, but with everyone at home with their families right now I figured I’d throw this out there.
Re: Ask HN: Great fiction books that have had a positive impact on your life?
#100Three body problem. I couldn’t recommend this trilogy enough.
Totally agree, was just about to post the same.