Ask HN: What is the best recent Sci-fi books you’ve read

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Post by chrisherd » Wed, Oct 11, 2017, 8:28 PM UTC

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Post by cnorthwood » Wed, Oct 11, 2017, 8:44 PM UTC

Assuming that modern means very recent, I very much enjoyed Neal Stephenson's Seveneves.

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Post by ineedasername » Wed, Oct 11, 2017, 9:19 PM UTC

Been working through Drew Hayes' "Super Powereds" series... nothing ground breaking, but it is light and entertaining.

On the more hard scifi end of the spectrum, anything by Peter Watts. Blindsight and the follow-up Echophraxia are truly fantastic, entertaining, and head-scratchingly interesting in the concepts on display.

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Post by code_Whisperer » Wed, Oct 11, 2017, 11:30 PM UTC

I read a ton, and without a doubt, one of the best sci-fi books I've read in the last 10 years is "Children of Time" by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Read it. Seriously. Runner-up might be "Spaceman of Bohemia" by Jaroslav Kalfar.

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Post by boznz » Wed, Oct 11, 2017, 11:49 PM UTC

The Fold - Peter Clines - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23164927-the-fold

Well written, without too much hand-wavery and awesome twist in the middle.