Ask HN: What is the best sci-fi you read this year?

A book series called "Omega Force", currently re-reading it

Books 2 & 3 of Liu Cixin's Dark Forest series were translated this year. One of them will get the Hugo (book 1, the Three Body Problem won the 2015 Hugo).

Nah, it is just a name of a group of people ;)

The Worm Web Serial[1]. I've heard it is longer than all of the Harry Potter books combined.

It starts as modern day slightly alternate universe super heroes, and ends up in some pretty heavy sci fi concepts towards the middle and end.

By far and away my favorite part is how it dives deep into not just the origins of many characters (and the universe has a LOT of characters), but also their powers. Specifically, it walks through how characters learn how to use their powers in new and creative ways, and explores what it feels like to use the powers from the users' pov. This gets interesting with things like perception, control, tinkering and entropy type powers, and the author does a great job at exploring these in a way where you can almost picture using them yourself.

Another cool part is that while I referenced it as a superhero story, it is probably more accurately described as a super villain story as the main character goes down that path. However you soon learn that it really isn't that black and white and that gray spectrum becomes a key element of the story.

[1]https://parahumans.wordpress.com/