Ask HN: What are your favorite sci-fi books?

Post by beckingz » Sun, May 21, 2023, 4:26 PM UTC

roninhacker wrote: post #70

jmclnx wrote: post #49

Outside of some of the ones listed here, here are a couple of others: * Alan Dean Foster -- Call to Arms, in this case the we are the strong ones. * Hal Clement -- Nitrogen Fix, replace Nitrogen with CO2 in your head and this could be rather current :) * An obscure one I liked, but I forgot the Author and Title -- Seems Interstellar Travel could be achieved with 15th Century Tech. So Aliens landed on late 20th Centur…

"The Road Not Taken," by Harry Turtledove https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Not_Taken_(short_st...

Post by markus_zhang » Sun, May 21, 2023, 4:30 PM UTC

zeroonetwothree wrote: post #41

spapas82 wrote: post #37

I've read a lot of scifi but I'd recommend only one to make sure you get the point: The "remembrance of earth's past" trilogy ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_of_Earth%27s_Pas... ) which is more known as "the three body problem". All the books are great but my favourite by a large margin is "the dark forest" (part 2)

Conversely I think these are some of the worst books I’ve ever read (and I’ve read basically everything mentioned in this thread). The characters are uninteresting, the plot is haphazard and the ideas are derivative. I can see how it would be appealing if you don’t read much at all but once you’ve experience some higher quality stuff it’s just bad.

Post by troyvit » Sun, May 21, 2023, 4:43 PM UTC

qbasic_forever wrote: post #44

Ted Chiang's sci-fi short story collections like Stories Of Your Life and Others is fantastic. It features the story that the feature length film Arrival from a few years ago was based on, among other great stories.

Post by pandemicsyn » Sun, May 21, 2023, 5:06 PM UTC

Post by jayski » Sun, May 21, 2023, 5:15 PM UTC