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I have not read Peter Hamilton, but always looking for new good books. Thanks for the recommendation!
I'd start with Pandora's Star, they are HUGE in scope, so its a big book but worth it IMO.
It's strange to start a list of "books that you may never have heard of" with a novel which is a nominee to the 2020 Hugo Awards. I suppose that most of the regular readers of sci-fi haver heard of it. A nitpick about the third recommandation with "robots modeled on Karel Čapek’s designs". I suppose that they have not read Čapek’s novels. His robots were not pure machines, they were made from a biological substrate.…
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I'd start with Pandora's Star, they are HUGE in scope, so its a big book but worth it IMO.
I'd start with the Night's Dawn trilogy, I've read most PFH except for his last few and those are my ATFs.
The Stars are Legion by Kameron Hurley is a really great, and different read. Totally different world than a lot of sci-fi.
Another set is CS Lewis' Space Trilogy Out of the Silent Planet Perelandra That Hideous Strength Note that like a lot of CS Lewis, there is a very heavy Christian view.
The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4711854-the-machine-stop... 35 page short story and eerily reminiscent of today's world. It was written in 1909 .
Actually I made a website that’s mostly sci-fi books I’ve read https://mnky9800n.github.io/booklist/ It uses a google spreadsheet as a database so you just need to update the spreadsheet and it adds a book to the website. I have a life goal to read every thing written by Phillip k dick as well as every book on David Pringle’s 100 best sci-fi list. Some of the books are hard to find though. Like I’ve been searching fo…
Nice, I like the photos, classic covers are so beautiful :) Added the Brian Daley series about Solo to my list, I'd never heard of those!
I love this genre, and there is such a plethora of interesting reads. I think one of the most interesting, in terms of presenting technology's role in varied societies, is A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge. Great read if you are bored of the classic space opera.
And the prequel A Deepness in the Sky is even better with very alien aliens (and a neat way of hiding that alien-ness from readers) and some very nasty antagonists with truly terrifying technology in the form of "focus". Mind you, Vinge's Rainbows End is also really good and set in the near future with what may be an emerging AGI as a key character.