Dawn by Octavia Butler. I just read it and I can’t stop thinking about it.
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Dark Matter by Blake Crouch. Also try Recursion by Blake Crouch. Both are sci fi thrillers
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There’s so many kinds of sci-fi out there.
Ecological stuff with kaiju and Capitalism is The Enemy? Try John Scalzi’s The Kaiju Preservation Society. Relatively light, but I loved it.
Short and meditative and hopeful? Give Becky Chamber’s book A Psalm For The Wild-Built a read.
Best of Star Trek? For my money it’s either Julia Ecklar’s The Kobayashi Maru (for short stories) or Spock’s World by Diane Duane (for a novel).
Hard science fiction that’s also a survival thriller? The Martian by Andy Weir.
Beautiful webcomic? Try Steven McCranie’s long form story Space Boy (which resumes in August!)
Best of Star Wars? Try the novelization of Revenge of the Sith by Matthew Stover. Gorgeous writing. Absolutely unfair that the book is so much better than the movie.
Princesses, plagues, genetic engineering, robots, and a monarchy on the moon? Try The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer.
Silly military sci-fi with cool aliens and stuff on a podunk planet? Try Phules Company by Robert Aspirin.
More serious military sci-fi? Try The Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold or Old Man’s War by John Scalzi.
Weird formatting and people saving the day through the power of investigation, charisma, and explosives? The Illuminae Files by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
Psychic dragons on other planets? The Pit Dragon Chronicles by Jane Yolen.
Terrifying post apocalyptic genetically engineered plagues? This Mortal Coil by Emily Suvada.
Classic British humor? The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, by Douglas Adam’s.
Alternate WWI with weird technology and flying? Either the Leviathan Chronicles by Scott Westerfeld or The Philosipher’s Flight by Tom Miller.
Weird weird weird stuff that I cannot summarize? Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde.
Tragedy? Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes.
Bizarre time travel with a love story? Recursion by Blake Crouch or This Is How You Lose The Time War by Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohar.
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Dawn by Octavia Butler. I just read it and I can’t stop thinking about it.
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch. Also try Recursion by Blake Crouch. Both are sci fi thrillers
There’s so many kinds of sci-fi out there.
Ecological stuff with kaiju and Capitalism is The Enemy? Try John Scalzi’s The Kaiju Preservation Society. Relatively light, but I loved it.
Short and meditative and hopeful? Give Becky Chamber’s book A Psalm For The Wild-Built a read.
Best of Star Trek? For my money it’s either Julia Ecklar’s The Kobayashi Maru (for short stories) or Spock’s World by Diane Duane (for a novel).
Hard science fiction that’s also a survival thriller? The Martian by Andy Weir.
Beautiful webcomic? Try Steven McCranie’s long form story Space Boy (which resumes in August!)
Best of Star Wars? Try the novelization of Revenge of the Sith by Matthew Stover. Gorgeous writing. Absolutely unfair that the book is so much better than the movie.
Princesses, plagues, genetic engineering, robots, and a monarchy on the moon? Try The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer.
Silly military sci-fi with cool aliens and stuff on a podunk planet? Try Phules Company by Robert Aspirin.
More serious military sci-fi? Try The Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold or Old Man’s War by John Scalzi.
Weird formatting and people saving the day through the power of investigation, charisma, and explosives? The Illuminae Files by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
Psychic dragons on other planets? The Pit Dragon Chronicles by Jane Yolen.
Terrifying post apocalyptic genetically engineered plagues? This Mortal Coil by Emily Suvada.
Classic British humor? The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, by Douglas Adam’s.
Alternate WWI with weird technology and flying? Either the Leviathan Chronicles by Scott Westerfeld or The Philosipher’s Flight by Tom Miller.
Weird weird weird stuff that I cannot summarize? Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde.
Tragedy? Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes.
Bizarre time travel with a love story? Recursion by Blake Crouch or This Is How You Lose The Time War by Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohar.