A lot of old, norwegian scifi fan on Lemmy? No? In that case I’m sure my favorite scifi book-series from my youth, Starship Alexandria, is very much unread by anyone here. I cant even find copies of it at libraries anymore. Yeah, I know thats a unfair suggestion since none of you can pick it up and read it anywhere anyway. The author had a bit of Isaac Asimov feeling to how he wrote scifi. So that series was my launch-point to more scifi books.
But for a more modern suggestion, anyone read A Cyberpunk Saga by Matthew A. Goodwin? It’s not great books but not bad either. His writing improves with each book, imho. And it has a well-written ending. It isnt a forever continious or unfinished series. I never heard anyone recommend it. People just recommend the same top few cyberpunk genre books, like Neuromancer, Snow Crash, Wind-up Girl, etc. Never anything smaller. Was mostly because of Cyberpunk 2077 I found that book: I wanted something not too depressing but still cyberpunk where the focus was on a team and not a single protagonist, so I downloaded a cyberpunk short-story collection where his story caught my interest.
Since no one doesn’t seem to be meant literally, 13 1/2 Leben des Kapitän Blaubär (13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear). It’s a very humourous and arguably pretty absurd fantasy story, one of a handful of books I’ve actually read twice. Unfortunately I can’t really say much about the English translation but if that’s decent it should be very enjoyable to read.
The Swarm by Frank Schätzing. Modern sci-fi. Sea creatures rise up and begin taking vengeance against humans, guided by some mysterious force. Very interesting and well written, but i haven’t seen it mentioned here.
New Ideas on Dead Economists. Has a pretty good section on Marx for the “communists”. Overall just a good read in the philosophical advancement of economic theory over time. Good approachable econ book.
I’m sure there are some people on here that might have read it, but I haven’t met many, so my pick is the Ender’s Game saga. There are currently 19 books and I’ve read at least 10 of them. It’s a really easy read, as someone who struggles to get into more complicated writing styles. Some people might be so-so about it due to some of the author’s personal beliefs, but I really adore the lore itself. It offers a ton of different flavors to future visions, alien relations, psychology, and humanity.
I hear this a lot… But I really enjoyed Children of the Mind. I’m guessing people mostly don’t like it because it feels like it lines up too much with some LDS stuff… but if you just ignore that, or are blissfully unaware as I was when I first read it, it can be great and thought provoking.
That’s about when I checked out. I couldn’t tell you exactly why anymore but it just felt like the series had lost track of itself at that point.
But as long as you enjoy it, that’s mostly what matters, and for what it’s worth I don’t think people really have a beef with him over the Enders series. More like the ones where he tries to say society will collapse because The Gays
The Wild Road by Gabriel King! It’s like Watership Down but cats and written at the same level. Did you grow up enjoying the Warriors series? This book will blow your mind.
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