Sci-Fi worth consuming
I asked on Twitter for recommendations as I want to get into reading Sci-Fi novels. The below is the result. Thanks everyone for recommending your favorites! :)
Personally I'm going to start with the first three.
- Foundation, Isaac Asimov
- Dune series, by Frank Herbert
- Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
- The Martian
- The Golden Age
- Oryx and Crake
- Glasshouse
- Spin
- Rendevous with Rama
- Cryptonomicon
- A Fire Upon the Deep
- Ready Player One
- The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. Le Guin. (Sci fi, sociology and philosophy)
- Culture, by Iain Banks
- Wetware, by Rudy Rucker
- Timestorm, by Gordon R. Dickson
- Childhoods
- End, by Arthur C Clarke
- Fahrenheit 451
- Brave New World
- 1984
- Old man's war
- Daemon series
- Neuromancer
- Sphere, by Crichton (my favorite novel. Movie was worse than terrible.)
- The Culture Novels, by Iain M Banks
- Night's Dawn Trilogy, by Peter Hamilton
- Ready Player One (one of the best I've ever read)
- Roadside Picnic (one of the best books I have ever read)
- The Dispossessed, by Ursula Le Guin
- Daemon Inc
- Freedom (sequal to Daemon Inc)
- Book of the Long Sun, by Gene Wolfe
- Book of the New Sun, by Gene Wolfe
- The Bone Clocks (If you liked Cloud Atlas this is a good read)
- Stranger in a strange land
- Battlefield Earth
- Starship Troopers
- Old Man's War, by John Scalzi (also has some nice follow ups)
- Enders Game, by Orson Scott Card
- A fire upon the deep, by Vernor vinge
- Childhood's End, by Arthur C. Clarke
- Hyperion
- Solaris
- House of Suns, by Alastair Reynolds
- Fallen Dragon, Peter F. Hamilton
- Almost anything by Greg Egan (His works are mind bending) (TODO: list his books)
- Anything by John Scalzi. (TODO: list his books)
- Firefly
- Stargate SG1
- Stargate Atlantis
- Battlestar Galactica
- Star Trek (TODO: which ones?)
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