What are some of your favorite scifi book authors, and books by them?

Alastair Reynolds has written on of my favorites ever, House of Suns, and I really like the lore of his Revelation Space universe. I especially enjoyed the spinoffs exploring the Yellowstone demarchy centered around Panoply.

Inhibitor Phase ended up a weaker entry, imo, charachters that felt a bit too much like Mary Sues. Like mere excuses to exposition dump about the universe itself. Which did enjoy immensely. Still I would much rather have seen some large scale change occur, rather than a the mere zoom-in on some catalytic events.

  • lemmyng@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Love Revelation space.

    Other authors I like:

    • Elizabeth Bear (the White Space books)
    • Martha Wells (Murderbot series)
    • Dennis E. Taylor (Bobiverse)
    • Adrian Tchaikovsky (Children of Time, plus one of my all-time favourite novellas, One Day All This Will Be Yours)
    • yamblaza@midwest.socialEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Children of Time is one of my all-time favorite books. Still need to get around to reading the sequels.

  • Octorine@midwest.socialEnglish
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    1 year ago

    If you haven’t read the Culture books, you should check them out. It isn’t hard scifi, but lots of cool ideas and great storytelling.

  • tallwookie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I was always a fan of:

    • Larry Niven (Known Space/Ringworld)
    • Frederik Pohl (Heechee Saga)
    • Kim S Robinson (Mars Trilogy)
    • Jerry Pournelle (mostly his collaborations with Niven)
    • Arthur C Clarke (Rama series)
    • Stephen Baxter (Xeelee Sequence)
  • get_the_reference_@midwest.socialEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Neal Asher, the Polity series. Greg Egan, so many but start with Permutation City maybe. Neither are as beloved as the Revelation Space ones for me, but I really enjoyed them. Also Uplift Series by David Brin (Tchaikovsky, too} for uplift fiction, Fast Times at Fairmont High by Vernor Vinge of you like singularity fiction, Charles Stross’ Accelerando is a bunch of great, weird short fiction with ties between the stories. I have only read Bobiverse book 1 but it was good, I will probably read more. Stephenson, I love them all, maybe Anathem best of all. I’ll stop here because this is something I could probably keep going with for quite a while hehe.