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Recently is a very relevant term, and honestly I'm not sure it matters much as. I'll answer mostly to the "thought provoking part" of your question. * Egan, G
by geoah 8y ago
Recently is a very relevant term, and honestly I'm not sure it matters much as.
I'll answer mostly to the "thought provoking part" of your question.
* Egan, Greg - Permutation City, Diaspora, and basically everything
* Liu, Cixin - The Three Body Problem (trilogy)
* Rajaniemi, Hannu - Jean le Flambeur (trilogy)
* Watts, Peter - Firefall (series)
* Chiang, Ted - The Lifecycle of Software Objects
* Liu, Cixin - The Wandering Earth (short stories)
I know quite a few people in love with Neal Stephenson, but I can't really muster his style.
Check out Cryptonomicon and The Diamond Age.
- patricklouys 8y agoI liked the beginning of the Three Body Problem, but it got really weird towards the end of the first book. I had already ordered the next 2 books but couldn't motivate myself to keep going. Does it get better?
- awild 8y agoI read all three and found the first one to be the best. Thinking about it now I think I had the same feeling going into the second half of the first book, it changes tone and setting completely. I initially thought it was doing something like magic realism but explaining it by being a game. The second and third book are much more sociological explorations of humans facing a literal cosmic perspective. I found them alright but I wouldn't recommend it. His short stories are much better.
- swanson 8y agoI liked Book 2 the most, less flashbacks to the past and less emphasis on the Chinese culture/themes. I'd give Book 2 a shot and see if that rekindles the motivation.
- awild 8y agoThanks for those recommendations, I am just coming off of a Egan, then Cixin Liu binge, have been reading a lot of German literature instead, but I've not read Permutation City yet and I've not heard of the other authors before.
- grafoo 8y agoi'm really interested what german sci-fi you came across.