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If you like Murderbot, you owe yourself to check out her other series, The Cloud Roads. Absolutely fantastic.
by Blackthorn 2y ago
If you like Murderbot, you owe yourself to check out her other series, The Cloud Roads. Absolutely fantastic.
- wccrawford 2y agoThanks for the recommendation!
- imzadi 2y agoAnother good one is Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky Also, I feel like if I am recommending something I have to recommend Dungeon Crawler Carl, which is my current obsession. I've read all the books multiple times in multiple formats, but it's not much like Murderbot.
- bnj 2y agoGlad to see DCC mentioned, one of my favorite things to do is describe the initial concept to someone and then see them experience the first few chapters and get hooked
- em-bee 2y agoi am reading service model right now with our scifi book club. this book needs a trigger warning for programmers. reading it feels like work because i am constantly analyzing what coding faults lead to the choices the robots are making.
- georgeecollins 2y agoChildren of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky is also very good imo.
- moomin 2y agoHonestly that’s the book I recommend to anyone who thinks Heinlein, Asimov and Niven are all there is to good sci-fi.
- loeg 2y agoYMMV. I found it pretty tedious, especially the 2nd in the series (Children of Ruin). I liked Tchaikovsky's Final Architecture series (Shards of Earth, etc) better.
- disgruntledphd2 2y agoI think Final Architecture was a better story, but the background and philosophy in the Children series is very very good indeed.
- lproven 2y ago> I found it pretty tedious 100% this. I am not at all arachnophobic -- I like spiders, I find them cute and fascinating. They were the only interesting characters in the book. The humans were all vile and the human scenes dull dull dull. I really stuggled to finish the book and do not plan to return to the sequels.
- jamesog 2y agoChildren of Time needs to come with a huge content warning for those with arachnophobia. I got through it, but I didn't enjoy it, for that reason.
- hinkley 2y agoSee also Ann Leckie’s Ancillary books (5)
- blacksmith_tb 2y agoI found the Ile-Rien books more fun, esp. Death of the Necromancer, a nice Francophile steampunk vibe. I like Murderbot ok, though it's beginning to feel a little like a shaggy dog joke at this point.
- noitpmeder 2y agoHer newer novel "Witch King" is also pretty good! Nominated for (but didn't win) the 2024 Hugo. Just finished it last week.
- hinkley 2y agoWhen I tried to answer the question, “what did you do with your time while you were laid off?” Part of that answer was “read about forty books” of which about twenty were Wells’ 5 Ile Rien, 7 Cloud Roads, 2 Emilie, Witch King, plus rereading Murderbot
- meonkeys 2y agoWhich were your favorites?
- hinkley 2y agoI’m curious if Witch King will be standalone or not. That might change my answer. The Ile Rien ones were good, the Emilie ones would make good YA fare. The Raksura books are told by a nonhuman culture, but things get very dark at some points. I’d say that one of the main characters in that series is a bit of a prototype for Murderbot, and another the prototype for Ship.
- jandrese 2y agoI found the Il-Rien books more engaging than the Cloud Roads. Especially the Fall of Il-Rien trilogy. I'm currently reading the two-in-one book they released earlier this year in the Il-Rien universe.
- zem 2y agoabsolutely! better than murderbot imo, especially the first two books.