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I read it based on a reddit search for 'good sci fi books' and that's it. Going in with no hype or expectations and I thought it was great. PS. HNers, any good
by Eddy_Viscosity2 7mo ago
I read it based on a reddit search for 'good sci fi books' and that's it. Going in with no hype or expectations and I thought it was great.
PS. HNers, any good sci-fi book recommendations?
- mugwumprk 7mo ago“Service Model” is a recent one and I had an absolute blast with it. If you don’t have much of a humanities background, you’d benefit from skimming the Wikipedia article. There’s a lot of references to old novels you might miss if you don’t have the context.
- sohkamyung 7mo agoYou might be interested in this prequel to "Service Model": "Human Resources" [1] [1] https://reactormag.com/human-resources-adrian-tchaikovsky/ https://reactormag.com/human-resources-adrian-tchaikovsky/
- LogicFailsMe 7mo agoHe needs to do more in this universe and maybe connect it to one of his others. He really specializes in all the variants of collapse and I love every page of it.
- alexpotato 7mo agoA write up review of books I've read and there are a couple scifi books (and a bunch of other recommendations) here: https://alexpotato.com/books/ https://alexpotato.com/books/
- Eddy_Viscosity2 7mo agoNicely done, thanks!
- tartuffe78 7mo agoI just came across Hardwired from 1986, it's a cyberpunk dystopian future with lots of action. I loved it, some of it is very prescient, but with lots of 80s influence to an imagined future.
- dsr_ 7mo agoInteresting chain of descent: Walter Jon Williams wrote Hardwired, and R Talsorian Games based their tabletop RPG, Cyberpunk 2020, on it. That's the source material used for the computer RPG, Cyberpunk 2073. Meanwhile, WJW followed up with Voice of the Whirlwind, which seems to be set about a century later, and drops enough references in Aristoi to place it as the third book in the same universe, quite possibly a thousand years later. I recommend all three (and almost everything that WJW has written).
- rototrav 7mo agoJust read Lexicon by Max Barry (2013) - great sci-fi thriller that actually has a strong anti-memetic component. I wonder if it was an influence on qntm's book.
- Brian_K_White 7mo agoI loved Jennifer Government (Max Barry) wayyyy back.
- pavel_lishin 7mo agoLexicon was very good. I'd also recommend Bad Monkeys, by Matt Ruff, for a vaguely similar feel (although the subject matter is completely different.)
- entropicdrifter 7mo agoThe Diamond Age is feeling more and more prescient to me as time goes on
- roadside_picnic 7mo agoI'm a pretty big fan of Roadside Picnic!
- floren 7mo agoA Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge Player Piano by Vonnegut Dune
- TheGoddessInari 7mo agoI feel like I have to mention "The Sky So Big and Black" by John Barnes. IMO, rather underrated. Hadn't really read any good Mars-based science fiction before.
- milchek 7mo agoIf you liked it and want something in a similar style (conceptually) but with a bit more personal/human element I would recommend The Raw Shark Texts. As for best sci fi books I’ve read in a while: The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch (think sci fi meets True Detective) - some awesome concepts here and really strong pacing. The other one was Version Control by Dexter Palmer which is a bit slower and more subtle sci fi (big concepts presented in a personal drama style of book)
- e12e 7mo agoOf you enjoyed this, you might like "Gnomon" by Nick Harkaway.