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I mean.. a genre can't be all hits, that makes no sense :P If you want good sci-fi a good list can be: - Ender's Game - The Martian + Project Hail Mary - A
by boxed 6mo ago
I mean.. a genre can't be all hits, that makes no sense :P
If you want good sci-fi a good list can be:
- Ender's Game
- The Martian + Project Hail Mary
- A Fire Upon the Deep
- Dune
- baq 6mo ago- Hyperion
- rationalist 6mo agoThe Expanse series starting with Leviathan Wakes. (I second Ender's Game, The Martian, and Project Hail Mary.)
- comicjk 6mo agoA Fire Upon The Deep is a fantastic novel for programmers to read, and I think the prequel A Deepness In The Sky is even better. There are some amazing old-school coding jokes in there, like that everyone thinks the universal time counter started at the first moon landing, but programmer archaeologists know it was really 15 megaseconds later.
- xeonmc 6mo agoThough Dune is highly acclaimed for its concepts, I couldn’t quite get into it personally. They’re just too dry for my tastes.
- mwigdahl 6mo agoNeal Stephenson's work is outstanding in my opinion, although some find it polarizing. My favorite of his is _Anathem_, followed closely by _Seveneves_. Iain Banks's science fiction novels (mostly set in the Culture, but he does have others) are also great.
- NetMageSCW 6mo agoHow can you not mention Snow Crash? And yes to the Culture.