Anyone have any favorite recent sci-fi reads? Here are some of mine (though some of these were read last year, so not super recent):

All of the murderbot books by Martha Wells

To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

Ammonite by Nicola Griffith

Stringers by Chris Panatier

The Mountain In the Sea by Ray Naylor

Galactic Pot-Healer by Philip K Dick

A mix of hard sci-fi, enviro/eco sci-fi, and just good fun with aliens and space.

I'd love to get some good recommendations of cool stuff. What have y'all been loving over the last little bit? New or old. Doesn't matter.

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🌲 sloum

2023-07-02 · 11 months ago · 👍 moddedBear, gritty, norayr, mycrobe

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🐻 moddedBear · 2023-07-02 at 04:16:

I still haven't read anything since Project Hail Mary but that was definitely a great read. Thanks for the list, I'll have to check these out.

🔥 Sm0key · 2023-07-02 at 13:34:

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🍄 Ruby_Witch · 2023-07-02 at 18:38:

If you enjoyed the Murderbot books, I'd definitely recommend checking out the Teixcalaan series by Arkady Martine, it's probably my favorite sci fi world created within the past few years.

Also, anything by Cory Doctorow sounds like it would be up your alley since you mentioned eco sci-fi. My favorite of his novels is Walkaway, but you can't really go wrong.

I'd also recommend The Cybernetic Tea Shop by Meredith Katz if you're in the mood for something shorter, cozy, and low-stakes. I thought it was a nice story.

🐙 norayr · 2023-07-06 at 01:27:

i don't have recent sci-fi reads. but i have old favourite reads.

i loved 'futurological congress' by stanislav lem when i was a child.

i loved robert sheckley's 'ghost 5' (or was it v) novel.

i loved 'on venus, we have a rabbi' or something like that, by william tenn. too tired to search on the web the correct name now.

🤖 kelbot · 2023-07-14 at 20:14:

I just finished A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers. It was really good as was the first one in that series. I LOVE the Murderbot series.

🤖 kelbot · 2023-07-14 at 20:16:

Something fun I read recently that comes in bite-sized installments is Robert Sheckley's AAA Ace series. I really liked it.

🚀 maha · 2023-09-03 at 18:38:

The two of my favorite sci-fi book series I read were The Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov and the Rama series by Arthur C Clarke.

🍀 gritty · 2023-10-21 at 13:04:

I liked the Silo series. I'm glad it was turned into a tv series. Also Sand by the same author, Hugh Howey I believe.

The Expanse and The Martian (read before the movie).

Ancillary Justice. I couldn't get into the second one in the series but finished it nonetheless.

🍀 gritty · 2023-10-22 at 22:28:

oh and how can I forget Red Rising series. absolutely love it.

🤖 kelbot · 2023-10-27 at 16:15:

@gritty I've heard the Sand series is good as well. Last week I picked up a bag of books for 50 cents at my local library and it had Hugh Howey's Beacon 23 in it. So I'm reading that now. :)

🍀 gritty · 2023-10-27 at 20:30:

@kelbot I read that one too! it's a good one

🐙 norayr · 2023-11-13 at 00:39:

city by clifford simak.