Sci-Fi worth consuming
I asked on Twitter for recommendations as I want to get into reading Sci-Fi novels. The below is the result. Thanks everyone for recommending your favorites! :)
Personally I'm going to start with the first three.
- Foundation, by Isaac Asimov [4.05]
- Dune Chronicles, by Frank Herbert [4.13]
- Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson [3.98]
- The Martian, by Andy Weir [4.36]
- The Golden Age, by John C. Wright [4.10]
- Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam), by Margaret Atwood [3.97]
- Glasshouse, by Charles Stross [3.84]
- Spin, by Robert Charles Wilson [3.99]
- Rendezvous with Rama, by Arthur C. Clark [4.01]
- Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson [4.24]
- A Fire Upon the Deep, by Vernor Vinge [4.12]
- Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline [4.31]
- The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. Le Guin. (Sci fi, sociology and philosophy) [4.15]
- Culture Series, by Iain M. Banks [4.495 (avg)]
- Ware, by Rudy Rucker, [3.74]
- Timestorm, by Gordon R. Dickson [3.72]
- Childhood's End, by Arthur C Clarke [4.06]
- Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury [3.95]
- Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley [3.93]
- 1984, by George Orwell [4.10]
- Old Man's War, by John Scalzi [4.22]
- The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War #2), by John Scalzi [4.07]
- The Last Colony (Old Man's War #3), by John Scalzi [4.00]
- Lock In, by John Scalzi [3.83]
- Godhunter (Daemon series), by Donnie Rust [3.80]
- Neuromancer, by William Gibson [3.85]
- Sphere, by Michael Crichton (my favorite novel. Movie was worse than terrible.) [3.70]
- Night's Dawn Trilogy, by Peter Hamilton [4.13]
- Roadside Picnic, by Arkady Strugatsky & Boris Strugatsky (one of the best books I have ever read) [4.23]
- Book of the Long Sun, by Gene Wolfe [3.97]
- Book of the New Sun, by Gene Wolfe [3.92]
- The Bone Clocks, by David Mitchell (If you liked Cloud Atlas this is a good read) [3.89]
- Stranger in a strange land, by Robert A. Heinlein [3.87]
- Battlefield Earth, by L. Ron Hubbard [3.42]
- Starship Troopers, by Robert A. Heinlein, [3.97]
- Enders Game, by Orson Scott Card [4.28]
- A fire upon the deep, by Vernor Vinge [4.12]
- Hyperion, by Dan Simmons [4.16]
- Solaris, by Stanisław Lem [3.94]
- House of Suns, by Alastair Reynolds [4.14]
- Fallen Dragon, by Peter F. Hamilton [4.00]
- Commonwealth Saga, by Peter F. Hamilton (and all the following trilogy of the void) [4.21]
- Daemon, by Daniel Suarez [4.19]
- Freedom, by Daniel Suarez [4.28]
- Permutation City, by Greg Egan [4.08]
- Schild's Ladder, by Greg Egan [3.89]
- Diaspora, by Greg Egan [4.10]
- The Quantum Thief, by Hannu Rajaniemi [3.83]
- The Fractal Prince, by Hannu Rajaniemi [4.03]
- The Causal Angel, by Hannu Rajaniemi [4.23]
- Almost anything by Greg Egan (His works are mind bending) (TODO: list his books)
- Anything by John Scalzi. (TODO: list his books)
- Firefly
- Stargate SG1
- Stargate Atlantis
- Battlestar Galactica
- Star Trek (TODO: which ones?)
- Farscape
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