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I'm currently reading the Wool omnibus by Hugh Howey. It's pretty decent I've been making very rapid progress as it's been too hot to sleep here recently now the summer has arrived.

I haven't seen the Apple show, but maybe I'll watch it in the future when I've finished all the books (I had Shift and Dust as well).

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[-] allalae@orcas.enjoying.yachts 4 points 1 year ago

A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine.

I really loved the first book in the series, A Memory Called Empire, but I find the second one harder to get through. The writing really gets into the protagonist's head, and with all the stress she's in, it gets... claustrophobic, I guess, for me. I wish there was a bit more focus on the plot about the cool mysterious aliens.

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Just started reading Hyperion by Dan Simmons.

[-] ReallyKinda@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Working my way through some Hugo winners past— reading A Canticle for Liebowitz by Walter M Miller.

[-] CylonBunny@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I really liked Canticle, but I really felt like it suffered from being a fix-up novel. It’s three acts are not equal and don’t totally fit together in my opinion. It really starts off strong though! Hope you like it!

[-] MagpieRhymes@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I’m working my way through both the Murderbot Diaries (just started Network Effect) and the Rivers of London series (just finished Broken Homes, though this series is more urban fantasy). Both and very enjoyable!

[-] ScrivenerX@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

My wife and I just ran through the whole murderbot series. They are such a fun read. I'm convinced that the author plays/has played a ton of Shadowrun.

[-] OldFartPhil@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

The murderbot stories get so much praise but I was never able to get into them. I binge read (well, actually binge listened) to the Rivers of London books a few months ago and thought they were first-rate.

I just finished the new Ann Leckie book, Translation State, which I liked very much. If you couldn't get enough of the the Imperial Radch universe it's a must read.

[-] FatLegTed@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Seveneves by Neal Stephenson. Was a recommendation on the R site.

Complex, eon spanning, hard sci-fi. I'm loving it!

[-] TooL@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

If you could, what other sci-fi works would you compare it to? I am wrapping up the Children of Time series and could use something else.

[-] AWizard_ATrueStar@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I sold Seveneves to a friend by saying it is like Neal Stephenson wrote The Martian. Well, at least the first 2/3 of it. It talks a lot about the science how how an event like the one described in the book might happen but with the kind if granularity and verbosity you would expect from NS.

[-] LamerTex@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm rereading Asimov's complete saga in "internal story chronological order":

  1. I, Robot / The Complete Robot (except 'Mirror Image'!) [ROBOTS]

  2. The Caves of Steel [ROBOTS]

  3. The Naked Sun [ROBOTS]

  4. Mirror Image (short story) [ROBOTS]

  5. The Robots of Dawn [ROBOTS]

  6. Robots and Empire [ROBOTS]

  7. The Stars, Like Dust-- [EMPIRE]

  8. The Currents of Space [EMPIRE]

  9. Pebble in the Sky [EMPIRE]

  10. Prelude to Foundation [FOUNDATION]

  11. Forward the Foundation [FOUNDATION]

  12. Foundation [FOUNDATION]

  13. Foundation and Empire [FOUNDATION]

  14. Second Foundation [FOUNDATION]

  15. Foundation's Edge [FOUNDATION]

  16. Foundation and Earth [FOUNDATION]

I'm currently on "Forward the foundation"

[-] Narauko@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

The Foundation series is absolutely amazing, and I am jealous of you if this is your first reading. One of my formative series growing up. You're inspiring me to do the whole Asimov read through like your doing, because I don't believe I ever read the Empire books and never read Robot beyond I, Robot.

[-] FantasticFox@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I'm surprised The Caves of Steel is so early as it seemed really futuristic compared to most of The Complete Robot, but I read it a long time ago so maybe I'm not remembering correctly.

[-] jetsetdorito@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I'm really trying to read Three Body Problem, but I'm having a hard time following

[-] k0nserv@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Stick with it. I loved the series, but the first book is unfortunately the most confusing and, in my opinion, the worst of the three.

[-] Zana@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

House of Leaves. Although I'm struggling because I haven't read a physical book in years and I can't bring it everywhere like I can my Leaf 2.

[-] ScrivenerX@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I love that book.

The reading of the book becomes part of the experience of the book in a way that feels unique and engaging. If you like the format being part of the story I have to recommend S by Doug Dorst and JJ Abrams and to a lesser extent the Cheese Monkeys by Chip Kidd.

[-] hydro033@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago

Man, I read that and all the crazy notes in all different directions. Quite a trip. I personally think it could have been a bit shorter and deliver the same effect, but it really is pretty neat and original. I hope they make it into a film or show someday - it deserves the treatment and the author deserves the $$.

[-] CuriousLibrarian@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I listened to the 2nd and 3rd books of the Murderbot series on a car ride recently. I had read them before, but it was the first time that he did. I really enjoyed laughing with him.

[-] fl3tching101@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Currently reading Foundation and Earth by Asimov, I absolutely loved the original trilogy so I’ve been reading through the sequels and plan on going back to the prequels after. In my opinion the sequels have a big shift in pacing and sort of the way that the plot develops… not sure how I feel about that. On one hand it is easier to keep up with with less characters, but on the other it feels like the scale of things is much smaller. Trying to not spoil anything. The series is a fantastic read nevertheless!

[-] FantasticFox@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I've only read the original Foundation trilogy, would you recommend the others?

[-] laurelinae@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Difficult to say. If you keep in mind, that he wrote the sequels 30 years or so later and acknowledge that one's views change over such a period, then go ahead. If you, however, expect the same flavor as the trilogy, then I wouldn't recommend reading foundation's edge and foundation and earth. And although these are meant as an introduction to the men behind time, that one makes no reference to the foundation trilogy. So it's fine to just read the end of eternity on its own.

[-] clucking_sliver@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Reading Noor right now. Very enjoyable and it will be quick read.

[-] w3dd1e@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Wool was great. And the show was good too. You can basically watch the first season after finishing Wool, if you’d like.

I’m reading He Who Fights With Monsters but I’m going to dig through this thread and find a good scifi novel to read next!

[-] warriorpriest@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson. Book 3 in the Words of Radiance series.

[-] DarthVi@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I'm currently reading Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey, which is the first book of the Expanse series. I haven't watched the TV series, since I wanted to dive into the books without previous knowledge.

[-] lemmy@lemmy.quad442.com 1 points 1 year ago

I'm Listening currently because it's convenient at work but, Finishing the Bobiverse for my 3rd go around

[-] TheBiscuitLout@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I’m reading The Best Of World SF Vol 2 compilation, edited by Lavie Tidhar. There are some phenomenal short stories in this and the first one, and I really enjoy hearing voices from outside the English-speaking bubble that I usually read

[-] ANuStart@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I'm on Tiamats Wake in the Expanse series, love it

[-] rephlekt2718@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Not science fiction, but I’m loving Carl Sagans “The Demon-Haunted World”. He really was a brilliant dude.

[-] paper_clip@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I've been working through The Expanse books, and have just started Leviathan Falls.

[-] Tenthrow@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Wild book. 3rd in the series. Not finished yet but the first two were incredible.

[-] rizo@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just ended with 'Children of Time' by Adrian Tchaikovsky and will now start 'Children of Ruin' (the second in the series). I liked it a lot,... the gist of it:

  • Humans terraform planets
  • Humans want 'crispr' intelligent apes
  • Humans kill each other
  • Crispr can't find apes,.. uses spiders instead
  • Other Humans come eons later and find intelligent spiders

The story is told through the eyes of the spiders and the surviving humans and how they try to communicate, think in different terms, fight for the last habitable planet,....

[-] Kajibits@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

We're going on an adventure!

[-] rizo@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

The second one was also "funny"... My wife just finished the third...

[-] spittingimage@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

I'm re-reading Broken Angels (the sequel to Altered Carbon) by Richard Morgan. Of the three books in the trilogy, this is the one I liked the most.

I've got River Of Pain by Christopher Golden on pause. It's an Aliens-prequel about the colony set up on the planet where the Nostromo crew picked up the alien. I haven't read it before, but I'm pretty sure I know how it ends.

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