Definitely also Tehol/Bugg and Corabb!
Kruppe and Pust do grate after a while though.
Modern Sci Fi Book recommendations?
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Definitely also Tehol/Bugg and Corabb!
Kruppe and Pust do grate after a while though.
The Groke
hot hail/Paging Dr. Beat
Yes - very much enjoyed these characters.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
The Trygalle Trade Guild are good for at least one lol-moment per book
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
I'm sure there is a more epic thread, but turn out searching sci fi yeilds quite a lot of threads...
Anyway I started what was then to be a triology a few years back and can't remember the name and author. Wondering if anyone can help? Earth is attacked by a swarm and thinking they are doomed they send out ships to peserve humanity. Fast forward a long time and the colonists here from earth. Turns out they weren't destroyed, but saved by another race. All the people from earth have there own AI in them (which is more sinister then its suggested). Avatar type native people also involved. Proper space opera, but a good page turner. Can anyone help?
DotCommunist?
Anyway I started what was then to be a triology a few years back and can't remember the name and author. Wondering if anyone can help? Earth is attacked by a swarm and thinking they are doomed they send out ships to peserve humanity. Fast forward a long time and the colonists here from earth. Turns out they weren't destroyed, but saved by another race. All the people from earth have there own AI in them (which is more sinister then its suggested). Avatar type native people also involved. Proper space opera, but a good page turner. Can anyone help?
DotCommunist?
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
its not ringing bells here m8s
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Is it The Expanse?
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Books I'm afraid and way more far future then that.
Edit: Of course they are based on books. I should have realized that. Thanks though I may well download them.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
I came here to ask this: a mate was going to read Dune, but was told that is was shit writing and he shouldn't bother. Is there any well-written epic sci-fi/space opera that they should read instead?
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
it is a book.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Thanks, just realized that (see edit)
I really enjoy the Red Rising books last year. I started thinking it was a bit pants, but really glad I kept going. Demolished all three pretty quickly.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Red-Rising-Pierce-Brown/dp/1444758993
For a bit older, but still very very good the Kim Stanly Robinson Mars books are very good, which I reread last year.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Books/Re...=UTF8&qid=1500371165&sr=1-1&keywords=red+mars
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
I was going to recommend the Mars books too. 
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Found a torrent for all the expanse books. There are a lot of them. Need a decent series to get into as working away loads in the next few months and it's better then staring at my smartphone on wet evenings.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
He should read Dune. Its a classic for a reason. And unlike some other sci fi authors of that era his politics don't stink like rancid shit.
and you can never ever go wrong with Ian M Banks. State of The Art, Consider Phlebas.
oh and Neal Ashers Polity stuff is worth a run through, can go a bit stale by the tail end of the 'line of polity' sequence but the 'Spatterjay' sequence is golden all the way through
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
Anything Iain M Banks, IMHO (not all of it is space opera, but for word arrangement quality, always wins)
strung out
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Kim Stanley Robinson's other works are fantastic too, 2312 and Aurora in particular.I was going to recommend the Mars books too.
Both are similar thematically to the Mars trilogy, dealing with expansion of human civilisation across the solar system and beyond. Aurora in particular is unbelievably good.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
He's done Banks.
Interesting what you say about Dune's politics as it was mentioned in the discussion that their society was quasi-fascist, so I take it that it's a negative depiction?
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
hmmm. Its not what I'd call it. Its a sort of space fuedalism, the Houses organised into the Landseraat and CHOAM (the business arm/markets) plus the imperial power and then the navigators guild, the bene gesserit etc
no its not described in flattering terms, but semi-fascist? It really isn't, not by my understanding of the term.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Much as I love the culture books, they aren't something I'd recommend to someone who hasn't read much Sci Fi. His human characters are mostly pretty shit, but you end up reading them anyway because the rest is so good.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
theres loads of decent stuff on this thread to work through, Planesrunner and River of Gods (ian mcdonald) are my faves from a few years back.
good new scifi reads
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
i wouldn't agree with that at all - it was my 'in to sci fi.
TruXta
tired
Unlike Herbert, KSR really is a shit writer. Great for hard sci-fi tech heavy stuff but the rest is bloody awful.
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
I really enjoyed Children of Time recently - big, page-turney space romp full of ideas.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
by who?
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
Adrian Tchaikovsky
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
even this spider-fearing man enjoyed it and was cheering for the arachnids
EastEnder
Brixton Barnacle
I thought you weren't into proper sci-fi? Didn't you bang on about preferring fantasy stuff? Very surprised you'd be a Banks fan...
Mordi
Amoral adventurist
The only issue I have with this is that reading Banks first ruins almost all other SF, never mind space opera.
Leckie's Ancilary Justice is quite good, although nothing as sprawling as Dune.
Tor recently had a few writers talking about space opera, you could see if there's anything sounds right
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
I like good sci fi, but have no time for badly written or nerdy hard science fictionI thought you weren't into proper sci-fi? Didn't you bang on about preferring fantasy stuff? Very surprised you'd be a Banks fan...
catinthehat
Failed VK = Replicant
Andri Snær Magnasons Love Star. "Orwell, Vonnegut, and Douglas Adams are felt on every page, though Magnason is never derivative. His satire and insightful social commentary sweeten the pot and the sheer wackiness of Magnason’s oversized imagination is invigorating."—Publishers Weekly, starred review.
