5 Sci-Fi Books I Can't Stop Thinking About
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Published 2024-07-02
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00:00 – Introduction
00:16 – Dawn
01:50 – Galapagos
02:52 – More Than Human
04:04 – Blindsight
05:16 – Altered Carbon
06:36 – Patron Pick of the Month
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All Comments (21)
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"Dawn" is incredible. Butler was a legend. In my top 5.
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Glad to see someone mention Altered Carbon. Seems to get overlooked on Booktube. It’s a really gritty noir style cyberpunk/ detective story. The second book in the series “Broken Angels” is completely different, but also worth reading It’s more military sci-fi.
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yeah, blindsight is one of the few sci-fi books that really are worthy of the moment we're in...really great
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Blindsight is one of my favorites, too. Read it two times and can't stop thinking about it.
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1.) Brain Wave, by Poul Anderson 2.) Blind Lake, by Robert Charles Wilson 3.) Roadside Picnic, by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky 4.) Blood Music, by Greg Bear 5.) The Santaroga Barrier, by Frank Herbert
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have a read of Frank Herbert's "Hellstroms Hive". it has slightly dated but the hive sections are very thought provoking. though nightmares of "stumps" may occur lol
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Arthur C. Clarke's "Childhood's End" has stunned everyone I know who has read it.
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I think Solaris by Stanislaw Lem will be in my head forever haha, also was the first Sci-fi novel I read and i'm chasing that feeling since 😅
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I just started reading Hyperion, I like it very much and think that this book will stick with me for some time into the future.
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Asimov's Foundation series keeps coming up im my mind lately.
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Hope you enjoy Annihilation. The book has a much more interesting, mysterious, weird feel than the movie. (I did not like the movie because it strayed too far from the book)
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Galapagos was the first novel I read by Vonnegut. I just loved it and then read all his novels. When I saw that the Library of America had a sale on a collection of his novels, I quickly purchased it for only $80! One of the best novelists ever!
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I've been telling all my family and friends who read about Vandermeer. Southern Reach trilogy blew me away. Cixin Liu's The Three Body Problem trilogy is also really unique currently finishing Death's End.
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Really loved CJ Cherryh's Hunter of Worlds.
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Getting back into sci-fi again also means getting back into your videos! Great stuff =D
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"Blindsight" is so freaking good. Definitely gets stuck in your mind pretty much forever. One that I can mention is "Parable of the Sower", waaaay too relatable kind of apocalypse. Uff, "Annihiliation" is in my list that goes something like "posmodernity has allowed some elements of scifi into literary/mainstream fiction which means there is a lot of bad scifi showing up in the fancy hallways".
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Wonderful list, Jonathan. I loved Annihilation and am reading Authority (book 2) now. Dawn is on my shelf, but I haven't read it yet, but loved Clay's Ark from Butler. One other mention: The Carpet Makers, by Andreas Eschbach - a galaxy-spanning, epic tale of revenge. It really stays with you.
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I might join you on the Annihilation journey, but you have me intrigued by some of the other books on this list, "Dawn", and "More than Human", specifically. I've read the others, and agree with you, although most Vonnegut had that effect, so couldn't tell you how long I was haunted by "Galapagos". Thanks for the recommendations!
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One that has always been haunting to me has been Mary Doria Russell’s The Sparrow. Years later I’m still thinking about it.
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Dawn: You did a great job with the premise . The problem I had with the story was that I never really connected with Lilith. Throughout the book the aliens told her what they were going to do, and her reaction was always "Whooooo?!", "Whaaaat?!?!". Bloodchild was a better read for me. Southern Reach Trilogy was very good. Great content.
