What sci-fi book has made an impact on you? Drop 'em chooms
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The Metro trilogy
Rendezvous with Rama
Neuromancer
Mycelium
1984
There is probably more, but I would have to think about it.
I started Rama with like second or third piece, I think, it started with her giving birth. It was wtf from start and then it lost me, I'm not in psychology this way, it was too weird. Is it really worth it?
What? This is a series? There is more? I just did the first book. Wow, I need to look into that.
I'm not even sure😃
It has to be if you started with second or third book... Right‽
I googled it. It's six fucking books. I like Clarke a lot, a lot lot. But I didn't like that even before giving birth.
The first one I read. I received it as a Christmas gift along with several others. An entire new world for me…
https://archive.org/details/stochasticman0000silv_y8i5/mode/1up
Southern reach trilogy by vandermeer
Was gonna comment this, not thinking anyone else would’ve. I love those books! ❤️
Dune 1-3, pure drug-fuelled philosophy and one of the best takes on why feudalism beats democracy. Also a handy manual for what to do when AI becomes dominant.
Snowcrash
Altered Carbon
Neuromancer
Nexus trilogy
Necronomicon
Ready Player One
I'll have to checkout the Altered Carbon book because I really enjoyed the Netflix series.
Actually it's included on Audible until 7/22.
Yes. The series was well done. Books are even better.
Southern reach trilogy
Check out the comments, it is full of tips for good and interesting books.
Diamond Age
1984
Brave New World
I enjoyed the Three Body Problem series. The Netflix adaptation of the first book was surprisingly good as well.
Three Body Problem trilogy
Dune
A Wrinkle In Time (book cover as I remember it, attached). Read it when I was a young girl in primary school and cannot recall why it "spoke" to me so much. 🧡✨
Asimov Foundation series.
the moon is a harsh mistress
Vril : The power of the coming race
Actually I often think of a thin book I bought once for like 5 czech crowns (220 sats now). I don't remember the name, it was by a female author. About some race that came and added their DNA to ours. People (purists) revolted, tended to torture kids by cutting their tentacle hair and stuff and forcing them into being "normal", some welcomed being better for it. Then the purist aliens were forced by mutants to think about it. Wish I could remember, it was such a small book. That story stayed in my head for many years now.
“Dawn” (1987) by Octavia E. Butler
Anne McCaffrey : Dragon series. Crystal Singer. The ship who could sing. Pegasus . - Her creative mind amazes me.
Stephen Donaldson: Thomas Covenant chronicles . Shredded my emotions.
Starship troopers.
And tons of other books
Fahrenheit 451
Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
yessss
😆 this is the ONE book we chose to "stock" in our pre-inventory preview phase! not an accident. one of my favorites.
Children of ruin
Hail Mary
Devon Ericksen’s Theft of Fire was really great
Anathem by Neal Stephenson
The Dark beyond the Stars - thought about this long after I read it
This is a great crowdsourced list of sci-fi 🫶 thanks everyone
Out of the Silent Planet
what a very valuable thread for me (and for all of you once we have these in stock to buy with bitcoin!)
👀👀👀👀
Stranger in a strange land was probably the first sci-fi book that effected me heavily
Snowcrash was another one.
Rainbow's Edge
And the two Venus Inc books. The first one is called the Merchants War, and I feel like a dumbass, but I forget the second one.
Sun Eater series by Christopher Ruocchio. Does enough to avoid being derivative of Dune, Red Rising, and The Name of the Wind.
I've seen it described as, "Gene Wolfe's Star Wars if Anakin's becoming Darth Vader was the right thing to do."