Test Your Science Fiction Bookshelf

I really enjoyed the multiple levels of intelligences I found the idea that you could have an individual being independently intelligent while still being a part of the whole

the first part I found interesting the second part I thought started to get pretty crazy and the third part just absolutely blew my mind this is one of my all-time favorite sci-fi books and I'm happy to put it on the grid

this series is epic Space Opera the scale of the World building is awesome the writing is beautiful and poetic and the action will have you on the edge of your seat

the pros although it is translated so it's hard for me to judge wasn't quite as poetic and as impactful for me as Fahrenheit 451

the second book The Golden Sun is my favorite

I think he stuck the landing with iRobot and all of the stories in between even if they weren't my favorites they each did have some interesting stories and ideas to do with artificial intelligence and robots

I quite like the third book Morningstar as well

I think it is very ambitious and one that I enjoyed but perhaps didn't get the full experience out of the first time around but as I read up more about the book after having finished it my appreciation grew for it more and more over time

1984 does a great job of creating this future world which is ruled by fear surveillance threats of violence and propaganda it is also a story where I really connected with the characters this book took me on an incredible emotional Journey

it's a fascinating narrative with some excellent twists and turns every couple of chapters there was just a bombshell moment which meant I just had to keep on going no matter how many times I said to myself I'm gonna finish this chapter and then go to sleep I needed to keep on reading permutation City

I quite enjoyed the first book in the series which has a bit of an Ender's Game slash Hunger Games type feel to it as we follow Darrow through this military training school

so overall this is a book that I am glad that I read however if you are new to Asimov I'm not sure this would be where I'd recommend to start if you're already a fan of Asimov I think it's worth your time

but in the end for me the story didn't quite hook me in and I'm not sure I connected with it thematically as strongly as I did some other PKD books

it does focus more on the science than the characters which is why this series doesn't work for everyone but for me I thought the first book was pretty gripping in terms of the ideas

in terms of the ideas I found this to be incredibly rich thematically and you can see why it had such a big influence was so inspiring to other Riders at that time