Words in Time 19.3K subscribers · Mar 19, 2025

Reacting to 1 Star Reviews of My Favorite Sci-Fi Books

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Loved

for me while I'm typically drawn more to the Sci-Fi than arguably Fantastical elements I think Clark pulled it off in a way that to me I emotionally resonated with so I can see why for some people it might not be their favorite Clark book but I think he stuck the landing

Loved

this book gave me more sense of wonder than any sci-fi book I've ever read you follow a thousand clones on a story that takes Place 6 million years in the future and the plot spend thousands of years the scale and scope is Epic

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I think the ideas are novel I found many new things to enjoy in Hyperion and while each of the stories are written in different sci-fi subg genres does use a few tropes I think it explores them in a pretty unique way

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when I got to the end of permutation City yes it blew my mind yes I wanted to learn more try and put some of the ideas together in my mind which had just kind of been scrambled into a supy mess but in a five-star way

Loved

this is a book that is supposed to be thought-provoking and provoke some questions for you to ponder over yourself so if that's not the kind of sci-fi that you are looking for Solaris might not click for you but I really resonated with it

Loved

rimi definitely leans on the side of less Exposition there's a lot of crazy terminology there's a lot of words and you kind of have to figure it out as you go along and that might not be for everyone but I think it worked

Loved

for me it kind of pushed things in to an extremity that is more than what I'm typically comfortable reading and yet that was the magic trick it was able to make me uncomfortable and yet still enjoy the reading experience