10 Sci-Fi Books by Subgenre (with T.R. Napper)

Yeah, Blind Sight's a little bit of a difficult book and then as it kind of comes together like the last 100 pages or so just kind of hit me like a ton of bricks. Kind of gave me a bit of an existential crisis.

It's one of those great sci-fi books where you're like there's an idea in here that I'll remember for the rest of my life. It's one of those I highly recommend Blood Music.

Ghost of the Neon God. Just finished that and loved it.

Hardwired is awesome for a book in the 80s feels original, fresh, and the characters and relationships are really well done. the female the main female character I thought was really well written. I think it's aged pretty well.

I read Kindred this year and was just flawed. Just emotionally draining, but in a very rewarding way. Just really pays off in terms of their heavy themes, history, society, people.

I've read two Ishiguro. Never Let Me Go. Clara on the Sun. I love them both. Clara on the Sun is my favorite.

I've read two Ishiguro. Never Let Me Go. Clara on the Sun. I love them both.

Replay. Ken Grimwood. Great book. Yes, it's kind of like Groundhog Day, but it's not a day. It's a life.

So there's kind of like action. It's kind of funny. you kind of Yeah. And there's sort of there's mo you follow mostly one timeline, but there's sort of like a little bit of history weaved in there that kind of gives you some good reveals on in terms of how we got to where we are.

Well, I've read stories of your life and others and there's a story in there where essentially arithmetic doesn't actually add up. Oh, I think yes, it had me punching air. I made me so mad. I was like, you can't do this. but quite ambitious. And the last story was one of my favorite stories.

I've read Left Hand and I've read The Dispossessed and I feel like it's very clever. It's It's very like academic, but it didn't quite hit for me storywise or emotionally the way La did.

I think Lathe is fantastic. It kind of takes that PKD surrealism. She mentions a bit of an homage to his style, but then adds in her own sort of experience like writing about spirituality and culture and people and it's like this kind of shifting narrative.

I've read Left Hand and I've read The Dispossessed and I feel like it's very clever. It's It's very like academic, but it didn't quite hit for me storywise or emotionally the way La did.

You're not going to understand half of them for somewhere between 50 and% and all of the novel, but it doesn't matter cuz it's just really cool, really fun, great characters, great dialogue, and also just lots of like quantum based heists and tom foolery.

All right. I've read four culture novels. That's my favorite. I think that's a good pick.

Once you get past the info dump and you understand stuff, then there's more cool story to explore. So, if you like hard sci-fi, check out Steven Baxter.

Yeah, there's a lot the societyy's kind of ruled by mathematics and logic and there's very little like >> artistic freedom, individuality.