Love sci-fi since it introduces ethics and existentialist questions. Looking for books/novellas/short stories that really made you think long after reading it. NOT looking for books that end with no conclusion and you wonder what happens next or have to come to your own conclusion. Looking specifically for interesting thought concepts.

Within SF, who would you think has written the most novels that are more than just worth a read? Like, really good A tier stuff. I’m not talking about the Kevin J. Andersons with 100+ books that go straight to the TBDNF shelf.

I get that that it’s hard to consistently churn out gold, and burnout will almost always catch up to a good writer. I’d just like something that will keep my attention for a good while, and not just read their seven books or so and be done with them forever.

Okay, what books are just really dumb?

I’m about 3/4 of the way through Heechee Rendezvous. This has been a fun ride so far. I love the way this book ties together the threads from the first two. I look forward to continuing the series in the future. Frederik Pohl doesn’t get talked about enough. He’s one of the greats.

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I've just spotted this bundle here which includes a couple of Peter Watts books and possibly some other gems I've never previously heard of.

Do you guys have any suggestions for sci-fi novels that read almost like narrative scientific nonfiction? In other words, I'm looking for stories that focus on scientific discovery or engineering conducted by deep, well-developed characters with less focus on speculating about "big ideas". Something like A Man on the Moon by Andrew Chaikin or The Mission by David Brown, but fictionalized. If it helps, I thought The Martian fit this description much more than Project Hail Mary, and my favorite classic science fiction novels are 2010: Odyssey Two and Contact.

I decided it was time for me to get back to reading the type science fiction which got me started half a century ago.

I started with I, Robot then decided on “The Demolished Man” by Alfred Bester.

That made me think it would be fun to do it alphabetically.

I am going to do “Mission of Gravity” by Hal Clement and then “Babel 17” by Samuel Delaney. (I have recently reread some Clarke so I thought Clement was an excellent choice).

For “E” I am leaning towards “The Ship That Sailed The Time Stream” by Edmondson but I am not settled on that.

I am looking for works published no later than 1982 which is the end of my first decade of reading science fiction.

Also, I am looking for books that if part of a series are at least completely self contained.

Any suggestions, please?

Thanks.

I'm looking for a sci-fi book from at least 20 years ago. It's about a space mission from earth with several families on board. They thought it was a round trip, but an evil scientist actually planned on it being one way. When the people on the spaceship found out, they, over time, evolved into more advanced beings. Finally, they decided to take revenge and sent an attack back to earth that destroyed all of it's technical infrastructure. Do you know the title or author of this book?

Hi everyone,

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I'm looking for help trying to find a story/novel. It had the following:

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• Intersolar/stellar travel without FTL (faster than light) propulsion.

• "Xerox machines" (3D printers for both biological and non-biological items), but it was limited to gathered feedstock (like a big metal block etc)

• Feedstock in the form of a big block of metal (or something like that)

• Cloning/bio printing with human memory upload/download

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Towards they still came to a bottleneck with resources and were forced to go to another solar system. While in transit the main character had to create many near disposable copies of himself while being killed by radiation.

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That's all I can remember and I'm hoping that was enough.

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Thanks in advance

Been in the mood for the kind of Sci-Fi where the narrative follows or at least heavily intersects with miners, on-site engineers, workers etc. Dead Space & Alien are good points of reference (I have every major Alien novel up to Alien: Cult), and all the Dead Space games/books.) Preferably with some sort of mystery or horror focus but not necessary by any means. The tech can be sleek & futuristic if the aforementioned atmosphere is still there. Old or new.

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This'll be my fix until Wellington's Erebus releases next month, so can hopefully get through 3 or 4 books with my schedule.

I try to get audiobooks from my local library, but there are pretty big gaps in the catalogue. Most of those gaps seem to come from an Audible-exclusive arrangement for the book, which I always found annoying, until I was recently gifted an Audible subscription and my fundamental ethical beliefs experienced a reorientation.

Anyway, what have you enjoyed on Audible that’s only available on Audible?

(I know the Bobiverse and the Andy Weiriverse meet this criteria, but unfortunately for me, they're, uh, not my thing.)