Bibliophile dramanauts, I was thinking about having a few recommendation threads according to genre, this one is Sci-fi but then we could go into horror, fantasy, realism, math textbooks, etc.
Here’s mine, or at least the few one’s I read.
HG Wells
“War of the Worlds”
Isaac Asimov
I robot
Foundation Trilogy
Frank Herbert
Dune
Dune messiah
Andy Weir
The Martian
Edit: I forgot about Robert Henlein, in his case “Starship Troopers”
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The Three Body Problem trilogy by Cixin Liu. I don’t even like scifi, but this was art.
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Phenomenal recommendation. My favorite was the second entry in the trilogy, The Dark Forest. The third book was a little unhinged but still worth finishing off.
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The third book depressed the frick out of me and I liked it best. Second was phenomenal though. First was just alright, which makes the recommendation hard lol
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My problem with Death's End is that our author adds in some retcon super waifu character who stumbles her way to the end of the universe. Felt weird rooting against the main character after supporting the previous 2 leads completely.
But yeah absolutely loved that trilogy. You read any of the other books by him? He name drops BALL LIGHTNING like 5 times in the trilogy and it almost made me want to read it.
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The weird
phenomenon ball
lightning?
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The Dark Forest is amazing.
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I think that's everyone's favorite of the 3. Actually blew my mind![:taymindblown: :taymindblown:](/e/taymindblown.webp)
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This is one of the few books I couldn’t finish purely because the prose was so bad. In sci fi I can usually accept bad prose if the idea or setting is good enough but this time I couldn’t hold my nose and get through it. I just read the plot on Wikipedia.
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Yeah prolly because it was chinkshit lol
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There was something a bit disturbing about it apart from subject matter/plot points. It's like a look into the slightly demented brain of a post-Mao Chinese boomer, and the sort of cynical, relentlessly unempathetic worldview they have. You get the sense these people would willingly send 100 million of their countrymen to drown on the beaches of Taiwan if it means they can craft a landbridge to allow China to Grow Larger
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Yes, good take.
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I liked The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress. Was it like that or ???? Can't imagine Chinese 2 English prose.
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Where’d you stop?
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This is a good one![:marseychingchongsupremacy: :marseychingchongsupremacy:](/e/marseychingchongsupremacy.webp)
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Netflix is producing an adaptation created by D&D, are you guys ready for it![:marseytroll: :marseytroll:](/e/marseytroll.webp)
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They blackwashed like half the cast
Of a book that takes place in CHINA.
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They're terrible. The 2nd one has a decent character (the dude who becomes the wallfacer) but the 3rd one has the most pathetic protagonist I've ever seen. She is totally incapable of making a decision.
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Strongest chink
woman ![:marseyarthoe5: :marseyarthoe5:](/e/marseyarthoe5.webp)
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Was the woman not strong enough for you![:marseypussyhat: :marseypussyhat:](/e/marseypussyhat.webp)
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