What are some of your favorite scifi book authors, and books by them?

Alastair Reynolds has written on of my favorites ever, House of Suns, and I really like the lore of his Revelation Space universe. I especially enjoyed the spinoffs exploring the Yellowstone demarchy centered around Panoply.

Inhibitor Phase ended up a weaker entry, imo, charachters that felt a bit too much like Mary Sues. Like mere excuses to exposition dump about the universe itself. Which did enjoy immensely. Still I would much rather have seen some large scale change occur, rather than a the mere zoom-in on some catalytic events.

  • lemmyng@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Love Revelation space.

    Other authors I like:

    • Elizabeth Bear (the White Space books)
    • Martha Wells (Murderbot series)
    • Dennis E. Taylor (Bobiverse)
    • Adrian Tchaikovsky (Children of Time, plus one of my all-time favourite novellas, One Day All This Will Be Yours)
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      1 year ago

      Children of Time is one of my all-time favorite books. Still need to get around to reading the sequels.