Looking for recommendations for some immersive and escapist fantasy/sci-fi (ahem).
Things I have liked:
LoR
Dune
Song of Ice and Fire (GoT)
Earthsea series
Broken Earth trilogy
Parable of Sower/Talents
Never Let Me Go
The Road
etc.
What should I read next??
Things I have liked:
LoR
Dune
Song of Ice and Fire (GoT)
Earthsea series
Broken Earth trilogy
Parable of Sower/Talents
Never Let Me Go
The Road
etc.
What should I read next??
Comments
Becky Chambers' Galactic Commons novels starting with "The Long Way to a Loud, Angry Planet."
Her Monk and Robot books, "A Psalm for the Wild-Built" and "A Prayer for the Crown-Shy" are magnificent.
The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold
Naomi Novik's novels.
Also, The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss.
Stephenson’s Anathem (hard SF about platonism!)
Martine’s Memory Called Empire (SF on imperialism, culture, and diplomacy)
Hobb’s Farseer trilogy & sequels (classic fantasy, great characterization)
Murakami Hard Boiled Wonderland (surreal, mind-bending, beautiful)
Also did the incredible Children of Time series.
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Radsch series, Arkady Martine’s A Memory Called Empire. Gareth Powell’s Embers of War, Yoon Ha Lee’s Ninefox Gambit. Emma Newman’s After Atlas. Lots of good stuff out there.
Gentleman Bastards series by Sco
Eisenhower Trilogy by Dan Abnett.
Left Hand of Darkness
Sea of Tranquility
The Silo Trilogy (terribly written but good plot)
The City & the City
I have much more but mostly v depressing!
The classic William Gibson Sprawl trilogy - Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive.
Ada Palmer's Terra Ignota series, beginning with Too Like The Lightning.
Otherwise I really, really love Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson. It’s a little political but damn it hits just right.
Yeah, I did read Red Mars, and enjoyed it, but for some reason didn't feel driven to read the next two. Did you read all three in the series?
M. John Harrison, The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again
Felix Gilman, The Half-Made World; The Revolutions
J.G. Ballard, The Drowned World; The Crystal World
Gibson/Sterling, The Difference Engine
One of the best sci-fi books I've read in a long time.
God's War trilogy by @kameronhurley.com
Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
Ender's War by Scott Card
A Fire upon the Deep by Vinge
Elric of Melniboné by Moorcock
Old Man’s War series by John Scalzi…
The Wool series by Hugh Howe
The Wayward Pine series by Blake Crouch
The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
Man I want an edit button...
Another rec though likely familiar to you around SF: Neal Stephenson's stuff incl Snowcrash (cyberpunk) and Baroque Cycle (a swashbuckling fictionalized version of Braudel's three vol Civilization and Capitalism)
Also:
Adrian Tchaikovsky—dug Elder Race and Children of Time in particular
P. Djeli Clark, A Master of Djinn
Susanna Clarke, Piranesi and Strange and Norrell
Ken Liu, Dandelion Dynasty