Science fiction!

[Fightthefire]

Heyo boyos and ladies out there, was wondering if anybody out there had any recommendations for sci-fi books?! Think Hitchhiker's and Zeros, blade runner  I also enjoy post apocalyptic novels as well!

[ICB]

Science fiction is My Thing, so I've got a bunch. What kind of stuff do you like? Hard, science-based sci-fi like The Martian or more conventional stuff like Star Trek/Star Wars? Stories set in 2018 or stories set thousands of years in the future?

 

Here's a few that I recommend to anybody:

• Seveneves by Neal Stephenson: The moon explodes, and humanity has to survive an apocalypse of meteor strikes by sending as many people as they can into space station habitats.
• Lock In by John Scalzi: A pandemic leaves millions of people paralyzed inside their bodies, unable to speak, hear, or see. Doctors invent brain/machine interfaces so paralyzed patients can drive robots around, and these robots emerge as a new minority class of people fighting for equality. (If you're into audible, John Scalzi also wrote a short story performed by Zachary Quinto called The Dispatcher. It's extremely good, and best if you don't know anything about it at all.)
• We Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor: A silicon valley millionaire wakes up in the future as a brain in a jar, and he's in charge of manning a Von Neumann probe sent into deep space to explore and replicate itself.

I hope you find something you love!

[Nomad Jay]

1) Just about anything by Ben Bova.His Tales of the Grand Tour books start with a near-future humanity and take us all the way out to colonizing other planets. Similar to Heinlein, he operates off a baseline future history so there's a certain amount of consistency to how his universe feels.

 

2) John C Wright's The Golden Oecumene series. Not to everyone's taste, but I enjoyed it.

 

I'd also recommend getting yourself a voting membership to the Hugos. It costs about $40/year but you get access to way more than $40 worth of reading material. Plus, you get to help decide who gets the Hugo award for that year.