Sci-Fi Book Recommendations

Users recommend science fiction novels and authors, including Cixin Liu's Three-Body Problem, Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep, Stanislav Lem's Solaris, and Ted Chiang's stories.

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davorb Jan 21, 2016 View on HN

Check out Cixin Liu! His style is quite different, but I'm sure that you won't be disappointed.http://www.amazon.com/The-Three-Body-Problem-Cixin-Liu/dp/07...

kowdermeister Oct 9, 2017 View on HN

I'd recommend Stanislav Lem's His master's voice :)

riffraff Feb 20, 2019 View on HN

ah, you may enjoy "A Fire Upon the Deep" and "A Deepness in the Sky" by Vernor Vinge :)

justinclift Jun 15, 2022 View on HN

Heh Heh Heh. If you're into Science Fiction, then Adrian Tchaikovsky's "Children of Time" might be your kind of thing:https://www.amazon.com/dp/0316452505It's really, really good. :)

nataz Dec 31, 2018 View on HN

Yay! Read Hyperion. Its a great book. I've literally read a couple hundred sci-fi novels and it's one of my favorites.

QAPereo Oct 26, 2017 View on HN

You should read Liu Cixin’s The Three Body Problem I think you’d enjoy it.

nils-m-holm Jun 29, 2017 View on HN

You are not reading enough science fiction. ;)I would suggest Peter Watts' "Blindsight" or Liu Cixin's "Three Body Problem" trilogy.

chrisweekly Oct 11, 2014 View on HN

PSA: for contemporary, entertaining, thought-provoking novels relating to sci-fi, my short list of must-reads includes these gems:* The Gone-Away World (Harkaway) [1]* Ready Player One (Cline) [2] and* The Martian (Weir) [3]each of which is impossible to put down. Actually Harkaway's entire oevre is terrific. The steampunk Angelmaker [4] was a ton of fun.Also, many of Iain M Banks' Culture novels (The Player of Games [5] is at the top of my personal list; they can be rea

robotomir Dec 17, 2010 View on HN

You should check Alastair Reynolds, specifically the Revelation Space series.

lawlorino Jul 2, 2019 View on HN

> Three Body Problem (all 3 books) - Liu CixinThese are great and helped me re-discover my love of sci-fi from when I was a kid, they are often recommended in these HN book threads. I just ordered the other 3 books that you mentioned so thanks for the recommendations!