What book sci-fi/fantasy book do you think is underrated? Reply with a recommendation and I’ll boost you!
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What book sci-fi/fantasy book do you think is underrated? Reply with a recommendation and I’ll boost you!
@bookstodon #books #bookreview #bookrecommendation #scifi #fantasy #genrefiction #writingcommunity
Folks really seemed to dislike Stephenson's "Fall or Dodge in Hell" - I'll admit I did on first read (I also did not like its sorta-prequel, Reamde). But the second time through, I really admired Fall for its scope and originality. Yes - the ending kind of sucked, but the journey was very engrossing.
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Frankly I didn't think either was very good but seveneves was. It may be time to re-read Cryptonomicron.
@jesseliberty @la_marteau @bookstodon I just couldn't get into SeveneveS. The whole geopolitical reaction to the impending apocalypse was too unrealistic for me to be able to suspend disbelief. And Part 3 was interesting, but pretty underdeveloped.
On the other hand, it's never a bad time to re-read Cryptonomicon!
idk about "underrated" but i am always always ALWAYS shouting about Jan Morris's HAV, Maureen F. McHugh's CHINA MOUNTAIN ZHANG, Kai Ashante Wilson's SORCERER OF THE WILDEEPS, Jo Walton's MY REAL CHILDREN, Ada Palmer's TOO LIKE THE LIGHTNING, Lavie Tidhar's UNHOLY LAND—
Krista D. Ball's Ladies Occult Society
M C Burnell's Foreign Sorcerer
James Beamon's Pendulum Heroes
Jenny Schwartz's Xeno-archeaologist series
... uh. Sorry. Got carried away. :D
- The Innsmouth Legacy series by Ruthanna Emyrs
- The Inconvenient God and Lagoonfire by Francesca Forrest
- Nine Bar Blues by Sheree Renée Thomas
- The Factory Witches of Lowell by C.S. Malerich
- Defekt by Nino Cipri
- Chilling effect series by Valerie Valdes
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Eliezer Yudkowsky‘s awesome Harry Potter fanfic deserves a mention. Should go mainstream.
This Harry is much better 🦹
https://www.hpmor.com/
@la_marteau @bookstodon People snooze on the #StevenBrust series about #VladTaltos. Massive ongoing series, since the 80's. Start with #Jhereg and just read them in chronological published order. Third book is very dark, but push through, you'll be very pleased.
So well written, and the interlocking stories get told from various viewpoints and in various styles. Lots of humor and lots of serious stuff. Moves back and forth in time. Some things take 10+ books to pay off.
There's a secondary prequel series that is an homage to Dumas' Three Musketeers, and has characters from the original series (some characters live for centuries.)
Reads like fantasy, but is actually sci-fi. Takes a long time to realize it, though, as a reader. It's romantic, sardonic, devastating and fun.
<Shut up, Loiosh.>