shom 🐧📷🤿🏔️🪚✊🏽

Does anyone have sci-fi book suggestions that are more sci-fi utopia and world building?

I have grown up on sci-fi dystopia and I love it but since we're currently living in one I want to read something uplifting. Collection of short stories would be awesome too!

Please and thank you!

#bookstodon #books #scifi

Feb 14, 2024 at 12:52amWeb
Show threadNonya Bidniss 🥥🌴Feb 14, 2024
@shom Have you read The Terraformers? The Poseidon's Children trilogy? Ministry for the Future? The Best of All Possible Worlds (& trilogy)?
Show threadicasticoFeb 14, 2024

@Nonya_Bidniss @shom

Terraformers is great - but man, that was not a utopia.

Show threadNonya Bidniss 🥥🌴Feb 14, 2024
@icastico @shom True, true but they did create a hopeful future, that was the part I was focusing on.
Show threadshom 🐧📷🤿🏔️🪚✊🏽Feb 14, 2024
@Nonya_Bidniss @icastico Terraformers has come up a lot, I will definitely be putting it on the list for maybe the book after next.
Show threadMarc CrileyFeb 14, 2024
@shom I'm thinking "Meru" by @sbdivya off the top of my head.
Show threadRicky ChonFeb 14, 2024
@shom The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. Earth isn't doing so well though, but Mars becomes a utopia.
Show threadshom 🐧📷🤿🏔️🪚✊🏽Feb 14, 2024
@rickyc0626 I love the Mars utopia part but even in fiction it's hard to abandon hope for the one home we've ever known.
I might read it eventually, sounds interesting. Thanks!
Show threadRicky ChonFeb 14, 2024
@shom No problem! I'd love to see more solarpunk stories though.
Show threadradioactivestardustFeb 14, 2024
@shom the long way to a small angry Planet (by Becky Chambers)
In the Lives of Puppets (by TJ Klune)
Murderbot diaries (by Martha Wells)
And some solar punk short stories https://grist.org/fix/series/imagine-2200-climate-fiction/
https://grist.org/about-imagine-2200-climate-fiction/
Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors

Imagine 2200, a climate-fiction contest from Fix, recognizes stories that envision the next 180 years of equitable climate progress, imagining intersectional worlds of abundance, adaptation, reform, and hope.

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Show threadshom 🐧📷🤿🏔️🪚✊🏽Feb 14, 2024
@bookstardust thanks for the short story suggestions. I'm new to #SolarPunk, that might be a good way to get into it.
Show threadBrownian_motionFeb 14, 2024
@shom Becky Chambers. Monk & Robot will get you thining, and it’s not a terribly long read. https://fosstodon.org/@shom/111927094557231931
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Does anyone have sci-fi book suggestions that are more sci-fi utopia and world building? I have grown up on sci-fi dystopia and I love it but since we're currently living in one I want to read something uplifting. Collection of short stories would be awesome too! Please and thank you! #bookstodon #books #scifi

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Show threadKelseyFeb 14, 2024

@shom
Becky Chambers' Monk and Robot novellas (A Psalm for the Wild-Built and A Prayer for the Crown-Shy)

Maybe also Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente, though her very ornate writing style isn't for everyone.

Show threadJames Davis NicollFeb 14, 2024

@shom James White's Sector General books. There's one with a war but mostly it's Doctors .... INNNNNN SPAAAACE!

While humans come down with a mild case of total extinction in Simak's City, the Dogs seem to have it pretty sweet.

Hal Clement's SF is all about world building. His characters exist to high light Clement's innovative use of phase diagrams.

Show threadLPSFeb 14, 2024
@shom
I loved Cory Doctorow's Walkaway :)
Show threadALFeb 14, 2024
@shom I just finished 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson and liked it.
Show threadshom 🐧📷🤿🏔️🪚✊🏽Feb 14, 2024
@mral Kim Stanley Robinson has come up several times, thanks!
Show threadDumbCreatureFeb 14, 2024

@shom Look to Windward by Iain M. Banks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_to_Windward

It's a 7th book in a Culture series, but you can read every book stand-alone.

Look to Windward - Wikipedia

Show threadshom 🐧📷🤿🏔️🪚✊🏽Feb 15, 2024
@DumbCreature nice, thanks! I like when good books in a series are standalone to thy extent that you can recommend it to others.
Show threadsotolfFeb 14, 2024
@shom Not really untopia, but a well function society with great loveable characters that always work together for a good outcome, @nlowell 's Golden age of the solar clipper books always lighten up my mood :)
Show threadshom 🐧📷🤿🏔️🪚✊🏽Feb 15, 2024
@sotolf @nlowell lightens up #SolarPunk? 😉 Thanks!
Show threadInfosec V'gerFeb 14, 2024
@shom @Nonya_Bidniss Not exactly a utopia, but David Weber does a hell of a lot of world building in the #HonorHarrington books.
Show threadCodyFeb 15, 2024
@shom Reading "A Psalm for the Wild-Built" by Becky Chambers right now. (Didn't see until after I replied that this one had already been suggested a couple of times. Well, +1) #solarpunk #novella
Show threadshom 🐧📷🤿🏔️🪚✊🏽Feb 15, 2024
@cody must be good ☺, thanks!
Show threadToddMedema has movedFeb 15, 2024
@cody @shom also reading Wild-Built right now and really enjoying it. Really love everything I've read from Becky Chambers
Show threadToddMedema has movedFeb 15, 2024
@shom I'm writing one right now! https://www.howtosurfahurricane.com/
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Show threadPrince Caspian 🖖Feb 15, 2024

@shom

Old school maybe, but Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love has always been uplifting for me.

Show threadshom 🐧📷🤿🏔️🪚✊🏽Feb 15, 2024
@princecaspian old school is good, generally less waiting at the library. Thanks!
Show threadTedSarvataMay 5, 2024
@shom The Last Animal by Ramona Ausubel #bookstodan