Sammy Arson Fox :3

nerdy fedi!

can I have some book recommendations???

I went on a biiiig warhammer 40k lore kick end of last year and read like so many of the books and really enjoyed the grimdark sci-fi aspect of those, but I like most spacey sci-fi stuff - more of this pleeeease

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Show threadSammy Arson Fox :3Feb 22
thank you for all the suggestions :3
Show threadLunya 🌸 Feb 21
@theresnotime there's the hainish cycle
Show threadSammy Arson Fox :3Feb 21
@luna ooooohh!! this looks really interesting thank you!!
Show threadLunya 🌸 Feb 21
@theresnotime Tho it's not really deep into scifi in a lot of places, but more into like the social stuff iirc. But it is REALLY good, like basically all of Ursula K Le guin's works
Show threadPax Ahimsa GethenFeb 21

@theresnotime @luna

Agreed on almost anything by Ursula K. Le Guin (I took my last name from her book The Left Hand of Darkness).

I also highly recommend The Broken Earth trilogy by N. K. Jemisin: https://nkjemisin.com/series/the-broken-earth/

Show threadRenate Oude NijewemeFeb 21
@theresnotime maybe not totally fitting the bill but I liked the Binti trilogie a lot
Show threadTina, demon child of the starsFeb 21

@theresnotime Ninefox Gambit and A Memory Called Empire are two of my favourites

(Bonus points to the latter for lesbianism)

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@theresnotime

I recommend the Becky Chambers books, they have this queer and alt vibe that you would like

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@theresnotime the also refreshing part of this series is that humanity is part of a galactic council (a la Star Trek), but we are very much the Cyprus to the Germany or France, rather than being the forefront
Show threadpenwing (they/them)Feb 21
@theresnotime Ancillary Justice and follow ups? A Memory Called Empire and follow up? Also, second Becky Chambers
Show threadFionaFeb 21
@theresnotime Unless you really don't like Star Wars… "Ahsoka". ​​ https://www.ekjohnston.ca/ahsoka
Star Wars: Ahsoka — E.K. Johnston

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Show threadSammy Arson Fox :3Feb 21
@airtower I should have mentioned I've read a lottt of the star wars books :3
Show threadFionaFeb 21
@theresnotime Ah, then you probably know that one already. ​​
Show threadPax Ahimsa GethenFeb 21

@theresnotime

I also loved and recommend The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester.

Show threadThe Little WarsFeb 21
@theresnotime I dont endorse Neal Asher's pandemic opinions but I did find the Polity series very enjoyable.
Show threadabby 🐝Feb 21
@theresnotime I literally already told you to read project hail mary 
Show threadSammy Arson Fox :3Feb 21
@olivvybee I've already almost finished it!
Show threadlynnFeb 21
@theresnotime blindsight is very good scifi. even has spaceships. the gap cycle (starting with 'the true story') is also really good, bit more leaning into the worthlessness of a human life at this scale as well. cw for rape. i also think book of the new sun is a really good read (top book for me) & it is more subtle in the 'spacey scifi' stuff but i promise it is in there.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/llyyynn i read a split between scifi and crime with a smattering of "literature" if you want for more recs.
Show threadSym (public node) Feb 21
@theresnotime Not really "grimdark" (not my usual jam, if I want grimdark I'll just listen to my intrusive thoughts) but basically every Murderbot book if you haven't read them, maximally  friend shaped. That book Doc Impossible just dropped is 🔥 too. Gideon the Ninth and its sequels are kind on the "dry dusty" side as far as the text goes, but the universe feels very 40k-adjacent.
Show threadWayneFeb 21
@theresnotime for a dark-ish (though not 40k grimness), hard sci-fi space series maybe try Alastair Reynolds Revelation Space series.

To give a flavour, you've got near light speed transport vessels (with the time differences that entails), extreme body modifications to handle deep space travel and a nano machine plague.
Show threadkomali_2Feb 21

@theresnotime the "Too Like Lightning" series - they/thems make a world of nations without borders and then find two gods in it

Anathem - nerds live in Abbey and study all day for 5,000 years

Half Built Garden - what if aliens breastfed

Aurora - generation ships need more than cool spinny bits

Blindsight (Peter Watts) - Vampires in space

"Children of..." Series (Tchaikovsky) - monkey in space, just kidding, SPIDERS

Show threadMatthew VernonFeb 21
@theresnotime have you read the Culture books by Iain M Banks?
Show threadBryan DavisFeb 22
@theresnotime The Bobiverse books are fun. @quiddity turned me on to them at some point. https://www.goodreads.com/series/192752-bobiverse
Bobiverse Series by Dennis E. Taylor

We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1), For We Are Many (Bobiverse, #2), All These Worlds (Bobiverse, #3), Heaven's River (Bobiverse, #4), Not Till ...

Show threadBaliseFeb 22
@theresnotime for things that I haven't seen in the answers yet (although +1 on anything Becky Chambers and a half-built garden, although definitely not grim dark) - The Expanse (Corey), The Collapsing Empire (Scalzi), Lady Astronaut (Kowal), Planetfall (Newman), Old Man's War (Scalzi as well), possibly Noumenon (Lostetter, but I haven't read the third one yet)
Show threadastrid 🍥 🏳️‍⚧️Feb 22
@theresnotime Red Rising is fun :3
Show threadRichardFeb 22
@theresnotime Maybe the Culture series by Iain M. Banks (also The Algebraist) or Known Space by Larry Niven (the Ringworld series is most famous, but I liked Protector most)?
Show threadJariFeb 22
@theresnotime I like anything by Alastair Reynolds but I would start with the Revelation Space books, https://alastairreynolds.fandom.com/wiki/Reading_order
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Show threadquiddityFeb 22
@theresnotime Anything by Hannu Rajaniemi (especially The Quantum Thief trilogy; great post-singularity scifi). Anything by Iain M Banks (especially "Excession" and the rest of The Culture series, ditto post-singularity). If you enjoy RPG video-/tabletop-games, the Dungeon Crawler Carl series (by Matt Dinniman) is great, and has a widely acclaimed audiobook rendition if you like those. I'm currently enjoying book#2 of the "Children of Time" series by Adrian Tchaikovsky (h/t @ckoerner)