Most of my favourite books/movies/TV shows are Sci fi - I love Mary Shelley, slaughterhouse five, annihilation (both the book and the movie), The Thing, x files, the invasion, and the OA. This feels like a pretty wide variety of writing styles when I line them up but 90% of the sci fi I read/watch I just don’t enjoy at all. It’s a shame because when I love something sci fi I feel like it’s changed my whole life, but when it comes to finding new things I can just enjoy its easier to go through other genres. Is anyone else like this? Does anyone have reccomendations based on what I do like?

  • SternhammerEnglish
    10•1 year ago

    Have you read any Iain M Banks’ The Culture novels? Incredible writing. Most of his books have interesting twists in them, some of which will fuck you up. They are the type of books that you wish you could read again for the first time. The author died in 2013 so there are no more coming.

    • Consider Phlebas
    • The Player of Games
    • Use of Weapons
    • The State of the Art
    • Excession
    • Inversions
    • Look to Windward
    • Matter
    • Surface Detail
    • The Hydrogen Sonata

    Other SF books by Banks:

    • Against a Dark Background
    • Feersum Endjinn
    • The Algebraist
    • Prethoryn OvermindEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      Is that first one all one book. If not, give me some commas please.

    • SwagaliciousSREnglish
      2•1 year ago

      This right here is the way. If you’ve never read Ian M Banks. Go read some.