UPDATE: I HAVE AGGREGATED THE LIST OF RECOMMENDATIONS IN THIS THREAD INTO A SPREADSHEET
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12gohixpu8k4x4UYFkOqCehDou05Kmc8HFcosrR7PRGY/edit?usp=sharing
It has links to goodreads. If a series was recommended, I only added the first book.
Hey guys, I just finished Project Hail Mary and was telling my friend about the story. He correctly identified my description, along with The Martian, as fitting into the genre of, as he terms it, “competence porn”.
Hey y’all. I’ve been on my first official fantasy kick since childhood after re-reading Lord Of the Rings and a few Brandon Sanderson novels.
I’ve recently tried Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb and started the sequel, and I’ve found that I love Hobb’s storytelling and how she flips over conventional fantasy tropes and how her stories unravel without holding your hand to tell you exactly what’s happening.
What are some authors/novels that have this “unwinding” effect, like I can step into the story and figure things out naturally through intuition and paying attention rather than through exposition dumps
In some ways, the narrator Jeff Hayes is the best I’ve ever heard. The series is far and away the funniest set of books I have ever read and it’s not even close. It’s a LitRPG which might be a bit of an acquired taste, but you are doing yourself a disservice if you didn’t give this series a shot. I love it so much! Book 6 also comes out in a month!
In case people here missed the stream, Will and his team have hit the manual release 10 minutes ago.
According to them, Amazon says the release will be happen globally anywhere between 2-72 hours, but in their experience it generally does not take that long.
Not that this for the Ebooks on Kindle. Paperbacks are available to order online again, and Audible is unaffected.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1959001108
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1959001116
Edit: It’s out now. See y’all on the other side.
Many communities are going dark on June 12th to stand against Reddit’s new policy, which will eventually kill every 3rd party app. Even if you don’t use any of those, they are essential to many moderators, so your experience using Reddit will be affected anyway.
I recommend going through the pinned posts on r/Save3rdPartyApps or r/ModCoord for further context.
Edit: Well, it looks like we’ve been ignored by the mods. Yay.
English isn’t my first language, and during my teenage years and when I was younger, I didn’t understand enough English to be able to read original classic books. We were also poor, so it didn’t matter, but last year, I started to read because finally I have time and understanding.
I’m a total beginner and currently I’m going through the top 100. Jane Austen’s Emma was just chilling in my house (an old gift from someone) so I read that first because it was Slice of life-ish and didn’t have many major conflicts. Ended up loving it and proceeded to read all her books.
Now, like I said, I just started reading. Recently, I met a friend who I haven’t seen in ages, and somehow the conversation turned to hobbies. I talked about recently picking up reading, and friend’s husband eagerly asked me which authors I like to read. Since I haven’t read that many, I just said that I recently finished Count of Monte Cristo, All of Jane …
Should we join?
I think The Expanse is one example of doing it well where it not only has terraforming and orbital habitats, but also examines >!the conflict that arises when easily inhabitable planets are found and the societies based on terraforming and the orbital habitats begin to fall apart as they no longer have a reason to exist and life is harder there!<
What examples can you think of?
This one is going to stick with me for a while. It’s the first time I’ve read something longer than a short story in one sitting (it is only 110 pages).
The best way I can describe it is that it makes the timescales and existential dread of The Jaunt and I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream look like picnics. It describes perhaps the best possible scenario for our brains to try and conceive infinity/eternity.
If you haven’t read it, don’t let some of the sloppy writing in the beginning throw you off. The world building, the people, the terror… it’s enthralling.
If you have read it, what did you think, and have you read anything that compares to this in terms of excitement and existential dread?
Quite literally, as the bulk of the story is four Intrepid Space Explorers ™ walking directly into hurricane force winds from their landing site to a big effing hole in the ground while they deteriorate physically and mentally.
The basic story is simple: a survey ship finds what it believes is proof of intelligent alien life in the form a large, perfect hole which is emitting a strange signal. Despite it being a very inhospitable environment—a desert with the aforementioned hurricane force winds; the hole itself emitting a sound and EMP that will fry equipment and, I dunno, kill you; and neither the equipment or training to reliably overcome these obstacles, they decide to investigate. Naturally, things go wrong.
They go wrong for many reasons, such as the engineer forgetting that equipment to be used in what amounts to a perpetual sandstorm needs to be modified to be resistant to [drumroll] sand; the depressed, apathetic, and possibly passively suicidal protagonist not properly …