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Introduce me to hard science fiction please!
I would like to read some of this genre, anyone got some tips where to start? I lean towards more the more modern end (not too interested in The Time Machine etc).
What about Steampunk novels, is it worth going there?
I like post-apocalypse stuff such as The Road or the Carhullan Army if that helps, actually any recommendations for this genre too would be welcome too!
What about Steampunk novels, is it worth going there?
I like post-apocalypse stuff such as The Road or the Carhullan Army if that helps, actually any recommendations for this genre too would be welcome too!
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books called spares or only forward
Steampunk isn't hard SF
Oddly enough Baxter has written Steampunk wth the likes of Anti-Ice, he also has written about an Alien invasion in the early 18th century
Don't know if this will help.
Awesome, but not hard SF. The closest he comes to hard SF is having relativistic space travel in Embassytown, to be honest.
Yeah, which is a category Mieville really, really doesn't fall into.
PS yes, Cellar_Door, that was the programme, must pay more attention when the radio's on!
so many of his books have been filmed
Ubik is one of my favourites, and that hasn't been filmed yet
A Maze of Death will also make a great film
Total Recall was from a brilliant short story of his (We Can Remember It For You Wholsesale)
as was The Adjustment Bureau.
there are so many great Sf authors, but try these also, from a few years ago
Larry Niven
James Tiptree Jr (if by hard, you mean a complex read, it doesn't come harder)
Robert Heinlein
and a few of one offs
Shockwave rider (Brunner)
Forever War (Haldemann)
Bug Jack Barron (Spinrad)
STAN (Aldiss - short stories)
900 Grandmothers (Lafferty, finest short stories you will ever read)
I really dont like the films myself but another one for Philip K Dick here.even his " minor " characters were brilliant. I have never read a bad Philip K Dick book and Robert Heinleins , " Stranger In A Strange Land " ....thats me that is.
PKD's one of my favourite writers, but again, he's not exactly hard sf.
For Reynolds' "Revelation Space" series is particularly good
and like others have said KSR's Mars Trilogy
I usually end up re-reading the Mars Trilogy once a year.
If you like a bit of Noir and Military stuff against a scifi background, then I'd also recommend the Kovacs novels by Richard Morgan - starting with Altered Carbon.
Like others have said - China Mieville is very very good and very very different. With the possible exception of Embassy Town it's not SciFi - in fact it's not anything that can easily be put in a box (other than the self made "New Weird" box)
Peter F Hamilton is great if you want galaxy spanning stuff and the Hyperion / Endymion series by Dan Simmons is a SciFi master piece.
So yeah - read all those and come back in a few years and let us know how it went
Imaginative stories, plenty of suspense and gore, three dimensional characters - all of this while still retaining the "science" aspect of science fiction.
Hard SF and horror? Where do I sign???