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The new Star Wars has made me hungry for some sci-fi. Any recommendations?
Zelazny's Lord Of Light, quite unique
Dune of course if you haven't read it, personally couldn't bother with any follow-ups
Faber's The Book of Strange New Things for feels
The Quantum Thief for a unique world where the author doesn't give you any handouts in understanding anything, 0 info-dumps, no hints, no "outsider who has to learn their mysterious ways"
The Three-Body Problem, it's rather meh, but very successful in China, mostly interesting because it's a perspective you don't often have in SF (the background is the Cultural Revolution)
Dragon's Egg for hard, physics-heavy SF
His Master's Voice for a more depressing version of Contact
A Canticle for Liebowitz
>>7503483
>Star Wars
>sci-fiThat's snarkier than I intend, but deep down Star Wars is as much Fantasy as it is SF, if not more so.Pic related is sincere
>>7503516
I've read this comparison often - Star Wars is fantasy while Star Trek is SF, and I have to say, it's rather apt. Star Wars is based on Campbell's monomyth, it's got the hero's journey (originally), it's more a fairy story where space ships co-exist with supernatural elements (the force) than an examination of a human condition where some imaginative concept is reality.
>>7503522
Except for all the riffs it took on the Foundation trilogy.
>>7503522
Right, along with wizards practicing a fully-developed magic system, princesses, a setting in the past as opposed to extrapolation of present technology etc. into a future possibility.
One SF saga that might fit Star Wars in some ways is Dune, with its hero's journey of its own, multi-generational aspect, planet-hopping, and so on.
>>7503548
>Paul's head on Leia's body and not Luke's
>>7503516
Man, I'm about to read the LOTR trilogy for the first time (after I reread the Hobbit). I'm very excited. I love the cover art of the edition you posted.
>>7503643
The hobbit is great. LOTR is pretty boring IMO. I really enjoyed the hobbit though.
>>7503671
Patrician opinion. I liked LOTR, but the Hobbit was much better imo.
>>7503504
+1 on His Master's Voice.
Also, anything by Lem or the Strugatsky brothers.
The War in The Air by HG Wells is pretty cool if you're into steampunk. It's a little heavy on exposition, more of an exploration of the potential effects of aerial warfare and a world war than a narrative in the traditional sense. Like it had characters and a story but it kind of branches off a lot to talk about what's happening elsewhere and the war in general.
>>7503483
Starship Troopers, anything by Philip K. Dick, Dune.
Is speaker for the dead worth reading?
Ursula K LeGuin is great. Read through Left Hand of Darkness recently and loved it despite not being the biggest sci-fi fan at this point.
>>7506259
Personally i think it's the best of the original 4, but I don't expect that to be a popular opinion. It goes more into the inter-species morality/philosophy stuff which are the main theme of the last 2.
I just finished The Forever War. It's quite good. Deals with the effects of relativistic space travel in a war on a galactic scale really well. Alienation, uncertainty, loss.
Reading Rendezvous with Rama now, as I suspect we will all live to see it happen.
>>7503548
ayo senpai that's not paul atreides that's special agent dale cooper
The Diamond Age as well
>>7506367
Discover a large artificial object headed for our solar system?
