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What have you read this week? Be it books, comics, manga, fan fiction, anything. (piefed.social)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I bet you've already read some Iain M Banks? If not, that's an obvious choice.

I'm not sure if I read a lot of hard sci fi, but I've read some maybe semi-hard good stuff over the years.

Tried Gregg Bear's Eon series?

Juice by Tim Winton was good.

I loved Gateway by Pohl, but don't bother with the sequels.

Roadside Picnic by the Russian brothers? Super weird and intriguing.

J. G. Ballard? Alfred Bester? China Meiville?

This is all pretty mainstream stuff, I bet you've read it all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Huh, I've actually read NONE of those things, and none of it even looks familiar from the lists I saw.

Over the last 2 years since I started reading again I've blasted through Hannu Rajaniemi, Poul Anderson, Peter Watts, Richard Morgan, Amy Thomson, William Gibson, Dennis E. Taylor, Robert L. Forward, qntm...

The only authors left in my reading list are Alastair Reynolds and Vernor Vinge.

Looks like my reading list is about to expand significantly! Thanks! I'm not super picky with what I read, and I tend to enjoy pretty much anything. I think the only thing I haven't enjoyed to the point of not even finishing the series was Liu Cixin's trilogy. I read The 3 Body Problem because everyone says you just have to read it, but it just felt like a slog to me and I never picked up the next book, I think mostly just due to the way the novel translates to English.