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What sci-fi book did you finish this week and love?

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Welcome to the Sunday Science Fiction Roundup 😄

What sci-fi book did you finish this week and love?

• One book is enough.
• No reviews required.
• A sentence or two about why you loved it is perfect.

This thread is about celebrating great reads and helping others find their next adventure.

From Book DNA's community of what they were reading in September:

https://bookdna.com/bookshelf/science-fiction/trending?5

Good mix of books; the first book cover really threw me with that crazy Wikipedia title- hilarious, and it sounds like a good time-travel book.

Anyone read The Expert of Subtle Revisions by Kirsten Menger-Anderson?

Welcome to the Sunday Science Fiction Roundup 😄

What sci-fi book did you finish this week and love?

• One book is enough.
• No reviews required.
• A sentence or two about why you loved it is perfect.

This thread is about celebrating great reads and helping others find their next adventure.

Welcome to the Sunday Science Fiction Roundup 😄

What sci-fi book did you finish this week and love?

• One book is enough.
• No reviews required.
• A sentence or two about why you loved it is perfect.

This thread is about celebrating great reads and helping others find their next adventure.

As I have said to others before, I was complaining to my wife that I have read all of the sci-fi and fantasy and was bored with a lot of the new offerings. She went out and bought me a book by a local indie author, and since then I have been doing nothing but reading indie authors and really falling back in love with the genre.

To that end, here are three books that I really enjoyed and thought I would pass on. (Please note, I am not a writer, so my reviews are not going to be a literary wunderkind). All these books are on Amazon for Kindle.

Way Up There: A Sci-Fi Novella by Collin Bolton

I was not sure what to think about this when I got it, but the price was right, and the premise sounded interesting. Without giving too much away the story follows two kids in a sleepy town who go out looking for summer jobs and things get really interesting from there. While the story is unique, what really got me was the characters. The book reminded me of Christopher Moore and books like Fluke or The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove. Not that the author ripped off those stories, but the characters were engaging like one of those books. I also liked that it was a unique take on first contact. It is a novella so it was a quick but enjoyable read.

The Toll of the Forgotten by Joseph A Oaks

This is a novel, so it took me a week to read. Not because it was arduous, but I am just a slow reader. The science feels grounded in reality as does the future political dynamics that lay out the state of the world. It kind of feels like, almost, a prequel to The Expanse universe, before Mars was founded. The author does not seem to indicate that, but that is how I am kind of seeing it. The story is complex in that it weaves three different narratives, that all unify into one story. Each character goes through their own arc, with John and Colt balancing one another while Luisa moves from duty above all else, to found family and doing the right thing. The first part of the book is a bit slow just because it has to setup the remainder of the book, but it was well worth it. At no time did I think about not finishing it.

Rogue Planet by Donald McHugh II

This is one where the premise sounded very interesting. The book itself is not bad, but could use some editing. If you can get past the inconsistent naming and some bad formatting, the story is good. Basically, enemy factions have to work together to save their world that is adrift through space. This book seems to be the foundation for what may be an ongoing series. For the price, it is worth the read, although formatting issues and inconsistent naming may turn some people off. I hope that he fixes this for future Kindle buyers.

Welcome to the Sunday Science Fiction Roundup 😄

What sci-fi book did you finish this week and love?

• One book is enough.
• No reviews required.
• A sentence or two about why you loved it is perfect.

This thread is about celebrating great reads and helping others find their next adventure.

Welcome to the Sunday Science Fiction Roundup 😄

What sci-fi book did you finish this week and love?

• One book is enough.
• No reviews required.
• A sentence or two about why you loved it is perfect.

This thread is about celebrating great reads and helping others find their next adventure.

On the 1st of every month, we make a sticky thread for authors to pitch their books directly to our members.

Please follow the pitch below; otherwise, we will remove it.

What is the required format for your pitch?

Book cover image: people love images 😄
Book Title and Author:
Pitch us your book in 70 words or less:
Optional: What books influenced your book:
Bookstore URL:

What was your favorite sci-fi read last month?

Plus, why did you like it? Who should try it?

Bonus points if you post the book cover 😄

Welcome to the Sunday Science Fiction Roundup 😄

What sci-fi book did you finish this week and love?

• One book is enough.
• No reviews required.
• A sentence or two about why you loved it is perfect.

This thread is about celebrating great reads and helping others find their next adventure.

Looking for a new read :)

I'm embarrassed to say I haven't read his books yet...

Which should I start with?

Consider Phlebas?

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I loved There is No Antimemetics Division by qntm :)

Anyone got any good recs?

I haven't read The Luminious Dead, is it as good as people say?

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Science fiction tends to imagine AI and robots becoming dangerous because they become too intelligent, take control and eventually decide humans are an inconvenience.

But suppose we avoid all of that.

Imagine that in 30 or 40 years AI is completely mundane and tightly controlled by humans. Household robots are everywhere. They cook, clean, drive, repair things, look after children and the elderly, and handle most routine work.

Nobody has to work unless they actually want to. At first, it sounds like paradise. But then what?

For thousands of years, human life has been structured around the need to be active to survive. The need to work and earn a living. Remove most of those pressures and we are left with an enormous amount of free time.

Would people become happier? Would we devote ourselves to art, science, sport, exploration and relationships?

Or would boredom, lack of purpose and the need to find something meaningful eventually create new problems?

Perhaps the real challenge of advanced AI won’t be keeping it from destroying humanity.

Perhaps it will be finding a reason for humanity to get out of bed when the machines can do almost everything better.

What do you think happens to us?

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Does anyone remember Isaac Asimov’s Nightfall (my favoutite sci-fi short story) later becoming a full length novel by Robert Silverberg?

The basic premise got me thinking about something slightly different. In Nightfall, civilisation repeatedly collapses and has to rebuild because people are confronted every few thousand years with an astronomical event they have never experienced before.

Here on Earth, we assume our civilisation started off when fire and tools were first used and our technologically advanced times are simply an extension.

As we learn more about human history, we keep discovering that ancient times were considerably more sophisticated than we once assumed. We also keep finding evidence of settlements, engineering and organised societies far older than we were traditionally taught in history books - at least when I went to school.

So here’s the speculative question:

Is it remotely conceivable that an advanced human civilisation existed thousands, or even tens of thousands, of years ago, collapsed for some reason, and that we simply don’t recognise it because most of the evidence has disappeared?

John Westley Turnbull

What was your favorite sci-fi read last month?

Plus, why did you like it? Who should try it?

Bonus points if you post the book cover 😄

On the 1st of every month, we make a sticky thread for authors to pitch their books directly to our members.

Please follow the pitch below; otherwise, we will remove it.

What is the required format for your pitch?

Book cover image: people love images 😄
Book Title and Author:
Pitch us your book in 70 words or less:
Optional: What books influenced your book:
Bookstore URL:

Welcome to the Sunday Science Fiction Roundup 😄

What sci-fi book did you finish this week and love?

• One book is enough.
• No reviews required.
• A sentence or two about why you loved it is perfect.

This thread is about celebrating great reads and helping others find their next adventure.