The Legends...
Any Sci-fi list cannot begin without a tribute to the legendary Issac Asimov and Arthur Clarke. I am a great fan of the Foundation, Robo Series, Rama series and the 2001: Space odyssey. I grew up getting inspired by these books. I have also read Larry Niven of the Ring World fame, Frank Herbert's Dune series and Phillip K Dick the author with maximum film adaptations. I read very less of Phillip K Dick but have seen all the movies, Minority Report being the best.
But here is what I have discovered after 1990s...
But here is what I have discovered after 1990s...
The 1990s
Being a die-hard Sci-fi fan, I keep searching for new content. So here is a list of books that I have read by authors active after 1990s.
- Orson Scott Card: The Ender Series... About 4 degrees of Strangeness. It talks about havoc created by lack of communication and mutual mistrust.
- Ender's Game 1977
- Speaker for the Dead 1986
- Xenocide 1991
- Children of the Mind 1996
- Stephen Baxter:
Xeelee Sequence ...a universe spanning saga complete with time travel, different timelines, time scales of 5 billion years: This is if you are ready to do some heavy lift reading in hard-sci-fi - Raft 1991
- Time like Infinity 1992
- Flux 1993
- Ring 1994
- John Scalzi:
- Old Man's War Series ... Fun soap opera with lot of aliens, space wars and charming central character, who is a 60+ old man who is given a new cloned body and he joins the space force.
- Old Man's War 2005
- Ghost Brigade 2006
- Last Colony 2007
- Lock In (2014) & Head on (2018) ... Augmented reality
- Interdependency series
- The Collapsing Empire (2017)
- The Consuming Fire (2018)
- The Last Emperox (2020)
- Daniel Suarez: Augmented/ Virtual Reality, Gamification of Business, 3D Printing, Global Economics controlled by AI, Bio-Tech, Gene editing, Product Farms, Autonomous drone swarms, etc.... the near-future sci-fi.
- Daemon (2006) and Freedom (2010)
- Change Agent (2017)
- Kill Decision (2012)
- Delta-V (2019)
... and more - Tal M. Klein: "The Punch Escrow" (2017) ... No series yet, A thriller with 3D Printing and Teleportation. How about a 3D printed burger?
- Blake Crouch: Quantum Physics, Space-time, Multiverse, Digital Memory, Gene editing, Clones...
- Dark Matter (2016)
- Recursion (2019)
- Upgrade (2022)
- Cixin Liu: A mind boggling space odyssey that covers the big ideas including Purpose of Life, Social Engineering, Space travel, Alien invasion and human response!
- Three Body Problem (2014... english transalition)
- The Dark Forest (2015)
- Death's End (2016)
- Redemption of Time (2019) ... a follow up Fourth Book, a Fan Fiction by Baoshu. This is a philosophical take on Birth, Death and Re-birth of Universes!
- Ian M. Banks: Culture Series ... Not a easy read
I have read only "Player of Games" (1988) - Dan Simmons: Hyperion (1989) & Fall of Hyperion (1990). The series continues as "Endmyion", but I have not read.
- Robert J Sawyer: Quantum Night (2016)
... The author of fantastic TV Show: Flashforward has written many books including the famous WWW series. But I have read only Quantum Night. - Douglas Phillips: Quantum physics explained for lay persons through fantastic mind-bending thrillers:
- Quantum Space (2017)
- Quantum Void (2018)
- Quantum Time (2019)
- Quantum Entanglement (2021)
- A G Riddle:
... Multiverse and Gene-editing - Departure (2014)
- Extinction Files: "Pandemic" & "Genome" (2017)
- Lost in Time (2022)
- Quantum Radio (2023) ... expected to continue as a series.
- William Ledbetter:
... The evolution of Artificial Intelligence - Level Five (2019)
- Level Six (2021)
- Level Seven (coming in December 2023)
- Douglas E. Richards: (Fantastic new author of near future sci-fi)
... Can AI be the stimuli for the next level of human evolution? - The Breakthrough Effect (2023) ... The epilogue amazingly proposes a theory on birth of universe(s).
- Wired (2005)
- Amped (2012)
- Nathan Hystad
- Rift, Resistance, Return - Resistance Trilogy (2019)
- Alastair Reynolds
... Big hardcore sci-fi space opera dealing with Fermi Paradox - Revelation Space (2000)
- Pushing Ice (2005)
- Adrian Tchaikovsky
... Evolution of Intelligence in non-humanoid life forms - Children of Time Trilogy (2015)

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