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1. You should definitely check out The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu… read it a year ago and I still think about it every other day

2. Great list of SF books. The only one I have not read here is 1Q84. Can’t argue with Hyperion at number one. I’ve only read the first book and it’s one of my all-time favorites.
   I wonder if you’ve read titles like: House of Suns, Solaris, Fire Upon the Deep, Children of Time, Ubik; all amazing in my opinion.
   Great video!

3. Just finished the Cantos Josh and couldnt agree more. Hyperion beginning to end was just fantastic.

4. I'm suprised so many people like The Forever War. This year I came to the conclusion I have read too little SF and so started reading all the books in the SF Masterworks series. And The Forever War is the first book of that series. To say I was disappointed would be putting it mildly, especially since it won the Nebula, the Hugo, and the Locus awards. Plus so many people recommend it. TFW just feels unfinished, it needs more work fleshing out the story and the characters.

5. My Favorites, in no particular order:
   Red Mars
   
   The Martian
   
   Snow Crash
   
   A Scanner Darkly
   
   Starship Troopers
   
   Jurassic Park
   
   Dune
   
   Three Body Problem Series
   
   A Darkling Sea
   
   There is No Antimemetics Division

6. Also, your comment on the Foundations books, I totally agree. With Asimov, it was the idea, the whole scope of his imagination, but I would also include the follow up trilogy done by Greg Benford, David Brin and David Bear which did a great job of of patching up some of Asimovs plot holes, such as why there are NO Aliens in the galaxy. These books also include way more action and characters who are active in the story, each of these authors give the reader a sense of urgency and action

7. For some recent (in the last 10 years) Space Opera SF, I'd suggest Neal Asher. He has several trilogies and shorts in his Polity Universe, but for a stand alone book in the series I'd suggest 'Jack Four', with all his AI tech and Enemy Aliens the Prador, I feel it would grab you. Then if you decide to get in to the books, start with the Skinner trilogy
   The Red Rising books are good, the author has a very cinematic visual style. I could see that being done as a movie trilogy, but some of his sub-plots would need to be expanded

8. If Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy ain't on the list… I riot

9. Great list, but I honestly think any recommendation of Endymion should have a Trigger Warning for grooming and Paedophilia. The red flags are there in earlier books – but Endymion makes it overt. I was too grossed out to finish it – I have no desire to read Lolita in Space and I honestly wish someone had mentioned how messed up this story is amongst all the gushing praise for the book. We live in a time of overreaction but this is more a case of Jesus….no wonder there's so much child abuse in the world – people will overlook almost anything for almost nothing. Damn. I really would not want to see the author's hard drive.

10. Such a great list Josh! Hyperion and Dune are my top 2 as well, but flipflopped lol. I really need to try Murakami. I have a feeling 1Q84 would be good for me.

11. Loved this one! I always value your opinion, and sci fi is a genre I need to explore more. Would you consider/have you read enough "Space Opera" to make a list of your favorites of those? I think I am most interested in those from what you and others have described. Also, curious on your thoughts on the "Leviathan Wakes" series? I have the first one collecting dust on my shelf..Just can't take the plunge for whatever reason. Keep up the good work!

12. Sun Eater needs to be moved up your TBR!

13. I'd suggest continuing with red rising because damn Lightbringer was a gut wrenching book.

14. Thank you 🙏 for bringing scifi to the forefront! I love lots of these books 📚- nice selection!

    Consider neal stephenson or kim stanley robinson…

15. In my opinion red rising was definitely not done after morningstar. The second 3 books, specific Dark Age and Lightbringer are probably the best in the entire series

16. Blake Crouch Pines trilogy: Added to Kindle.
    1Q84: Best book I've ever read (I don't consider it to be SciFi).
    Did you mention "The Passage"? I picked that up at the library today.
    Great content.

17. Nice list!! I'd never heard of Replay but that sounds like a fascinating concept. And you're making me want to read Pines and The Martian now!! Also, I had no idea Hyperion #2 has steampunk vibes?! COOL!

18. Try Gene Wolfe Book of the New Sun, Jack Vance Dying Earth and Philip K. Dick sci-fi. Your list should change once you do.

19. From the way you describe Murakami, i always think of Phillip K Dick. I think you would love Ubik because of the technology/magical realism in there. Fascinating book but also just a fun story.

    My favorite is A Scanner Darkly. It drips with themes of drug abuse and the double edged sword that is undercover police work. The epilogue to this novel really brings a weight to the novel as well. Incredible stuff!

20. I’ve also enjoyed many of these and need to get to 1Q84, Forever War, Replay, and Pines!

21. If you haven't read them, try Childhood's End and 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke, I, Robot by Isaac Asimov, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North, Ubik by Philip K. Dick, Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky, House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds, Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, and A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge.

22. Great list! I also didn’t like the fact that Brown continued the RR series. I’ll probably get back to it eventually but I’m not in much of a hurry. I’m also glad to hear the second Forever War book was good. Ender is definitely my favorite from your lineup!

23. Nobody talks about Replay ever! That's a top 3 book for me

24. The Hyperion Cantos is absolutely a masterpiece and absolutely essential

25. Oh man, I love The Red Rising trilogy! Absolutely fantastic, the kind of thing I live to discover. I also really enjoyed Ender's Game. And of course Dune, and the Hyperion Cantos, are both superb!

26. Nice list! I’ve read 8 of these. I haven’t read Wayward Pines, but I really enjoyed Dark Matter and Recursion so I’m looking forward to it. I also haven’t read 1Q84, but I just recently bought Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World.

    Have you read Sun Eater yet? It usually lines up with fans of Dune and Hyperion.

27. I don't know if the "Night's Dawn" trilogy is for everyone. In my opinion is the best space opera in existence. It's very long (over 3000 pages), it's mind blowing, it's supernatural, is epic. It's the 2600s, humanity is divided between edenists (atheist with the affinity gene) and adanists (classical religious folks with nano tek). There are aliens, there are colonies in planets, there are beings of pure energy. Reality is mind blowing quantum realms and matrices. There are living habitats and living ships, but the Confederation is always on the watch for antimatter is ilegal. All this may seem like spoilers, but man is just the tip of the iceberg. Hundreds of characters! The novels were divided in 3 big books 1. The reality disfunction, 2. The neutronium alchemist,and 3. The naked God. Paperbacks we're subdivided in two parts each. There is a small guide and a collection of short stories called "Second chance for Eden". I recommend people to read until like chapter 21 (about 600 pages) for getting an idea of what's the first book about.

28. Some books that I didn't know here, thanks!
    I suggest "Spin" (followed by "Axis" and "Vortex"), "The Chronoliths" and "Blind Lake" by Robert Charles Wilson.

29. Dune messiah, for me, was a disappointment. The only book that I liked after the first was the fifth "Heretics of Dune". One important thing to know about Dune is that the last book ends in a cliffhanger and the author passed away. So you never see the end. The Briant Herbert ones where just products of other authors imagination.

30. Great video!
    I loved Dune so much 😍

31. I recommend Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. Anyone who likes The Martian will probably also like Project Hail Mary. Both are great books, and I actually slightly prefer Project Hail Mary.

32. Nice list. I think we have different taste in sci- fi since we only share two books – foundation series (which I reread almost every year) and Enders Game (and it’s the only book in the series I’ve read, I think the author is such an ass hat that I refuse to give him any money, but I did borrow my son’s copy which he had to read for school and loved it). Even though we have different taste, I wonder if you have read old man’s war by John Scalzi.

33. Oh yea, Hyperion Cantos is phenomenal! I haven't read much sci-fi, myself, but the Hyperion books opened my eyes to the genre and has gotten me eager to read more.
    A few titles that I hope to get to in the coming months, Dune and Foundation sooner than later — I own a nice looking B&N edition of Foundation. Continue Sun Eater with Book 3 Demon in White. And lastly, I've had Christopher Paolini's To Sleep in a Sea of Stars on my shelf the past three or four years and I really wanna get to it.

34. I love all 4 Hyperion novels. The fall is my favorite and my second favorite is rise of endymion, third Hyperion and fourth endymion but all four worked well for me.

35. Very cool! Great list! You should try alastair Reynolds. I know you said you weren't big on the hard sf which he does have but what really shines in his work is the eerie gothic feel and the big concepts. Revelation space blew my mind when I first read it. Most ppl will say house of suns is his finest but I have yet to read it

36. Great list. So pleased to see some love for Replay: such a brilliant book.

37. I think you would love The Three Body Problem, Children of Time, and The City and the Stars.

38. Great list! Some I’ve loved, some I still need to get to.
    Like others, I would recommend LeGuin’s Left Hand of Darkness. C.J. Cherryh’s Foreigner and Lois McMaster Bujold’s Vorkosigan series are amazing but not to all’s tastes… The Expanse is very good. I also like Leckie’s Ancillary Justice and Arkady Martine’s Teixcalaan duology. Have a look at the Linesman trilogy by S.K. Dunstall, one of my favourites.
    Also, Jeff Wayne’s musical adaptation of War of the Worlds (vinyl is a thing of beauty). 😊

39. I'm glad we both had the same opinion on the Foundation Trilogy! The first book was great, I struggled through the second book even with the major plot points. The first half of Second Foundation was great, but the last half was wanting. Although small hooks kept me going, like finding out the location of the Second Foundation. I've heard great things about the Hyperion Cantos and from you as well. I'm looking forward to diving headlong into this series next!

40. We have a lot of crossover from our lists. Great minds think alike!

41. I recommend Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard (This book does NOT teach scientology don't listen to anyone who says otherwise) and I would recommend Armor by John Steakley. It is a very interesting character study.

42. Sci-fi stories often fall into one of several buckets with some overlap. First you have “space fantasy”, which is where space is largely just a set piece and often contains other fantastic and “hand wavey” explanations for tech so it often feels like magic. You could take the core story and turn it into a Fantasy novel without much effort. So think Star Wars. I don’t read a lot in this category because when I’m in the mood for fantasy I often want a break from the space setting.

    Then you have hard/Hardish sci-fi that blend real scientific concepts into their stories. Some books I enjoy here are:

    – Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
    – The Three Body Problem trilogy by Cixin Liu
    – The Expanse series

    Then you have the more philosophical sci-fi. This is where authors take modern questions (sometimes controversial) and flings them into the far future to examine them in a different context. This is the sort of thing Star Trek is famous for and probably my favorite thing about the sci-fi genre.

    Ursula K. Le Guin excels in this category with her Hainish cycle series (books can be read in any order). I really enjoyed the Dispossessed and The Left Hand of Darkness.

43. Damn you, mate. You’re making me want so bad to re-read the Cantos again *immediately*. 😆

44. It’s nice to be reminded of the joys of a good sci-fi book. Cool list!

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