I need some new science fiction to read, who has some suggestions? I don't like military sci-fi. For reference, my favorite series is the Expanse, I also enjoyed Scalzi's Collapsing Empire, I love Robert Charles Wilson's books. I mostly enjoy space operas and unique stories about technology, for example I really liked the recent book Mountain in the Sea about AI and intelligent octopus. Suggestions from the awesome Bookstodon community? @bookstodon#Bookstodon#Scifi#ScienceFiction
@Jennifer@bookstodon The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells might be an option. It’s a story of a security cyborg in an interstellar civilization, learning to be a person and form relationships with others. It’s lighter, more comedic, but it’s hard scifi that shares the Expanse’s #hopepunk theme, of the world having bad actors in it, but most people just being good folks doing their best. And deals (lightly) with questions of sentience and personhood, like Mountain.
"Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We’ll need writers who can remember freedom — poets, visionaries — realists of a larger reality."
Does sci-fi shape the future? Tech billionaires from Bill Gates to Elon Musk have often talked about the impact of novels they read as teens, from Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash" to Iain M. Banks' "Culture" series. Big Think's Namir Khaliq spoke to authors including Andy Weir, Lois McMaster Bujold and @pluralistic about how much impact they think science fiction has had, or can have.
For #FollowFriday I warmly recommend @susankayequinn AND her #books.
I appreciate the author's posts very much. And she writes #HopePunk, #CliFi, and #SolarPunk. I had not really an idea what is hidden behind these labels. I've been tiptoeing around the genres for months, worried that it might be too pedagogical, not literary enough.
Then I discovered her #shortStories. Now I'm hooked. Try it, you won't regret it! I want more now. 😊 @reading
New FREE Short Story: TOWER GIRLS 🌈🌱#solarpunk
(Halfway to Better 2)
A cute technician keeps breaking things in her too-shiny lab, then calling a fixer in for repairs. Zita’s a certified member of the International Guild of Repair Workers, Local 772, and she’s certain this hot girl is breaking her toys on purpose. But why? Something very sexy but very weird is going on…
I was wandering around a nearby town and found a lovely little used bookstore. After slowly perusing the shelves I settled on copies of #Starhawk’s Fifth Sacred Thing and City of Refuge - grandmothers of #hopepunk.
The bookseller and I chatted about my time working in a used bookstore in #Butte#Montana and the #LaborHistory there.
It was a good day 🌟 @bookstodon
Does anyone have sci-fi book suggestions that are more sci-fi utopia and world building?
I have grown up on sci-fi dystopia and I love it but since we're currently living in one I want to read something uplifting. Collection of short stories would be awesome too!
Hey all - looking for reading / movie recommendations with #SolarPunk / #HopePunk vibes (as previously mentioned, Becky Chambers’ Monk and Robot books have me falling down to a fun rabbit hole) cc @bookstodon
From #BookRiot:
These ten cozy sci-fi books showcase optimism in different ways, from better futures to irresistibly hopeful characters. They’ll leave you feeling happy and carefree.
The list includes books from well-known authors such as Becky Chambers, Matt Haig, Mary Robinette Kowal … and me!
I just finished The Terraformers by @annaleen and went right back to the beginning to read again. Rich in characters, landscapes, action, imagination, relationships, and possibilities. Fierce and loving. @bookstodon
@CuriousMagpie@annaleen@bookstodon This is one of those very rare books that I borrowed from the library and then went right out to buy a copy to reread. So much to absorb, to ponder, to enjoy. The concept of non-hominims as “people” and all those ramifications, wow. Now I’m squinting at my cats, wondering if there’s intelligent life in there (they have no network access, so who knows?) #solarpunk#hopepunk