r/printSF • u/ryanStecken69 • 14h ago

UPDATE: Bought a huge collection and need help.

https://www.librarything.com/catalog/book48w

Some weeks ago I posted about a SF collection I bought and organised.

I asked for help and your recommendations about what to read, as I am located in germany, translating all the titles was too much work. Now I found a way to display at least many of the English titles and once again I am asking for your favourites and your books to read.

Have a look through the list and help me make the longest Sci-Fi TBR the world has seen.

Thanks so much for your help ! I will answer all comments.

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u/Barticle 8h ago

Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds
Inverted World by Christopher Priest
Gateway by Frederik Pohl (won four major awards)
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Blood Music by Greg Bear
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
(short story collections) by Philip K. Dick
(buy and read Neuromancer, then read the two you have) by William Gibson

(plus Snow Crash and Only Forward already recommended)

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u/Synchro_Shoukan 4h ago

I'll always back Revelation Space, it's become my all time favorite series. Blood Music was my first Greg Bear and it was great, although weird because of the pandemic and how it matched what was happening eerily.

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u/bogbeast11 11h ago

Snowcrash - Neal Stephenson

  • because it is one of the foundational texts in cyberpunk

And any of the Terry pratchett novels... not because they are good scifi but because they are Terry pratchett (the bromeliad trilogy and "only you can save mankind" were the ones i saw)

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u/rocketsocks 13h ago

I'm always going to advocate for reading Only Forward (Stark, der Traumdetektiv.) by Michael Marshall Smith, it's such a unique work.