So many books and so little time! Hope you have a great reading summer. Happy reading.

Project Hail Mary would be a great entry

I have not read any of Les Johnson's sci fi, but his non-fiction book, A Traveler’s Guide to the Stars, is brilliant!

For All Mankind is go great! I was pumped to see the official renewal announcement a few weeks back. Hi Bob 👋

@jonathankoan

Ай бұрын

Hi Bob!

*Red Mars* by Kim Stanley Robinson *Voyage from Yesteryear* by James P Hogan *We are Legion* (Bobiverse series) by Dennis Taylor

Very interesting!👍👍👍🤖🚀🐲 The calculating stars is already on my tbr📚 The rest I haven't heard any other booktuber talk that much about! I'm a sucker for space opera but always open for interesting "hard" sci-fi as well...

Kim Stanley Robinson’s award-winning Red/Green/Blue Mars trilogy is an excellent blend of the nitty gritty process of terraforming a planet, mystery, strong character work and political intrigue. The colours in each title refer to the terraforming process of Mars over time: Red = raw, inhospitable rocky planet, Green = the beginnings of a viable atmosphere and simple life forms, Blue = lush, bio-diverse planet with running bodies of water and a developed atmosphere. KSR really knows his ecology and dives deep into it. I read this in the 90’s when it came out and several of the characters still leave a lingering impression with me: Sax, Ann, Nadia, Arkady to name a few. It may be time for a reread soon… highly recommended!

I saw MARS in a second hand book and shop and bought it thanks to your videos, its on my tbr (I randomize my next book to read somewhat so who knows when the die shall choose it!)

*Descends from heaven* "Hallo everynyan. How are you?" "OH MY GAH!" "I come to recommend 5 Hard Science Fiction Books" "Wait...What?"

I’m actually in the middle of Mars right now and loving it. I also really enjoyed The Dabare Snake Launcher. Mission to Methone sounds interesting, I’ll have to look for that one.

I want to recommend Cixin Liu's Trilogy starting with The Three Body Problem, and Anything written by Neal Stephenson.

@jonathankoan

Ай бұрын

I intend to read the three body problem soon! I have it on my shelves!

@epiphoney

Ай бұрын

@@jonathankoan Funny how they used parts of all three books in the first season of the Netflix show.

Keeping with the Mars theme, Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy is rock hard sf. Greg Egan's work is hard in every sense. Alastair Reynolds generally stays on the right side of scientifcally plausible, whereas Peter F Hamilton generally plays fast and loose with the laws of physics. 👍

thanks!

The one that is probably most talked about on BookTube (although not talked about enough, imo) is A Fire Upon the Deep. Great book. Also much of Adrian Tchaikovsky's sci-fi falls into the hard sf category. Read Children of Time if you haven't yet.

So glad to meet another For all mankind fan 😊- If u like africa being main place for space exploration u will enjoy artemis by andy weir… Havent heard of several of these. Love that thank you! Any more reccs would be welcome! If you like eco disaster style you may like The Swarm, its a chonker but its a fun read. I would b curious if you liked books like Seveneves by Neal Stephenson. Or perhaps Permutation City by greg egan

@jonathankoan

Ай бұрын

Thank you for the recommendations!

Have you read any of Larry Niven's Known Space universe? If not, I'd recommend Ringworld, the first book he wrote for the series. It's definitely a classic, and feels like mix of Hard and Space Opera Sci-Fi.

@jonathankoan

Ай бұрын

I have not read that, but I can add it to my list!

@Scottlp2

Ай бұрын

Niven has a number of novels and short stories set in that world and they were great fun. One short story was adapted for ST TOS cartoon back when. I like the stories with Beowulf Schaefer.

They're huge space operas but have some science, Peter F Hamilton - Pandora's Star/Judas Unchained, and the Night's Dawn Trilogy. Stephen Baxter's Voyage is the same story basically as For All Mankind but came out first. BBC made an audiodrama of it. I liked Patrick Chiles' Perigee, Farside, & Frontier, but not Frozen Orbit.

@steelepartridge6954

Ай бұрын

Pandora’s Star / Judas Unchained is unbelievably good. Hope Jonathan makes it around to those sometime.

MR KOAN Is me :D

The martian was like the beginning of wokeness ruining good stuff in cinema. Now we got nothing.

@jonathankoan

Ай бұрын

I don’t believe it has anything particularly woke in it. I thought it was a good adaptation of the book.

@williamgass9242

Ай бұрын

@jonathankoan I went to the theater with someone who read the book and he apologized for the movie being basically for women and children

@jonathankoan

Ай бұрын

@@williamgass9242I just don’t understand what the problem was. The basic plot beats are the same, the character design is the same. The only difference I really remember is a slightly different way they got to the ending, but the end itself was basically the same. I don’t know what it was that angered your friend. It was a generally faithful story and the humor was largely the same as the book.

@marsrock316

22 күн бұрын

@@williamgass9242 Your friend sounds sexist, dismissive, smug/arrogant, and narrow-minded.

@williamgass9242

22 күн бұрын

@marsrock316 I think he's none of those, and also he's correct about his subjective experiences indicating some objective qualities about a movie that is more of a family movie than a rated R movie.