Reddit reviews Spin

> What I got from searching is that the Dune series is good, as are Ender's Game and Hyperion. Are these good for science fiction newbies?

Yes to all of the above. Especially yes to Ender's Game, but a caveat for Dune: the series is pretty heavy on politics, mysticism & world-building, so it can feel a bit dry & self-important. (Also, never read any of the Dune books by Brian Herbert.)

> Also, I'd really love to get into the expanded Star Wars universe and was planning on starting with the Thrawn trilogy. Any suggestions after that?

Yes again; that's a great place to start. The Star Wars EU is all pretty pulpy (as you might expect), but it's also a lot of fun. Check out the X-Wing series, plus more or less everything from Zahn or Anderson.

A few books to check out (Kindle links for your convenience):

• Vernor Vinge - A Fire Upon the Deep
  
• Isaac Asimov - Caves of Steel
  
• Robert Charles Wilson - Spin
  
• David Brin - Startide Rising

Spin by Robert Charles Wilson

I'll go first second to /u/Aeoles: I fell asleep last night reading Spin, which is a book about what happens when the stars disappear from the night sky, and then we discover that (due to some stuff with time passing differently in space than on earth), the sun will expire and the earth will die... forty years from now.

So then I had a dream where I was in a house with my husband, some friends, and some kids, and we were trying to stop the world from ending, which was going to happen three days from now. Signs of the apocalypse started showing up, such as trees randomly spouting shrubbery that blocked windows and doors. The village where I lived went nuts: people walking around with guns, rampant racist shootings, etc. My family is trying to keep everyone in our house and just lay low. And then my husband decides to go out for provisions, and he gets stopped. (It's like I'm watching a movie, so I can see what happens even when I'm not there.) I wake up before I know how things end.

Now I sort of want to write my dream out as a book, with characters and everything! I also watched the episode of Angel where Doyle dies, so my dream had a lot of those elements, too.

Thanks!