(Part 2) Best technothriller books according to redditors
We found 1,174 Reddit comments discussing the best technothriller books. We ranked the 158 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
Yes. Neuromancer by William Gibson. Gibson is the father of cyberpunk.
My friend's book, The Lightcap, is free today if you're looking for an exciting book.
Admittedly a plug for my own book, but this might fit. It has philosophy, propaganda and hard sciFi.
http://amazon.com/dp/B01GMX5CQ0
Singularity's Children - Denial
I do however think N. Stephenson is excellent. As far as I remember Snow Crash was originally intended to be a graphic novel, possibly why it feels that way. You could try Cryptonomicon which I think has a better mix of ideas, plot and character.
I think the best way is to suggest a few that got me into reading. One or two are YA, but well-written enough that I find it as worthwhile a read at 28 as it did at 14.
Ender's Game - Earth Has made contact with an alien species, and... It didn't go well. A program is started to teach a new generation of soldiers how to fight this alien threat. Children are not allowed to be children for long when the future of mankind is on the line. Also, it's being adapted into what is shaping up to be a pretty badass movie.
Snow Crash - Written in the 90's, but it essentially pioneered the concept of the online avatar, and predicted the rise of the MMO. Also, pizza-delivering ninjas. Trust me on this. It's good stuff.
Neuromancer Classic cyber-punk. Most sci-fi is like you see in star trek. Clean and sterile. Cyberpunk is the dirtier side of sci-fi. Organized crime, computer hacking, and a heist on a space station. And Molly. This book is the reason I have a thing for dangerous redheads.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Considered by most to be the very best in sci-fi humor. Lighthearted, hilarious, and I find I can read it in the course of about two days. It is absolutely, completely, and utterly amazing.
American Gods - What happens to the old gods when we start worshiping the new ones? Can the likes of Odin or Anubis compete with our new objects of worship. like television or internet? Remember, Gods only exist as long as folks believe in them. The old Gods aren't going down without a fight, though...
Hope some of these strike your fancy. It's admittedly more sci-fi than anything, but it's all soft sci-fi (Where the science isn't as important as the fiction, so story comes first), and nothing too out there. Please let me know if you decide to try any of these, and especially let me know if you enjoy them. I always like to hear if I help someone find a book they love.
Try this link: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Lightcap-ebook/dp/B00D0ECD5S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1375374749
Hopefully that works? I am in the US, but when I view that link it does show that the price is free. If you don't see the same thing, PM me and we can figure something out.
Exit Earth, by Martin Caidin. Good old apocalyptic everyone-fight-for-a-spot-on-the-rescue-ship pulp. One-dimensional characters, but some really compelling scenery. A guilty pleasure.
Charon's Ark, by Rick Gauger, if you can find it. Aliens kidnap an entire airliner full of high school students and take them to an intergalactic zoo that's actually a diamond shell surrounding a singularity run by an evil computer. Also, dinosaurs. No, really, it actually works.
The Gaea Trilogy by John Varley. Guy has a knack for writing good characters and absorbing action. Red Thunder was another great book of his, involving a bunch of relative misfits who build a homebrew spacecraft to beat the Chinese to Mars.
For anyone who finds the topic of Brain Computer Interfaces interesting, I recommend reading The Atopia Chronicles by Mathew Mather. He offers an interesting and well thought out view into the possible future that avoids Utopian or Dystopian tendencies. Some cool ideas explored in his book include...
https://www.amazon.com/Atopia-Chronicles-Book-ebook/dp/B00DUK1RKY
You should check out The Atopia Chronicles. Interesting read on the future of transhumanism, the Internet and virtual reality. Brings up some interesting questions, such as if in a virtual reality you can live in your dream house, date your dream partner, visit any part of the world on a whim, does it really matter where your physical body is?
Here's an excellent book about a flying aircraft carrier in Venus atmo - Acid Sky
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https://www.amazon.com/Man-Bodies-Installed-Intelligence-Book-ebook/dp/B00T06KWF8/
"Upon death, the neurological data that composes one's personality is downloaded and installed onto computers in the next evolution from A.I.s. These programs are known as installed intelligences, or I.I.s, and they are the secret to human immortality. In recent years, the installation process has opened up for the wealthy public as a means to keep family members alive after their body has died.
This is the story of a man who is mistaken for dead and has his mind installed before recovering and becoming the first living person with an I.I. of him or herself."
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All three books in the series were free today, no?
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And I say that as someone who's primary book collection is digital for convenience like the one you described. (And as someone whose thus-far-only published work is also purely digital.)
Like non-Western fantasy/alternative history? With time travel? A modern-day nerd gets sent back to the Bronze Age fertile crescent.
An immersive cultural experience with lots of 5-star reviews.
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Has anyone ever read either of these that would provide a quick review?
Wondering if they might fit the bill.
Ok, you like a lot of the authors I do so Imma try and throw a couple out there.
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi Set in future Thailand where global warming has run rampant, the oceans have risen, and gene companies produce food seed continuously to keep ahead of genetic plagues that destroy anything edible. It's some solid hard scifi and if you like Gibson and Dick it should do ya well.
Red Thunder by John Varley Set in the near future the Chinese are clearly going to win the spacerace to Mars and a small group decides to build a ship to beat em. This is the first in a three part series (which I just learned had a third part lookin up that link) and I enjoyed it.
As for fantasy...
The Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher In the world of The Dresden Files, magic is real, along with ghouls, vampires, demons, spirits, faeries, werewolves, zombies and other mythical monsters. Harry Dresden works to protect the general public, who are ignorant of magic and the dark forces conspiring against them. This makes it difficult for Harry to get by as a working wizard and private eye. The Chicago PD's Special Investigation unit, when led by Karrin Murphy, regularly employs Dresden as a consultant to help solve cases of a supernatural nature. I love this series, whenever a new book comes out (and hes up to 14 not counting a few short story collections and such) I read it almost nonstop.
Thanks so much for posting this! A number of friends and acquaintances have had kind words, but feedback from strangers is really appreciated. If it's not too much trouble, would you mind leaving a review for the book on Amazon and/or Goodreads? Every little bit helps. :)
I really enjoyed Atopia as a different take on how technology can be so so good for humanity but also incredibly terrible for humanity and yourself. It's about to be a TV series, too, so I'm interested to see how that goes. So far the second book, Dystopia, does not have me as hooked
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I think if you enjoy Asimov, you'd enjoy the Culture series by Iain M. Banks, it's a long series but pretty well done, very strong plots with both 'deep' thoughts like Asimov raises but also swashbucklin' sci-fi space fun.
I'm very partial to that series because of the names of the ships; the basic premise is sentient giant civilization-ships with AI that name themselves and the names are pretty diverse but also self-categorizing. I don't think it spoils much, but I love reading through the list of names of different ships throughout the books, (here on wiki).
Side note, I'm a big fan of Elon Musk; he named the drone ships for rocket landings for SpaceX after Culture ships, which is dope.
Ummm... I suppose I'd also recommend the Hitchiker's guide as another 'modern classic'.
Lately, the most recent sci-fi books I've been reading and enjoyed are from relatively unknown authors that are just releasing these books; they tend to put them up for free on Amazon for a few days as promotion and I'll snag them then and read 'em. (I tend to do this for most of my books in general these days)
So, what have I really enjoyed lately, sci-fi wise? I've been craving for those kind of stories where things take place on a spaceship itself; after watching the Martian, Interstellar, etc, I've been wanting to continue the adventure of flying through space without a care.
So. Also definitely read the summary & reviews on the links, not jus twhat I said to see if you'd enjoy them.
Inhuman by David Simpson. 5 books. Pretty good match to what you are after.
You might like this. It's somewhere in the middle between soft and hard sci-fi in my relative opinion, but I found it a good read.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Post-Human-Omnibus-1-4-David-Simpson-ebook/dp/B00H0D5NTI - books 1-4
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Inhuman-Book-Post-Human-David-Simpson-ebook/dp/B00HYLX4R4 - book 5
These are all great books too
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Forever-War-3-Book/dp/B00W6RJ6SC - Joe Haldeman's Forever War
https://www.amazon.co.uk/All-Sins-Remembered-GOLLANCZ-S-F-ebook/dp/B005HRTA4I Joe Haldeman's All My Sins Remembered
Granted not exactly to your spec, as it's 1980's sci-fi and thus based around now, HOWEVER very good story.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00J3EU5RC - Greg Bear's Eon books
Closest I can think of are SciFi-ish.
Re-Start Level Up. Guy gets a computer program uploaded into his brain that does some magic-like stuff, but through techie mumbo-jumbo means.
Emerilia's Michael Chatfield does some SciFi litRPG that isn't great, but fits. I'm currently reading book two of the Harmony War series, and no magic just tech.
Reality Benders has magic, but not really in the human faction, and very very minorly in the MC (he gets some psionic stuff with rather limited use).
Limitless Lands in a VR story with magic, but the MC doesn't use any. He's basically playing a strategy game while everyone else is playing an RPG. Works out well, story wise.
Survive Week One is right up your alley, though again, the non-Earth folks seem to have a not-quite-magic, and of course the MC is obviously going to eventually get it. Even then, I think it fits your bill for now.
I'm trying to remember, but I don't think the MC in Feedback Loop uses magic, and some of the VR worlds he travels through don't seem to have magic. Not that absurd things don't still happen, they just generally are because of game-mechanics (like pulling bombs/guns/cars from your inventory).
Inkshares has a nonexclusive publishing contract with the author. This means that you retain all copyright on your work, and you can also get it published elsewhere later/or before. I have seen a couple previously self-published titles get reissued through Inkshares. The Life Engineered comes immediately to mind.
Rights sales (movies, audiobooks, etc.) are handled through Inkshares, with them acting as your agent. This is where they are really starting to innovate, as we've already seen a half dozen books have their rights sold for TV and movies. I am not 100% clear on who retains rights in the case of a sale, but I imagine as those are sales of ancillary properties, those rights are purchased by the company that wants to create the tie-in property.
This sounds like the plot of Paradox by Phillip P. Petersen (German sci-fi author), it's translated into English:
https://www.amazon.com/Paradox-Eternity-Phillip-P-Peterson-ebook/dp/B075SDL9CH/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=peterson+paradox&qid=1573207573&sr=8-3
https://www.amazon.ca/God-AI-Daniel-Frost-ebook/dp/B076GVQLX6
I've never heard of any of these nor their authors. Of the ones that I surveyed at random, it looks like the best bets with high page counts + good reviews are:
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"First of Their Kind" launches April 30, and its sequel will release later this summer! If you want to check it out, I'd suggest starting with our book trailer:
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Would you be interested in William Gibson's Neuromancer? I have the paperback that I'm sure I'll never read. Let me know!
Red Thunder had characters who took a monster truck to Mars.
Love reading on my kindle, and now prefer it to real books.
[Cyberdrome] (https://www.amazon.com/Cyberdrome-Joseph-Rhea-ebook/dp/B0012Q6G5Y)
[Old Man's War] (https://www.amazon.com/Old-Mans-War-John-Scalzi-ebook/dp/B000SEIK2S/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1524503897&sr=1-1)
[The Last Revolution] (https://www.amazon.com/Last-Revolution-R-T-Carpenter-ebook/dp/B00EFL3QK6/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1524504042&sr=1-10)
http://www.amazon.com/Acid-Sky-Mark-Anson-ebook/dp/B00GVAMJPM
Not aerostats but "flying aircraft carriers" that never land... Cool concept.
Probably not the same book, but really interesting scifi take on a cataclysmic astronomical event i loved - basically two black holes revolving around each other headed to earth, but couldn't really be seen, only their gravitational fields could be measured: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B013TOAL3E/ref=oh_aui_d_detailpage_o01_?ie=UTF8&psc=1
This is more or less the exact plot of my Ziva Payvan series. It's more sci-fi/space fantasy than regular fantasy though, and it might not have as much romance as what you're looking for (contains more romantic themes rather than straight-up romance). Could be worth checking out.
You may like JF dubeau's Life Engineered, similar concept, was pretty fun for a fresh Author.
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As others have said, Dune is amazing. Can't recommend that enough.
I'll add one to the list that I read recently: Singularity's Children by Toby Weston
Check that out.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01GX8FR0U
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What if you could control the centres of belief...
The Ministry has always been part of our world, operating in the moral grey area of radical thought and revolutionary technology. It works to prevent intellectual contagion in an era where a dangerous thought can spread across the globe faster than a pandemic, and more virulently.
Jacob Trials is one of their star agents, a man who has carried out actions both heroic and villainous, both necessary and brutal. He has given over his very body to the cause, with machinery that he barely understands adapting and enhancing him.
When an unknown group starts hunting him with a viciousness he can hardly countenance, Trials will be forced to come to terms with loss, betrayal, and a savagery that will change him, and his world, forever.