(Part 3) Top products from r/sciencefiction

• Half Magic
  
• Phantom Tollbooth
  
• Roald Dahl
  
• CS Lewis
  
• Ursula K Leguinn
  
• TA Baron
  
• The Hobbit (more fantasy but still great to have read to you!)
  
• The Little Prince
  
• Shel Silverstein
  
• Dr Seuss
  
• Once and Future King
  
• My personal favorite (it's more of a picture book) - Jane and the Dragon
  
• Anthologies! This is a great way to get short stories and excerpts and find authors. My absolutely favorite one as a kid was "The Random House Book of Humor" - it has chapters from a ton of classic kids' books. http://www.amazon.com/Random-House-Book-Humor-Children/dp/0394880498

Well done, that is an excellent list and took a lot of effort by you. Respect.

I have been entranced by Science Fiction for 30 years. I have noticed that tastes change over time and these days it isn't easy for me to find new books. Which simply means new readers enjoy a different tale - excellent.

Consequently I hesitate to recommend SF books because my memories are caught in the loom of youth. Stories resonate with a time and place.

There are SF authors who are worth exploring. Eg. Stanislaw Lem, A E Van Vogt, Alfred Bester, Frederich Pohl, Larry Niven, Harry Harrison etc etc. But if you find a book hard work that's ok - put it down and try another author.

My advice is to read short stories. There are some wonderful collections and the beauty is you can skip on to the next story when interest lags.

https://www.amazon.com/Great-Science-Fiction-Short-Stories/dp/0380507730

This sounds awesome man! Going to grab it after work today, I recently published my first novel too, the combo of mythology and science fiction massively intrigues me too, love that you're writing in this area! I'm really intrigued by the convergence of esoteric / occult narratives with science fiction, would love to exchange notes on the writing and publication process with you:

CYCLE: A People's History

• That's because I published the work in a 6 x 9 inch format in 12 pt font, rather than the conventional 4.25 x 6.87 format -- again, first time author. Granted, it is a little short, even for a novel -- it presently stands between Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Fahrenheit 451 in length, by word count.
  
• I'm not sure what you're implying by saying that. I'm far from an established author.
  
• Mostly because, as much as I'm aware of its imperfections, I'm satisfied with its final result. I've received as much critique as I think the book needs at this point. If major flaws emerge, I might consider a second edition.
  
• My book is available on Amazon here. I chose to publish through Lulu so that I might have a little more control over the publishing process. Looking back on it all, I'm not sure if I'd do that again.
  
• Mostly to share an idea and to entertain. I'm already blown away with the sales this has made as it is. If you're feeling more the latter than the former, I won't blame you -- and for that reason, I've kept the short stories that made up the outline of my first draft, for you to be able to enjoy in full, here.

Asimov on Science Fiction is a good book. The only other thing I can think of is the annual "Years Best Science Fiction" by Gardner Dozois. He has comment sections at the beginning that, if you were to read them all, would be a pretty good history of at least some pieces of SciFi's history.

Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds

or

Blindsight by Peter Watts

Depends on what sort of stuff you like, Blindsight is darker and pretty philosophical, focusing especially on consciousness and perception, while Pushing Ice is more classical sci-fi on a grander scale with a good helping of technical stuff and character drama/politics.

I loved Flowers for Algernon. A true classic.

Thirteen (US)/Black Man (UK) is a great novel by Richard Morgan with a pretty insane antagonist that should fit what you're looking for.

http://www.amazon.com/Thirteen-Richard-K-Morgan/dp/0345480899/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1395172304&sr=8-1&keywords=Thirteen+morgan

Excellent - BTW it look as if The Hercules Text is being re-released this spring!

You might enjoy Saturn Run by John Sandford.

https://www.amazon.com/Scientific-Romance-Novel-Ronald-Wright/dp/0312199996


Seems like there's one left

Treat yourself to a book you'll always treasure.

Not Science Fiction but if you want to know the science behind interstellar read errr.....The Science of Intestellar by Kip Thorne.

Robert Heinlein's Friday

Or a bigger one.

Mass Effect: Revelation
http://www.amazon.com/Mass-Effect-Revelation-Drew-Karpyshyn/dp/034549816X

Peter Hamilton - The Night's Dawn Trilogy

Book 1

Blueheart by Allison Sinclair is about a colony on a water world that is reaching a crisis point between the first settlers who were genetically altered to make living on a aquatic world easier, and the settlers who came after the colony was established and were never altered. There's a lot of tension between the two groups that could spark civil war.

It's got politics and economics, and is still pretty topical for some of its themes.

Gimme a fucking break.

FOUR entries for Hugh Howey? And three of them are about the same (meta)series?

What a joke.


Obvious omissions include:

The Dog Stars

The Passage

Through Darkest America

I Am Legend

And more...