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Bernardo de La Paz

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41. Canticle is a literary classic, it is that good, imo

Mon Mar 24, 2025, 03:24 PM

Mar 24

Librarians / archivists are a useful vehicle for expository sections of a story. Speculative fiction, being more completely in the imagination than all but a few genres, requires expository sections so the reader can pick up a sense of how the futures / alternative realities / exoplanets / magical devices function.

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Recommend me some sci-fi! [View all] Rizen Mar 23 OP

"The Door Into Summer", Heinlein.. Permanut Mar 23 #1

It is slightly off, but the cat aspect and prediction of everyday robots make it one of my favourites. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Mar 23 #5

I'd recommend The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, his third Hugo winner. rsdsharp Mar 23 #17

Read that when I was really young (there was lots of f&sf in my folks' house) & that cat became ... Hekate Mar 24 #33

If you want some old sci-fi (1947) try "The World of Null A" by A. E. van Vogt. wcmagumba Mar 23 #2

I've been reading a Jack Finley book of short stories about time travel stories kimbutgar Mar 23 #3

Jack Finley wrote Invasion of the Body Snatchers JoseBalow Mar 23 #8

Thanks I'll check it out! kimbutgar Mar 23 #11

Heinlein wrote the greatest time travel story ever, the gender-bending "All You Zombies", which has no zombies Bernardo de La Paz Mar 23 #20

Thank you saving to read later! kimbutgar Mar 23 #22

If you like time-travel, look for anything by Connie Willis. Genevieve Cogman's Invisible Library series is good too. Hekate Mar 24 #34

Something from Philip K. Dick, perhaps? EYESORE 9001 Mar 23 #4

Nah. Dick is great,; he's more like Miles Davis. Harlan Ellison is Frank Zappa. More extreme writers are thrash rock Bernardo de La Paz Mar 23 #10

There's a joke in there somewhere.. Permanut Mar 23 #23

How would you classify William Tenn, then? malthaussen Mar 24 #39

Have read some, but can't remember Bernardo de La Paz Mar 24 #40

Not weird enough. malthaussen Mar 24 #46

Delta-v Bluestocking Mar 23 #6

"The Dragonriders of Pern" by Anne McCaffrey Glorfindel Mar 23 #7

Canticle for Leibowitz has stayed with me forever.... Hekate Mar 24 #35

Canticle is a literary classic, it is that good, imo Bernardo de La Paz Mar 24 #41

The Past Through Tomorrow by Heinlein contains the very current "If This Goes On --" Bernardo de La Paz Mar 23 #9

Anything by Joe Abercrombie especially Fichefinder Mar 23 #12

Fantasy not sci-fi Bluestocking Mar 23 #14

It's a broad and inclusive genre, though Hekate Mar 24 #36

Something from Jack L Chalker Humboldt Sage Mar 23 #13

+1 to well of souls nt flying rabbit Mar 23 #18

Welcome to DU LetMyPeopleVote Mar 24 #43

Sounds like John-Scalzi would be where we overlap Terry_M Mar 23 #15

Any of the E. E. Doc Smith paperbacks. Tons of books, and I bet I have over 50 of his titles and most are short SWBTATTReg Mar 23 #16

For fun reading, I recommend Christopher Stasheff, The Warlock in Spite of Himself ms liberty Mar 23 #19

I have a couple of suggestions LogDog75 Mar 23 #21

Never read the Foundation series. Might see if I can get it as e books from my library.... electric_blue68 Mar 23 #25

Sprawling, Serious But W Great Humor,and fabulous aliens, and cool humans.... electric_blue68 Mar 23 #24

The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven & Jerry Pourneille Dan Mar 23 #26

'The Incarnations of Immortality' series by Piers Anthony. OldBaldy1701E Mar 23 #27

Start with Connie Willis, specifically PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 23 #28

That's the second Connie Willis recommendation. hunter Mar 24 #42

Now Wait for Last Year by Philip K. Dick Mousetoescamper Mar 23 #29

Start with Connie Willis, "The Doomsday Book". PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 23 #30

I like Connie from her short stories... ended up reading All Clear... electric_blue68 Mar 24 #44

The Expanse series Morbius Mar 23 #31

Al of these by Becky Chambers werdna Mar 24 #32

All of Zelazny's stuff is great. Read more of his novels. I also recommend: FSogol Mar 24 #37

Lois McMaster Bujold, the Vorkosigen saga. malthaussen Mar 24 #38

Norman Spinrad justaprogressive Mar 24 #45