Recs if you like Consider Phlebas...
Hey! Who put their leftist politics in my fiction?
Need a gift for your extremist family member, but they already have a red baseball cap AND a Don't Tread on Me shirt? Were you told "Don't bring up politics at family dinner" and need some safe books to discuss instead? Well we have a full menu for you to choose from! Each just for fun book comes with our guarantee: No real world political messages under the 100% fictional plot! 😉 (Taking Recommendations!)
you think you just fell out of the coconut tree?
"you exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you" sci-fi edition canon sci-fi authors (before the year 2000) that have shaped the science fiction we have today. suggestions are enthusiastically welcome ✨ (1 book per author)
📣MEGASTRUCTURES📣
and Big Dumb Objects (BDO). Constructs or Objects that are terrifying and/or awe-inspiring, invoking a sense of mortality and fragility in you.
- Includes Labyrinthine Spaces as a subset for now.
But WAIT. There’s hope. ✨FICTION✨
Straight from the Solarpunk Manifesto, “We are solarpunks because the only other options are denial or despair.”
What if there’s more to our future? What if we were optimistic?
Below are the fiction books that have made it to O.E. Tearmann’s Open List of Positive and Hopeful Futures
I’ll make another list for the nonfiction and for the anthologies. Feel free to suggest any recs!
one robot allowed because they look very polite
Sentient Ships
The ships are also characters
D20 A Starstruck Odyssey
Dropout TV gives us A Starstruck Odyssey inspired by the comic based off the stage play set on a spaceship called The Worst venturing across planets to save a moon! From droids to slugs this season has it all! This may be one of the best seasons of Dimension 20 with the ridiculous humor and classic Intrepid Heroes heart.
📣 A Series of Standalones 📣
A hodge podge collection from different genres of series that are interconnected standalones. In this list, you'll only find the first book that introduce each series. Books in interconnected standalones usually have contained stories but share lore throughout the series or might have an overarching plot that is shared by the characters in each book. Do recommend any you can think of as I want to max out the 100 book capacity allowed here.
Space Empires
A curated list of books concerning or taking place in space empires
The Folio Society Collection
A list of all the books that the Folio Society has made special editions of.
Sword and Laser Podcast
A list of books selected for the Sword and Laser Podcast
Iain (M.) Banks Oeuvre
Reading the oeuvre of Iain Banks, sometimes styled with an M.
Grasp tightly - 🐙 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ reads
Books I gave 5 stars to
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