I absolutely love to read and have a soft spot for good sci-fi. I've started with some of the recents series I've read and some of my favorites. I'll add much more as I have time.
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Becky Chambers
Natalie Zina Walschots
Kristyn Merbeth
Harry Harrison Stainless Steel Rat Series
Kevin J. Anderson - Nether Station
Tad Williams - Otherland
Becky Chambers
This author is absolutely charming. Her character driven books are set in a sci-fi future but focus on the personal stories and relationships across cultures and species.
First in a series interconnected stories of space exploration and intergalactic relations - time to meet the players.
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Book 2 - learn more about Pepper and really get to know Lovelace
A Closed and Common Orbit: Wayfarers, Book 2
Book 3 - Learn how humans got out into space
Record of a Spaceborn Few, Wayfarers Book 3
A charming tale of the small miracles that can happen when strangers are thrown together.
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within, Wayfarers Book 4
A standalone novel with a very realistic view of what humankind's first forays into other galaxies might really look like
To Be Taught If Fortunate
Natalie Zina Walschots
One book down, one book coming
A rollercoaster of a good time that will make you question what really is good and evil - a sequel is in pre-order right now.
Hench - a novel
Kristyn Merbeth
Family drama - space opera style. Join Scorpia and her siblings as they try to save the solar system.
Fortuna
More action packed space opera served family style.
Memoria (The Nova Vita Protocol, 2)
Thrilling wrap of of the Nova Vita trilogy.
Discordia (The Nova Vita Protocol Book 3)
Harry Harrison Stainless Steel Rat Series
An oldie but a goodie - Everything you could want - heists, humor, space battles, ground battles, spies, double agents, all presided over by the number one master criminal in the universe.
Not the first written, but the first in the timeline. Learn the origins of the stainless steel rat! And how cute little Jimmy DiGriz really was.
A Stainless Steel Rat is Born
You can't keep a good rat down. Set after a Stainless Steel Rat is Born and before his induction into the League.
The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted
The first written in the chronicle of Slippery Jim Di Griz. Here's where it all started, where it took a con man to con a con man into going (sorta) straight.
The Stainless Steel Rat
Jim DiGriz a daddy! Whoa, but that doesn't stop him from getting into all sorts of crazy trouble.
The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge
Time travel and wisecracking to make your head spin. Jim is off again - this time to save the world.
The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World
Nothing stops the rat - not even slimy aliens who think he's incredibly sexy…
The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You
When the family needs a little break what better to do - visit a tropical paradise planet and save it from a dictator!
The Stainless Steel Rat for President
Literally - Jim forms a rock band to infiltrate a prison planet.
The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues
Keep a rat down - never! Not even in the underworld - but Jim will do anything to save his precious Angelina.
The Stainless Steel Rat Goes To Hell
An idle rat is a bored rat - so off to more adventures, this time in the circus!
The Stainless Steel Rat Joins The Circus
The last in the series, long may Harry Harrison be remembered and long live the Stainless Steel Rat.
The Stainless Steel Rat Returns
Kevin J. Anderson - Nether Station
New Series! - Sci-fi horror at it's best. This one will leave your skin crawling for more.
Great sci-fi with a good dose of the heebie-jeebies. Awesome cliffhanger ending makes me desperate for the next installment!
Nether Station
Tad Williams - Otherland
Be forewarned these books are looooooong - but you will not regret the ride. Sci-fi with a fantasy twist, when the world of immersive AI turns sinister.
Book One - Anything can happen in the world of AI.
Otherland: City of Golden Shadow
Book 2- What happens when you can't unplug…
Otherland: River of Blue Fire
Book 3 - the hunt continues
Otherland: Mountain of Black Glass
Book 4 - will they ever get back to the real world
Otherland: Sea of Silver Light
Hugh Howey
Acclaimed author or the Silo Series, recently adapted into a miniseries.
Read the stories that inspired the show. Will mankind ever be able to go outside again?
Wool: A Thriller of Survival in Darkness
Find out how why people entered the silos in the first place.
Shift: The Silo Saga, Book 2
Find out if there will ever be an escape from the silos.
Dust: Book Three of the Silo Series (Silo, 3)
Kazuo Ishiguro
From across two cultures comes one of the most striking and sad works of science fiction ever written.
Probably the most melancholy science fiction ever written.
