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What sci-fi would you recommend next? (lemmy.utveckla.re)

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I have soon finshed all of The Expanse (which I have enjoyed immensely) and last month I finished Peter F Hilton’s Pandoras Star. While I enjoyed the second half of Pandoras Star, they (it’s a trilogy) are such heavy books with rather slow pace. One of my favorite reads last year was Recursion by Blake Crouch - it’s fast paced and just a plain joy to read. The same goes for The Martian and Project Hail Mary.

Given this, do you have any recommendations for what to read next?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I read Solaris recently and was genuinely blown away.

Stanislaw Lem was a genius. I recommend also 'Fiasko'. 'Ichon Tyhchy' is also great, it's a collection of humoristic sci-fi short stories. I've been contemplating learning polish just to be able to read Lem, it's been said a lot of his word play gets lost in translation. Although I have to admit the descriptions of the geometrical forms in the ocean in Solaris where just too much and I skipped those pages entirely.