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What are some of your, "If I like this, what else might I like" questions? (lemm.ee)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (7 children)

The discworkd series

William Gibson's books

Neal Stephenson's books (except Anathem, too looong)

Bartimaeus series by Jonathan Stroud

Dan Simmons books

The Atrocity archives by Charles Stross (just discovered this one, a must read!)

The master and Margarita

Kunderna (the old ones)

Umberto Eco (especially Baudolino)

So basically sci-fi or fantasy in a plausible heavy setting I guess :-D

Edit: forgot the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy OFC!

My mind got jogged so I'll add Catch 22 by Joseph Heller to the list too. IMO definitely a good read if you liked the HHGTTG.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Discworld is sometimes compared to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. That's to say they're both heavily tongue-in-cheek, not "hard" scifi/fantasy. HGTTG is "hard" scifi in the same way Rincewind is Gandalf - ie not at all. They're running more on Rule of Funny, and it works pretty well. Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams were both English, of course, and have quite a bit of overlap in their humor, commentary and writing style.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah a favourite from my youth, actually got hooked when they aired on Swedish radio!

It's just so long time ago I forgot them, perfect suggestion!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Plausible, heavy setting - Discworld πŸ€”

Regarding the first, have you tried the Robin Hobb books?

I don’t know many that are similar to discworld though. Maybe Good Omens by Sir Terry Pratchet and Neil Gaimen

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

😁 Well people act as (evil, bad, stupid, capricious, vicious, power hungry, but also good in lots of ways) people do and the world itself is quite well built IMO.

Yeah I have one or two Robin Hobb, IIRC it was like okay but a bit meh, I'll check it out again.

Good omens was okay, not my favourite though.

Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

We definitely have similar taste.

You'd probably like 'The City & The City' by China Mieville

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Thank you, just ordered the book 😊.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

The Master and the... MARGARITA??

Edit: Bought.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

You are in for a great ride. Great read.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Try some Vonnegut if you haven't. hgttg really feels like a derivative of Sirens of Titan in particular. Slaughterhouse 5 is one of my favorites too

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I'll check him out, read some pages of Sirens of Titans and weeelll it feels a tad old if you get what I mean, like even if it was a really good book then, the tropes have worn out now. Will check out though!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Anything by Ian McDonald.

This is How You Lose the Time War

Black Science, Paper Girls (graphic novels)

The Crow (the movie)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
  • Bobiverse series by Dennis E Taylor
  • Starsight series by Brandon Sanderson
  • Starship's Mage series by Glynn Stewart
  • Starship for sale series by M. R. Forbes

All of these are very light reading. I think the target demographic for this sort of stuff is teenagers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Thanks but I'm into more heavy duty stuff :-)