A teenager asked me for recommendations to get into science fiction.
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A teenager asked me for recommendations to get into science fiction. I know she reads fantasy, but I guess they are different genres to her.
She said someone told her she should read Dune, and I said nooooo, you should not read Dune. I suggested Murderbot. What else should I recommend?
@boxofdelights Sticking with mostly "newer" stuff
NK Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy sort of straddles the fantasy/sf line and she might enjoy it.
For pure sf that isn't set in space and more biology oriented: Peter Watts' Starfish (I somehow never read the second and third in the trilogy so can't vouch for those)
I've read some of The Expanse (maybe the first five books?), they are good, but there are a lot of characters to keep track of and I got a bit burnt out by it all
Nicola Griffith's Ammonite is another that isn't set in space and more biology oriented
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A teenager asked me for recommendations to get into science fiction. I know she reads fantasy, but I guess they are different genres to her.
She said someone told her she should read Dune, and I said nooooo, you should not read Dune. I suggested Murderbot. What else should I recommend?
@boxofdelights Anything by Becky Chambers. Her work is unfailingly delightful, optimistic and engaging. https://www.otherscribbles.com/
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A teenager asked me for recommendations to get into science fiction. I know she reads fantasy, but I guess they are different genres to her.
She said someone told her she should read Dune, and I said nooooo, you should not read Dune. I suggested Murderbot. What else should I recommend?
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A teenager asked me for recommendations to get into science fiction. I know she reads fantasy, but I guess they are different genres to her.
She said someone told her she should read Dune, and I said nooooo, you should not read Dune. I suggested Murderbot. What else should I recommend?
@boxofdelights the Inn-keeper Chronicles. Nicely on the very border between Sci-fi and fantasy.
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A teenager asked me for recommendations to get into science fiction. I know she reads fantasy, but I guess they are different genres to her.
She said someone told her she should read Dune, and I said nooooo, you should not read Dune. I suggested Murderbot. What else should I recommend?
The Left Hand of Darkness — Le Guin
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A teenager asked me for recommendations to get into science fiction. I know she reads fantasy, but I guess they are different genres to her.
She said someone told her she should read Dune, and I said nooooo, you should not read Dune. I suggested Murderbot. What else should I recommend?
@boxofdelights
I think I started with Ray Bradbury. Sort of bridges the two.Also William Gibson.
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A teenager asked me for recommendations to get into science fiction. I know she reads fantasy, but I guess they are different genres to her.
She said someone told her she should read Dune, and I said nooooo, you should not read Dune. I suggested Murderbot. What else should I recommend?
@boxofdelights agreed on Dune, which has become outdated to no mean degree (barring the Butlerian jihad).
Perhaps the deeply dystopian and occasionally trippy Neuromancer and subsequent novels? Got a bit of the sex stuff in so I'm not sure how shielded said teen should be, and protagonist is man but costar is badass woman.
Theoretically, Asimov is interesting, but like Herbert hasn't really stood the test of time and gotten outdated.
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A teenager asked me for recommendations to get into science fiction. I know she reads fantasy, but I guess they are different genres to her.
She said someone told her she should read Dune, and I said nooooo, you should not read Dune. I suggested Murderbot. What else should I recommend?
Feed by MT Anderson
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
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@boxofdelights What fantasy does she like? Murderbot is a solid choice
@ansate I'll ask her about what fantasy she likes tomorrow. We meet at the library, so I'll get a stack of books for her to look through!
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@boxofdelights agreed on Dune, which has become outdated to no mean degree (barring the Butlerian jihad).
Perhaps the deeply dystopian and occasionally trippy Neuromancer and subsequent novels? Got a bit of the sex stuff in so I'm not sure how shielded said teen should be, and protagonist is man but costar is badass woman.
Theoretically, Asimov is interesting, but like Herbert hasn't really stood the test of time and gotten outdated.
@boxofdelights also, yeah feed that kid Murderbot
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A teenager asked me for recommendations to get into science fiction. I know she reads fantasy, but I guess they are different genres to her.
She said someone told her she should read Dune, and I said nooooo, you should not read Dune. I suggested Murderbot. What else should I recommend?
@boxofdelights For light comedy, R. Kroese, Starship Grifters?
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A teenager asked me for recommendations to get into science fiction. I know she reads fantasy, but I guess they are different genres to her.
She said someone told her she should read Dune, and I said nooooo, you should not read Dune. I suggested Murderbot. What else should I recommend?
@boxofdelights Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi. (First of three, which are waiting to be read...)
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A teenager asked me for recommendations to get into science fiction. I know she reads fantasy, but I guess they are different genres to her.
She said someone told her she should read Dune, and I said nooooo, you should not read Dune. I suggested Murderbot. What else should I recommend?
@boxofdelights The Lathe of Heaven
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A teenager asked me for recommendations to get into science fiction. I know she reads fantasy, but I guess they are different genres to her.
She said someone told her she should read Dune, and I said nooooo, you should not read Dune. I suggested Murderbot. What else should I recommend?
@boxofdelights l love Stanslaw Lem, but that may be a bit much to get started. But how about his short stories, The Cyberiad. Here's an example (a fave of mine) of one of them. How The World Was Saved: https://english.lem.pl/works/novels/the-cyberiad/146-how-the-world-was-saved
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@boxofdelights Anything by Becky Chambers. Her work is unfailingly delightful, optimistic and engaging. https://www.otherscribbles.com/
@Ooze Excellent!
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@dropbear I haven't read Service Model yet but I love all the Adrian Tchaikovsky I have read.
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A teenager asked me for recommendations to get into science fiction. I know she reads fantasy, but I guess they are different genres to her.
She said someone told her she should read Dune, and I said nooooo, you should not read Dune. I suggested Murderbot. What else should I recommend?
@boxofdelights I mentioned this to someone else recently, but...
I love Julie Czerneda's sci-fi books. I think my favorites are in her Species Imperative trilogy: https://bookshop.org/p/books/survival-species-imperative-1-julie-e-czerneda/36f8e644f506c6e2
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A teenager asked me for recommendations to get into science fiction. I know she reads fantasy, but I guess they are different genres to her.
She said someone told her she should read Dune, and I said nooooo, you should not read Dune. I suggested Murderbot. What else should I recommend?
@boxofdelights Mira Grant (Seanan McGuire)'s Newsflesh trilogy?
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@Ooze Excellent!
@boxofdelights @Ooze Becky Chambers is who I was going to recommend! Especially the Wayfarers Quartet: https://wayfarers.fandom.com/wiki/Wayfarers_series. Someone else recommended him too, but @scalzi is excellent.
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A teenager asked me for recommendations to get into science fiction. I know she reads fantasy, but I guess they are different genres to her.
She said someone told her she should read Dune, and I said nooooo, you should not read Dune. I suggested Murderbot. What else should I recommend?
@boxofdelights Becky Chambers' Wayfarer series, anything in Ursula K. Le Guin's Hainish Cycle, The Expanse series by "James S.A. Corey", Ken Liu's collections The Paper Menagerie and The Hidden Girl and Other Stories.
