This is a crazy big list of books I've not read. You are making my TBR too big to keep up with. Great video. Thank you so much for always giving me something good to read
Yet another outstanding piece. Given your choice of authors I'm familiar with (Barry, Clines, Suarez, Howie, and more), I've no choice but to look into the others. Thank you. Well done.
Great list! I have not read any books by Robert Sawyer, Chris Panatier, Daniel Suarez, or J.S. Dewes, so now I'm going to check them out. Thanks! Sea of Rust and Day Zero by C. Robert Cargill might fit your criteria.
Yes! Prey was pretty damn good. I also enjoyed Sphere, which is A LOT better a book than the movie they made after it. Congo was nice as well. However, even if it's very dry, The Andromeda Strain is my favorite Crichton.
I've read Sylvain Neuvel's "The History of What Comes Next". It wasn't very good. It had good ideas, but it just tended to go on. I prefer late twentieth century SF.
If you like the original Star Trek and Galaxy Quest - Willful Child by Steven Erickson. This predates your criteria by a few years, but does it get any more sci fi on the beach than dolphins in space in the Uplift War by David Brin?
Wow! Lot’s of good choices. Have read Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven and loved it. You reminded me of Michael Crichton and I quickly hopped over to Amazon to check out his books. Long ago I read Andromeda Strain and was reminded how much I enjoyed it. I was pleasantly surprised to find it was a duology. I quickly bought both books on Kindle and will read on the long flight to Italy in about 10 days. Thanks for all the good reads.
I'm glad I read books from at least 4 of the authors and I know of most of the other. Martha Wells's Murderbot series is what I'd start with, lightweight easy to pick up. Dennis E.Taylor's Bobbiverse would be my second choice. I would add Becky Chambers to the list, great author with lots of well reviewed works. To be taught if fortunate novel is great, the two part Monk & Robot is also great, and the Wayfarers series is also worth reading.
Gully Foyle is mad that you didn't mention The Stars My Destination. He is repairing his spaceship, and is coming after you. Takeshi Kovacs will come for you for forgetting Altered Carbon, after he gets a new skin.
How can you go with light reads in the Sci-fi genre without the Lady of Sci-fi, Lois McMaster Bujold??? And for humor, Barry J. Hutchinson Love all you your suggestions otherwise though 😊!
Gonna check out The Fold. I read 14 years ago and enjoyed all the different personalities in the very unique apartment complex. I appreciate the smorgasbord of authors and novels to dive into. Thank you.
I loved The Light Brigade, Jurassic Park, and Murderbot ❤. Thanks for all the cool recs! I'd never heard of Daniel Suarez and his books particularly caught my eye.
Love the overall video but just try to work with the editor so you can have a better voice management and some visuals. Looking forward to check out more stuff coming ;)
Change Agent by Suarez was great - must get onto his others. It was a superior version (IMHO) of Blake Crouch's Upgrade. That said, I loved Dark Matter and Recursion by Crouch. The Pines trilogy is sitting on the shelf too. I didn't enjoy Redshirts by Scalzi as much as a lot of folk seem to, but loved Old Man's War. The less said about his book Android's Dream the better...
Great list! Curious about most authors here, though I gotta say - I'm kinda turned off of reading any more Robert J. Sawyer after his dull Spin series.
Superbo as ever! An edition on funny sci-fi would be great. Some of it is very po-faced at times. I'm definitely going to get some John Scalzi. You've goaded me into it. Thank you.
Thanks so much for all your hard work compiling this list. I will definitely have to pick up the two authors I’ve overlooked. Enjoy your summer reading! ✌️😺
