6 Sci-Fi Books That Will Make You Think

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In today’s video I’m joined by Jack from ‪@bookjack‬ to discuss some philosophical and literary science fiction recommendations. Let us know some of your favorites!
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00:00 - Introduction
01:10 - Parable of the Sower
07:32 - Flowers for Algernon
12:09 - The Sirens of Titan
18:31 - The Children of Men
25:07 - The Lathe of Heaven
33:11 - More Than Human
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15 июн 2024

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@bookjack 3 месяца назад

Thanks for inviting me Jonathan it was a lot of fun! And no worries about wanting to sacrifice me. I understand 😅

@WordsinTime 3 месяца назад

Thanks for joining me! And we appreciate your sacrifice! 🫡

@bookspin 3 месяца назад

I love Jack's channel! That was an interesting chat, some great thought-provoking reads. Lathe of Heaven is a definite favourite of mine

@WordsinTime 3 месяца назад

Jack’s channel is great! I’m looking forward to The Lathe of Heaven.

@nangaleema 3 месяца назад

Can't wait to read Sirens of Titan now and also Children of Men! Great video, guys!

@WordsinTime 3 месяца назад

Thanks! I hope you enjoy as much as we did!

@RenkotheLibrarian 3 месяца назад

Two of my favorite booktubers! Can't wait to dig into this one!

@WordsinTime 3 месяца назад

Glad you enjoy Jack’s channel too!

@lisacole6037 3 месяца назад

Lathe of Heaven is a fantastic book. Also loved The Children of Men and Parable of the Sower. I would like to read the Sturgeon book! It sounds interesting.

@WordsinTime 3 месяца назад

Nice! I’m looking forward to those two. Hope you enjoy More Than Human!

@raylowrey2623 3 месяца назад

Great video Jonathan! And to Jack as well! Loved it

@WordsinTime 3 месяца назад

Thanks Ray! I always enjoy Jack’s recommendations.

@EricMcLuen 3 месяца назад

When reading Lathe I had to check when it was written a few times due to the themes presented - 1971. See Dispossessed for LeGuin's ideas on anarchy. For me, her ideas are much more engaging than her stories.

@WordsinTime 3 месяца назад

It will be interesting to read more of her work!

@MenilikHenryDyer 3 месяца назад

I've seen the movie 'Children of Men' but never read the book. Just added it to my TBR.

@WordsinTime 3 месяца назад

It’s quite different, but I think worth a read!

@marjoriedonnett5467 3 месяца назад

The first book I read by Vonnegut was Galapagos. After that gem, I was hooked. The Sirens of Titan is my favorite. When the Library of America offered his novels. as a set (at a big discount) I just HAD to buy them. I'll never be sorry. I also really was impressed The Lathe of Heaven, but prefer The Left Hand of Darkness (I cried at the end).

@WordsinTime 3 месяца назад

I’m glad you also connected with Vonnegut!

@carlizinea 3 месяца назад

I would include the three body problem series there too. Pretty cool list, every video you post makes my tbr list grow

@WordsinTime 3 месяца назад

Yes, The Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy melted my mind haha

@carlizinea 3 месяца назад

@@WordsinTime it's amazing how it keeps escalating, you think the first book is mindblowing, you read the second and it's even more, in the third book you see that you don't know anything, it's perfect!!

@bookdmb 3 месяца назад

Congrats on 10k!

@WordsinTime 3 месяца назад

Thanks so much! 🤜 🤛

@joebrooks4448 3 месяца назад

Really interesting books and commentary. I have read 4 of the selections, but a long time ago! For some more relatively complex and mind-blowing SF, you may like "Lord Of Light" - Zelazny. Or really mind-blowing, but concerningly credible (the early parts of the novel), "A Plague of Demons" - Keith Laumer.

@WordsinTime 3 месяца назад

Thanks Joe! I have read Lord of Light and I’ll have to check out A Plague of Demons!

@the_eerie_faerie_tales 3 месяца назад

awesome! love Jack's channel. 😊

@WordsinTime 3 месяца назад

Jack is great!

@davlang3783 3 месяца назад

The Lathe of Heaven was a great read, really enjoyed it.

@WordsinTime 3 месяца назад

Nice! I’m looking forward to it!

@the_eerie_faerie_tales 3 месяца назад

I'm guessing there will be a Vonnegut on this list.. let's see if I'm right!

@WordsinTime 3 месяца назад

Haha I won’t spoil it but we are both Vonnegut fans!

@the_eerie_faerie_tales 3 месяца назад

😄

@keithdixon6595 3 месяца назад

If you like Flowers for Algernon, you should try Camp Concentration by Thomas M. Disch, which has a similar plot but with a much higher level of intelligence and a fantastic twist ending. Glad Vonnegut was chosen too!

@keithdixon6595 3 месяца назад

Having watched all the video now (!) I don't think Vonnegut is saying we're all trapped in our fate, but he's pointing out the smallness of humankind in the great scheme of things. So the introduction of aliens here is to broaden our horizons to encompass the universe, not just to consider our tiny Earth as all there is.

@WordsinTime 3 месяца назад

I’ve heard good things about Disch, so I’m looking forward to trying his books!

@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk 3 месяца назад

Just finishes Dune. New to this book tube malarkey and finding my way around. Best wishes from wet windy darkest Lancashire, England. Hope you are reading something good.

@WordsinTime 3 месяца назад

Thanks for joining us! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

@colin1818 3 месяца назад

I was expecting "Permutation City." But I guess that book doesn't so much make you think as it blows your mind.

@WordsinTime 3 месяца назад

Don’t even know what to think anymore 🤯

@colin1818 3 месяца назад

@@WordsinTime - I'm amazed you even CAN think anymore

@Zivilin 3 месяца назад

I was expecting permutation city too. Seems impossible to be a WordsinTime video without that mention. 😂

@colin1818 3 месяца назад

@@Zivilin - Dude, you must be reading my mail 🤣

@Kim_Miller 3 месяца назад

I just finished Watts' Firefall duo this afternoon. Started Blindsight on Monday, finished Echopraxia on Thursday. My mind is clamouring around out there somewhere and the last thing I want to do is head straight into another book that will "make me think." A bit of Terry Pratchett is probably on the menu before I add something from this video. 😀

@WordsinTime 3 месяца назад

Haha take a brain break!

@ilanahalupovich Месяц назад

Spider Robinson Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (short stories collections are better than full lengths books)

@WordsinTime Месяц назад

I’ll have to look him up!

@Talking_Story 3 месяца назад

Loooove Flowers for Algernon

@WordsinTime 3 месяца назад

Yes! It’s so good! 🐁

@civoreb 3 месяца назад

Overlooked gem and one recommended by Moid and Bookpilled is Master of Paxwax by Phillip Mann 😂

@WordsinTime 3 месяца назад

I’ll have to check it out!

@civoreb 3 месяца назад

@@WordsinTime To be honest, dont. It is a running joke between them two. They were sending copies to each other for a while.

@WordsinTime 3 месяца назад

@@civoreb Haha the title had me suspicious

@MediaDeathCult 3 месяца назад

I've never read it

@FrankOdonnell-ej3hd 3 месяца назад

read the vonnegut and the p d james which I loved and saw a tv movie based on the lathe of heaven recall it being very dark anyway didn't know about bookjack before but now have a new sci-fi booktuber to replace one who's sadly left the scene⚛😀

@WordsinTime 3 месяца назад

Glad you liked those two! I think you’ll enjoy Jack’s channel.

@bartsbookspace 3 месяца назад

The Lathe of Heaven and More Than Human are both great choices for thought provoking SF. 👍 But, my god, stay away from Artemis!!! 😂 And truth it’s been 5-6 years since I read it and I guess I remember a couple of interesting moments from the book, but overall it was a huge disappointment for me.

@WordsinTime 3 месяца назад

Haha almost everyone dislikes Artemis, which is surprising because his other two books are so good!

@bartsbookspace 3 месяца назад

@@WordsinTime Yes, I love both Project and Martian, but Artemis lacks the heart that makes the other two books so pleasurable. And I think it was the high expectations I had going into the read that ultimately made it disappointing. If it was just a book written by an author I haven't read, I would have likely thought, "It was fine".

@psikeyhackr6914 3 месяца назад

*Daemon* & *Freedom* by Daniel Suarez

@WordsinTime 3 месяца назад

I own Daemon. I’m looking forward to it!

@psikeyhackr6914 3 месяца назад

@@WordsinTime Get Freedom before you finish Daemon. Freedom is not really a sequel. It is the second half of a single story.

@brettrobson5739 3 месяца назад

Sorry to be late to the party (again). The thought struck me that all of these books, great choices by the way, were written in very simple prose. You shouldn't let the style get in the way of the literature of ideas. The lack of modern books of this standard is a symptom of the modern publishing malaise. Someone should write a story about it.

@WordsinTime 3 месяца назад

Interesting observation! I think modern readers enjoy character driven stories, but there are still ideas driven books out there.

@jeremywvarietyofviewpoints3104 2 месяца назад

Is that a mild New Zealand accent? I'm trying to figure out the accent.

@WordsinTime 2 месяца назад

Haha close! I lived 6 years in England, then 18 years in Australia, then 10 years in the US. It’s a bit mixed but mostly Australian.

@jeremywvarietyofviewpoints3104 2 месяца назад

@WordsinTime I'm Australian, and I didn't get the accent. I did wonder if it was mixed.

@WordsinTime 2 месяца назад

@@jeremywvarietyofviewpoints3104 🇦🇺🍻

@coaldoubt2879 3 месяца назад

no blindsight?

@WordsinTime 3 месяца назад

Blindsight is fantastic, I’ve talked about it in several videos.

@bookjack 3 месяца назад

I meant to mention it when talking about Parable of the Sower. Similar idea about the liability of empathy

@BAMCIS2841 3 месяца назад

I did not like the ending of Children of Men. Too much of a rainbow after the storm kinda thing. I think it would have been more fitting if the endings were swapped, if you can understand my meaning without giving away spoilers.

@WordsinTime 3 месяца назад

Yeah, I could see that working.