Such a great way to discover new books - I watch booktube mainly to learn about books for my TBR list. This is an excellent formula that I hope to see in more videos.
What a wonderful way to find new books for my TBR pile! Thank you! I'm especially looking forward to The Strange, Borne, and The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet. These sound so good!
Great video. Started with a bang as I’d seen the TV show and read the book. Loved The Expanse so thank you for the Paolini recommendation. Another one for my TBR list. But then a good number of the other suggestions we’re completely unknown to me so thank you (not Firefly of course). And your recommendation for Becky Chambers if you like Firefly is so spot on. That’s a great read.
The Orville is satire that often doesn't feel like satire, but an actual Star Trek type show. I actually view it as the best Star Trek series since DS9.
New subscriber here, I am really enjoying this content. I just started several series, and have been enjoying reading sci-fi since the 80’s. I have watched several of these series, and I do appreciate the blending of themes, and plot with other books. Good idea. Thanks for video.
Awesome video! Severance is one of my all time favorites and Permutation City is on my long tbr. I read Egan’s Diaspora and thought it was mind blowing though difficult to read, most of it went over my head…
I was kind of glad I didn't watch Firefly when it came out because it was cancelled and fans were so upset. Then Serenity came out. I was already feeling so left out of the whole Firefly phenomenon. So I figured, why not. I was LOVING it. Even before the movie ended, I was thinking, okay, I'm going to have to go back and watch the show. AND THEN THEY DID THAT THING. Not going to spoil. Everyone who's seen it knows. I was loving the story! I was loving the characters! And then, BAM. I was SO upset. I can't recall if I saw Serenity before or after I binged Buffy / Angel for the first time. Whatever the order, I figured out the hard way that Joss Whedon apparently hates his characters and his audience and loves to do cruel things to them both, and for no good storytelling reason. Never again, Whedon. Never! /rant (Not at you! At Whedon. Messed me up forever. LOL.)
@@secretsauceofstorycraft I don't think I'd heard of this book but my brain immediately thought "Amazon" when I saw the design of it, even before you started talking or I actually read the cover at all. Amazon already does kinda run the world. Our brains have been SO conditioned!
My 2 cents worth: if you like The Expanse read C.J.Cherryh's Alliance/Union books start with Heavy Time/ Hellburner, mystery and politics with Earth-Mars-Belter factions.
🚀 An alternate pick for “For All Mankind” is Stephen Baxter’s “NASA Trilogy” starting with “Voyage”, a series that I read decades ago but remember fondly to this day.
You could also try the collected 'The Boys' comics in graphic novel form. It's pretty violent though. Yes even compared to the TV series... Severance, pretty much any Philip K Dick, but probably Paycheck, which was also made into a movie. The Orville, you might like John Scalzi's Red Shirts.
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars now has a companion book (book zero!) so it's no longer standalone. But since I loved The Expanse and haven't read anything from PAU-LEE-NEE ( :D ) since Eragon, I am excited to try it. Thanks!
Also, related to worlds or very imaginative biology, though somewhat grotesque, may I recommend The Bone World Trilogy by Peadar Ó Guilín. I admit I may recommend also because I want to see how you pronounce his name :D but it was a really good series. At least the first book was amazing.
Another rec in the vein as For All Mankind, I highly suggest A History of What Comes Next. The first book in the Take Them to the Stars trilogy by Sylvain Neuvel. A not-so-alternative history of the space race with and interesting genealogical sci-fi story tying everything together.
Random - I'm in love with your green (bluish?) chair. Is it comfortable for reading or just for filming? If good for reading, and you ever get tired of it, send it to me!
I was looking up that 'Severance' show because I'd never heard of it. From a review on Collider: 'Severance' Is the TV Show You Need to Binge This Winter "When Lumon employees arrive at work and take the elevator to the severed floor, all memory of what they do outside of work is erased entirely, and vice versa." Where can I sign up for a job like that? ;)
BTW, thanks A LOT for the Scavengers Reign reference. How come the best things remain obscured, walled, ignored? Just started watching it - having to obtain in some other way because in my country it's not even on Max!! - and it's great! A kind of planetary survival story, Aeon Flux style.
What about. The reverse? Books that need a tv adaptation or just getting one? For example dark matter book is getting an Apple TV series! Check the trailer! 🤯🤯🤯🤯
Have you ever watched Dark Matter (not the upcoming show on Apple+, but the one that was on the SyFy channel)? It's a space opera similar to Firefly (not quite that good, though). First of all, if you haven't, you should. If you have, what books would you recommend for those of us who enjoyed it?
I have def seen dark matter…. I’d probably recommend project hail mary since they both start waking up confused on space ship…. But i will consider it more. Maybe for next video :)
I got to the end and was still waiting for the plot. For a split second, I actually thought I was missing the last chapters of the book. But to each their own! I'm sure there's books I love that others hate.
@@Siderite Ha! The Night Circus was the same for me. Beautiful imagery/writing, but I got to the end and felt like I'd fallen off a cliff. WHERE'S THE STORY?!
I don’t think I would call the Orville a parody of Star Trek the next generation. It’s more like star the next generation with more humor. It definitely had and tackled the real Science Fiction issues. Those serious topics got a serious as the most serious stuff on the next generation. There is a familiarity to it in the sunset. It resemble Star Trek the next generation in a Starfleet like thing a Federation like thing stories based around a starship crew, etc., but it’s its own thing I would consider a parody being something like Spaceballs was a parody of Star Wars. The Orville is not like that to Star Trek, oh heck AutoCorrect is messing this up. I’m just gonna click send anyways.
👍🏻 everyone is entitled to their own definition of parody/satire but they very often have serious stuff underneath and the Orville has some great discussions regardless of how u classify it!
@@secretsauceofstorycraft I've never been a "cover buy" person. But that Borne cover is so gorgeous. The premise also sounds interesting. I've been wondering about it for a while.
