Thanks for this! I am a huge Star Trek fan. Watching old episodes of Star Trek for comfort and reassurance is something I do all the time. So, regarding the books, I read Redshirts when it came out and enjoyed it, but haven't read it again. I will definitely look at Elder Race and The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. Have you read any of the other books in the Small Angry Planet series? Anyway, thanks again for the video! 🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖
Up Against it is one of those books where I feel like I'm the only one who has read it as no one else ever mentions it. Until now! Let's see, How about Battlestar Galactica both original and remake, and Westworld.
I really liked Star Trek Voyager. I thought Janeway was a great character and a very realistic female captain. I feel like some recent shows have done a bad job with strong female characters (Captain Marvel, Galadriel in Rings of Power), but I can't exactly express why they seem wrong while someone like Janeway seems true to life.
Ooo, “Up Against It” particularly caught my ear, and I can score a copy from one of our 🇬🇧 bookshops too. Bonus! One of my favourite SF TV shows is “Blake’s 7” which is coincidentally getting a season 1 remastered Blu-ray release in November. I am massively excited about this, because it has been a great many orbits around the sun since I watched it and thus I know what I’m going to be doing this Xmas 😊
I like Becky Chambers work so I'll have to check that one out. I read Adrian Tchaikovsky's books on your recommendation and thought they were great so thanks for that too. 🛸
I'm a huge Trekkie too with my favorites being TNG and DS9. Wasn't a huge fan of Redshirts though. I appreciate what Scalzi was doing with it, but it felt like it really jumped the shark.
Great Idea. You could extend the media to vidoe games. For example many people consider 'Soma' to be a horror themed game. But at it's core it is a deeply sci fi story. I think it has one the most compelling and mind bending narrative I've witnessed in any game.
One thing I enjoyed about The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet is the aliens seem /really/ alien -- not just humans with stuff glued to their foreheads or a normal human characteristic taken to extreme (cough, Star Trek, cough). Also, the crew had a great chemistry.
Great video! Its bringing several books to the forefront of my tbr. I loved all the Star Treks, with DS9 as maybe my favorite. I wish I could see them in a better format on tv, without the two black bars on either side.
In fact I read Elder Race last month based on a prior recommendation of yours. Really enjoyed it! ☺️ Long Way to a Small Angry Planet definitely on the list. 📺
I’m a Star Trek fan and I’ve been wanting to rewatch Next Generation and Voyager since those are my favorites by far! I love Elder Race!! I really want to read more of his books.
I am a fan of Star Trek - Original Series. I would watch with my Dad. I did watch TNG as well, but I don't remember it as well as TOS. I just love The Trio dynamic from TOS. The red shirt book does sound like something I would like. I don't read a lot of sci-fi, but I would like for that to change. I actually have, like 50 books, my old library gave me of Star Trek TOS novels! That was so nice of them. =)
I grew up on " New Generation" just as it's Polish tv it disappeared for years at some point. I really enjoyed "Redshirts" first time I've read it but I gave a listen to the audiobook before holidays. It goes even more meta being read by Will Wheaton.
Another great video! This was an especially fun one. I look forward to reading Redshirts, Elder Race, and the long way to a small angry planet. They have all been on my shelf or my kindle for quite some time. The Szal series definitely sounds interesting as does Up Against It. 📺
Really loving these videos about "If you like this, then you will like that". Thank you. I love reading Science Fiction, and am currently reading Star Trek: Post Nemesis (the last TNG movie) era...called the Trek Lit Reading Flowchart. I've read about 35-36 books of a 80+ book "trek". Having a LOT of fun. It is really cool, since there are many points of entry...and "of course" you can skip around (which I have been doing). Also love The Expanse. Still need to read ALL the novellas. I've read a few of the novellas, but haven't completed them all. Love the books associated to this series...and have read a few of them. Again, thanks for doing this. PS - I'm also reading the Star Wars: Legend/Extended Universe books at the moment, too. I'm about 80+ books in, and just a little ways into the Galaxy, far, far away. I'm currently in The Clone War era...so it is in the Rise of the Empire time period. So much fun. Again, thank you.
Definite Trekkie here and as for as recommendations I know Firefly has been said would add a movie/tv show from the late 80s to early 90s Alien Nation. On the surface it was a cop buddy drama but with the twist of an Alien species having arrived in pods all through out the world and being integrated into the human population. Not sure if there are books similar but would be interesting if there were.
this might be a tough nut to crack but I'm curious if anyone's got any suggestions for stories like Farscape! I just finished the show for the first time and adored it to bits, especially in regards to The Hensen Company's additions to the overall tone
Most of those sound interesting (read the Becky Chambers and actually just picked-up the entire Shards trilogy from a charity shop last week for the equivalent of about 2 dollars - result ! :). Star Trek-esqe: i'm two thirds through and enjoying (after a slightly bumpy start IMO) the "Universe After" trilogy by Drew Williams. Or one of my all-time faves, "Excession" by Iain M Banks. Expanse-esque: Alan M Steele's "Rude Astronauts" books don't seem to get much love these days (been a while, maybe they haven't aged well ?) but I remember them having a similar near future realism and "roughnecks in space" feel (minus the "big sci-fi" aspects). Black Mirror-esque: I feel like quite a few sci-fi stories are, in that they often warn of the downside of technology (think it was Fred Pohl that said something like "If someone invents the car it's up to sci-fi writers to invent the traffic jam" :) but I recently enjoyed the Inscape trilogy by Louise Carey which, to me, has some similar tech-dystopian themes (though arguably in a more straightforward sci-fi espionage package).
It has been one of my Favs. for years. Have you seen Sanctuary it is also a really good sci-fy show. I would like some book recommendations for that too. I haven’t seen anything quite like it movie or book.
🖖fellow trekkie here! 🖖i've read all of your star trek recs & i definitely agree with them! as ds9 is my favorite, i'd love more recommendations for scifi with that vibe (i feel like downbelow station by c.j. cherryh might be one!).
Great vid!👍👍👍🤖🚀🐲 I'm also more of a tng, ds9 and voyager-fan than original trek. A few of these are already on my tbr📚 But I'm adding the test, up against it, version control, and vigilance to my tbr📚 making a similar vid for others shows, for example, Babylon 5, the peripheral, stranger things, travelers, lost in space, dark, severance...just to name a few...🤗🤗🤗
As you may recall me saying I was a big fan of the original series when it first aired but moved on to other things after the show was canceled. Didn’t know about the red shirt guys who were always doomed but guess it’s kind of like the canary in the coal mine who gets snuffed out after it tweets its warning.⚛️❤
With canaries it's the dying itself that's the warning in fact :). (the "redshirt curse" has been a thing for decades though in later Trek shows it was more often "yellowshirts" because they swapped from red in TOS to yellow/gold in TNG etc. for the security personnel)
How about Battlestar Galactica (the new version from the early 2000s), which I think was one of the best sci-fi shows ever? Also, Red Shirts sounds like a riot and I can’t wait to read it!
I am currently watching From, which has a lot of comparisons to Lost. I would love any recommendations you have for thing that are similar to either of those :)
Thanks for this! Love your recs. Embarrassed to say I never watched Star Trek. Any recommendations for fans of Dark (Netflix) or 12 Monkeys (tv series)?
I'm reading Children of Time by Tchaikovsky right now. I'm almost done with book 2, and I'm kind of...bored... I don't think I'm up for more from that author. I typically only ready Fantasy. Finding SciFi I'm interested in has been a struggle.
I don't think "The Long Way..." is anything at all like Star Trek, it's way too shallow, characters are too clichéd, and the plot is non-existent. Most Star Trek episodes have way more interesting plot lines, sci-fi premises, philosophical quandaries and stranger aliens.
