Top 10 Mind-Blowing Sci-Fi Books. My Must Read Titles! 

I feel like a lot of these lists that are about novel ideas in Sci-Fi don't go far enough anymore. Galactic spanning civilizations that practice genetic and/or societal manipulation aren't that much of a stretch from Asimov's Foundation. The consequences of time travel were explored by HG Wells. I'm not sure how Charles Stross Laundry Files about Lovecraft mythos intersecting Computer Science get missed. Or any of his singularity exploring works. Yoon Ha Lee's Ninefox Gambit throws you into "Calendrical Warfare" and a whole lot of other trippy ideas from the start and dares you to keep up. N.K. Jemisin is redefining speculative fiction with her latest works. There's a reason she's the first to with back-to-back-to-back Hugos for her Broken Earth trilogy. Paolo Bacigalupi's Windup Girl defines a whole new 'genepunk' genre in excruciating detail. This is How You Lose the Time War is a heart rending and truly mindbening trip into temporal conflicts.

I love the visual effects. You are such an actor! I only read “Solaris” from your list.

The algorithm found me and I just subscribed. I started reading Children of time and shut the book as soon as the spiders are revealed. I hate spiders! A few days later I was compelled to continue and it is now one of my all-time favorite books! I loved Three Body Problem and am in the middle of Dark Forest; can’t wait to finish the trilogy! Your other books are on my TBR. Thanks for your excellent video production! 🖖

Fantastic recommendations! I've only read Annihilation from this list, but I loved it. The mysterious nature of it really hooked me, and I can't wait to continue with the next book in the series. I particularly liked the linguistic style of the writing, the sentence structure and syntax etc - it really worked well in establishing and developing character. I've read some Philip K Dick, but not Ubik (although it's on my bookshelf, waiting patiently) - I think my favourite of Dick's so far is A Scanner Darkly. I've got a few of the other books you talk about on a list of to-reads for a big old science fiction reading project I'm starting next year, and I may have to add Hyperion to that list - it daunts me a bit, but you've sold me on it! Sounds fascinating. Thanks for some great reading inspiration! 😀

Wow! You put a lot of love into this video. Great selection of books! I've read most of them. Two I still need to read are Ubik and Solaris. Both are on my shelf. I think you're trippy presentation puts Ubik ahead of Solaris for me!

Love your passion for this!!

Loved and subbed. I've read all these books except Annihilation. Well done.

Fantastic! Loved the animated intro to PKD Ubik (the only one on your list I haven't read). Lot of effort to put together a video like this - very entertaining!

Great list and wonderful presentation! I'm about to start a re-read of the Remembrance of Earth's Past starting next month, can't wait. You're absolutely right - Death's End is one of the most astonishing and mind-bending books I've ever read. I also plan to read the Children of Time trilogy for the first time early next year, your video has got me pumped!

Great presentation, great list. I will definitely read some of these. Some Science Fiction just happened to me, I swear. Just as I thought, why nobody is ever recommending 'Hyperion', there it was, just the next title. The same yesterday on another channel with 'Oryx & Crake' by Margaret Atwood.

Bart, from the beginning, I've been impressed with your ambitious vision for this channel. You just keep getting better! Keep up the good work, my friend. I'm planning a video for this autumn with Childhood's End and Roadside Picnic. This video got me even more excited about it.

Just catching up on this one Bart, great video! I know how much work went into this one, well done!

I just discovered this channel. Hello. This was a great list. Thank you. Hyperion is my absolute favourite, but also anything by Alastair Reynolds!

Ubik was good, but I also really liked A Scanner Darkly for the ending mostly, but there were some great scenes. I've read 6 / 10 on your list.

Thanks for sharing- really enjoyable

House of Suns was one of the first SF books that really captured my sense of wonder regarding time and distance, plus great characters! I still need to read Ubik and Solaris.

Great video Bart, amazing production, editing and selections. I might have to re-read Ubik with your suggestion🌲. One thing, I don't think Blindsight won the Hugo. Thanks for putting this together!

Great choices. Love all those books! Imagination is key.

New viewer, just subbed. Love seeing a fellow creator show some love for edits!!!! ❤😊

Just happened upon this, 3 of these are in my top reads and 3 in my "hmm i don't get what the fuss is about" category :-) House Of Suns/Hyperion/Fire Upon the Deep first category, Solaris/Annihilation/Three Body the second.

Great List. I have read most of these and I agree they are all super reads.

Glad to see Remembrance of Earths Past here. I thought about Deaths End for weeks after I finished it and went to youtube to try to learn.

Great choice!

ive read childhoods End and the Three Body Problem trilogy...i never heard of Hyperion i think i will star that soon, thanks for the suggestion

Thank you for letting us see the inside of your mind.

Nice list, thanks. I need to catch up with Adrian T..

I was on an Iain M. Banks trip for awhile. I really enjoyed _Consider Phlebas_ his first sci-fi and _Player of Games_ as these felt deeply actualized in his imagination and went to page in his whimsical, quirky style really well. The punchline for _Phlebas_ was particularly philosophical for me and it posed an incredible question to the reader. I won't go into any sort of detail as to what that question was, but it really put me in a deep state of introspection for many days following, as any good novel should. Jeff VanderMeer's _Annihilation_ trilogy is stellar. A cosmic-horror, psychological-thriller that would make HP Lovecraft proud. I highly recommend these. Looking forward to reading _Hyperion_ and Liu's _Three Body Problem_ .

Pandora's Star is the answer to all questions.

I can't stand spiders, but I loved Children of Time. This is a fantastic list!

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Great collection, you've got excellent taste🍷🍾👌🏾 What about ANATHEM by Neal Stephenson and DHALGREN by Samuel R. Delaney?

Bart, this was a cool video. Love the comment on reading Ubik high. "The prose was all Dick" got me dead. 😂 Ps: Still haven't finished Area X?? Omg. I still don't see you being disappointed! Can't wait; hoping you'll do a video on the trilogy after!

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Mind blowing realism: Daemon and Freedom by Daniel Suarez

Except for Hyperion which is pretentious sh*t , the list is excellent.