I've added several of your best books to my list (The Swarm, The Flicker Men, Rubicon and Darwin's Radio) so thanks for the suggestions. I love Contact (the movie) so it's great to hear the book offers something different. I read most genres, but my fave sci-fi books this year are Flowers for Algernon, Replay, The Dream Daughter and The Measure. All were thought-provoking, had an intriguing premise and grabbed and held my interest. From what you said about Blood Over Bright Haven, you might like Lessons in Chemistry, thought it's historical fiction (yikes!) about a woman in science in the 60s. Have a relaxing and enjoyable holiday season and all the best for 2025!
Your glowing praise for Darwin's Radio is encouraging. I've been picking up some of Greg Bear's works recently. Eon and Forge of God are the other ones by him I own. I haven’t really had my socks blown off by any SF I've read this year (sf accounts for about 50% of what I read) but Clifford D. Simak's 'City' was probably the best all-round science fiction book I read this year. And yeah, Fritz Leiber did indeed seem to have a thing for cat women.
Hahah oh man. It was sooo awkward. 😵💫 but yes i havent read much of greg bear other than blood music (which was good) and i own forge of god but havent quite gotten to it yet… although i will!!
I don't know that it was the most "fun" read, but I did conquer Moby Dick this August. That book hated me for years! I started it several times and it was like reading a foreign language, for all I could understand of it. Why was it different this time? I don't know. But I ended up loving it! It was not an easy read. But it was worth it - not just to conquer something I had failed at over and over, but for the story, itself.
32:27 this part made me laugh so much hahahah. And he won a prize for it.... got me thinking about what were the criteria for win the prize, lots of doubts hahahaha
“The Wanderer” won the 1965 Hugo Award, but I’ve never read it, and I’m not sure that I’ve read any of the other contenders in that year. The 1965 award was for books published in 1964, which I think was a weak year for sf novels. At least, I haven’t read any good sf novel published in 1964, although Simak’s “Way Station” was published in 1963 (and won the Hugo), and in 1965 we got Piper’s “Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen”, Niven’s “World of Ptavvs”, Allingham’s “The Mind Readers”, oh yes, and Herbert’s “Dune”, which won the Hugo although I’m not keen on it myself.
When you first mentioned The Swarm, I thought you were talking about the The Swarm by Arthur Herzog. That's what I instantly recalled, even though its got to have been written 50 years ago.
Joe Haldeman was a soldier in the Vietnam war and The Forever War is a direct commentary on the experience of returning to a society you've fought for, only to discover that it has changed in ways that make it difficult to reintegrate. I loved A Fire Upon the Deep so it's great to hear that A Deepness in the Sky potentially surpasses it!
So glad you liked Darwin's Radio. It was practically the first SF book I read this year, coming back to the genre after a gap of many years. I was amazed to see how far SF had come since I'd given up on it. For next reads, I'd recommend Timescape by Gregory Bedford, who is similar in style and science literacy to Bear (Bedford is/was a high ranking physicist). Also, any of the early JG Ballard disaster novels : The Drowned World, The Crystal World, The Wind From Nowhere: always beautifully written, cool, focused on character.
Ha, just finished the video .. poor old Fritz Leiber: we shared a literary agent in the 70s, though we never met. I liked his short stories, never read a novel.😢
Ooh i havent tried gregory bedford -- but i have read drowned world and thought it was ok :) but im very much looking forward to more books by greg bear
The Swarm was a rare hard DNF for me after about a 250-page attempt, although I so frequently see eye-to-eye with you, I may have to revisit that. We'll see. My SF book of the year will probably be China Mieville's Embassytown, which was a surprising 5-stars. Great video as always!
Oh no, that's a bummer about The Swarm!! It's definitely one of those love-it-or-hate-it books- the end does get good but its ok if its not for you! I LOVED embassytown. Its in my top 10 for sure. So im glad u gave that a chance
@@secretsauceofstorycraft I'll probably give it another go if a month or two. Part of it was a negative reaction to what I thought was a huge spoiler in the Amazon/Goodreads synopsis. Did others pick up on that, or was it just me?
I agree with Forever Peace - that was an enormous letdown after the fantastic Forever War. One of *my* best books of this year was DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL. Thank you so much for recommending it in your special about self published authors!!! I'm in book 3 atm and intending to go the whole way. It's just too much fun :D
Lieber was doing furry smut in the early 1960s? I always knew he was ahead of his time but that's pretty impressive. If you aren't into that sort of thing, maybe stick to the Lankhmar books, which are great, seminal/foundational texts for modern comedic fantasy (Terry Pratchett drops a really obvious nod to them in the first couple of pages of the first Discworld book).
Yay! Thank you for turning me on to 'All You Need is Kill'. One of my faves this year. Heavier and lighter than the movie in all the right ways. Also, thank you for putting me on to Lost Fleet. I am on book 5 and it is really picking up.
@@secretsauceofstorycraft The author for Lost Fleet is so much better when he grounds the action. He seems to love space combat, but does ground combat so much better, IMO.
CONTACT is one of the rare cases where I love both the movie and the book, even though, as you said, there are differences. (And even though I have problems with both.) I also love Jodie Foster's voice, so I was excited to see there was an audibook. I don't usually do audiobooks. But I loved it!
I will definitely check out some of your best of books - very intriguing. I was so impressed with The Forever War that I read the whole series. While the sequels may not have lived up to the first one, I was entertained all the way through and have since devoured everything by Haldeman. Keep up the great work!
I'm here for the sexy cat ladies! But I also thought the Wanderer was all over the place. Too long, too many NPCs. I have several of your best books on Mount TBR but haven't got to them yet. Great video!
Forever Free is the 3rd book in the Forever War series. Forever P eace is the second. However it is not really a sequal. The characters are not the same. Instead it is exploring different aspects of war and peace. Only loosely related. Forever Free is a direct sequal to Forever War but, I agree, a very different story, exploring the nature of the universe. I enjoyed it but understand why it might put some (many?) Of those who loved Forever War off.
It depends on how you count. Many online sources treat Forever War and Forever Peace as different but related series. Which makes Forever Free the second book in the Forever War series. But at this point, it's just semantics 😅
Talking of Charles Stross, check out his Laundry Files series - a combination of spy stories and Cthulhu mythos. Each novel is also done in a manner of pastiche of famous spy novelists.
I’ve read just about everything by Vernor Vinge, and I read ”A Deepness in the Sky” in 2003, 2015, and 2017. I suppose my favourite of his is “The Peace War”, but each of his novels is at least good in parts. Although his final novel, “The Children of the Sky”, I found disappointing overall. I read “The Forever War” long ago, and thought it was OK, but haven’t felt the urge to reread it for decades. Maybe I should try it again sometime? So far, 2024 hasn’t been a great year in fiction for me. The only books I read for the first time that I feel like recommending were Jasper Fforde’s “Red Side Story” (weird sf novel, the second in an unfinished trilogy) and Lois McMaster Bujold’s “Demon Daughter” (fantasy novella, part of a series). Worst book of the year was “Mostly Harmless” by Douglas Adams: I read it before in 1992 but had forgotten how bad it was.
A Deepness in the Sky was written 24 years before The Children of Time... All You Need Is Kill was also adapted into a Manga. You might like to try the YA novel 'Airborn' by Kenneth Oppel, which has a kind of Edgar Rice Bouroughs adventure feel. It's SF/alternate history, about a world where ocean liners never caught on, but airships did.
3:07. Whitney at "Mage Academy". Best: No Adrian Tchaikovsky?! Alien Clay? Service Model?? I hate read the last half of The Sparrow. TIGERISHKA!!!! Enjoy the holidays.
A Deepness in the Sky is my top book of the year. I liked A Fire Upon the Deep when I read it, but found the writing pretty dry and the pacing a little too slow at points, but thought that was all vastly improved in ADitS. The only slight disappointment I had in it was that there was no mention of the whole "Zones of Thought" concept, which made it really have nothing to do with the first book outside of a character named Pham Nuwen and the Queng Ho were mentioned. You really don't even need to read AFUtD to read it. Amazing book, though. Worst book of the year was Island Fruit Remedy by Rich Shapero. I usually read a "weird" book for April Fools, and the joke was on me. It's a story about an author whose wife leaves him, so he goes to Key West to "get his groove back" so to speak. He then sleeps with a wide array of fruit-named women, and there's a bunch of weird sex scenes that all seem to devolve into... eating fruit... with a bunch of weird fetish stuff thrown in for good measure. There was a healthy dose of misogyny and the second half of the book really went of the rails. The ending was truly psychotic. The book also had an "interactive multimedia" gimmick to it, meaning you could read it on an app, and then swipe each chapter to hear some music with a short fruit themed animation that would make Georgia O'Keefe blush. I understand why they were just handing this book out for free at a book festival.
The only books I've read on your list is The Forever War. I've got a copy of Darwin's Radio & I think I'll bump it up on my TBR based on your recommendation. My favorite SF reads of 2024 are Way Station by Clifford Simak and Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway.
A deepness in the Sky reminds me of Robert L. Forward's "Dragon's Egg", and sequel "Starquake". Both of which I enjoyed a lot, I ill have to take a look at ADitS.
Does Darwin's Radio end on a cliffhanger? Can you read it alone and be okay with where it leaves off? It sounds intriguing, but I am not able to commit to series right now.
My "worst" has to be Wuthering Heights. Yegads, how I hated everybody in that story! I've never seen so many selfish, cruel, violent, vengeful, miserable people in my life. Usually I can at least appreciate some aspect of a story, whether it's the setting, the prose, or at least whatever point the author was trying to make. (Even if I disagree with it.) I honestly could not find it in this book. I have no idea why it's been a classic for so long. It didn't even work as a "love story" because the people involved didn't have that much time together. That's what really threw me off. I hate love stories, but I figured I could at least understand WHY there was this obsession with one another. Here, I just couldn't. Classics lovers hate me now. LOL!
@@secretsauceofstorycraft With over a million books a year published I'm not surprised. I'll have two more done for next year. Who knows, maybe one will hit the charts.
Don't apologize about bad books - I give a lot of one star reviews for the obvious - errors in grammar, spelling, punctuation, character development, awful plot, sophomoric writing, explaining everything, etc. Your fave list hit several of mine - Deepness, Contact (movie and book), Stross, The Swarm, Darwin's Radio Agree on Polostan. . Suggestions: ****** Inquisitor's Progress (a guy dies only to discover he's a character in a VR that was created in a VR...he must climb the ladder to the "real world") Veiled Edge of Contact (An African man follows his wife into the jungle and meets a primitive tribe who are unaware they hold the fate of the world in their hands), Mission (Group tries to escaped Earth and their salvation depends on an android and a young girl. In my top 5 of all time) Queen of Angels & Slant (Greg Bear - sheer perfection), The Last Man on Earth Club (a therapy session of the last inhabitants of Earths in the multiverse...but a dark secret emerges) Finally (LOL) the MAP series by Felix Palmas (What if H G Wells was not writing fiction?)
your recommendations and likes always seems to be surface level SiFi & specially military sifi. never meaning or any expansive stories, but always simple and basic level story telling. n offense meant at all, just following your recommendation is not enjoyable & is lacking depth.
Im sorry you feel that way, my tastes arent for everyone (nobody’s can be) however, Feel free to recommend me books…. As long as they dont have sexy alien cat ladies…
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I love that two of my favourite books of the year were two of your worst 😅
I noticed that, too. 😂 Different strokes for different folks. Although now I’m torn.
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I know we had opposite opinions this year! Thats ok 👌 now ppl know we arent same people
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Um, so the blonde hair isn’t a wig? I’m so confused! Lol.
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I got here after watching your video and also noticed it 😂
Great video! I’m adding a few of the books you liked to my TBR!
The Swarm, Darwin’s Radio, and Flicker.
Congrats on a fabulous year!
Thank you! You too! 💜
I've added several of your best books to my list (The Swarm, The Flicker Men, Rubicon and Darwin's Radio) so thanks for the suggestions. I love Contact (the movie) so it's great to hear the book offers something different. I read most genres, but my fave sci-fi books this year are Flowers for Algernon, Replay, The Dream Daughter and The Measure. All were thought-provoking, had an intriguing premise and grabbed and held my interest. From what you said about Blood Over Bright Haven, you might like Lessons in Chemistry, thought it's historical fiction (yikes!) about a woman in science in the 60s. Have a relaxing and enjoyable holiday season and all the best for 2025!
Contact (novel) was as good in its own way as the movie which is in my top ten. The book has a different and better ending
Thank you! And happy holidays to you!! Flowers for algernon is an incredible book! So glad u got to that one.
Your glowing praise for Darwin's Radio is encouraging. I've been picking up some of Greg Bear's works recently. Eon and Forge of God are the other ones by him I own.
I haven’t really had my socks blown off by any SF I've read this year (sf accounts for about 50% of what I read) but Clifford D. Simak's 'City' was probably the best all-round science fiction book I read this year.
And yeah, Fritz Leiber did indeed seem to have a thing for cat women.
Hahah oh man. It was sooo awkward. 😵💫 but yes i havent read much of greg bear other than blood music (which was good) and i own forge of god but havent quite gotten to it yet… although i will!!
I don't know that it was the most "fun" read, but I did conquer Moby Dick this August. That book hated me for years! I started it several times and it was like reading a foreign language, for all I could understand of it. Why was it different this time? I don't know. But I ended up loving it! It was not an easy read. But it was worth it - not just to conquer something I had failed at over and over, but for the story, itself.
🔥 great job conquering moby dick!!
@@secretsauceofstorycraft Thanks!
32:27 this part made me laugh so much hahahah. And he won a prize for it.... got me thinking about what were the criteria for win the prize, lots of doubts hahahaha
👍🏻 agreed!!!! Doesnt inspire confidence
Contact is on my all time fav list
Yesssss 📚🚀
Stellar list of books and a spectacular video. Great job Whitney
🔥 thanks dale
“The Wanderer” won the 1965 Hugo Award, but I’ve never read it, and I’m not sure that I’ve read any of the other contenders in that year. The 1965 award was for books published in 1964, which I think was a weak year for sf novels. At least, I haven’t read any good sf novel published in 1964, although Simak’s “Way Station” was published in 1963 (and won the Hugo), and in 1965 we got Piper’s “Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen”, Niven’s “World of Ptavvs”, Allingham’s “The Mind Readers”, oh yes, and Herbert’s “Dune”, which won the Hugo although I’m not keen on it myself.
Yes… i would agree 1964 was a pretty weak year..
Yikes on that last one! Thanks for enduring it so I don't have to. Do not want!
Hahah, me either :)
When you first mentioned The Swarm, I thought you were talking about the The Swarm by Arthur Herzog. That's what I instantly recalled, even though its got to have been written 50 years ago.
Joe Haldeman was a soldier in the Vietnam war and The Forever War is a direct commentary on the experience of returning to a society you've fought for, only to discover that it has changed in ways that make it difficult to reintegrate. I loved A Fire Upon the Deep so it's great to hear that A Deepness in the Sky potentially surpasses it!
🔥 deepness was such a fun read :)
So glad you liked Darwin's Radio. It was practically the first SF book I read this year, coming back to the genre after a gap of many years. I was amazed to see how far SF had come since I'd given up on it. For next reads, I'd recommend Timescape by Gregory Bedford, who is similar in style and science literacy to Bear (Bedford is/was a high ranking physicist). Also, any of the early JG Ballard disaster novels : The Drowned World, The Crystal World, The Wind From Nowhere: always beautifully written, cool, focused on character.
Ha, just finished the video .. poor old Fritz Leiber: we shared a literary agent in the 70s, though we never met. I liked his short stories, never read a novel.😢
Ooh i havent tried gregory bedford -- but i have read drowned world and thought it was ok :) but im very much looking forward to more books by greg bear
The Swarm was a rare hard DNF for me after about a 250-page attempt, although I so frequently see eye-to-eye with you, I may have to revisit that. We'll see. My SF book of the year will probably be China Mieville's Embassytown, which was a surprising 5-stars. Great video as always!
Oh no, that's a bummer about The Swarm!! It's definitely one of those love-it-or-hate-it books- the end does get good but its ok if its not for you!
I LOVED embassytown. Its in my top 10 for sure. So im glad u gave that a chance
@@secretsauceofstorycraft I'll probably give it another go if a month or two. Part of it was a negative reaction to what I thought was a huge spoiler in the Amazon/Goodreads synopsis. Did others pick up on that, or was it just me?
I agree with Forever Peace - that was an enormous letdown after the fantastic Forever War.
One of *my* best books of this year was DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL. Thank you so much for recommending it in your special about self published authors!!! I'm in book 3 atm and intending to go the whole way. It's just too much fun :D
It is so fantastic and so much fun!!! It was my fave book of 2023 i think…..
Lieber was doing furry smut in the early 1960s? I always knew he was ahead of his time but that's pretty impressive. If you aren't into that sort of thing, maybe stick to the Lankhmar books, which are great, seminal/foundational texts for modern comedic fantasy (Terry Pratchett drops a really obvious nod to them in the first couple of pages of the first Discworld book).
Oooh nice to know!!
Yay! Thank you for turning me on to 'All You Need is Kill'. One of my faves this year. Heavier and lighter than the movie in all the right ways.
Also, thank you for putting me on to Lost Fleet. I am on book 5 and it is really picking up.
That is SO good to hear!!! I love both those books…
@@secretsauceofstorycraft The author for Lost Fleet is so much better when he grounds the action. He seems to love space combat, but does ground combat so much better, IMO.
CONTACT is one of the rare cases where I love both the movie and the book, even though, as you said, there are differences. (And even though I have problems with both.) I also love Jodie Foster's voice, so I was excited to see there was an audibook. I don't usually do audiobooks. But I loved it!
That is awesome! I read it so cant speak to audio, but its a good one to recommend all around!
I will definitely check out some of your best of books - very intriguing. I was so impressed with The Forever War that I read the whole series. While the sequels may not have lived up to the first one, I was entertained all the way through and have since devoured everything by Haldeman. Keep up the great work!
That is so awesome to hear you enjoyed it! I read camouflage (sp?) and liked it more than others did… but forever war is def his best.
I'm here for the sexy cat ladies! But I also thought the Wanderer was all over the place. Too long, too many NPCs. I have several of your best books on Mount TBR but haven't got to them yet. Great video!
Thanks for watching but also-- no to the cat ladies.
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No cat ladies??😼
What about cat guys? 😉
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@ nah pass… haha. 🤣
Awesome video, great job Whitney!
Thank you!! 😁 thanks for watching
Forever Free is the 3rd book in the Forever War series. Forever P eace is the second. However it is not really a sequal. The characters are not the same. Instead it is exploring different aspects of war and peace. Only loosely related. Forever Free is a direct sequal to Forever War but, I agree, a very different story, exploring the nature of the universe. I enjoyed it but understand why it might put some (many?) Of those who loved Forever War off.
Yeah i thought forever peace was ok, decent even but forever free was a hard nope
It depends on how you count. Many online sources treat Forever War and Forever Peace as different but related series. Which makes Forever Free the second book in the Forever War series. But at this point, it's just semantics 😅
Talking of Charles Stross, check out his Laundry Files series - a combination of spy stories and Cthulhu mythos. Each novel is also done in a manner of pastiche of famous spy novelists.
Ooh i have atrocity archives
Really interesting mix of current and old stuff in there. No idea what was going on with Fritz Leiber either.
Hahaha nobody knows whats going on with Leiber- me least of all
I’ve read just about everything by Vernor Vinge, and I read ”A Deepness in the Sky” in 2003, 2015, and 2017. I suppose my favourite of his is “The Peace War”, but each of his novels is at least good in parts. Although his final novel, “The Children of the Sky”, I found disappointing overall.
I read “The Forever War” long ago, and thought it was OK, but haven’t felt the urge to reread it for decades. Maybe I should try it again sometime?
So far, 2024 hasn’t been a great year in fiction for me. The only books I read for the first time that I feel like recommending were Jasper Fforde’s “Red Side Story” (weird sf novel, the second in an unfinished trilogy) and Lois McMaster Bujold’s “Demon Daughter” (fantasy novella, part of a series). Worst book of the year was “Mostly Harmless” by Douglas Adams: I read it before in 1992 but had forgotten how bad it was.
I also read Red Side Story and liked it!! I have had peace war on my TBR for forever. Might push it up
Things can only implode "from the inside." Otherwise they explode.
TRUE!
Always fun
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A Deepness in the Sky was written 24 years before The Children of Time... All You Need Is Kill was also adapted into a Manga. You might like to try the YA novel 'Airborn' by Kenneth Oppel, which has a kind of Edgar Rice Bouroughs adventure feel. It's SF/alternate history, about a world where ocean liners never caught on, but airships did.
Oooh sounds very steampunk!! Thank you!!
Amazing video (as usual of course) Whitney!! A really fun couple of lists, and of course you succeeded in adding to the weight of my tbr 😅
Hahaha! 😆 Thank you so much!!
Sexy alien cat- ladies!! I'm in!!!😂
But …. Why??? 🤣
The ones I personally feel the most drawn to: #3 & #5
🔥 those are awesome!! 😎
3:07. Whitney at "Mage Academy".
Best: No Adrian Tchaikovsky?! Alien Clay? Service Model??
I hate read the last half of The Sparrow.
TIGERISHKA!!!!
Enjoy the holidays.
Happy holidays!!! Not this year for Tchaikovsky…. Not for novels at least
A Deepness in the Sky is my top book of the year. I liked A Fire Upon the Deep when I read it, but found the writing pretty dry and the pacing a little too slow at points, but thought that was all vastly improved in ADitS. The only slight disappointment I had in it was that there was no mention of the whole "Zones of Thought" concept, which made it really have nothing to do with the first book outside of a character named Pham Nuwen and the Queng Ho were mentioned. You really don't even need to read AFUtD to read it. Amazing book, though.
Worst book of the year was Island Fruit Remedy by Rich Shapero. I usually read a "weird" book for April Fools, and the joke was on me. It's a story about an author whose wife leaves him, so he goes to Key West to "get his groove back" so to speak. He then sleeps with a wide array of fruit-named women, and there's a bunch of weird sex scenes that all seem to devolve into... eating fruit... with a bunch of weird fetish stuff thrown in for good measure. There was a healthy dose of misogyny and the second half of the book really went of the rails. The ending was truly psychotic. The book also had an "interactive multimedia" gimmick to it, meaning you could read it on an app, and then swipe each chapter to hear some music with a short fruit themed animation that would make Georgia O'Keefe blush. I understand why they were just handing this book out for free at a book festival.
Hahah that sounds absolutely awful. I would not have finished it…😖
The only books I've read on your list is The Forever War. I've got a copy of Darwin's Radio & I think I'll bump it up on my TBR based on your recommendation. My favorite SF reads of 2024 are Way Station by Clifford Simak and Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway.
I loved Titanium Noir and really liked Way Station!
A deepness in the Sky reminds me of Robert L. Forward's "Dragon's Egg", and sequel "Starquake". Both of which I enjoyed a lot, I ill have to take a look at ADitS.
Yes it is somewhat similar!!
Does Darwin's Radio end on a cliffhanger? Can you read it alone and be okay with where it leaves off? It sounds intriguing, but I am not able to commit to series right now.
You can read it as a standalone!
@@secretsauceofstorycraft Cool, thanks.
My "worst" has to be Wuthering Heights. Yegads, how I hated everybody in that story! I've never seen so many selfish, cruel, violent, vengeful, miserable people in my life. Usually I can at least appreciate some aspect of a story, whether it's the setting, the prose, or at least whatever point the author was trying to make. (Even if I disagree with it.) I honestly could not find it in this book. I have no idea why it's been a classic for so long. It didn't even work as a "love story" because the people involved didn't have that much time together. That's what really threw me off. I hate love stories, but I figured I could at least understand WHY there was this obsession with one another. Here, I just couldn't. Classics lovers hate me now. LOL!
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Hey You🥰! I started "Robopicalypse" since you recommended it for fans of "World War Z" and I'm loving it so far. Cannot get my hands out of my Kindle🤭
Soooo glad to hear it!!!
My fav this year is the one I wrote called, The Adventures of Tom Conley.
Ooh havent heard of it :)
@@secretsauceofstorycraft With over a million books a year published I'm not surprised. I'll have two more done for next year. Who knows, maybe one will hit the charts.
*adds Darwin's radio to list*
Omg they're not publishing the Rubicon sequel??? 😮
I know right?! 😱 !!!!!
Have you tried the Cassandra Kresnov series by Joel Shepard? I read the first three (of six) and found them enjoyable.
I havent read them! Thanks for the reccc
I read the first of the Spiral Wars series (Renegade) by him this year, and I think it might be my second favorite book this year.
Don't apologize about bad books - I give a lot of one star reviews for the obvious - errors in grammar, spelling, punctuation, character development, awful plot, sophomoric writing, explaining everything, etc. Your fave list hit several of mine - Deepness, Contact (movie and book), Stross, The Swarm, Darwin's Radio Agree on Polostan. .
Suggestions: ******
Inquisitor's Progress (a guy dies only to discover he's a character in a VR that was created in a VR...he must climb the ladder to the "real world")
Veiled Edge of Contact (An African man follows his wife into the jungle and meets a primitive tribe who are unaware they hold the fate of the world in their hands), Mission (Group tries to escaped Earth and their salvation depends on an android and a young girl. In my top 5 of all time)
Queen of Angels & Slant (Greg Bear - sheer perfection),
The Last Man on Earth Club (a therapy session of the last inhabitants of Earths in the multiverse...but a dark secret emerges)
Finally (LOL) the MAP series by Felix Palmas (What if H G Wells was not writing fiction?)
Oooh these look like really good reccs!! Thank you!!! I have queen of angels but havent heard of the rest
Yeah, Forever Free suffered from what I would describe as deus ex machina ending.
Well said!
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your recommendations and likes always seems to be surface level SiFi & specially military sifi. never meaning or any expansive stories, but always simple and basic level story telling. n offense meant at all, just following your recommendation is not enjoyable & is lacking depth.
Im sorry you feel that way, my tastes arent for everyone (nobody’s can be) however, Feel free to recommend me books…. As long as they dont have sexy alien cat ladies…