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Can anyone recommend me some solid scifi writing with good characters? Fic or novels, don't mind. Any fandom or pairing - just need some good scifi in my life!

Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space

IDK why but it's the only thing I can think of right now

Stanisław Lem! All the Lem ever, though I'm especially fond of the Ijon Tichy series.

I think one of the main reasons I like Lem is because he clearly loves the worlds he is writing about. He's so fascinated by the concepts he explores it's actually chilling. His books are like really complex steampunk-ish mechanisms.

(also, Tichy is adorable).

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Seconding Lem. If you can get your hands on a copy of Tarkovsky's Solaris (only thing I can find is the OST waaaahhh), do watch it. I am currently reading (whenever I pick it up) Return From the Stars but think I will add that to my priority list. Thanks, dmw!!

Here's the first four that popped into my head. They're all very different from each other, so hopefully at least one sounds like something you'd like to read!

The Dark Beyond The Stars - Frank M. Robinson
A Boy And His Dog - Harlan Ellison (very good movie, too!)
Silver Metal Lover - Tanith Lee
Chrome - George Nader

The Silver Metal Lover is my all-time favorite Lee novel.

I love it, too! I've only just discovered that she's written a sequel to it -- arrived in the mail a couple of days ago, and I hope to be able to start on it soon. Have you read it?

(Also, every time I see your icon I have this excited moment where I think it's Jean from Spriggan. Even though it isn't, it's still very pretty!)

No, one of my friends read it, though, when it first came out. I'm afraid to read it, because TSML pretty much is my 'SF Romance Pinnacle' novel, and while I love Tanith Lee's works, her recent stuff doesn't compare to her older works, to me.

Oh, the icon is a fanart of Winry Rockbell, from Fullmetal Alchemist. One of my favorite characters ever.

Yeah, I can totally understand that. There's been some sequels where I have felt the same way -- I always ended up checking them out anyway, sometimes to my great regret. Crossing my fingers that it doesn't happen with this one!

As someone who's been into manga/anime for a very long time now, I feel kinda embarassed to admit that I've never given FMA a shot. I know the basic plot, and I've been thoroughly spoiled over time about character deaths and so on -- but still, one of these days I'll get around to reading it!

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William Gibson, full stop. He has an... interesting, snappy style that turns some people off, and he likes to namedrop strange things without actually explaining what they are, but you'll never want for a better cyberpunk book than Neuromancer, Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive (which are parts 1, 2 and 3 of a trilogy of books.) I would also recommend his short story collection Burning Chrome, particularly Hinterlands and The Winter Market. That at least would be a good way to find out if you like his writing.

Seconding this. Neuromancer is still one of my favorite re-reads.

Lois McMaster Bujold, Vorkosigan series

+50000000000000000

Seriously, the Vorkosigan Saga is an excellent, excellent work. I can't recommend it enough.

Thanks guys! These all look fantastic. :)

Voyage of the Star Wolf by David Gerrald (his Chtorr! series is also very good, for an alien invasion of Earth series). Now, let me preface I haven't read either in at least a decade, possibly longer, but I remember a lot of really good things when I recall reading them. Star Wolf is a bit more on the humorous side than Chtorr.

I just finished reading The Martian by Andy Weir, which is about Earth's first trip to Mars, and really enjoyable.

Redshirts by John Scalzi is pretty hysterical.

I know I've read a lot of other SF, but can't think of it at the moment.

Currently on the second last book of "Vatta's War" and I'm just fucking in love with the world, and the characters. I want to live on cascadia. Also Love that it's scifi by a woman, about women, so unlike most scifi it has zero misogyny.

Michael Swanwick Vacuum Flowers

And for something completely different, Rudy Rucker's White Light.

Jim Munroe Everyone in Silico

...uhhhh blanking here...the "good solid scifi" I read is an SJW's nightmare soooooo LOL.

Ringo and Weber's "March Upcountry" series. Amazing characters, great action, cool technology, awesome aliens and alien planet.

Timothy Zahn writes amazing sci-fi, and while he tends to recycle the same 4 or 5 characters in each book they're decent characters, lol. I especially liked "Icarus Hunt" and his Star Wars books.

CJ Cherryh's Chanur series is an absolute classic. Amazing alien characters who make the human character seem like the alien one, really intricate interstellar/trade politics.

The writing is a little stilted, but for good old 'space navy' action I highly recommend Jack Campbell's "Lost Fleet" series.

Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie is relatively unknown and blew me away. Be careful of the wiki page for it, the first paragraph is a major spoiler. My speculative fiction book club (IRL) read this and it generated some great discussion. :D

Verner Vinge!

Ursula K. LeGuin

Pretty much ever CJ Cherryh sci fi book, though Downbelow Station and the Cyteen novels are my favorites. Also Forty Thousand in Gehenna, Heavy Time and Hellburner (released together as Devil to the Belt), and her epic, though very political, Foreigner series, now on book sixteen. The 'foreigner' in these stories is the human, btw.

All of Sinvraal's work for Mass Effect - it's a long series with multiple parts. it's on ffn

Gonna be coming back to this thread a lot, thanks for started it. On my part, Julie E. Czerneda's work, particularly the Trade Pact and Webshifters Trilogies, is amazing.

Dan Wells' Partials Sequence

I really love the War Child series by Karin Lowachee. Like, a lot. Has lots of character development, space pirates, some aliens, space military and war.

There's also a miitary SF anthology that just came out called "War Stories" - I really like it so far: http://warstoriesanthology.com/

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