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Despite its huge popularity on the screen, readers often shy away from science-fiction, but it’s not all aliens, technobabble and space battles. I would say I am a fan of science fiction but I don’t tend to read that hard SF that everyone thinks of when the genre is mentioned, there is so much scope in it. So here are ten books I would recommend to reluctant genre readers…
The Machine by James Smythe
The Book of Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
It’s just the most wonderful, comforting, fuzzy feeling of a book. Honestly the description didn’t do it for me when I first heard about it but I was swayed by so many positive things and I beg you to read it!
The Thing Itself by Adam Roberts
The Fireman by Joe Hill
Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
The Mad Scientist’s Daughter by Cassandra Rose Clarke
Saga by Brian K. Vaughan +Fiona Staples
The Humans
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I agree about Long Way To A Small Angry Planet, it was so good and I don't know, comforting is a good way to describe it, there was something about it. I'm so glad a third book is on the way.
The Humans looks cute.
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The Humans is good! I love anything Haig writes.
Creative list! Happy TTT! 🙂
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet seems a great read. I have heard some good things about it.
I haven't heard any bad words about it, and when you do love it there's another book already available (a sort of standalone sequel).
I didn't really think I was into sci-fi but I've been reading a lot more recently. I've only read Saga Vol.1 but I loved it and although I've not read The Book of Phoenix (yet) I really enjoyed Nnedi Okorafor's Binti.
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It's such a varied genre! I need to read the Binti novellas sometime.
This is a great choice of topic. I always find sci-fi intimidating: I want to love it, but I find it hard to get my head around the new worlds. These recommendations all look great, though.
I recommended books for reluctant readers, check it out if you're interested 🙂
There's plenty of near-future settings which are much easier to get into, but I agree hefty tomes with lots of made up stuff can be intimidating.
Oooh The Thing Itself has intrigued me. Going to add that to my TBR! Great list. 🙂
I've heard a lot about the book by Becky Chambers. It'll be added to my TBR!
Ooh, I love the premise of your post. I'm also a huge science fiction fan, and it can be challenging sometimes to get people to read books from this genre if they haven't already found one they liked.
Oryx and Crake would make a very good intro to the genre.
I haven't read The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet yet, but your discussion of it has piqued my interest.
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You must read Angry Planet, it's just wonderful and as far from angry as you can get!
When I was in my early twenties, I read nothing but science fiction. But that was a long, long time ago. I miss it. Thank you so much for this list. I've added a few titles to my wish list and I requested one from the library. Let's see if I still love it!
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I hope you get back into it!
When I was in my early twenties, I read nothing but science fiction. But that was a long, long time ago. I miss it. Thank you so much for this list. I've added a few titles to my wish list and I requested one from the library. Let's see if I still love it!
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I don't really read hard SF either because it can be quite intimidating, but I do love the genre. I've been wanting to read The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet since I heard about it and now I reaallly want to read it.
And when you do love it, you don't have to wait for A Closed and Common Orbit!
Saga is such a great series. I still need to read Volume 7 to be caught up but I'm still loving it. The more I see it, the more I'm interested in reading Humans. I went back and read your review and it sounds pretty interesting. I just read Akata Witch by Okorafor and now I pretty much want to read a lot more by her. Great list!
I have Akata Witch on my TBR and am really looking forward to it.
I'll admit that while I have watched a decent amount of Sci-Fi show I don't read enough Sci-Fi books. I'm hoping to get to Becky Chambers this month though and I've heard great things about Matt Haig.
Saga is amazing! I can't wait for the next volume!
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Great list! Bookmarked this post so I can refer to it in the future. I don't think I read nearly enough sci-fi, but I certainly have interest in reading more! Thanks for sharing.
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet is one I have had my eye on. The buzz is good too. I am NOT a scifi reader, but I like to mix something different in with my contemporaries every once in a while. I will definitely check some of these out.
Ooh. This is a cool list. I've heard of Saga before and have it on my list for a while, but I haven't heard much about the rest of these. Thanks for the recommendations!