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“Dune” should have been a single book. It is perfect as a stand-alone, but the sequels are terrible.

My first KV read was Mothernight and it lead me to read all of his books. For me, Mothernight was the most memorable.

Pandora star and void was letdown on level of David farland sons of oak ....for me reality disfunction was much better

You forgot hs play, "Happy Birthday Wanda June."

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Not a lot of overlap between your favorites and mine (Ender's Game and Flowers for Algernon are pretty much it). I'm not going to try to do a real list, but I will mention The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Neuromancer, Trading in Danger, Warrior's Apprentice, On Basilisk Station, Stand on Zanzibar, Cities in Flight, The Weapon Shops of Isher, Pandora's Planet, The Mote in God's Eye, Forever War, Hammer's Slammers, March Upcountry.

This is one of my all time favorite books!

Great collab! I saw Ellison mentioned already, and I think especially some of the short stories in Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space universe are pretty scary on quite a few levels.

Loved annihilation. It's full on eerie.

I just started reading Hyperion, I like it very much and think that this book will stick with me for some time into the future.

1.) Brain Wave, by Poul Anderson 2.) Blind Lake, by Robert Charles Wilson 3.) Roadside Picnic, by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky 4.) Blood Music, by Greg Bear 5.) The Santaroga Barrier, by Frank Herbert

Really loved CJ Cherryh's Hunter of Worlds.

So many books, so little time. An interesting list of books I've not read - although, worth noting, that Altered Carbon, was the basis for a very good Netflix mini-series. Thank you for your recommendations.

"Blindsight" is so freaking good. Definitely gets stuck in your mind pretty much forever. One that I can mention is "Parable of the Sower", waaaay too relatable kind of apocalypse. Uff, "Annihiliation" is in my list that goes something like "posmodernity has allowed some elements of scifi into literary/mainstream fiction which means there is a lot of bad scifi showing up in the fancy hallways".

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I've missed 12 of the 50, with two on my TBR. Hunger Games Series is good for the politics. Brave New World is a favorite of mine. Don't bother with Divergent, it's not well thought through with its implications.

For sci-fi books that stick with you long after reading them, I'd have to say Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash was that for me. But then, most of his books stick with me in that way.

Great list, all ones I want to check out!

yeah, blindsight is one of the few sci-fi books that really are worthy of the moment we're in...really great

Arthur C. Clarke's "Childhood's End" has stunned everyone I know who has read it.

"Dawn" is incredible. Butler was a legend. In my top 5.

Three cheers for mentioning Theodore Sturgeon's "More than human!" Very thought provoking and quite well written, in my opinion. Sturgeon at his "soft" Science Fiction best!

Adding them all to my tbr

Very good!👍👍👍📚🤖🚀🐲

Even though I had to skip to the end 76% through The Wolf in the Whale stuck with me.

Getting back into sci-fi again also means getting back into your videos! Great stuff =D

I've been fitting Vonnegut books in between Sun Eater books and just finished Breakfast of Champions. I went back to your tier list and see it way down the bottom. I was laughing all the way through. The funny thing was, because I use an e-reader and so don't see the cover and title whenever I pick up the book, I thought I was reading God Bless You Mr Rosewater. Not until I was getting it onto my Hardcover page that I found my mind had been scrambled. Sun Eater: got through Kingdoms of Death with my soul intact. What a trauma. The previous book made Hadrian shine like the universe's hero, KoD crushed him. Vonnegut was very cheery-uppy by comparison.

Asimov's Foundation series keeps coming up im my mind lately.

Finished 2 out of 5 and DNFed Altered Carbon. It seemed like gratuitous violence to me and I could not bring myself to give a damn who killed him and why. A very long time since I read Dawn and mostly was not enthusiastic about it. I liked *More Than Human* .

Awesome video Jonathan! Altered Carbon has been on my list for a while. I loved the show!

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Started Altered Carbon this past weekend when I found a copy at my local coffee shop's take-one-leave-one shelf and I'm in love. Reconciling the advancement of technology with stipulations of religion, what happens to the relationships of people who have been married 250+ years, losing your body like one might lose their house in an economic crisis. All wrapped up in this dark gumshoe plotline 🤌🏼 Another great list!

have a read of Frank Herbert's "Hellstroms Hive". it has slightly dated but the hive sections are very thought provoking. though nightmares of "stumps" may occur lol

Good pick!! I really enjoyed the Southern Reach trilogy. Weird Sci-Fi and cosmic horror at its finest! I haven’t read (yet) any of the books you mention but they’re all in my TBT now! Thanks! Books I can’t stop thinking about: Solaris, A Canticle for Liebovitz, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, The Forever War

Woohoo! Annihilation for the win! I devoured the entire series earlier this year and it's one of the ones that still has me thinking. I do think The Southern Reach is better read in total. I'd add A Canticle for Liebowitz, Anathem, and the Three Body Problem as thinking novels for me. Embarrassingly, I have read none of the books on your list. 😬 😳

Three Body Problem/ Remembrances of Earths Past not being on this list is CRIMINAL Foundation Enders Game Ringworld Dune 1984 Neuromancer but apparently i have mostly read these author's books that didn't make the list lol

Vast by Linda Nagata got stuck in my head in 1998 and it’s still there, living rent free. Such a clever story.

Much preferred the film Annihilation to the book if I'm honest. Be interested to here what you think.

I've been telling all my family and friends who read about Vandermeer. Southern Reach trilogy blew me away. Cixin Liu's The Three Body Problem trilogy is also really unique currently finishing Death's End.

I think Solaris by Stanislaw Lem will be in my head forever haha, also was the first Sci-fi novel I read and i'm chasing that feeling since 😅

Yes! Annihilation!

galapados isn't one of my faves by vonnegut either but I appreciated it for its unblinking look at the nature of human nature. I ended up DNFing altered carbon when an amazon reader pointed out a huge mistake the author made that I hadn't even noticed. But since I've forgotten what the mistake was I may go back and finish it!⚛😀

Wonderful list, Jonathan. I loved Annihilation and am reading Authority (book 2) now. Dawn is on my shelf, but I haven't read it yet, but loved Clay's Ark from Butler. One other mention: The Carpet Makers, by Andreas Eschbach - a galaxy-spanning, epic tale of revenge. It really stays with you.

Nuts. More books I have to buy.

I might join you on the Annihilation journey, but you have me intrigued by some of the other books on this list, "Dawn", and "More than Human", specifically. I've read the others, and agree with you, although most Vonnegut had that effect, so couldn't tell you how long I was haunted by "Galapagos". Thanks for the recommendations!

Annihilation: I liked both the movie and the book. But they differ significantly.

Annihilation is an excellent read and quite different from the film. I would advise, if you’ll permit, to read the whole trilogy back to back as they are a single cohesive whole and were published, I believe in the same 12 months. But I hope you really really like it.

I read and enjoyed all these books. Another good one by Sturgeon is Godbody. It's been a very long time since I read it, but back in the day I put it up there with my all time favorites. Anyway, good vid!

Hey I have actually read some of these. We are both reading Annihilation this month!

Hope you enjoy Annihilation. The book has a much more interesting, mysterious, weird feel than the movie. (I did not like the movie because it strayed too far from the book)