Can you name ONE (one only please) SF/F book, written this century (2001+), that has absolutely blown your mind? Not just something you liked, or that was good, I'm looking for the absolute best books written this century.
Thank you for your suggestions. Please vote here - aus.social/@skribe/11507058647โฆ
#Books #SF #Fantasy #21Century
According to this post โ aus.social/@skribe/11503668902โฆ, these are the Top 7 SF/F books of this century. In your opinion, which ONE is the best?
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in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •I'm going to cheat a couple of years. Terry Pratchett's Hogfather. I've even given a sermon based on Death's conversation with Susan at the climax.
#GNUSTP
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in reply to luna (tangleofthorns) • • •The Goblin Emperor โ Found Objects
valdyas.orgDr. Victoria Grinberg
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in reply to systmShck • • •Agreed
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in reply to David_d09 • • •"Les Furtifs"
Alain Damasio
Set in a near future.
Don't know if this was translated, or even translatable given how much he twisted the French language; as a way to tell his story through the twisting itself. Put differently: the story transforms the language used to tell the story.
Absolutely landmarking, groundbreaking, earthshaking stuff.
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in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Terry Pratchett... The Night Watch.,. Helps if you know the back story... For me it was perfect
#gnustp
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in reply to Chris • • •I think he was at the top of his game with this book.... Sadly missed
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in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •That's easy: The Broken Earth series by N. K. Jemisin
The Fifth Season (2015)
The Obelisk Gate (2016)
The Stone Sky (2017)
Absolutely mind-blowing. I'll re-read this throughout my life, it's fantastic.
#SF #scifi #Fantasy #Literature #Books
Susan Calvin
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in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Laura Lam's Micah Grey trilogy (2013 - 2017)
(I know, that's three, not one - shame on me)
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in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •@_tillwe_ this โonly one ruleโ is hard. Iโd say โShades of Greyโ by Jasper Fforde (itโs not the cheesy one).
Edit: I was torn between two books of the same author and changed the title
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in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Wonderfully written, unbelievably cool story line and a big surprise in the middle of the book.
Lakritze
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in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Yes I can: I do this for a job. I donโt suggest using the NPR list. The sort of thing I curate for my readers is,
The Employees
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*crickets*
youtube.com/watch?v=BTFOQagX4vโฆ
Seriously, though, all that had been foretold has come to pass already. SF is officially obsolete.
- YouTube
www.youtube.comDr. Victoria Grinberg
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in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie. Got me into the whole #WorldCon thing.
It's the first of a trilogy. The second has the usual middle-of-a-trilogy problems, the third is also real good but not quite as mind-blowing as the first.
Reinier Ladan
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •- The Broken Earth Trilogy (or if you absolutely want one book: The Fifth Season) by N. K. Jemisin
(Another good recommendation is Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky also because why ask for only _one_ recommendation, it's cruel. Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie.)
Joost Rekveld
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in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •2019 novella by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
This is really, really, really good
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Not wanting to be negative on a fan favourite, but I am always surprised by this.
The Expanse was originally intended to be a MMORPG and lifts wholesale from other SF series, most transparently from CJ Cherryhโs Alliance-Union Universe right down to the Belter brogue. (A duology by Cherryh is literally titled โDevil to the Beltโ.)
My partner and I DNFโd the early Expanse books not long after they were published on the grounds of being so derivative in their world building without adding much that was new. (We loved the television adaptation though.)
By contrast, we really enjoy two other series whose authors acknowledge a debt to Cherryh โ The Ancillary Justice series by Ann Leckie and Arkady Martinโs series starting with โA Memory of Empire.โ Weโd put them far ahead in any ranking of 21st century SFF to date.
Dan York
in reply to AlsoPaisleyCat • • •@AlsoPaisleyCat @Merlo51 Thanks for sharing your views. I have not read anything from CJ Cherryh and so for me all the Expanse books were something new and interesting (and I also enjoyed the TV version). I will have to go read Cherryh now!
I also very much enjoyed the works you mentioned by Ann Leckie and Arkady Martin - great books!
Dan York
in reply to Dan York • • •@AlsoPaisleyCat Okayโฆ now another question- where would you suggest someone starts with C.J. Cherryhโs books to begin the Alliance-Union universe?
Would you suggest โDownbelow Stationโ or โCyteenโ or something else?
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aldroidia
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •kelly link - the book of love
she just has a certain approach to writing that levers the neurons out of my skull one by one
Chris Green
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in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •@vicgrinberg Anathem by Neal Stephenson
Stunning book, blew my mind 100%.
a fading echo
in reply to Thomas Sturm • • •And/or SevenEves by same author.
Ivan Sagalaev
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in reply to Thomas Sturm • • •Seveneves is also brilliant; I loved both but they are very different. Sevenevea was a bit better suited to my own proclivities and tastes and arguably has more relevance in places in context of current global challenges
@skribe @vicgrinberg
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The first on your list: agreed
The second on your list: was my nomination
The third on your list: need, TIL
(lists weren't allowed, but I think you can take the liberty here)
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yes, I completely agree, though I'd say the "best" book is Safely You Deliver- the one about a unicorn who wants to be prove they're safe enough to be allowed to be around people- but you absolutely can't understand them out of order, sadly
incredibly-worldbuilt anarcho-syndicalist gender-optional second-world fantasy. and Halt. Halt is best evil spider grandma wizard alpha-fork.
Charlie Stross
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in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Stone Junction by Jim Dodge. I lost sleep because of that book. Couldn't stop reading it.
An absolute adventure of a book that went in directions I couldn't have predicted.
Alfred Boudry
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in reply to Kevin Boyd (he/him) ๐จ๐ฆ • • •One of my favorites as well.
Mind Shambles
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in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •I'm sure L. Ron Hubbard has released something recently ... giggles
hugz & xXx
PS sorry to make a joke of your question, I can't help myself ... ๐
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in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •The Lost Steersman by Rosemary Kirstein
It's the third (of 4 so far, I think 6 planned) book in the Steerswoman series but the first one that came out this century and possibly the most mind blowing one in the series (although they are all mind-blowing in their own way and need to be read in order)
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in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Chronicles of World9 by Dario Tonani
dariotonani.it/english/mondo9/
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Review:Cronache di Mondo9 (book)
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in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •The first book by China Mieville that I read; either "The Scar", or "Perdido Street Station".
The worlds he built were constantly making me think "Where did he get *that* idea from? How did he think of *that*?"
Kris Hardy
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in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Frank Schwichtenberg; ํ๋๊ทธ
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in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •The novel "The Employeesโ (De ansatte, 2018) by Danish poet and novelist Olga Ravn.
I haven't read any better SF story in the last 30 years. Brillant.
#Books #SF #Fantasy #21Century #cyborg #robot
Dr. Victoria Grinberg
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in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •if Fantasy is included: Marie Brennan, A natural hustory of Dragons.
Susan Clarkes: Dr Norell and Mr Strange
Bonus:
Temeraire series
Mre. Dartigen [maker mode]
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Annihilation, by Jeff Vandermeer. I haven't gotten to reading the rest of Southern Reach, but on its own it's... something.
(While I didn't do it in this order, I'd actually recommend reading it before watching the 2018 adaptation, and maybe regarding the film as more of an 'inspired by' adaptation.
Mostly so the film's imagery doesn't intrude while reading.)
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en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exโฆ
series of space opera novels by James S. A. Corey (collective pseudonym)
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in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis
(Doomsday Book is also incredible but that was written in the โ90s)
Timli Hellsten
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There Is No Anti-Memetics Division.
shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/04/book-โฆ
Book Review: There Is No Antimemetics Division
Terence Edenโs BlogJay
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in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Best High Fantasy ever written.
liquidlamp
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •just one book?
Adrian Tchaikovsky : Alien clay.
A 3 book series:
Adrian Tchaikovsky: Children of time
Both examples are erudite, unsettling, entirely alien and very human.
Lady ฯ
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in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Permutation City by Greg Egan. I had to keep putting it down to process it. Brain-melting in the BEST ways.
Anything he writes is worth reading.
kฤihe (donkey) ๐ซ
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in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •#scifi
marcus wagner
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pgcd
in reply to Terence Eden • • •@Edent @solderandchaos FINALLY! I looked at all the replies looking for this! Antimemetics literally* blew my mind!
*kinda. More metaphorically I guess, but in a very real way, as far as minds go
Kevin Lusty
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2008 novel by Alastair Reynolds
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systmShck
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in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •House of Leaves. Absolutely mind blowing.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_โฆ
2000 novel by Mark Z. Danielewski
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in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •"Diaspora" written by Greg Egan.
A story about a humanity divided in 3 groups that mostly don't interact with each others since an ancient war betwenn them :
- fleshers live on Earth surface in biological bodies (but heavily geneticaly modified in many ways)
- citizens live in a virtual world (via computers underground or in satellites all over the solar system)
- gleisners are sentient robots that live through the whole solar systems
But an even will push them to interact againโฆ
Will Deakin
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Unknown parent • • •Fede ใใงใ
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Hi from Argentina, sir. I can recommend you a book of this century by Canadian author Elan Mastai: "All Our Wrong Todays" (a very impressive book of horror/thriller tension) which plays with the distortion of time as we know it.
Best wishes from Argentina.
Fede.
victor
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Silo Trilogy by Hugh Howey.
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in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Surface Detail by Iain M Banks
goodreads.com/book/show/793774โฆ
#theculture #iainmbanks #scifi
Surface Detail (Culture, #9)
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in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Very good book, relevant to topics today, and perspectives and protagonists we don't usually see in SciFi
Zulo
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Michael Bacon
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in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •JTW, Cornell '91
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in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Black Sun, by Rebecca Roanhorse (as well as the remainder of the series, Between Earth and Sky).
Absolutely top-tier characters, and a much-needed break from bog-standard European fantasy worlds
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in reply to australopithecus • • •Sassinake! - โโชโฉโชฝ
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •The Martian, and/or
The Expanse (series)
Florian
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Whitmad
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •JustME
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Dr. Victoria Grinberg
in reply to JustME • • •Boggin
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •"Deep Wheel Orcadia" by Harry Josephine Giles. It's written in Orcadian verse with English translations that play off each other. A space station, familiar lives, just beautiful.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Wheโฆ
Also, all the other suggestions from everyone else!
science-fiction novel by Harry Josephine Giles
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)You Have My Keyboard
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in reply to You Have My Keyboard • • •@djwfyi
There are some great books mentioned so far!
Max Gladwell's Craft Sequence that starts with Three Parts Dead is the best fantasy _series_ I've ever read. Unique magic system, great world building, and really strong characters.
But for a single _book_ that blew me away perhaps The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. Fascinating story and the writing is so rich and immersive you can almost feel the texture of the world.
David Griffith
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rndeon
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •All Tomorrows en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Toโฆ
Might not count as a book in the way people want, though.
2006 speculative evolution and science fiction book
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in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •penguinrandomhouse.com/books/6โฆ
The Anomaly , by Hervรฉ Le Tellier
The Anomaly by Hervรฉ Le Tellier: 9781635421699 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
PenguinRandomhouse.comIan Robinson
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Stephen Homewood
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Lots of books I like in this list - and a few to add to my 'to be read' list.
I'd add 'La Belle Sauvage' by Phillip Pullman.
#Books #SF #Fantasy #21Century
usbs-usa
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Eclectic Human
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Cap'n Briney ๐๐๏ธ๐
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in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Susan Calvin reshared this.
lizzzzard
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •half/byte
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Matthew Dockrey
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in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Max Wainwright
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in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Estarriol, Terrorist Dragon
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Struggled with this, a lot of good, even great but mind blowing....
Closet to that is, Name of the Wind Patrick Rothfuss.
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Frank Skornia
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Surprised I didn't see this mentioned in the replies I could see:
The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin
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in reply to Frank Skornia • • •Matt Norby
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemonโฆ
2006 novel by Daniel Suarez
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)darix
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Andy Weir - The martian
Andy Weir - Project Hail Mary
Ernest Cline - Ready Player One
Ernest Cline - Ready Player Two
Ernest Cline - Armada
Legit_Spaghetti
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •FANTASY:
Foundryside, by Robert Jackson Bennett
SCIFI:
Service Model, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
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Paz Biocultural
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Dragon Vertigo
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Schroedinger
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in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •OโBriat
in reply to Terence Eden • • •+1 on this one.
Maybe not the greatest book of all time, but clearly a singular novel that suprise me
Benjamin Knispel
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •So many books to choose from, but I'll go with
โA Memory Called Empireโ by Arkady Martine (AnnaLinden Weller) from 2019.
I also liked โThe Yiddish Policemen's Unionโ by Michael Chabon from 2007 A LOT, but I'd count this as alternative history novel rather than SciFi. It did win several S/F prizes, though.
Peter Diekmann
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Fiona Craig
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Unknown parent • • •@nilz @cstross
I did enjoy it to some degree, but as much as I like @cstross work, that didn't fully click with me. But it has a lot of hard-SF concepts going.
Toni Aittoniemi
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Weyland-Yutani Corporation
in reply to Toni Aittoniemi • • •TheBen
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Faintdreams
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •The Lifecycle of Software Objects - a Novella by Ted Chiang.
Published in 2010 as part of the collection of stories in the book Exhalation.
Best read without any context.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Liโฆ
2010 novella by Ted Chiang
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Mike Morris
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •I know it's more than 1... ๐
A Howling Wilderness
in reply to Mike Morris • • •@mikro2nd
I came here to say this, seconded most enthusiastically.
It can't be described, it must be experienced.
Descovy's Child
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Wilm [anti-fascist]
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •[edited: added a century. My bad. There is still hope]
Lemniscate
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Jake Hildreth (acorn)
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in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Winchell Chung โ๐
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •A Howling Wilderness
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Jonathan Hartley
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •There is no Antimemetics Division, by qntm.
A novel set in the same universe as the amazing online SCP wiki, which by itself is WELL worth the loss of hours of your time. Each entry contains only the oblique instructions for how to Secure, Contain & Protect from items in a catalog of "anonymous artifacts" held by the SCP organization.
Initially self published, book of the year for me, but now has a book deal and qntm is doing a rewrite with editors and is very excited about v2.
Uckermark MacGyver
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in reply to Keira (She/Her) • • •Keira (She/Her)
in reply to luna (tangleofthorns) • • •Saxonbowman
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •luna (tangleofthorns)
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Jade City, Fonda Lee
Theresacityinmymind
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in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •A. Tang
Unknown parent • • •Nils Wloka
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Mark Vande Kamp
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Paul Willett
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in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Royce Williams
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Ted Chiang's "Exhalation" collection of short stories.
Jemison's "Broken Earth" series (I mean, when a book wins Hugo, Nebula, and Locus ... what are ya gonna do?)
Neal Stephenson's Anathem.
sytharin
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •foundseed
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in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Palimpsest by Catherynne Valente
Pseudo Nym
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •No, I can not. There are too many good ones.
Glad to see a lot of suggestions I was going to make already in the thread.
Poul-Henning Kamp
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in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Redish Lab
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Anathem, by Neal Stephenson (2008).
But I don't believe in "best", so here's a few other phenomenal blow-your-mind science fiction books written this century. Truthfully, we're in a golden age of science fiction these days
Curse of Chalion, Lois McMaster Bujold (2002) - best book on "sainthood" I've read. Absolutely amazing world-construction.
Machineries of Empire trilogy, Yoon Ha Lee (2016-2018) - first books that made me think I was reading an actual future military conflict using truly novel strategy.
Craft series, Max Gladstone (2012 - ) - the first magic / fantasy world that I actually believed "made sense". (Because magic and gods is thinly veiled corporate law.)
Anything by Ann Leckie , N. K. Jemison, Mary Robinette Kowal, Arkady Martine, to name but a few. And classical writers are still writing... Connie Willis' Blackout/All Clear (2011) is a wonderful story, for example. John Scalzi's Redshirts (2013) is hilarious.
But Anathem is a masterpiece.
FC Stoffel
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in reply to Jake Hildreth (acorn) • • •Enrico Zini
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •* The Tiffany Aching stories by Terry Pratchett
* Blindsight by Peter Watts
* The Wayfarers series by Becky Chambers. "Record of a Spaceborn Few" and "The Galaxy, and the Ground Within" I particularly liked
* The Scholomance series by Naomi Novik
* The Murderbot Diaries series by Martha Wells
* The Revelation Space series by Alastair Reynolds
* The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
* This is how you lose the time war by Amal El-Mohtar
* Pretty much anything from @gregeganSF
* The broken earth books by N.K.Jemisin
* "When the tiger came down the mountain" by Nghi Vo
* "The laundry files" by @cstross, but then I work in IT
* Ian M Banks published Culture books in the 2000s
There was so much good stuff written in SF/F in this century, I can't possibly do "absolute best" and I'm surely missing lots
Rob
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •As you may be realising there is an aweful lot of really good SF/F this century.
Yอฅโฬอฅฬธฬอฅฬทฬngmar
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Julia
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •#sff
AlsoPaisleyCat
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •I will name two books by two different authors:
1) โRegenesisโ by CJ Cherryh, master of hard science fiction. Itโs a sequel to her Hugo winning novel โCyteenโ. I didnโt think that anything could redeem the appalling society Cherryh had shown us in Cyteen but she manages to create the possibility a more hopeful future.
2) โNinefox Gambitโ, first in Yoon Ha Leeโs Machineries of Empire, blew my mind as a mathematics fiction underpinned by Korean mythology. Mathematics fiction is a vanishingly rare subgenre of science fiction. Lee does a great job of giving the reader a feel for the concepts of non-Euclidean topologies and geometries while framing a story in a mythological/fantasy narrative accessible for those who arenโt knowledgeable about non-Euclidean mathematics.
#ScienceFiction
Paul Puschmann
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •And all other books are older ๐ like Snow Crash or The Diamond Age. I love these two (together with Cryptonomicon and the Baroque Cycle)
John Ulrik
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in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Chuck o Rama
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Manchester SciFi Book Club
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •"Some Desperate Glory" blew our minds If I recall correctly.
I'm not sure it is the _best_ book (whatever that means), it isn't our highest scoring book, but it does a very, very clever subversive thing IMHO.
Adam Greenfield
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in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Dr. Victoria Grinberg
in reply to รngel • • •Dr. Victoria Grinberg
in reply to Aitor Zaindari • • •Jos Geluk
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in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Inherit the Stars - James P. Hogan
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giants_(โฆ
group of five science fiction novels by James P. Hogan
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in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect by Roger Williams
I've read a lot of the top replies and I've not seen this mentioned yet. It blows all of the other top replies away. Or maybe I just have fond memories of reading 18yrs ago or so.
tschew
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Jens W. Klein
Unknown parent • • •Copy that
@skribe @cstross
Markus Werle
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •May I remind you that this century started in 2000? So, it's not 2001+, but 2000+.
#NoIWontStopBeingPedantic
John Appel
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Bryce Dixon
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir.
A story which manages to actually pull off "amnesiac protagonist" and put a focus on the science part of science fiction.
Evelyn
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •George Laskowsky
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Sci-Fi: Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Alex, the Hearth Fire
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in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •I always thought 21st Century starts in 1999. Anyway, if you allow me year 1999, I have "Le successeur de Pierre" by Jean-Michel Truong. This short novel depicts a humanity kept inside isolated containers, after a pandemic. Odd events in the young protagonist's life in remote prompts questioning the reality of not only society, but humanity's distinction from the mineral (Pierre is the name of an apostle, but also pierre = stone) successor.
I particularly liked the change in landscape and the reimagining of human interactions. Cerebral beyond the obvious dystopic SF tone of the novel, the calling into question of the human natural order is in the rightful lineage of early 20th Century French "anticipation novel" trend (René Barjavel).
I did not find information about translation into other languages from French 🤷
In English, I remember the Net Force series of novels by Steve Pieczenik, in the techno thriller genre. I remember in one novel, how a student was rebuilding an historical event from an advanced simulation in VR and uncovering some hidden truth
... Show more...I always thought 21st Century starts in 1999. Anyway, if you allow me year 1999, I have "Le successeur de Pierre" by Jean-Michel Truong. This short novel depicts a humanity kept inside isolated containers, after a pandemic. Odd events in the young protagonist's life in remote prompts questioning the reality of not only society, but humanity's distinction from the mineral (Pierre is the name of an apostle, but also pierre = stone) successor.
I particularly liked the change in landscape and the reimagining of human interactions. Cerebral beyond the obvious dystopic SF tone of the novel, the calling into question of the human natural order is in the rightful lineage of early 20th Century French "anticipation novel" trend (Renรฉ Barjavel).
I did not find information about translation into other languages from French ๐คท
In English, I remember the Net Force series of novels by Steve Pieczenik, in the techno thriller genre. I remember in one novel, how a student was rebuilding an historical event from an advanced simulation in VR and uncovering some hidden truth about it. The series is fast-paced and in the opposite side of the spectrum of what you can expect from techno-flavored SF. I still loved it.
I have so many other older books in mind, also more recent ones in my to-read list ๐ This is it, for now.
Lucas C. Wheeler
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in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Robert Charles Wilson.
Eric the half-a-bee
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •meta physical deflationist
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •9 fox gambit
psalm for the wild built
Philip Proefrock, architect
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Alexandre Marcati
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Lintra
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •David Neto
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Pattern Recognition
Albert Cardona
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •"Viatges en trens de primera classe" by Dani Torrent.
Original in Catalan, has been translated to Spanish and perhaps others. Artistic, lyrical, fabulous storytelling.
joep schuurkes
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Jens Jรคger
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Itโs not particularly widely known, but really should be!
Token Sane Person
Unknown parent • • •Token Sane Person
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •TheBicyclist
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Steveg58
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Blow my mind? Not so much in comparison to the high imagination glories from the tail end of last century.
Downes ๐
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Mux2000 (turnkey solution)
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •No_Kul
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Nanditha
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Tobias, or?
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Delta Sierra
in reply to Tobias, or? • • •Laura โจ๐จ
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •FloYote ๐ค๐๐งกโพ
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •CMDR Anantyanta
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •FlowChainSensei
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •1 The Broken Earth Trilogy (particularly The Fifth Season)
2 The Three-Body Problem Trilogy
3 The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
4 Anathem
5 Project Hail Mary
6 Ancillary Justice
7 Children of Time
8 A Memory Called Empire
9 This Is How You Lose the Time War
10 The Murderbot Diaries (All Systems Red)
skribe ๐บ๐ฆ
in reply to FlowChainSensei • • •@flowchainsenseisocial you just saved me several hours more* work. Thank you very much.
* I've already spent several hours compiling a list.
FlowChainSensei
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Robin @ BritishBeer.Blog
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Erik โLacraiaโ Magnusson
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •DerAsket
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Brandon Sanderson - Way of Kings and Stormlight Archive
Patrick Rothfuss - The Name of the Wind / The Kingkiller Chronicle
Lauma Pret ๐ธ๏ธ
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Steven Galbraith
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •The Absolute Book by Elizabeth Knox
elizabethknox.com/publicationsโฆ
The Absolute Book โ Elizabeth Knox
elizabethknox.comFelicity Shoulders
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Delta Sierra
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •for me, Micaiah Johnson's The Space Between Worlds. It's angry and brutal and pretty much the exact opposite of most science fiction I've read, but I enjoyed it a lot.
I know you only asked for one book, but for extra credit I will point out this one has a sequel!
Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Josh Grosse
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Breath, Warmth and Dream by @zzclaybourne has completely blown my mind... as well as my socks off.
Phenomenal.
Syd
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Fool's Errand - Robin Hobb
(Very close call the book came out in late 2001)
The book opened up the whole fantasy world of the Author for me. It was the first book I read of that fantasy universe and it completely blew me away at the time, where I read it.
Smith Snapshot
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Toms
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Ojฤrs Kapteinis
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Arturo Serrano ๐จ๐ด๐ค๐ฝ๐ง๐ฆ
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •ะะฐะฒะธะดะณะพะปะธะฐั ะัะฐัะฐั ะฆัะบะตัะฑะตัะณะตั
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Transhumanism inc. - Online bookstore Kniga.lv Polaris
SIA "Kniga LV"sbi
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Jemisin has been mentioned, and so has Leckie, but there's been much more good female SF/F: de Pierre's Sentients of Orion series, O'Keefe's Protectorate series, Lee's Jade City (I haven't yet read the rest of the series), Caruso's Tethered Mage series, Cogman's Invisible Library (the first book was incredible), Muir's Gideon the Ninth, Niffenegger's Time Traveler's Wife, to name a few.
And that's just female ones...
Mark Movember Whybird
in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •I finished *The Measurement Problem* by David Whitmarsh @whitmad just last night, and my brain is still resonating from this excellent quantum multi-reality noir detective novel!
Heโs not well known, YET.
Moss (the ฯฮตฯie) <(fsm)>{{
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Thanks for the recommendation!
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Muse
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Even if the end was to fast.
novel by Marc Elsberg
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in reply to skribe ๐บ๐ฆ • • •well, I scrolled thru current replies and people seem to be sticking with science fiction and not fantasy.
So there are many fabulous suggestions, but nobody has said the Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee so that's my contribution. The sequels are good too.
Erik
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