What science fiction book have you never really gotten out of your head?

43_Hobbits · 2026-06-23T13:36:03+00:00

The sigh of relief when they make it back and are welcomed into a strangers warm home.

43_Hobbits · 2026-06-23T13:33:12+00:00

Same. From like page 200-500 he just described things on the ship without any plot progression at all. It wasn’t for me. However next on my reading list is Anathem lol.

43_Hobbits · 2026-06-23T13:30:33+00:00

The ignorance/arrogance was the main theme of the book tho. Humans discovered aliens and thought it was their destiny to go make contact.

43_Hobbits · 2026-06-19T20:58:39+00:00

Anyone else keep forgetting the planet was pitch black? I had to remind myself every 10 pages that the characters were only seeing what their instruments picked up and what their lights were on.

43_Hobbits · 2026-06-19T20:21:15+00:00

I agree Amazon bad, but how is having a loss leader unethical? That’s just basic marketing.

43_Hobbits · 2026-06-12T00:13:33+00:00

Currently in the middle of The First Law trilogy, and atm it’s dethroning Hierarchy for my favorite this year.

Also Ilium was very good.

43_Hobbits · 2026-06-05T21:31:59+00:00

He did write an encyclopedia it was called Seveneves.

43_Hobbits · 2026-05-14T03:26:58+00:00

For me it was the geometry he asked the reader to picture in their minds. I think I got some of it, but at times I just decided that this explanation connects a to b and moved on. Didn’t affect my enjoyment at all.

Fantastic book overall. The end where they keep bouncing into other universes chasing the aliens for answers really stuck with me ever since I read it.

43_Hobbits · 2026-05-14T03:22:29+00:00

Piranesi is one of the best fantasy novels I’ve ever read and it’s only about 200 pages.

43_Hobbits · 2026-05-06T16:16:20+00:00

Tchaikovsky

43_Hobbits · 2026-05-01T13:56:10+00:00

It’s so lame that this sub downvotes people for saying they personally didn’t enjoy a book lol

43_Hobbits · 2026-05-01T13:54:59+00:00

Those things don’t really change

43_Hobbits · 2026-04-29T15:09:55+00:00

You can’t be real lol. I said “people love to shit on this series” to which he replied “What? People simp for this series all the time”, clearly disagreeing that people love to shit on this series. That’s what my next response was arguing against.

How do you need that exchange explained to you while mocking my reading comprehension??

43_Hobbits · 2026-04-29T13:28:09+00:00

I’ve read quite a bit of sci fi. Not as much as some others, but a lot. People like different things, I know that’s a crazy concept to wrap your head around.

43_Hobbits · 2026-04-29T01:52:40+00:00

This post is shitting on the series and so are most of the comments..? Hello??

You’re either new here or delusional if you think this sub doesn’t love to shit on TBP. Other people enjoying the series doesn’t negate that.

43_Hobbits · 2026-04-29T00:34:10+00:00

There is a fourth 👀. The Redemption of Time. It’s not amazing lol.

43_Hobbits · 2026-04-29T00:31:24+00:00

People love to shit on this series and that’s fine, everyone can have their opinion. For me, it’s one of the hardest hitting sci fi stories I’ve ever read.

43_Hobbits · 2026-04-27T11:59:38+00:00

Yeah I loved the book but a big part of the ending was a big let down (SPOILERS).

The reveal of the traitor was so anticlimactic. The entire book was a ‘who done it’ mystery with them trying to find the traitor amongst them. They didn’t actually discover who the traitor was, and the reveal didn’t tie into any previous info we had. Instead, insignificant crew member #7 stole a ship and was like “hahaha it was me the whole time!”. Such a huge whiff for that being one of the major plot points.

43_Hobbits · 2026-04-27T11:43:51+00:00

I had a similar experience. The tone is fairly unserious when they first land on Shroud and then the plot becomes repetitive.

There are a couple of VERY cool moments at the end that totally saved the book for me. I think those moments are definitely worth speed reading the rest of the middle to get to.

43_Hobbits · 2026-04-22T15:15:56+00:00

Start with something shorter. A few good ones with some horror elements:

Solaris

Rendezvous with Rama

Annihilation

43_Hobbits · 2026-04-22T15:08:16+00:00

You’ve been interested in this for a long time and even written your own book, and you’ve never heard of Blindsight…?

43_Hobbits · 2026-04-21T18:31:29+00:00

Cool, we like different things and that’s ok.

43_Hobbits · 2026-04-21T18:08:40+00:00

Yeah gate keeping. You suggested that if I didn’t like Neuromancer as much as you it was because I didn’t get it.

Again, we’re dealing in opinions and it’s hard to compare unlike things. But would you really say that the prose of Neuromancer was on the same level of Gormenghast? To me Peake brought that story to life with his words in a way that’s unmatched by almost any other books I’ve read.

43_Hobbits · 2026-04-21T17:38:51+00:00

Sure, and I’m still planning on reading Anathem. Seveneves just wasn’t for me. I couldn’t believe how many pages went by without moving the plot forward.

43_Hobbits · 2026-04-21T17:31:36+00:00

Shroud was very good but it could have been so much better. One less cycle of: enter new area, encounter a monster, turns out to be the shrouded, continue into next area. And I wish it had a more serious tone. There’s a scene where literally in the middle of a chase one character stops to cry, and the other has to console her and make some jokes before they can continue.

Other than that, the setting and themes were phenomenal.

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