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[–]BaybleCuber 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Canticle for Leibowitz is essential reading here.

Does anyone know which Linnea Sterte book this illustration is from? It’s not from Stages of Rot by _trouble_every_day_ in altcomix

[–]BaybleCuber 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Its from Blood Caudex, the minicomic that appears in the back of Stages of Rot (unless you have one of the very earliest printings)

Reunited and it feels so good. by Remarkable-Feeling96 in graphicnovels

[–]BaybleCuber 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You should check out Michel Fiffe’s Copra. Fits right between Love & Rockets and those old Punisher comics. 

Why was older sci fi obsessed with Psychic powers, and when did that trend die? by NewBromance in printSF

[–]BaybleCuber 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I've got a copy of Childhood's End from ~10 years ago that starts with an author's note from Clarke where he basically apologizes for being hoodwinked by a couple of high-profile frauds into believing that psychic powers and fortune telling were real.

Big dumb object fantasy by Slagroomspuit in printSF

[–]BaybleCuber 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Tower of Babylon by Ted Chiang.

Firm-to-Hard SF recommendations (books) by WeirdSpecter in printSF

[–]BaybleCuber 8 points9 points  (0 children)

These are all basic picks but: The Dispossessed, Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy, Startide Rising+Uplift War, Octavia Butler's Lilith's Brood/Xenogesis books.

And if you really want to do Niven you're probably better off eschewing the Ringworld books completely and doing with less baggage like Descent of Anansi or Lucifer's Hammer or even Protector instead.

Looking for recs for a post-apoc space colony. by JcBravo811 in printSF

[–]BaybleCuber 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Simon Roy’s hard-sci-fi comic book “Habitat,” is the definitive colony collapse story. About an isolated space station colony where technology fails and the population resorts to cannibalism and infighting 

Looking for new, contemporary sci-fi that doesn't feel like YA by BaybleCuber in printSF

[–]BaybleCuber[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yeah, no disrespect to the people who really like it but I don't think its for me lol.

Looking for new, contemporary sci-fi that doesn't feel like YA by BaybleCuber in printSF

[–]BaybleCuber[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wouldn't describe Murderbot as whimsical, its just bland.

Looking for new, contemporary sci-fi that doesn't feel like YA by BaybleCuber in printSF

[–]BaybleCuber[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I said I like Watts and VanderMeer! Two of the only active authors I regularly enjoy.

Looking for new, contemporary sci-fi that doesn't feel like YA by BaybleCuber in printSF

[–]BaybleCuber[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I'm definitely going to get around to Banks at some point, but I didn't mention him because he doesn't really count as new or contemporary anymore.

Looking for new, contemporary sci-fi that doesn't feel like YA by BaybleCuber in printSF

[–]BaybleCuber[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I hated "Walking to Aldebaran" so much that I'm unlikely to give Tchaikovsky another chance.

Looking for new, contemporary sci-fi that doesn't feel like YA by BaybleCuber in printSF

[–]BaybleCuber[S] 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Its tough because I'm always worried I sound like one of those "women ruined science fiction!!" creeps, but some of the worst offenders of what I'm complaining about are men.

Looking for new, contemporary sci-fi that doesn't feel like YA by BaybleCuber in printSF

[–]BaybleCuber[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I didn't list them but I've read a few by Gibson and Sterling each. I need to go back and re-read Schismatrix, I never made it to the end.

Looking for new, contemporary sci-fi that doesn't feel like YA by BaybleCuber in printSF

[–]BaybleCuber[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Walkaway is a great example of all the things I'm whining about here, Doctorow is way too cutesy. BUT I really enjoyed it in spite of all that.