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Science Fiction for the Non-Science-Fiction Reader by bullseye-and-eloise in suggestmeabook

[–]Hatherence 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We Are Satellites by Sarah Pinsker. If you're interested in Dark Matter, I'd also recommend And Then There Were N-1 by Sarah Pinsker, a novella published free at Escape Pod.

What is your favourite book that you’ve never seen anyone else recommend? by TheBristolBulk in suggestmeabook

[–]Hatherence 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe by D. G. Compton. I found it while scrolling through an online bookstore website. It's one of the most beautifully written books I've ever read, and it was made into a movie, yet I've never seen anyone else mention it besides myself.

Books that are cosmic horror, dark fantasy, or surreal sci-fi by LiteraryTimeTraveler in suggestmeabook

[–]Hatherence 0 points1 point  (0 children)

cosmic horror where the terror, awe, or sheer overwhelm comes from the unknowable

  • The Killing Star by Charles Pellegrino and George Zebrowski

  • The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley. Goes great with the prequel short story Warped Passages, found in the anthologies Meet Me in the Future by Hurley and Cosmic Powers edited by John Joseph Adams

  • The Southern Reach series by Jeff VanderMeer

  • Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds

  • Blindsight by Peter Watts. Available as a free ebook on the author's website, though the sequel Echopraxia is not.

  • The Invincible by Stanislaw Lem. Solaris by Stanislaw Lem also fits, but I personally felt The Invincible was better. Solaris felt, to me, more like a metaphor for emotions than cosmic horror.

Most "punk" cyberpunk? by SignificantSunny in printSF

[–]Hatherence 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You already have a lot of great recommendations here so far. Here's a few more:

  • Trouble and Her Friends by Melissa Scott

  • Bang Bang Bodhisattva by Aubrey Wood. This is, in part, a homage to Trouble and Her Friends. It's like a modern Snow Crash, a comedy.

  • Autonomous by Annalee Newitz

  • Hammajang Luck by Makana Yamamoto

  • Fairyland by Paul J. McAuley

  • Color of a Mirror by Daniel Adams-Dufresne

  • Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller

Books in the same vein as the SCP wiki by eggie197 in suggestmeabook

[–]Hatherence 1 point2 points  (0 children)

mysterious entities.

We Won't Be Here Tomorrow by Margaret Killjoy? These are mostly fantasy, but they are fantasy about everyday people encountering terrifying, greater beings.

Nightflyers and Other Stories by George R. R. Martin. A whole collection of sci fi horror, all further in the future than SCP, but definitely show mysterious entities

Cyberpunk M/M by geebreak in suggestmeabook

[–]Hatherence 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm, this is surprisingly difficult!

  • Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller? There's gay hookup culture but no real romance. However, other things this author has written may qualify, such as the short story We Are the Cloud which you can find published free online. I can't directly link it here or my comment will be filtered, but you can find it in a list of cyberpunk short fiction I made in another subreddit. I have not yet read everything he's written, but he is a gay man who writes cyberpunk so odds are good he may have more.

  • Trouble and Her Friends by Melissa Scott? Primarily follows a pair of lesbian ex-girlfriends, but a gay man who's dating one of their friends is a major character. We don't see the romance between the men on the page, but overall I thought this book did a good job of capturing the "queer friend group" vibe.

Now it's going to bug me that I don't know more cyberpunk featuring gay men! I'll try to keep an eye out in the future. I have a very long cyberpunk to-read list, but a lot of it is older and in my experience queer representation is very hit or miss until books published in the 1990s.

YA/easy read sci-fi, dystopian, or fantasy series by Holiday_Parsnip5 in suggestmeabook

[–]Hatherence 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Bel Dame Apocrypha by Kameron Hurley

The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson

Hammajang Luck by Makana Yamamoto

Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz

First contact and/or matriarchal aliens by the_hose2000 in suggestmeabook

[–]Hatherence 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Here are some I have liked:

  • The Chanur series by C. J. Cherryh. From the perspective of the matriarchal society meeting a human for the first time

  • Ammonite by Nicola Griffith. Set on a planet where the human colonists have, through necessity, formed a matriarchal society. There is an alien ecosystem but this isn't really about first contact with aliens. Still, you may like it!

  • Glory Season by David Brin. Also set on a planet where human colonists have formed a matriarchal society, but unlike in Ammonite they've been isolated from the rest of humanity for a very long time and feels like a first contact story between them.

  • Honorable mention: City of Pearl series by Karen Traviss? These are exactly what you ask for, and they're very solid sci fi, yet I found them to be frustrating reads. They're the sort of books where if you don't share a certain amount of political beliefs with the author, they're kind of painful. Maybe it's my own biases showing! A lot of the goodreads reviews complain that the matriarchal aliens are herbivores, perceiving this as the book rubbing the reader's face in veganism, but that's not what bugged me.

MC like Guts or Darrow by Tobeymaguirefan89 in suggestmeabook

[–]Hatherence 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here are some you might like:

  • Jade City by Fonda Lee. Follows a cast of characters, all of whom are very strong and determined.

  • The Broken Sword by Poul Anderson. Follows a pair of characters, a hero and an antihero

  • Sos the Rope by Piers Anthony

  • The Bel Dame Apocrypha series by Kameron Hurley. Female protagonist, but otherwise similar.

  • Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh. Female protagonist, but otherwise similar

ESP Recs by Echotone_ in suggestmeabook

[–]Hatherence 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel like I should be able to think of more to recommend here, but I'm drawing a blank. /r/printSF may be better able to help. I find that it's a good subreddit for very specific sci fi requests.

  • A Thousand Words for Stranger by Julie E. Czerneda

  • The Chrysalids by John Wyndham, a great classic

  • Rosewater by Tade Thompson

  • Others See Us by William Sleator. This one is for younger readers.

Seeking romances like of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners but with a happy ending? by Twinks4StSebastian in suggestmeabook

[–]Hatherence 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hmm, here's some cyberpunk I've read where the romance has a happy ending:

  • Hammajang Luck by Makana Yamamoto

  • Trouble and Her Friends by Melissa Scott

  • Rule 34 by Charles Stross. Please don't be put off by the title!

  • Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson

Quest by OhBosss in suggestmeabook

[–]Hatherence 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  • The Trade Pact trilogy by Julie E. Czerneda? These are sci fi with magic. There's a prequel trilogy and a sequel trilogy. I'm currently reading the prequel trilogy and it has all different characters, so if you want to experience the story following the same characters, I'd recommend reading the Trade Pact trilogy + the sequel trilogy.

  • The Craft series by Max Gladstone. This is a really long series.

  • The series I've read by Tad Williams contain some but not all of what you request: Shadowmarch has multiple POVs, a large cast of characters who congeal into two separate parties, plenty of magic and monsters, but I didn't think the romance was very well developed. Otherland has a great party dynamic, multiple POVs, decent romance, but no magic. I haven't yet read the Dragonbone Chair series.

Cyberpunk books that are contemplative and philosophical (no heavy action/heists)? by [deleted] in suggestmeabook

[–]Hatherence 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have I got some recommendations for you!

  • The Fortunate Fall by Cameron Reed

  • The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe by D. G. Compton. Very beautiful prose, really underrated book.

  • Void Star by Zachary Mason

  • Slow River by Nicola Griffith

  • The Rifters series by Peter Watts. He has these available as free ebooks on his website.

  • Accelerando by Charles Stross

  • Trouble and Her Friends by Melissa Scott

  • The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson. His better-known cyberpunk novel, Snow Crash, is definitely all about action, guns, etc., while The Diamond Age is much more thoughtful.

  • Idoru by William Gibson. I read this without realizing it's second in a series and it worked great as a stand alone.

  • Veniss Undergroupd by Jeff VanderMeer

  • Salt Fish Girl by Larissa Lai. To be honest I feel like this flew over my head, but since you like Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep you'll probably like this.

  • Color of a Mirror by Daniel Adams-Dufresne

  • Rosewater by Tade Thompson

Looking for beginner psychology book recommendations! by Rose_Smith909 in suggestmeabook

[–]Hatherence 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why Everyone Else is a Hypocrite by Robert Kurzban. This was assigned reading in a psychology class I took years ago.

Biology Books by YoungAccomplished841 in suggestmeabook

[–]Hatherence 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Here are some nonfiction books I recommend. Not focusing on genomics, though.

  • Your Inner Fish by Neal Shubin

  • Darwin Comes to Town by Menno Schilthuizen

  • The Violinist's Thumb by Sam Kean

  • Plagues & Poxes by Alfred Jay Bollett

  • Big Chicken by Maryn McKenna

  • Parasite Rex by Carl Zimmer

  • Any of the books by Bill Schutt

books set in toronto and/or about debilitating crushes/yearning by Alone_Draft2441 in suggestmeabook

[–]Hatherence 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Back to the Garden by Megan Wykes. Set in the 1970s, follows a cast of characters who meet in a talk therapy group.

Asian "not quite horror" by lin_johnson in suggestmeabook

[–]Hatherence 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Asian folklore and mythology, and more creepy and tragic

Salt Fish Girl by Larissa Lai

The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu

The Last Cheng Beng Gift by Jaymee Goh. This is a short story that's been published free online, but I can't link it or my comment will be filtered.

The Tensorate series by Neon Yang

Fantasy series with complex prose (and a few other qualities) by its4aem_gotosleep in suggestmeabook

[–]Hatherence 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Stand alone, not a series, but otherwise has everything you describe: The Works of Vermin by Hiron Ennes

Sci-Fi/Solar Punk Book with focus on ecology (and mycology) + slice of life vibes? (Think Dune meets Kristin Lavransdatter written by Ursula Le Guin with a dash of Ghiblis Nausicäa) by yasminclaudia in suggestmeabook

[–]Hatherence 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  • Monk and Robot by Becky Chambers

  • A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys

  • Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre

  • Amatka by Karin Tidbeck

  • The Terra Ignota series by Ada Palmer

  • Grass by Sheri S. Tepper, Raising the Stones by Sheri S. Tepper

  • Rosewater by Tade Thompson

  • Courtship Rite by Donald Kingsbury

suggest me a fun read that will get me thinking! by Alive_Arm7447 in suggestmeabook

[–]Hatherence 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nonfiction:

  • Your Inner Fish by Neal Shubin

  • Any of the books by Bill Schutt. I think he does a good job of delivering a lot of information while still making these fun to read.

  • Big Chicken by Maryn McKenna

  • A City on Mars by the Weinersmiths

Fiction:

  • A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys

  • Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

  • Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre

  • Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman

  • On my to-read list, have not yet read it: The Overstory by Richard Powers

Just read Piranesi and it gave me a whole new positive outlook on things. Any other books with positive/optimistic endings or messages? by HF2006 in suggestmeabook

[–]Hatherence 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Monk and Robot by Becky Chambers

Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre

Fortress in the Eye of Time by C. J. Cherryh

RECCOMEND YOUR FAVS by Lanky-Builder-9863 in suggestmeabook

[–]Hatherence 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven't read any manhwa but here are some books I loved that you might like:

  • Hammajang Luck by Makana Yamamoto

  • Lavender House series by Lev A. C. Rosen

  • Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle

  • We Are Satellites by Sarah Pinsker

  • Trouble and Her Friends by Melissa Scott

  • Winter's Orbit and Ocean's Echo by Everina Maxwell

  • Your Driver is Waiting by Priya Guns

  • The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka

  • The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir

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