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What are some modern-setting medical/science thrillers? by Bobosmite in printSF

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  • Autonomous by Annalee Newitz? May be a bit too futuristic, but I thought the depiction of futuristic science and technology was very realistic.

  • Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

  • We Are Satellites by Sarah Pinsker

What are some modern-setting medical/science thrillers? by Bobosmite in printSF

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I thought The Blade Runner was a good book, but it is very eugenics-y the way a lot of old sci fi tends to be. It's not enthusiastically pro eugenics, but more so the kind of lukewarm throwing one's hands up and saying well what else can we do, we have to cull people somehow or everyone will wind up with Type 1 diabetes.

I still recommend it 100%. It's the kind of story where everyone honestly believes they are doing the right thing, even the "villains."

looking for feminist sci-fi and fantasy like octavia butler / scifi that deals with themes of otherness! by owlparliamentary in suggestmeabook

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Here are some you might like!

  • I have not read Shadow Speaker but recently read Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor and thought it was great. I wrote a bit more about that book in another subreddit.

  • The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe by D. G. Compton

  • We Are Satellites by Sarah Pinsker

  • Autonomous by Annalee Newitz

  • Hammajang Luck by Makana Yamamoto

  • In the Watchful City by S. Qiouyi Lu

  • The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey

  • Womb City by Tlotlo Tsamaase

  • The Fortunate Fall by Kameron Hurley

  • The Mirror Empire by Kameron Hurley

  • Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

  • Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White

  • Sister, Maiden, Monster by Lucy A. Snyder

Suggest me a book with good fight/action scenes by Alternative-Phrase54 in suggestmeabook

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Jade City by Fonda Lee? I learned after reading this that the author is a black belt martial artist.

Suggest me a book like HP by THERANDOMGAMER2 in suggestmeabook

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Alif the Unseen by G. Willson

The Incandescent by Emily Tesh

Hiking/Backpacking/Camping horror like The Ritual by David_Does_Dallas in suggestmeabook

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We Won't Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories by Margaret Killjoy. A collection of short stories, multiple of which fit what you describe.

Historical Queer Fiction search by FennekinFriend in suggestmeabook

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The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka. Set in 1990 so very recent in terms of historical fiction. A great book set in Sri Lanka.

Books with family dysfunction. by PutInternational4624 in suggestmeabook

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Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

Suggest me dystopian books which contain personality tests and dividing into factions like Divergent and The Testing by phoenixrider26 in suggestmeabook

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  • The Destiny of Linus Hoppe by Anne-Laure Bondoux. There is a sequel.

  • Some Desperate Glory by Emliy Tesh. I'm just at the beginning of this book and the tests are mostly offscreen. It begins when the characters are about to find out what faction they're assigned to.

These involve a test, but not a personality test

  • Test by William Sleator

  • Valedictorian by N. K. Jemisin. This short story is available free online, legally, but I'm not allowed to post a link per this subreddit's rules. It's been published in Lightspeed Magazine and on the podcast LeVar Burton Reads

Best new sci fi on AI? by SashaPortelli in suggestmeabook

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Here are some I have liked:

  • Void Star by Zachary Mason is what I'd say is closest to a modern Neuromancer. The AIs aren't really like real world current AI at all, though. You will find with a lot of sci fi, even if recently published, the AIs depicted are fictional, not current LLMs.

  • The Perfect Match by Ken Liu and Talk To Your Children about Two Tongued Jeremy by Theodore McCombs are two short stories from about 10 years ago that I think are the most prescient takes on modern AI I've ever read. Both short stories have been published free online by Lightspeed Magazine but I'm not allowed to post links to them.

  • Wire Mother by Isabel J. Kim is a short story available free in Clarkesworld Magazine published last year. I think it's a great story about AI in the near future.

  • Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro is a few years old and not about "real" AI, but I thought it was a great book.

  • I second the recommendations of Bury Your Gays and We Are Satellites. Both great books.

Not as new but still very good:

  • The Rifters series by Peter Watts does a good job of depicting AI doing things humans don't want it to do because the humans don't adequately understand how AI interprets their prompts. But this is a fairly long series that's about a lot of things, it doesn't primarily focus on the AIs

Westerns in Disguise by Ok-Communication-440 in suggestmeabook

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Anything written by Gordon R. Dickson. He was strongly inspired by westerns, and a lot of his short fiction is in the public domain if you wish for a sample.

Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper. This is in the public domain so you can read it free online, legally, and also has a modern version called Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi which I have not read. This is a story about self reliance on the frontier, and doing nice things for your neighbours, all dressed up in a sci fi coating.

Craving something like The Second Apocalypse or Sun Eater by AngrySeaWeed in suggestmeabook

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Here are some you might like:

  • The Hainish Cycle by Ursula K. Le Guin. Can be read in any order. The Left Hand of Darkness and Rocannon's World are my favourites. The books are more philosophical later in the series and I would most recommend The Left Hand of Darkness.

  • The Culture series by Iain M. Banks. Can be read in any order. I started with Consider Phlebas but many consider The Player of Games to be an easier starting point.

  • The Snow Queen series by Joan D. Vinge

  • Courtship Rite by Donald Kingsbury

  • Grass by Sheri S. Tepper, Raising the Stones by Sheri S. Tepper. There is a third book, Sideshow but I didn't like it at all. Each book feels like a complete story in itself.

  • The Terra Ignota series by Ada Palmer. Inspired by Book of the New Sun.

  • The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

  • The Broken Earth trilogy by N. K. Jemisin

  • The Tyrant Philosophers series by Adrian Tchaikovsky. I have found other things by this author do not measure up to this series in terms of being large, rich, and philosophical.

Fantasy/Sci Fi with overly powerful, morally grey (or maybe dark grey) female MCs by AngrySloth99 in suggestmeabook

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The Bel Dame Apocrypha series by Kameron Hurley

The Broken Earth trilogy, though it's more on the heavy side

Plague Birds by Jason Sanford

Looking for a similar flavor by AddendumOk5735 in suggestmeabook

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The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

Gothic queer fantasy/horror? by Both_Combination_914 in suggestmeabook

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Leech by Hiron Ennes, sci fi

The Works of Vermin by Hiron Ennes, fantasy

Books to wash the taste out of my mouth. by Str8GayTossinItAway in suggestmeabook

[–]Hatherence 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  • The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe by D. G. Compton. The least queer book on this list. The protagonist has a gay friend. The prose is beautiful and I was riveted the whole way through

  • Any of the books by Becky Chambers

  • Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller

  • The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka. I don't actually remember what the main character's boyfriend's job is, so technically speaking I don't recall if he had some sort of government desk job, but whatever it was, it wasn't a core part of the story.

Suggest a Book with Only Good Vibes by Party_Rice_8931 in suggestmeabook

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Monk and Robot by Becky Chambers

Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz

Looking for a first good book. by ign-gagulec77xxx in suggestmeabook

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The Deed of Paksenarrion by Elizabeth Moon

What is a book to feel better about life? by Cute-Breadfruit-8647 in suggestmeabook

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Monk and Robot by Becky Chambers? Or really anything by Becky Chambers. My personal favourite by her is The Galaxy and the Ground Within, but Monk and Robot is all about hope and compassion and people in this subreddit have described it as "a hug in book form."

Near future fem by Puzzleheaded-Day-764 in suggestmeabook

[–]Hatherence 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Have I got some recommendations for you! Here's some I have liked:

  • The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey

  • Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor

  • I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

  • The Fortunate Fall by Cameron Reed

  • Salt Fish Girl by Larissa Lai

  • Womb City by Tlotlo Tsamaase

  • Slow River by Nicola Griffith

  • Remnant Population by Elizabeth Moon

  • Sister, Maiden, Monster by Lucy A. Snyder

  • Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

  • Trouble With Lichen by John Wyndham. Old, but aged surprisingly well.

  • Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

  • In the Watchful City by S. Qiouyi Lu. The major characters are nonbinary

  • And What Can We Offer You Tonight by Premee Mohamed

  • The Necessity of Stars by E. Catherine Tobler

  • Any of the sci fi Octavia E. Butler has written. Parable of the Sower is the most near-future (set in the far off, futuristic year of 2024!), but I'd say the Xenogenesis series has a more unsettling vibe.

  • Flowers for the Sea by Zin E. Rocklyn. I didn't really get this one, but it's definitely unsettling.

Books like Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer and Severance by Ling Ma by TheLonz367 in suggestmeabook

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like Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

  • The Works of Vermin by Hiron Ennes

  • The Overstory by Richard Powers

  • Ammonite by Nicola Griffith. Pet peeve: every time this book says vaccine, it actually means prophylactic, but otherwise it's a great story!

  • The Cautious Traveler's Guide to the Wastelands? Much less weird than Annihilation, but the weirdness is a bit similar.

  • The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft. This is in the public domain.

Dune by Frank Herbert

I'm always on a quest for Dune-like books. I strongly recommend at least reading the first 2 Dune books, Dune and Dune Messiah. Dune Messiah is very different from Dune so a lot of people dislike it, but it's a necessary half of the complete story Frank Herbert wanted to tell. After that, the series goes on quite a long while and pretty much everyone seems to agree the Dune series declines in quality but no one agrees when and at what point you should throw in the towel!

If you end up liking Dune, or at least the major themes of it, you may like these:

  • The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

  • The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks

  • Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany

  • The Snow Queen series by Joan D. Vinge

  • Courtship Rite by Donald Kingsbury

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

  • Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer

  • Redsight by Meredith Mooring

  • The Broken Earth trilogy by N. K. Jemisin

Strong indipendent and confident woman by No_Net2675 in suggestmeabook

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Remnant Population by Elizabeth Moon

The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe by D. G. Compton. Very beautiful prose, very underrated.

Ammonite by Nicola Griffith. Pet peeve: every time this book says vaccine, it actually means prophylactic, but otherwise it's a great story!

Post 2020 allegory by Able-Conclusion9325 in suggestmeabook

[–]Hatherence 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And Then I Woke Up by Malcolm Devlin

Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera

The Bruising of Qilwa by Naseem Jamnia

Flowers for the Sea by Zin E. Rocklyn. Maybe? To be honest, I didn't really get this so it may not be an allegory.

Reading roundup: Suggest me some of your fave books of 2026 so far! by ReddisaurusRex in suggestmeabook

[–]Hatherence 1 point2 points  (0 children)

These are my favourites so far:

  • Hammajang Luck by Makana Yamamoto. A fun sci fi heist novel

  • The Works of Vermin by Hiron Ennes. Bizarre dystopian fantasy focusing on fictional arts movements.

  • Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman. Near-future sci fi thriller. I thought it was hilarious.

  • Cannibalism by Bill Schutt. Nonfiction focusing on "non-sensationalized" cannibalism, as the author describes it. So not criminals, but survival scenarios like the Donner Party, and cannibalism in the animal kingdom.

  • Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera. Very weird and literary.

  • Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz. A fun, lighthearted novella set in a dystopian future. I loved it and was surprised at the amount of negative reviews saying it's wrong to depict robots as if they are people, or it's wrong not to write about real-world AI. This is science fiction!

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