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What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? September 15 (discuss.online)
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Finished Carl's Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman, book 2 of Dungeon Crawler Carl.

spoiler for book 2I thought Bea will show up in the second book, though it looks like she is actually dead now. Carl has a point if she was still alive some show will have found her by now.

It looks like they are going to do something in future books and split up Carl and Donut. Not a fan of this in most books, so let's see how it goes.

Started Sword of Destiny by Andrzej Sapkowski. Book 2 of The Witcher series. This is the second short story collection, after which comes the 5 book novel series. I read the series quite a while ago, but never finished all the novels, so re-reading the earlier books to finally complete the series.

What about all of you? What have you all been reading or listening to lately?

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[–] 6 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

Started Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir the other day after I finished The Martian by him. I am currently on a hard sci-fi run, and I am really enjoying his books so far.

Does someone have similar recommendations by any chance?

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  • [–] 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    The Expanse series by James S.A. Corey. Great books and I enjoyed the show as well.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago

    Highly recommend The Expanse. The two writers of the novels were behind the show. They made some changes, but they might have actually improved things. But the books are fantastic. If you get a bit put off by the 'magic' in the first book..... give it some time, there's arguably science there. And the rest of it is pretty much on the harder science side of things (i.e. no warp drive, no transporter, stuff like that)

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  • [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    In my opinion Andy Weir isn't that hard sci-fi, which is ok because I don't like hard sci-fi that much. Most people here seem to agree that the Bobiverse series by Dennis E Taylor is similar in tone and maybe even settings.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Thank you for your recommendations! What would you consider hard sci-fi?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    For me hard sci-fi are writers like Adrian Tchaikovsky or Ken MacLeod. Lot's of people love the "Children of time" series by Tchaikovsky, but when reading the first book it was too much world building too little story for me. On the other hand, I did like his book "Service Model".

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    With a touch of humor - the Bobiverse series.

    With a barrel of misery, but also a can't miss and some of the best sci-fi characters ever put to page, The Expanse series.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago

    Hey! I just finished that book. It's fantastic. Project Hail Mary has a lot of the feel of what I enjoyed in The Martian while still having its own vibe. It had that "gotta read one more chapter" page-turner quality that I don't always get from books these days.

    You're in for a treat. I love Andy Weir's writing.

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