the big stickied thread is getting cluttered with lots of new people and the “how was your week” thread isn’t a great fit for introductions, so it seems about time to make this a dedicated thread of its own so peoples’ posts aren’t getting lost.
tell us a little bit about yourself, folks. don’t gotta be too specific or revealing, just whatever you want to put out there. this’ll be a good way of getting to know all the people you’re now on here with
Do you have a favorite sci-fi or fantasy author to recommend? (I am deeply entrenched in Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, and Ursula le Guin.)
@StringTheory
I’m not @GooseDwarf but I highly recommend the works of Alastair Reynolds. I got hooked and ripped through most of his books in a matter of months. Really great sci-fi. He’s got a stand-alone novel called House of Suns that is a great way to check out his writing.
Thank you! I’ll take a look, he’s an author I don’t think I’ve ever read.
Terry Pratchett is my go to for fantasy, I absolutely adore Discworld. A series I don’t hear about as much though, is the Dragon Weather trilogy by Lawrence Watt-Evans. I highly recommend it!
As far as scifi, I’m mostly in a cyberpunk kick at the moment. I just finished Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, which was quite good. Other than that, I can recommend William Gibson, with the sprawl trilogy that helped define modern cyberpunk.
As far as more traditional scifi, aside from Adam’s, whose work is amazing, I enjoy the Ender’s Game series, but acknowledge that Card was a bit problematic, especially with his later writing having more Mormon beliefs shining through. I also am a fan of Andy Weir’s The Martian and Project Hail Mary. They’re entertaining, but some people don’t like how they perceive his writing to be full of deus ex machina. I enjoy seeing how his characters overcome the problems.
I’ve never heard of Ursula Le Guin, I’ll have to check them out
Thank you! These are great suggestions