Can you name ONE (one only please) SF/F book, written this century (2001+), that has absolutely blown your mind? Not just something you liked, or that was good, I'm looking for the absolute best books written this century.
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According to this post β https://aus.social/@skribe/115036689028441919, these are the Top 7 SF/F books of this century.Aus.Social
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Charlie Stross
in reply to skribe πΊπ¦ :verified_mustard: • • •Daniel Carosone
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The first on your list: agreed
The second on your list: was my nomination
The third on your list: need, TIL
(lists weren't allowed, but I think you can take the liberty here)
Charlie Stross
in reply to Daniel Carosone • • •Late Winter Fog
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •oh shit, Charles Stross reads Graydon Saunders
yes, I completely agree, though I'd say the "best" book is Safely You Deliver- the one about a unicorn who wants to be prove they're safe enough to be allowed to be around people- but you absolutely can't understand them out of order, sadly
incredibly-worldbuilt anarcho-syndicalist gender-optional second-world fantasy. and Halt. Halt is best evil spider grandma wizard alpha-fork.
Charlie Stross
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in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Mre. Dartigen [maker mode]
in reply to skribe πΊπ¦ :verified_mustard: • • •Annihilation, by Jeff Vandermeer. I haven't gotten to reading the rest of Southern Reach, but on its own it's... something.
(While I didn't do it in this order, I'd actually recommend reading it before watching the 2018 adaptation, and maybe regarding the film as more of an 'inspired by' adaptation.
Mostly so the film's imagery doesn't intrude while reading.)
Enrico Zini
in reply to skribe πΊπ¦ :verified_mustard: • • •* The Tiffany Aching stories by Terry Pratchett
* Blindsight by Peter Watts
* The Wayfarers series by Becky Chambers. "Record of a Spaceborn Few" and "The Galaxy, and the Ground Within" I particularly liked
* The Scholomance series by Naomi Novik
* The Murderbot Diaries series by Martha Wells
* The Revelation Space series by Alastair Reynolds
* The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
* This is how you lose the time war by Amal El-Mohtar
* Pretty much anything from @gregeganSF
* The broken earth books by N.K.Jemisin
* "When the tiger came down the mountain" by Nghi Vo
* "The laundry files" by @cstross, but then I work in IT
* Ian M Banks published Culture books in the 2000s
There was so much good stuff written in SF/F in this century, I can't possibly do "absolute best" and I'm surely missing lots
Diego Roversi
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in reply to skribe πΊπ¦ :verified_mustard: • • •@vicgrinberg Anathem by Neal Stephenson
Stunning book, blew my mind 100%.
Joel WirΔmu, Pauling
in reply to Thomas Sturm • • •Seveneves is also brilliant; I loved both but they are very different. Sevenevea was a bit better suited to my own proclivities and tastes and arguably has more relevance in places in context of current global challenges
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Stefan Karstens
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