Fellow bookworms, I am glad to announce that I am at the last book of Cosmere (Yumi and the Nightmare Painter). And then, I will have finished it all. So this is where I need your help. Recommend me some awesome Sci-fi and Fantasy books that you believe will blow away my mind, like the impact needs to be huge, cannot believe this happened type of stuff. Preferred genre are Sci-fi and Fantasy, but if you know some awesome book from other genre, don’t hold back, all suggestions are welcome.

Thank you in advance.

UPDATE: Piranesi is currently on lead and I am almost finished with Yumi, so that is the next on my list. But don’t let that stop the recommendations coming. Eventually all of us are going to run out of recommendations ;)

    • IsoSpandy@lemm.eeOP
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      16 days ago

      Man you recommended the most upvoted book. I guess this is the next one on my list.

  • R. Bridger@lemmygrad.ml
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    16 days ago

    Solaris by Stanislaw Lem. A psychologist is sent to a station in orbit around a planet covered by a sentient ocean to determine if research on it should continue. Lem’s work consistently blows my mind, actually–other favorites are His Master’s Voice (memoirs of a mathematician working on a project to decipher what might be a message from extraterrestrials) and Peace on Earth (an adventurer returns from a trip to the moon with his brain bisected, and the half that remembers what happened is both unable and unwilling to communicate it).

  • Patch@feddit.uk
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    16 days ago

    Two very different recommendations.

    First is the Southern Reach novels by Jeff VanderMeer (the first one being Annihilation). Unsettling, surreal Lovecraftian sci-fi. Gorgeously written, beautiful prose, and very memorable.

    Second is the Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson (starting with Red Mars). Hard sci-fi on an almost unprecedented scale: a comprehensive and incredibly detailed narrative of the colonisation of Mars, which covers almost every possible aspect of the story in glorious, engaging detail. You get everything from the love triangles and personal rivalries of the colonists, to politics and religion, to macro-economics, to superstructure engineering, to long deep chapters covering hydrology, micro-biology, the finer points of lichens and mosses, to architecture, art… Honestly, it’s breathtaking in just how thoroughly it covers its subject whilst still being a poignant, engaging, story. Not to everyone’s tastes, but it could certainly make an impact.

  • Lazycog@sopuli.xyz
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    16 days ago

    My absolute all time favourite sci-fi book series is John Scalzi’s “Old Man’s War”.

    I can’t recommend this book series enough. Kept me up several nights because I couldn’t stop reading (and suffered for it at work).

    Scalzi added a lot of humor too and it’s brilliant.

  • spikesforeyes@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    15 days ago

    I haven’t seen Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir here. It’s Sci-Fi, it might not be very sanderlanchey but it’s one of my favorites. I read it in a weekend, and it usually takes me 1-2 weeks to read a single book. I gripped me from start to finish, and had a great conclusion. I recommend you give it a try!