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jwharris28
Posted 2015-03-16 3:42 PM (#9901 - in reply to #9900)
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pizzakarin - 2015-03-16 2:28 PM I looked through my 5 star books specifically for older SF and here's what I came up with: The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury The Big Time by Fritz Leiber The Man Who Was Thursday by G K Chesterton I'm having a hard time articulating it, but I think what those three have in common and what makes them resonate with me is a sense of humor about the absurdity of humanity. As far as more recently published favorites: Anathem by Neal Stephenson Blindsight by Peter Watts Old Man's War by John Scalzi Of the three of those, I expect Blindsight to hold up the least well as it is the mostly likely to be knocked down by improved social theory (one of the things that I think a lot of 50s and 60s books fell to). I expect Old Man's War to hold up the best as it is mostly an adventure story, though the technological trappings may get outdated.

If you like Old Man's War, you should try Starship Troopers, The Forever War, and Ender's Game. I think all military SF descends from Starship Troopers.

 I've been thinking about Blindsight since one of my blog readers keeps recommend Peter Watts.

 Of the newer books I've been very impressed with are Ready Player One, The Windup Girl, Little Brother, The Martian, The Hunger Games, Spin,  and the Wake, Watch, Wonder trilogy.

 



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