| Machina said:
I read Hitchhiker's Guide years and years ago. Like MrB, I enjoyed the first (though not as much as most people), but then it went rapidly downhill. I read the synopsis for Neuromancer on Wiki just now and the plot doesn't grab me. Doesn't sound like my kind of sci-fi genre either ('Cyberpunk plots often center on a conflict among hackers, artificial intelligences, and megacorporations, and tend to be set in a near-future Earth, rather than the far-future settings or galactic vistas found in novels such as Isaac Asimov's Foundation or Frank Herbert's Dune.') I guess I could give Dune a shot, but if it's anything like the film or tv series adaptations I'll lose interest half way through. |
oh you are looking for space operas then, I haven't read a recent one of them for ages lol. You could give some Culture books a spin they are in a similar vain as the Foundation series but they from what I have read a rather cerebral without much action, but they are well writen and interesting stories. Dune doesn't seem up you ally at all TBH with it's political interleague and complex mythologies and ecological underpinnings, they are great stories but they can be pretty boring at times, and show their age.
Another avenue would be Enders game but it's near future...
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