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| Slarvax said: Oh wow, didn't expect this many responses. Thank you everyone, and I'll try to get as many of the books you guys recommended :D (hopefully, I necrobump this to say I've read most if not all) About the genres I like, I'd say history, literature, philosophy, anything involving time travel, physics or science overall, romance and adventures. Oooh, and terror... Specially terror and philosophy. Like I said, almost anything. |
For history, physics, science and time travel, adventures and some terror, read the Time Odyssey from 2 of the best sf writers, Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter. It's 3 volumes, Time's eye, Sun storm and Firstborn. An alien civilization wants to destroy the earth by flaring the sun, while different groups of people throughout history suddenly find themselves on a patchwork alternative earth. One of the highlights is an epic battle between Genghis Khan and Alexander the Great in ancient Mesopotamia.
If you want more large scale terror Flood and Ark from Stephen Baxter is a very intelligent disaster story describing the aftermath of continually rising sea levels until the entire world is covered, plus a realisic look in the perils of interstellar space travel as a last ditch effort to preserve the human race.
Stephen Baxter is a hard SF writer, firmly basing his stories in real science ans engineering which makes it sometimes a bit tough to get through, but his books always pay off big. I just read Proxima from him, a different look on a first attempt at establishing a settlement on an exo planet, together with the discovery of ancient alien tech hidden underground on Mercury. Future politics, AI, alien life, human behaviour all feel very realistic.
