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SvennoJ 6 days ago
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LegitHyperbole said:
CladInShadows said:

Lots of great stuff mentioned here. I'll add a couple more:

Novels: Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds. Read this and you'll see where Mass Effect got some of its ideas. Massive scope.

Games: SOMA. Fucking fantastic setting and story.

SOMA deserves to be up there, I found it a bit of a drag to play so I'd not score it a 10 but the ending twist/scenario made it so worth every second and the themes it deals with are intense.

I'll add revelation space to my amazon wishlist, Alister Reynolds name seems familiar.  

He's a great writer. I recently re-read Pushing Ice from him. Great novel (separate from the Revelation Space series) that starts not all that far in the future yet ends at the end of time. I'm tempted to re-read the Revelation Space series as well.

I can also recommend Lary Niven's Ringworld, where Halo got its ideas from.

Great North Road from Peter F. Hamilton is also one that stuck with me. Lots of suspense and amazing ideas for solving crimes in the future.