onTheBrink 169 Posted Friday at 09:15 PM Share Posted Friday at 09:15 PM Feeling a lot more drawn to sci-fi at the moment....anybody have any suggestions? Open to novels and short stories but from the recent past please (maybe from 2020 onwards)? Thank youu 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenina 15,265 Posted Friday at 10:45 PM Share Posted Friday at 10:45 PM (edited) These are all series that I adore but they're older than you would like except for the very last Life as We Knew it by Susan Beth Pfeffer - The Moon gets hit by an asteroid and sends the world into chaos Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card - About children drafted to fight an intergalactic war and the morality of it Lord of the Mysteries by Cuttlefish That Loves Diving which mixes sci-fi and magic Edited Friday at 10:45 PM by Jenina cool 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
onTheBrink 169 Posted Friday at 10:48 PM Author Share Posted Friday at 10:48 PM 2 minutes ago, Jenina said: These are all series that I adore but they're older than you would like except for the very last Life as We Knew it by Susan Beth Pfeffer - The Moon gets hit by an asteroid and sends the world into chaos Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card - About children drafted to fight an intergalactic war and the morality of it Lord of the Mysteries by Cuttlefish That Loves Diving which mixes sci-fi and magic Thank you so much, I'm gonna check Ender's Game out! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenina 15,265 Posted Friday at 10:53 PM Share Posted Friday at 10:53 PM (edited) 6 minutes ago, onTheBrink said: Thank you so much, I'm gonna check Ender's Game out! It has a movie as well! I wouldn't watch it first unless you're struggling to finish the novel but I do like it. It's free to download from this github if you need it and it's safe https://github.com/stepbasin/books/tree/master/books Edited Friday at 10:55 PM by Jenina cool Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
onTheBrink 169 Posted Friday at 10:56 PM Author Share Posted Friday at 10:56 PM Just now, Jenina said: It has a movie as well! I wouldn't watch it first unless you're struggling to finish the novel but I do like it I just found the first chapter of the book online and it's a vibe - there's violence brewing here I can tell already 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenina 15,265 Posted Friday at 10:59 PM Share Posted Friday at 10:59 PM 3 minutes ago, onTheBrink said: I just found the first chapter of the book online and it's a vibe - there's violence brewing here I can tell already Ahhh I'm so excited for you! cool 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PornoDanceFight 1,864 Posted Friday at 11:02 PM Share Posted Friday at 11:02 PM Anything Octavia Butler, especially her “Parable” series. Parable of the Sower is one of my all time favorite books, regardless of genre! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siena 6,385 Posted Friday at 11:10 PM Share Posted Friday at 11:10 PM Short of Your Life by Ted Chiang. It’s the short story that the film Arrival is based on. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAGA IS GROOVY 677 Posted yesterday at 12:09 AM Share Posted yesterday at 12:09 AM I recommend the spooky-ooky sci-fi short story, I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison. It's from the 60's so isn't from the recent past....sorry, but it takes place in a post-apocalyptic AI hellscape, so it feels quite pertinent in 2026! Also, there's a great audiobook recording of the author reading it available for free on YouTube, which is scary and intense - check it out! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Economy 52,380 Posted yesterday at 12:28 AM Share Posted yesterday at 12:28 AM Scifi my fav genre we could talk and discuss for hours But I dont read, I whatch movies 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
zevthepaparazzo 2,166 Posted yesterday at 12:57 AM Share Posted yesterday at 12:57 AM I liked deus irae I made my friends at the time read it and they didn't like it so I pretended to dislike it you may like it or not it was released in 1976 so it is not in your time frame it was one of the only sci-fi books I've read anyway the future is in your hands Anything goes! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenina 15,265 Posted yesterday at 01:39 AM Share Posted yesterday at 01:39 AM (edited) I knew I was forgetting one! EIGHTY-SIX!!! It also has a manga and an anime adaptation but it's a bit hard to find the anime at the moment as it was just removed from Netflix and Crunchyroll. Basically the government decided everyone that didn't have silver hair and silver eyes were a lesser race so they were called the 86 and were no longer considered people. They sent out even young children to fight against a legion of autonomous robots and the story follows a privileged girl who was put in charge of a squadron of 86 teenagers and is now facing all the injustices for the first time. It goes into depth about the 86 assigned to her as well. Overall it includes discussions on war, nationalism, racism, trauma and it's one of my favorites. It's also newer than some of my other recommendations with publishing beginning in 2017 Edited yesterday at 01:43 AM by Jenina cool 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
onTheBrink 169 Posted 15 hours ago Author Share Posted 15 hours ago 11 hours ago, GAGA IS GROOVY said: I recommend the spooky-ooky sci-fi short story, I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison. It's from the 60's so isn't from the recent past....sorry, but it takes place in a post-apocalyptic AI hellscape, so it feels quite pertinent in 2026! Also, there's a great audiobook recording of the author reading it available for free on YouTube, which is scary and intense - check it out! I have no mouth and I must scream is such a haunting title my god Gonna listen to this sometime thank you! Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
onTheBrink 169 Posted 15 hours ago Author Share Posted 15 hours ago 10 hours ago, Economy said: But I dont read, I whatch movies Meh, give me recommendations still! I don't watch enough movies either Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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