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two fish posted:Looking for hard sci-fi where a prominent theme is making first contact with a non-humanoid species. Especially if a complex language needs to be deciphered, or if the aliens think strangely. Dragon’s Egg is about life that evolved on the surface of a neutron star, it’s great Edit: just remembered the name. A Fire Upon the Deep features a very unique alien race with multiple heads and such. tuyop fucked around with this message at 03:22 on May 11, 2024 |
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two fish posted:Looking for hard sci-fi where a prominent theme is making first contact with a non-humanoid species. Especially if a complex language needs to be deciphered, or if the aliens think strangely. Three Body Problem
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May 11, 2024 03:07
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two fish posted:Looking for hard sci-fi where a prominent theme is making first contact with a non-humanoid species. Especially if a complex language needs to be deciphered, or if the aliens think strangely.
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I just went through a spree of hype scifi novels from the past few years. Didn't really care for Dark Matter, Blindsight was cool but not enough for me to want to read the sequel. Few more big names until I decided to finally crack Hyperion and this is what I was looking for the whole time. Halfway through The Fall of Hyperion. What do you recommend for my next space opera? And I was under the impression the Cantos was only 2 books, but I'm seeing it was expanded to 4? Are they all worth? Love every page I've read so far.
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96 spacejam posted:I just went through a spree of hype scifi novels from the past few years. Didn't really care for Dark Matter, Blindsight was cool but not enough for me to want to read the sequel. Few more big names until I decided to finally crack Hyperion and this is what I was looking for the whole time. Halfway through The Fall of Hyperion. What do you recommend for my next space opera? And I was under the impression the Cantos was only 2 books, but I'm seeing it was expanded to 4? Are they all worth? Love every page I've read so far. hype sci-fi and you're reading Dark Matter? From the last few years and you're reading Hyperion (1989)? Anyway, the consensus is that Hyperion falls off hard from the second book onwards, but if you're enjoying it, continue until you don't want to read more. Dan Simmons has some political problems (doesn't like muslims) in his later books but plenty of people like The Terror and the mini-series based off it is widely said to be superior. Anyway, given the broad timeline you've established here's some Space Opera to read: Neverness by David Zindell House of Suns by Alistair Reynolds The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi Diaspora by Greg Egan Ninefox Gambit by Yun Ha Lee The Greatship by Robert Reed
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