[fredsir]

> The Dark Forest

This is a tangent, but have you found any other books you can recommend for someone having a hard time finding sci fi books they like while absolute adoring The Three-body Problem trilogy / Remembrance of Earth's Past?

[TimSchumann]

Read the whole Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy a few years back.

Check out 'There Is No Antimemetics Division' -- just the most recent one I read and really enjoyed, quick read too, probably only a few hours if you really dig into it, took me like 4 or 5 IIRC.

Also, because it's timely. A friend recommended me the above book, and it reminded me of this book that I have yet to recommend to him...

The Fifth Science by Exurb1a

Other good ones in no particular order.

House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds -- probably my favorite starting point for his work as it's a standalone novel, but I've read everything he's written and enjoyed most of it. This is a story told over the course of multiple tens of millions of years, and it flows well.

Culture Series by Ian M. Banks -- Only made it through the first two books, and really enjoyed them, having trouble getting into the third but I have a feeling I'll enjoy the rest of the series. Just re-read the 2nd a few days ago.

Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky -- Planet of the Apes but with Spiders, not entirely accurate but an apt teaser I think.

Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie -- Only got through the first in this series of three, but really enjoyed it.

I've probably burned through another 250 books in the last 5 years or so, this is just top of mind recent memory stuff. I have the good luck that my father is an absolute monster with reading, so I'm a few thousand recommendations behind.

Feel free to reach out, e-mail is username here at gmail.

[fredsir]

Great! Thanks a lot for that! Have a good one.

[Apotheos]

Searching /r/printSF is my go to for finding like titles.

[fredsir]

I’ll try that, thank you.

[ivankolev]

Ilium/Olympos by Dan Simmons is very good, also anything from Alastair Reynolds.

[sdwr]

Yeah, definitely. The three body problem gripped me as well, can't really be topped but I also liked:

Stories of your life by Ted Chiang

Fragnemt by the lovely twitter.com/ctrlcreep

Borges

qntm.org/fiction

Haruki Murakami

Accerelando by Charles Stross

[fredsir]

Thank you and is that Jorge Luis Borges? Anything in particular you suggest?

[sdwr]

Yep! The stories that really stand out to me are the library of babel, the circular ruins, and the short one about the map (on exactitude in science). His writing style isn't the best, comes across as overdone or clunky sometimes, but the themes he explores are wonderful.

[chrisvogt]

I read the Children of Time Series by Adrian Tchaikovsky after Remembrance of Earth's Past and really enjoyed both.

[princesse]

Anathem worked for me