Whether you like ripping page turners, incredible characters, books that make you laugh out loud, exploring unforgettable new worlds, or literary books that will make you see the world in a new way, there's a great intro to scifi out there for everyone!
If you want to jump around, here are the timestamps for all the books we talked about:
- 00:00 Intro
- 00:38 Incredible Characters - Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold
- 3:07 A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
- 4:04 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
- 4:52 Unforgettable Worlds - The Expanse by James S.A. Corey
- 6:58 Hyperion by Dan Simmons
- 8:24 House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds
- 9:20 Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- 10:56 The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
- 12:22 Funny SF - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- 13:36 Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
- 14:50 Old Man's War by John Scalzi
- 16:01 Page turners - Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
- 17:43 Dark Matter or Recursion by Blake Crouch
- 18:52 All Systems Red by Martha Wells
- 20:01 Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
- 21:35 Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
- 22:34 Literary SciFi - The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
- 24:55 Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- 26:26 The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- 27:49 Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- 28:40 Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
