Vonnegut
Dick
Peter Watts
Heinlein
Asimov
Bradbury
Simmons
Gibson
Orson Scott Card
Glukhovsky
Lem
Herbert
James S.A. Corey

I’ve never read from any of those names. I’ll get to it. A big thank you for the recommendations.

I've read some Vonnegut, Heinlein, Asimov, Bradbury, and James S.A. Corey.

Of these names, I've only liked James S.A. Corey which is a pseudonym used by the two people writing The Expanse books. Reading their works is like reading a movie script. A lot like the Alien or Terminator books, if you've had the chance too look at those. I love this format.

You may also check Michael Marshall Smith. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Only_Forward is one my favourite books ever

Vonnegut, Heinlein, Asimov, Bradbury - these are classics. I really like Vonnegut. With Heinlein it is good to have a context of his time.

imo quite hard to compare it with James S.A. Corey

I only compared Corey to other script like works. My consciousness is clear.

I also liked https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnerjack

Not a bad product of its time.

I would start with
Dick: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Dick: Ubik
Orson Scott Card: Ender's Game

You forgot Arthur C. Clarke in your list there.

Yeah, and probably many more :D
Quick list out from my head.

SF is a very good genre with many good authors... not like fantasy genre ;)

They are just two sides of the same coin. I'ts like teenage metal fans vs hip-hop fans used to be. There is a reason why sci-fi and fantasy often bundled together.

Maybe, but I like the Tolien mostly because I read it when I was young.

About other authors maybe only Erikson with Malazan series, Martin with GoT early books. Some Roger Zelazny books...

just not so many interesting books there for me or not mature enough

Iain M. Banks is my favourite sci-fi author, I think "Matter" or "Surface Detail" would be good big chunky ones to start with, there's no particular order to be followed but I recommend leaving "Inversions" till last, trust me on this. He also did non-scifi fiction under the name Iain Banks. I only read The Wasp Factory of those ones, pretty good horror story.

"Seeds of Earth" by Michael Cobley was the first hard sci-fi book I read, it's pretty neat, first part of a trilogy.

Other standout sci-fi which I read over the years:

Dan Simmons - Ilium / Olympos
Dan Simmons - Hyperion
Neal Stephenson - Anathem
Adrian Tchaikovsky - Children of Time
Walter Tevis - The Man Who Fell to Earth
Robert Silverberg - Downward the Earth
Larry Niven - Ringworld
Vernor Vinge - A Fire Upon the Deep
Tom Toner - The Promise of the Child

As for classics, Dracula is a great read, so is 1984, so is Fahrenheit 451. So is anything by Kurt Vonnegut or Isaac Asimov. Philip K Dick is also great but personally I find his stuff just too damn depressing.

And do yourself a favour and get a nice physical edition of HP Lovecraft's collected works at your local bookstore.

Check https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel) ;)

Maybe I will. In a non-fiction phase atm tho :(

Nice list.

Also, as depressing or fictitious Dick's work may be, I recommend you listen to this speech and interview where he goes in-depth discussing his scientific, literary, philosophical, gnostic, mystical and apocryphal inspirations, the occult, secret societies, power, authoritarianism, psychedelics, personal accounts with 'inter-dimensional entities' and 'adventures' with intelligence agencies which harassed him for uncovering the 'evil' undercurrent or principality which governs our universe (which he was firmly convinced is a simulated reality). Quite a mouthful, but pretty relevant to any current geopolitical events and scientific advancements in consciousness, simulation and parallel universe theories if you ask me.

Read Dracula a month ago. It was great. We got a ton of H.P Lovecraft, but I’ve yet to dive into it. I heard his character dialogue is baaaad.

Thanks for recommendations!

zero complaints with lovecraft from me

I liked The Library of Babel so much that Borges became the author I dream of learning Spanish well enough to read.

Oh, and I was trying to think of something that won't necessarily get recommended in these threads or that I haven't recommended myself before. Emily Wilson's translation of the Odyssey keeps a pace closer to the original and has a nice audiobook of it out.

Thanks for the thoughtful recommendation. ;)

Cheers!

Speedboat, Renata Adler.
The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger.
On the Road, Jack Kerouac.
Stoner, John Williams

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A great listen as well would be Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey.

Excellent! I’ll be checking into these down the road. I for some reason haven’t read catcher in the rye, yet I know I should have by now.

Thanks!!!

lmao

Trump - How windmills cause cancer

That’s not a very thoughtful recommendation. I am positive you can do much better than this.

No no you are getting something wrong here. But it is ok, you always showed that most of the time you are right. No shame in doing one mistake.

I’m garbage.

I definitely recommend Jack Ketchum to anyone who is into the psychological breakdown horror, and gore.

I’ve read most of Stephen kings hits at this point, but it really only appeals to old school classic rock nutters from America. I love King, but I do understand why people wouldn’t like his works... sort of.

Greg Egan, especially "Permutation City".

How does old school classic rock nuttery relate to King?

Also, wtf, are you really recomming a book to gore-fans?

King always references classic rock from his generation.

Why not recommend a book for gore fans? Jack Ketchum’s “Off Season” is quite the gore filled story about cannibalism. Read it, if you dare.

Also his book “The girl next door” left a pit in my soul. I can’t recommend it to anyone. I thought I could handle it but I couldn’t. Based on a true story. Easily the best-worst book I have ever encountered.

because, if ur a "gore-fan", u should watch movies lol.

Just finnished Attack Surface. I expected worse tbh.

Just finished The Silent Patient. Ffffuuuck.

I will also recommend an author from Poland
Jacek Dukaj https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/681591.Jacek_Dukaj
It is worth if the books are available in english or other languages
Some may know about him because of short movie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_(film)
Maybe this one easy to get in english or other languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_(Dukaj_novel)

I have already recommended other polish author like Stanisław Lem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Lem

Probably the most famous polish author now is Andrzej Sapkowski and his Witcher series, but this is fantasy one ;)

Lem is the best :)

Sci-fi:

Dick: A scanner darkly, The three stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Ubik
Herbert: Dune, Dune Messiah

Horror:

Lovecraft: Necronomicon: The best weird tales of... and Eldritch tales (the compilations have most, if not all of his works)
Clive Barker: The books of blood (novel compilations) and Cabal

a lot of Sci FI people love Kim Stanley Robinson books. I'm hoping to maybe read his Mars in the trilogy in the Spring after I finish my current stack of stuff to read.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Stanley_Robinson

same, I've had red mars on my bookshelf for some years now, still didn't work up the courage to start what will potentially be 1700 pages