printSF

Should we move any active users here over to https://lemmy.ca/c/printsf

With such a small community it might make more sense for the time being.

Trying to jump start this community a bit and thought sharing what we are all reading would be fun.

Recently I just finished "All These Worlds" by Dennis E. Taylor (book 3 of the bobiverse) which I enjoyed. Pulpy but that's fine by me.

I've been listening to the murderbot diaries on my commute because they were in the humble bundle recently and enjoyed those a well. Just finished "Rogue Protocol" by Martha Wells there.

Taking a short breather from prose and read "The Apocalypse War" arc of Judge Dredd. Comics still count as print sci-fi right? Been working through those chronologically alongside Strontium Dog.

I've kinda stalled on "The Dark Forest" by Liu Cixin. Just not working for me the way "The Three-Body Problem" did. Which to be honest I thought was marginal overall but when it worked it was great. Maybe just in a tough patch?

Kinda my last two weeks but who's counting. Have some long travel coming up and have some good novels picked out but that'd be spoilers for next week.

Sci fi has more or less exploded in the last few decades. I know there's hard sci fi, space opera, and a lot of punk genres. What subgenres are you guys really enjoying? Anything niche?

And are there any subgenres you think should become a thing?

I just finished Blindsight by Peter Watts + the short story The Colonel, which serves as a tie-in between the first book and Echopraxia. Gonna have to wait a while before picking Echopraxia though, this books are demanding!

I'm slowly getting through This Alien Shore by C.S. Friedman. There's some really interesting worldbuilding going on around neurodivergence and how social customs can facilitate understanding and mutual respect, but I'm a little turned off by the capitalistic, predatory, cyberpunk space opera setting, hence the slowness.