Speaking of Asimov and robots, I really enjoyed The Positronic Man by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg, which is based on Asimov's novelette The Bicentennial Man.
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I also recommended Andy Weir's novels and don't care if sci-fi elitists think they're not worthy of mention.
Not every novel needs to be a serious read that challenges the reader. Hell, I grew up devouring the works of Alan Dean Foster, an author of solidly bubblegum sci-fi and fantasy. Novels can just be dorky and fun.
I love big dumb object sci-fi but didn't realize it was a named genre until your comment. Thank you, you've opened up a big dumb world for me to explore.
A Fire Upon the Deep represent! Now you must read A Deepness in the Sky. Must.
In a spider related vein, Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky, plus pretty much anything else by him. I cried my eyes out about those little spiders.
Snow Crash and Seven Eves by Neil Stephenson
Andy Weir's novels are light and entertaining: Project Hail Mary and The Martian, for example. They're palate cleansers for after the 1984s of literature.
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler is a great read.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott is close to sci-fi and from the 1880s. It's a short read and, being a math nerd, I really enjoyed it.
We just call it frost now. At this rate, Glacier National Park will just be National Park in the next few decades.
My wife has serious ADHD, this is every drawer.
Thanks for running this, I had a great time!
Exactly. A large portion of the .world user base is from North America and doesn't realize .world isn't based on the United States.
I lost entire weeks of my childhood playing at being an ant.
Now that I've typed that out, ~~bug~~ big chunks of my childhood suddenly make more sense.
Edit: dammit. I'm leaving that typo because it's perfect.
Just hop to another instance that doesn't have the same difficulties as .world. Reddit 2.0 on Lemmy requires us to be compliant.
Frederik Pohl's Heechee Saga has some sweet BDO action. It's a little dated as the first book was written back in the seventies but it's not awful.
Shit, I think I want to write a BDO novelette now. This is all seriously a revelation. I haven't been this excited in years!