#Bookstodon, what should I read next? Some authors I like (assume I've read all their stuff):

• Octavia Butler
• William Gibson
• Frank Herbert
• Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Philip K. Dick
• J.R.R. Tolkien
• David Wellington
• Martha Wells
• Terry Pratchett

#Reading #SciFi #Fantasy

@Legit_Spaghetti Have you read any CJ Cherryh? Or Lois McMaster Bujold? Or Ann Leckie? Or N K Jemisin?

@Legit_Spaghetti Vita Nostra, Semiosis, Iron Widow.

@Legit_Spaghetti Good choices already!

Neal Stephenson if you haven't (along the Gibson-Tolkien axis)
Steven Brust (reminiscent of Wells and Tchaikovsky)
Sue Burke (Gibson & Tchaikovsky)
Jeff Vandermeer might be too weird, but if you like Dick, he could work well for you
Ann Leckie, in case you somehow missed the well-deserved craze a few years back
Becky Chambers, ditto
Aliette de Bodard and Nino Cipri are different and wonderful flavors of odd
Max Gladstone is absolutely wonderful, too

@Legit_Spaghetti

Iain M. Banks! You must read him...

He wrote SciFi under "Iain M. Banks" and dark, weird fiction under "Iain Banks"

He is my second favourite SciFi writer after Herbert.

@Legit_Spaghetti

I'm absolutely sure these won't all be new to you, but:

-N.K. Jemisin
(Any. All. Can't go wrong starting with The Broken Earth trilogy)

-Annalee Newitz
(Can't decide if I like The Future Of Another Timeline or The Terraformers better.)

-James S.A. Corey
(The Expanse)

-Ted Chiang
(Exhalation)

-China Mieville
(Embassytown is SO good.)

-Mary Robinette Kowal
(The Lady Astronaut series)

Douglas Adams, Kim Stanley Robinson, and I'll second Stephenson and Leckie.

@Legit_Spaghetti John Scalzi. Possibly start with “Lock In” or his much earlier work “Old Man’s War”. Or Redshirts for something funny :)

@Legit_Spaghetti NK Jemisin

ETA: If you want to dive into the deep end start with the Broken Earth series. Otherwise everything is good and somewhat shorter (I really like the Dreamblood books)

@Legit_Spaghetti Ursula K. LeGuin - The Dispossessed

(She wrote a lot more, both fantasy and SF, but this is the only one I've read so I am confident to recommend)

@Legit_Spaghetti Charlie Jane Anders (anything/everything), Erin Morgenstern (esp The Night Circus)

@Legit_Spaghetti Ursula K Le Guin, in particular The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed and the World for Word is Forest. They're set in the same universe but loosely connected, you can read them in any order.

Iain M Banks

@Legit_Spaghetti Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling.

@Legit_Spaghetti Sharon Lee and Steve Miller's Liaden series (some good jump in points in the Baen free library - Agent of Change; Fledgling)

@jinian I just read Jeff Vandermeer's Annihilation the other week and loved it, so that's a good recommendation!

@jpthuot03 @Legit_Spaghetti

This.

@Legit_Spaghetti P. Djèli Clark? If you haven't read any of his work before, try his "The Dead Cat Tail Assassins" (it's short — 10 chapters I think) and decide ...