Books

Heeyyy, I did not expect that to blow up like this! Thanks for all the recommendations.

Here is a summary of the mentioned books / series (in case someone is also searching for a new good book)

• Starship’s Mage series by Glynn Stewart
• Larry Niven’s Flatlander
• Red Rising saga by Pierce Brown’s
• The Expanse
• Clarke’s Rendezvous with Rama
• The Bobbiverse Series
• Children of Time/Ruin/Memory/Strife - Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars (other books from the same autor are Aurora and 2312)
• Peter F Hamilton: Nights Dawn Trilogy
• Ian M Banks: Culture Series
• The Void Trilogy
• Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
• Teixcalaan duology by Arkady Martine
• Gideon the ninth
• Becky Chambers’ Wayfarer
• Redshirts by John Scalzi
• The Mote in God’s Eye
• CJ Cherryh’s Foreigner series and Alliance-Union universe
• Neal Asher’s Agent Cormac series
• Nnendi Okorafor’s Binti
• Expeditionary Force by Craig Alanson
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• The Interdependency Serie
• Foundation from Isaac Asimov
• The Inverted Frontier series by Linda Nagata
• Project Hail Mary
• Dan Moren’s Galactic Cold War
• Alan Dean Foster: The Damned Seies
• Little Fuzzy - Fuzzy Sapiens - Fuzzies and Other People
• The Man Who Never Missed - Matadora - The Machiavelli Interface
• The Ancillary serie

I've found the Starship's Mage series by Glynn Stewart very entertaining.

Premise: interstellar flight requires you to have at least one mage on board who uses their magic to move the star ship by a light year but then needs to sleep off magical exhaustion for several hours.

How and why mages developed and where they fit in society is revealed later.

Red rising was fun, but I lowkey was very lost towards the end.

Some older stuff - Larry Niven's Flatlander collection is really good.

I really enjoyed seveneves

edit: even if there are some ... less than desirable characters in it.

Also a big enjoyer of John Scalzi's "Old Man's War", I really enjoyed Pierce Brown's Red Rising saga..

The expanse

The Bobbiverse Series

[](We Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32109569-we-are-legion-we-are-bob)

It's older, but Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama is one I've read several times.

There are a couple of sequel books that are kind of partially written by Clarke, but do expand the story and characters quite a bit.

I read them all years ago, but opted to skip the sequels on a recent re-read, but my wife actually prefers the sequels for the characters and story development.

Children of Time/Ruin/Memory/Strife - Adrian Tchaikovsky

Trigger Warning: I have pretty serious arachnophobia and it took me several weeks of interruptions to be comfortable reading this series.

If you like hard eco-political sci-fi, Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars series is one I still think about often, and I read it about 20 years ago now. Bonus: if you like it then he's written a whole lot of other great stuff.

Foundation and the broader universe by Isaac Asimov is a good one. Robots, foundations, and they empire series, as well as some stand alone stories all make one large story arc together.

Peter F Hamilton: Nights Dawn Trilogy

Ian M Banks: Culture Series

I'm quite fond of the Teixcalaan (don't ask me how to pronounce that) duology by Arkady Martine.

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

Hands down the best 5 part trilogy in Sci Fi

I usually like Niven and Pournelle's stuff, and particularly recommend The Mote in God's Eye for a great first contact encounter. There's a sequel The Gripping Hand which is not as great, but still worth the read.

Alan Dean Foster

The Damned Seies: https://www.goodreads.com/series/40571-the-damned

Peter F Hamilton

The Commonwealth series: https://www.goodreads.com/series/108563-commonwealth-universe Start with Pandoras Star and go from there.

Alastair Reynolds “Redemption Ark” series is great.

Ann Leckie's “Ancillary Justice” (Imperial Radch) series is fantastic.

The Final Architecture series by Adrian Tchaikovsky is epic!

Becky Chambers' Wayfarers series is equally good but much calmer, less action.

Other sci-fi series or books I've really enjoyed recently:

• Children of Time series by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Redshirts by John Scalzi
• The Expanse series. Although I only made it part way though book 5 when I started watching the show and stopped reading it.

Old Man's war is on my list. What did you like about it?