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Top 3. That is hard, I have around a top 20! Top 3, 2 by importance, 1 favorite? The World of Null A - A E van Vogt. Likely the main influence on Nineteen Eighty - Four and a lot more. Nineteen Eighty - Four by George Orwell [Eric Blair] Have Spacesuit Will Travel - RAH

I appreciate being included!

I appreciate the effort, but I must admit to being underwhelmed by this list. A lot more recent fiction and contemporary writing styles than I think is warranted. A top 10 list without Joanna Russ, John Wyndham, Walter Miller, Alfred Bester, Octavia Butler, Clifford Simak, Pohl and Kornbluth, Larry Niven, Poul Anderson, Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Brian Aldiss, Samuel Delaney, Joe Haldeman, Harlan Ellison, or Robert Silverberg?

Can you please give review on “Earth in trouble” by Nss ramakrishna?

The book that influenced me the most was A Snail on a Slope. As for Lem, I prefer Fiasco or The Invincible. I love City by Simak, so rich in ideas.

Wtf my mind is blown seeing this!! I had no idea this had happened! Michael everts messaged me one day out of the blue (i think it was due to being in a sci fi book group on fb) he seemed like a down to earth guy, we spoke about books and he said his partner being a drug addict or something and him being a PT. Then all of a sudden he disappeared and i just assumed hed blocked me for or deleted his fb. This is fucking sickening to find out. I have young daughters. I hope he rots in hell the sick freak. Thoughts are with any victims 🙏🏻😔

Thanks for the video. My personal top three are: 1. The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe 2. Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card 3. A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge I liked Hyperion, but I seem to be in a very small minority who didn’t love it. It’s always funny to see Dune consistently blow everything out of the water in polls, but although I enjoy the book and the series immensely, I am not tempted to put it in my top three.

The transcript of the video, summarized with chatgpt gives me this top 10 list of science fiction books that was compiled based on choices from various BookTubers, ranked from 1 to 10: Dune by Frank Herbert Hyperion by Dan Simmons Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge Blindsight by Peter Watts Ubik by Philip K. Dick 1984 by George Orwell Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky Solaris by Stanisław Lem Contact by Carl Sagan The speaker also mentioned some near-misses and personal favorites, like The Left Hand of Darkness, Flowers for Algernon, and Rendezvous with Rama, that didn’t quite make it into this top 10 list. (Note: next time you want to do something similar: don't look + listen to all those vids. Take the transcript, and ask an AI-tool to pick out the titles that are being mentioned. Just like I did with your vid.)

Got to four minutes. When HHGTTG was out, so was I. But keep up the good work, your analysis is excellent.

I came here to see the top 10 list by book tubers and instead you are talking about books that did not make it to the list - clickbait

This was a great idea for a top 10 list. My top 3 are Ender's Game, The Martian, and Pushing Ice. I'm surprised Neal Stephenson nor William Gibson even got a mention. Both of them have books in my top 10-15.

Great video. I have a feeling Left Hand of Darkness only had 3 points from being my favorite 😅 Waiting for your own top 10 video now

What a surprising list. Very glad to see Dick on there, my single alltime favourite SF author. Also nice to see Watts on there as he's underappreciated, but the shocker for me is that there's no Iain Banks. To me, one hasn't read SciFi without having bread something by Banks...

Thanks for including me. I feel like I'm a total outlier 😅

Im looking forward to your list whenever you get around to it! My top three is Death's End Tiamat's Wrath 1984

Really enjoyed this video, appreciated the hard work you must of put in just for the research itself, well done sir. I love top 10 lists and this was an interesting spin on it. Seems to me you have read plenty of science fiction to justify a list of your own, and you can always revisit and update/edit your list later on... just my 2cents and no pressure. Great editing and presentation btw.

Thanks for the shout-out! I'm shocked that any of my top 3 made the list, TBH. But if it's gonna be any, I'm glad it was Ubik. Great video

Great video! So surprising to see Rendezvous with Rama not making it into the top-10. It's a quite short book, so the length should not scare people off. The writing style is quite approachable, so again, shouldn't be scaring people off. And the story is absolutely fantastic! Haven't read that much Sci-Fi but I rate it higher than Dune and Hyperion. Clarke blew it out of the park with that one, if you ask me.

Permutation City was robbed haha

Thanks for the mention! I'm looking forward to seeing your list when you get round to it. I'm also hoping to make a new, longer list at some point, but I've got a lot more books I want to read first...

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Pretty good list. I would have Hyperion at #1 and agree with Dune and Ender's Game being on the list. I would probably include books such as Replay by Ken Grimwood and Gateway by Pohl. Just some books I read early that stuck with me through the years and have stood up to re-reading. I read Blindsight but didn't really like it. I get the uniqueness of the aliens, just not a book for me. Same with Children of Time. I tried reading it but didn't finish. As for other Simmon's books I would recommend Carrion Comfort in the horror genre. Great take on the vampire story.

Great list. Love to see your top ten too. Thanks Bart!

So i don't know if you like scifi but i have a soft spot for it and its The Sprawl Trilogy Keep in mind he has won Philip K. Dick Award,Hugo Award,Nebula Award

Hey Bart, thank you very much for mentioning me here, it's really appreciated. I don't think that I have read enough books in the genre to provide a definitive top 10 list so my approach was to create that video and then revisit it over the years to see how much it changes. Great video idea and I look forward to your list!

Very interesting! Glad you did the weighted ranking. Not sure half these books existed yet when I was really into sci-fi, so my list would be very different.

Hey bart!! Wow thanks for the mention!! 😂 i too have been putting off making my top faves list - its a hard thing to commit to! Good thing it can change every year! Looking forward to your list when it comes out

I enjoyed the video. You put so much work into it! I only read 2 books from this top 10: Solaris and Project Hail Mary - loved them both. I also loved Flowers for Algernon. I can’t wait for your top 10.

Nice video! I can’t imagine any sci-fi book topping Dune for me. Solaris is a gem, and I agree that Flowers for Algernon could be widely recommended. While Ubik and Hitchhiker’s Guide both have some absurdist humor, I am with you on loving Ubik and not vibing with Hitchhiker’s Guide. Can’t wait to watch your Top 10 someday!

thanks for putting in all that work and calling it fun. i've read them all but Ender's Game and Contact. i won't quibble with the list because i have so much reading to do. i'm always amazed the Gap series never makes these lists and i think it's because Donaldson's villains are so utterly vile folks become actually revolted. (vile villains, get it?) the fact remains he is a master of intrigue and the Amnion are truly horrific.

Great Video! I hadn't read Dune when I made my list, but if I had Dune Messiah would of been near or at the top, so would of given some more points there!

#teamlovetheendingofdarktower 🌹

Getting me excited to get into the Culture series!!! I can’t wait Sorry Mercy of Gods didn’t work as great for you as it did for me, but hopefully the rest of the series will hook you in. Loved your energy here! 💪

Glad your liking Dark Tower, so close to the end, I loved the ending. Doomsday Book was so-so for me too, I really want to read more from her those because she is a great writer. I really liked Player of Games too, I skipped Consider Phlebas but want to go back and read that one at some point. Oh yes, Simmons horror, now you got me thinking about picking one of his horror books for October.

Excellent reviews and reading update. Good vibes all around.

I loved Small Things Like These! Claire Keegan has been a wonderful discovery for me this year. If you're not in a hurry to watch the adaptation, I recommend reading that one at Christmastime. Great wrap-up and reading plans! 💚

Publication order, always

I've read The Terror and loved it. I know you want to read it in October, but I would wait to start it on a cold snowy day. Never have I read a book that made me feel bone chillingly cold in the warmth of my own home. It's a bit long but definitely worth a read., I haven't watched the TV series so I can't say if that is any good or not. I've read Foster by Claire Keegan., another short one but loved her writing and the story was good. I also want to read Small Things Like These.. Hopefully some day soon. Happy Reading!!

Hey bart!!! I know mercy of gods was a bit of a mixed bag-- u should consider picking up Alien Clay. It really scratched that itch for me. Also u have me more than half convinced to retry dark tower series- i didnt love first book 😅

I read a book with time travel I particularly liked: 'Empire of Lies' by Raymond Khoury. It does not attempt to explain the science behind time travel instead making it supernatural. It also establishes rules for time travel that minimizes (there were still some issues) time paradoxes. Also, I have not read it yet, but I think Michael Crighton's 'Timeline' will be good judging from the movie adaptation.

Good month for you!

Consider Phlebas usually gets called the weakest of the Culture series but I've always liked it a lot. The Player of Games is tied for my Favourite Iain M. Banks with Use of Weapons. I'd recommend his non Culture SF too.

Wait until November for The Terror. When it is dark and cold. It is in my top ten all time and I am an old reader. Small Things was useless for me. Beautiful prose but no real story. I have read two of her books (novellas). They are the same. Prose no story.

morning coffee with Bart. strong coffee! you are fortunate to start the Culture series from the beginning of publication. it's not necessary but preferable, i'd say. my first foray into Banks was Excession, and i was hooked too. now that i have read them all out of publication sequence i see that it's not required as they are all, as you say wildly dissimilar. suffice to say they got me back into reading SF in the 90s till this day. i bought Excession for the cool cover art. they put me onto Donaldson's Gap series and the Hyperion Cantos. speaking of the Dark Tower, i was surprised to read the first 'inklings' of the series in King's Hearts in Atlantis. fantastic. i read the Terror while stuck inside during our heatwave. you will soon see why. it's unrelenting. the video series was well done but by necessity, a bit of a distillation of a long and detailed book with Simmons as an adviser. i'm currently reading his Flashback. cheers.

My September so far in order. Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein 8/10 Conan the Barbarian (The Black Stranger) 6.5/10 by Robert E. Howard The Wind Through The Keyhole by Stephen King 7.5/10 Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne 5/10 The Steppe by Anton Tchêkhov 8/10 Death In Venice by Thomas Mann 7.5/10 The player of games by Ian M. Banks 6.5/10 War Lord (The Saxon Stories, #13) by Bernard Cornwell 8/10 The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien (rereading, in progress). So far in 2024 I have only read two books that would get 5 stars on Goodreads. And only two that would also earn two stars.

Since you love time traveling novels here is some recommendations for you. First one guns of the South by Harry turtledove. Second one company of the Dead. This one deals with the Titanic.

Recently finished Nuclear Subtraction by Colin Roberts gave 4 ✨. Now I'm reading Star Science fiction stories no.2 and Riders to the stars by Robert Smith 😊

Recently read Wastelands. Pretty good but didn’t top Drawing of the Three. I really hope that wasn’t the peak of the Dark Tower series

Wonderful vlog! I now can’t wait to get to Remains of the Day! I love the way you described Ishiguro’s writing. You’ve also made me super interested in the Culture series. Aw, thank you show for showing “Why Read?” Would love to have you on some time if you’re interested. 😊

I cried when I finished the book I loved This book and I hope they make a 2nd one bc it was truly beautiful.it was so sad knowing old Dan had to pass like that:(