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I found the 1972 movie a slog. I saw the 2002 version first and it is really good. You have me interested in the book now.

The deep time and Turnover civilizations made me consider that in each the thousands of transient interstellar civilizations could exist an entire Sci-Fi world and associated saga by itself. I also really like how Reynolds trusts his readers to infer certain terminology that doesn't need to be explained. Aspic of machines comes to mind - just nanobots in a transportable medium.

I'm intrested to add sci-fi books to my TBR list.

I absolutely loved the tone of this book when I read it, the whole book feels so SO satirical and the world is bleak to the point of dark comedy

I love Brent's color-coded bookcase back there

3 stars. The potted pants and dog aliens are ridiculous. The plot is ok. I had a hard time visualizing places.

You mentioned at the start having a hard time visualizing the descriptions if the formations in Solaris. I remember those parts in Solaris being really captivating and printing a really good mental image. Blindsight, on the other hand, i struggled with frequently because i thought the descriptions of the alien ship were incredibly hard to visualize, and even the descriptions of smaller physical spaces like the ships interior i could never follow. To be fair i listened to a Solaris audiobook like ten years ago and read blindsight earlier this year.

I've been thinking about this story a lot the past fortnight! It's very prescient I think another moral lesson is this: when a system grows so complexed that no single person can understand a fraction of its complexities, problems within said system become increasingly difficult/eventually impossible to fix. Perhaps a system so far detached from it's creators, by time or by values, is also impossible to fix for people who have forgotten the vision of its creators.

Um um um um, ffs

Rookie list. No Vance. No Zelazny. No Arthur C. Clarke. Bleh.

I have struggled a lot with dissassociation/derealization and reading VALIS by Philip K Dick left me wondering how close i was to being schizophrenic on top of it. Never before had i experienced an author that can so craftily communicate the actual feel of mental disorders. I say be careful with VALIS, it might bring you to the precipice of the loony bin, but i am definitely investing in more of his novels. The Scanner Darkly will be next.

Hyperion is my favorite too! The sheer amount of mind fuckery that Dan Simmons embedded into those pages produces a first read through experience that no other novel I've read even comes close to emulating.

I’ve been looking for a book channel! So happy I found you guys!

Polish speaker here. No, Snaut is not a real Polish name. In fact, it sounds equally funny in Polish as it sounds in English. I recently read Solaris in its original language and I can agree with the comment below, all names in that book sound weird, as if Lem was trying hard for his characters to have universally sounding names.

Большое спасибо каналу и Рэю Нэйлеру за его творчество и содержательные и глубокие ответы на вопросы!

Come on now guys. The expanse series should be on here.

I'd be interested to see what youngest think of Daniel Keys Moran's The Long Run. To me, it seems to be a lot like Neuromancer, but also very much it's own thing.

I may need to try this one again. I read it some time ago and thought it was fine, but I wonder if I simply didn’t have the necessary background or exposure to concepts to fully understand it.

Bookmarking this one for later. This is probably the next book I read after I finish Blood Music. Can't wait to hear your thoughts!

One of my all time favourite books. I'm really excited to watch this one.

No love for Iain M Banks? Or is it just too hard to pick out of the bunch? Children of Time needs to be in any Top 10 list, sci-do or not, and I’d probably add Foundation too

Fantastic narration 👍 hard to believe the age of this story! My interpretation of the moral is this: when a system collapses, everybody reliant on it suffers, regardless of whether they were supportive (the mother) or critical (the son) of said system. The only ones who don't suffer are those autonomous of the system (the surface dwellers). In other words, become self-sufficient. Not bashing idea, but the author's transcendentalist beliefs are strong in this story; similar to Huxley's Brave New World.

One thing I am noticing many people are overlooking about vampires in this story is their ability to hibernate. That's incredibly important in this story. Not only did they resurrect vampires as a species in order to utilize their intelligence, they did so in order to utilize their hibernation abilities. In the book, all of the crew have been spliced with whatever vampire genes allow for hibernation. Deep space travel wouldn't be possible without this. Most sci fi books that feature interstellar travel have some sort of stasis or hibernation that the characters most go into in order to travel far distances across many many years. This is a super unique take on that and I love it.

A curious list to my tastes, but I suppose isn't that the point of checking out other peoples lists. I see you've explained that ye didnt particularly care that much for Dune and so that's fair enough, and better to not include it just cos most people would. It is your list after all (I personally would've included it, but then again, I read it while working on an ecology project in the desert in the Middle East, so It may have resonated more as a result ). I'm not as well read on some of the more recent books, and I generally find dystopian novels boring, so that'd be a weakness in my choices. But I was kinda disappointed that neither Bester's "The Stars My Destination" or Zelazny's "Lord of Light" got a mention.

What’s a great mech fighting series or book? Got banned from battletech forums for asking what’s up with the lgbt crap everywhere. Nothing against them but why is that such a focus? Played mechwarrier games and want to get into some good books

I read this book back in the '80s in high school. I was a voracious reader, often reading 3 or more books at a time, and I absolutely DEVOURED this book! I love high fantasy, sci-fi, crime, and military/spy thrillers. I saw the flaws in the system, where books are outlawed, and the recent condition of the world has some "1984" and "Fahrenheit 451" vibes to it. In their world, they are changing/erasing history, and they're not allowed to question the current regime. It becomes so dangerous to resist the system, and the protagonist is brave, living in fear, but still questioning the status quo. My 27yo son has read this book, and I'm sure my 13yo will read it soon.

33:01 explains the simpson predictions

I'm only on my first read, and so far my takeaway isn't that "both sides are right" in the anarchism vs capitalism struggle. Le Guin very obviously believes that anarchism is the more just system. After two hundred years, Anarresti society has started to drift back to systems of governance, but Shevek himself embodies revolutionary anarchism by pursuing free association of ideas and with people. He returns home with a renewed sense of freedom and acceptance. She does portray the internal struggle of being an individual in a collective, but there's no South Park-style middle ground conclusion to be found.

5:50 lib-simps.

This book is amazing. I've read it twice and both times I got something different from it. The first time i focused more on the zone and the anomalies and a found the job of the stalker so cool. The second time I've read it as a character study (unintentionally). Humans are discussing. Burbridge is an asshole. Red is a good soul who turned bad because of his surroundings. Also i didnt even notice that Noonan was the one that snitched on Red.

Hugonauts?... ...wasn't that an old name for Protestants in France during the Renaissance?

I find your review really interesting because I read this book after watching another video of yours. I found the book really interesting especially the last chapter reflecting on the anthropology of the thing. However I found her understanding of human nature really lacking a lot of the time. The world was completely unbelievable at least in the way that the dystopia came to be. I may be a little more judgy than I ought because I see the theocracy as a giant cult and have an above average knowledge of how CULTS work. I just kept thinking how is this cult still standing with so few true believers? and cults don't happen top down by seizing governments without a war (especially with a population as well armed as the US). A lot of the discrepancies could however be explained by the unreliable author I guess

Really good picks!!I just found you channel, i have recently been getting into fantasy but haven't really tried to venture out to sci fi (though i'm reading 11/22/63 right now). . Definitely adding some of the books in your discussion and going to catch up on your videos. Will definetly be checking out Never let me go

There is an episode of Babylon 5 that is very similar.

It’s bizarre not to venture to the bottom? Well, does he ever venture into the hood?

The Mayor isn’t walking the floors all at once She’s taking 2 days to meet with all the people, not a race to the bottom

BOTNS?? NOPE 🙅‍♂️ useless list

Have you read the graphic novel?

Man, I really wasn't diggin the second book as I got into it (mainly b/c I was so into the first story line), but y'all might have convinced me to give it another shot.

The livesuit novella was overall written better

I just finished reading all three books. I rate them Red 4.5 Green 4 and Blue 3.5. Definitely a slight decline along the path. Red Mars was the best because it lays a great foundation for the series. Green mars is good from its terraforming transformation but gets a little bogged down in the politics of the various groups. Blue Mars sort of expanded beyond Mars, back to Earth and other planets and their moons. I wished that the books had better maps to help the reader follow along the geographical plot. A few more maps in Green and Blue. I liked the characters and the relationships between them. I was a little disappointed with the end of Blue because I expected one of the characters to reappear. Trying to keep the no spoiler theme. Liked the hard science fiction and as a scientist I found the known science to be accurate.

I’ve read two Philip K. Dick books and was super impressed with them.

"For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched This Window"

Another fooled population story: Taklamakan by Bruce Sterling. A great read.

Sounds like Brent wants to do a Thirteenth Floor - Movie Review & Discussion video and I'm here for it

i read it as that the average persons pace of the floors is faster than the couple days the mayor takes. shes an older woman shes clearly having a harder time than others traveling and she stops a few times to greet the people. ill also add that the release of the first book was weird, basically he wrote the first section that focuses on becker as a stand alone, howey didnt plan to write more but it picked up traction so he decided to continue the story and i think thats why you get a lot of the reader knows more than the main character. i do agree with a lot of the pros and cons though.

I was certainly curious as to how you were going to handle this when you mentioned it, since I knew from the Discord you had differing opinions. Thank you, gentlemen.

Oh, and Non-Stop by Brian Aldiss. A generation ship, loss of knowledge and a lot of lies. It’s a really good book. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Stop_(novel)

Top 2 are my absolute favorite books. Great list

Hey this really helped me for school, thank you Do you think you guys could do Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand