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- Опубликовано: 10 июл 2024
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"Fantasy is an exploration of imaginationa nd creativity, sci-fi is an exploration of possiblities and potential." Wow, nicely put :D
I'm happy I've read a lot of those, even tough Sci-fi is very much not my first genre of choice. You definately bumped Neuromancer up my list. Why no Murder Bot tough?
And then there are sci-fantasies and DUNE.
Much as I love Murderbot - as everyone does - it's a fantastic series, but it doesn't follow that it's a fantastic introduction to science fiction.
@@Matt42MSG It's short ;)
@@Naweemshuvo I think he already stated his distastes on Dune in other videos. He's also considers it "Fantasy"
H.G Wells was so far ahead of his time, he wrote an Alien Invasion story in Victorian England.
Read that one for the first time last year and I actually enjoyed it a lot.
War of the worlds is mind boggling when you put yourself in that time period. I didn't when i was in High school and i couldn't understand why it was good... then I read it like 2 years ago after listening to the radio broadcast with my headphones on (I almost peed my pants and had to take them off at one point cus I was legit freaked out), THEN read it. Ohhhhhhhh just brilliant. There's a reason he's one of the grandfathers of SF.
The illustrated version is awesome as well.
"Sounds sciencey enough to be true."
Yeah Frankenstein, and all of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne’s canon should be read as they laid the groundwork for almost all of Sci-fi
Dont know how Jules Verne is all sci-fi groundwork with Around the world in 80 days. But sure he laid some groundwork
@@clementbaril1167 yeah, Around the World in 80 Days is more like Wells’ work because most of Verne’s other works are actually based on hard science. Like you could build a giant canon to shoot you to the moon if you wanted to. Wells’ work is more theoretical. Like Wells explores what would it be like to travel through time without explaining how the time machine was built. If Verne wrote The Time Machine, he would have explained how the machine was built.
@@clementbaril1167 He did. Begum’s Fortune was definitely science fiction in showing chemical warfare, and Paris in the Twentieth Century is part of the trinity on prediction science fiction, the other two being 1984 and Brave New World. Funny story, Verne’s Paris was banned by the editor because the predictions were too absurd.
If you are diving into those kind of classics, "With the Night Mail" by Rudyard Kipling, yes, that one. The follow up is a bit odd, both republished with the fake magazine adverts he created to be published along side the stories. That the 2nd book was already retro futuristic at the time of publishing means it's kinda proto steam punk/Miyazaki universe.
As a scifi genre lover and ESL, Jules Verne's works are a must but they are advanced 😭 it takes time for me to read his books, but it's worth it.
0:20 Daniel's descent into cat.
*ascent
"it's a book relax"
*Library of Alexandria has entered the chat*
the way I wheezed into my taco 💀
What is Library of Alexandria
Is it more logic oriented? "I don't know I'm just saying things". Lol the best Daniel Greene opinion about Daniel Greene.
Daniel reminds me of my over the top and really enthuastic literature teacher.
Ikr! It's fantastic!
Have to agree, Hitchhikers is do good that even with the movie falling far short it's still great
Highly recommend the radio dramatisation from the 1970s, it's brilliant
@@joyrowancasey788 agreed. It's the original in fact. There's a TV series too, and a text adventure game.
Hey, the movies primary shortcoming was that it wasn't as good as the book. On its own, I enjoyed it very much, and HGttG is in my top-10 books of all time and one I reread regularly
Watch the BBC series..all I'm saying.
The movie is actually one of my favorite adaptations.
Also a good blending of genre would be Gideon the Ninth. Wanna get into scifi, but you're scared to leave your safe place in fantasy? Gideon will help you. She won't like that she's helping you. But she'll get you there.
Same with Pier Anthony's Double Exposure book.
or Richard K Morgan's A Land Fit for Heroes series
No Goblin, I actually hate Science.
Bill Nye killed my father. I hate science.
@@dylanthechillinvillain2488 Consider the following.
Ok I realise my comments have about as much impact as a fart in a hurricane but please do yourself a favor and pick up Saga of the Exiles by Julian May then Intervention and the Galactic Milieu trilogy. You'll be missing out otherwise. Probably better off with good condition second hand copies from back in the day. The recent reprints have so many errors I suspect they were proof read by an android phones auto correct function. Please take my earnestness with a pinch of salt (sort of)
@@gerald112b I will do so thank you, but not now. First I need to finish wheel of time and catch up with Stormlight archives
But do you like to violence? >:)
I've been reading sci-fi for 20 years and I just found out about red rising a month ago. Very good world building
I swear Red Rising didn't exist before a few months ago, it seemed to suddenly explode in popularity at the end of 2020.
I once read a fanfic that was a grimdark sequel to the Emperor's New Groove.
The setting was post-alpaca-lip-tic.
See yourself out.
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Red Rising is AWESOME! I cannot recommend a series more. For me, it reaches Shakespeare levels of tragic and epic. I'm so glad to se Daniel endorsing it...
I like seeing Scythe here! It might not be the best Sci-Fi book ever but it's a great choice for this; definitely one of the better entry points
Hitch-hikers Guide was my intro to sci-fi and I will always have a great deal of affection for it because of that
Favorite line from a booktoober "It's a book Relax."
"It's a book, relax!"
NEVER!
🤣
"If you're wondering how he eats and breathes, and other Science facts, just say to yourself "It's just a show, I really should just relax."
Goblin: Golden Son and Morning Star is grim dark.
Me: Laughs in Dark Age.
Fahrenheit 451, Never Let Me Go, Left Hand of Darkness.
I'm planning to get into Alastair Reynolds and Becky Chambers.
Your description of Hitchhikers was giving me real Terry Pratchett in space vibes and I think now I have to read it
I would encourage it, for sure. One of, if not the best thing I've ever read. Thinking about it again, I'm going to ask the friend I loaned it to to return it so I can give it another read.
I just read Dune and I was shocked so hard so many times. The plot twists - the rereading and foreshadowing you noticed - it was insanely good.
I love your ending lines about fantasy and science fiction. I hope to quote it one day to my friends to drag them in to sci-fiiii
I'm reading Project Hail Mary right now and it's incredible. The Martian put Weir on my radar, Project Hail Mary is putting him squarely on my short list of favorite authors.
I like Hail Mary better than The Martian. What a ride.
I'm 80 percent into Project Hail Mary right now and AAAAAHHHH
@@lostcharge Rocky!!
@@Gator5000e i would throw myself in front of a bullet for rocky
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That introduction was art. Also would love a video on more “chunky” sci-fi.
Librarians everywhere are clutching their pearls at you swiping books off your desk.
I would've recommended Becky Chambers. Her writing reminds me of Hitchhikers Guide.
She does have that feel. It was the first thing I notice when I read her first book.
Old Mans War is what helped me get into the genre! Fun and quick read!
Canticle of Leibowitz? Absolute taste. One of my favorites. Looking forward to rereading it soon.
Another scifi I loved is Snow Crash, bit it's wild. Definitely not the easiest to read though.
As a long sci-fi lover, these recommendations were really thoughtful, thank you!
THANK YOU. I used to add books to my Goodreads TBR so often and I haven’t added a book in so long. I just added A Canticle for Leibowitz and Hitchhiker’s Guide to my list.
The Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons blew my brain out the back of my skull when I first read it, especially the first one Hyperion.
I would argue that Fire Upon the Deep may be the best intro to hard Sci Fi
Now that's a good comment.
Or Revelation space or one of the standalones from Reynolds.
@@mSarimaa house of suns is insane
I haven't read a lot of Sci Fi so far, but what I did read, I loved. Also I am completely obsessed with the Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy.
So long and thanks for all the fish
Omg. Thank you for posting EVERY single day. That IS content. ❤
I say start with the Expanse. It's not too heady.
Dude I'll say it again. Thank you for your channel. An Eminem reference and referring to big books as thicc bois while discussing books I like. I literally only have 2 book related channels for me.
Very nice list, I enjoyed that. I read Canticle for Leibowitz about 18 years ago. I need to reread it one of these days.
Yes on canticle! Way underrated. I am a reformed reverend, so sometimes I think that I loved it because of that, but thánk you for the case you make for that novel
1- Canticle for Leibowitz 1:15
2- Scythe 3:40
3- Neuromancer 5:00
4- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 6:25
5- Red rising 7:50
1. Flatland (Edwin Abbott)
2. The Star Diaries (Stanislaw Lem)
3. Stand on Zanzibar (John Brunner)
Martian was my first sci- fi, and honestly it still feels as great as it did back in the day...
Please do a follow-up with starting with Classic Sci Fi!!!! Canticle for Leibowitz is amazing! Great pick to start
Thank you so much for this. I’ve had a hard time getting into sci fi but I love fantasy so I think I’ve got a solid tbr now.
The second read through of the first red rising book will make you feel different. Understanding the character dynamics and relationships let's you enjoy it all better
I live for Asimov’s works. Currently reading through Foundation and the Naked Sun. So good!
The short story collections from the various post war scifi magazines are a treasure trove of one offs and proto versions of later novels.
THANKS SO MUCH FOR THIS?!! I’ve been wanting to expand the genres I read, i since then realized I literally no sci fi novels. I really didn’t know where to start
Hears: "It is grim DARK!".
Well you see, Warhammer exists.
My favorite sci-fi book of all time is Ender’s Game. The rest of the series is very different, but it does a great job of exploring what would actually happen if the “aliens” were justified and misunderstood.
So true! Have been searching for something similar for years and never found.
Great recommendations Daniel. A Canticle for Leibowitz is fantastic, and more people need to read it!
I have that same edition of Dune. I love, love, love the cover, Fremen blue page edges, etc. Great to read and beautiful on the shelf.
I highly recommend the "lilliths brood" trilogy by Octavia e butler
Hyperion 1 and 2 were my introductions to sci-fi. Hard to understand, but the payoff was well worth it.
Just starting this series for the first time!
hyperion is def NOT for new entries... just so much going on at once that is very different from most genre. But once you've read some and gotten a taste for the MASSIVE range of tropes you can use, then it's fantastic. I'm getting ready to read fall of hyperion this week.
Hyperion was also my introduction to SF (at the age 16) but I'd never considered it hard🤔.
Amazing book tho.
i absolutely LOVED red rising. Ive read through them a handful of times now.
Stars Wars EU got me started reading Sci Fi lit and fed interest in digging deeper. Sometimes something that familiar is a good way for new readers to see there is so much more out there.
You should check out Ren: The Girl With the Mark. It's a fanmade fantasy series here on youtube, and considering its small budget it is really good.
I started with Rendezvous with Rama at age eleven. Kind of odd to start with a hard sci-fi as a kid, but I loved it and it's still one of my favorites
fantastic book, just stay away from the sequels...
@@gb-qk5eh as a kid I looked for them, but couldn't find them. Now I could easily purchase them, but I know better
Our family has been reading Children of Time and we love it! Super suspenseful.
Don't really read scify but thanks to your rec i started the expanse and it is so great!! Thank you for the recommendation 😊
A man coming out of a book cover and saying that that book is really good is the best recommendation I have ever seen
OMG! So happy to see A Cantilce for Liebowitz at the top of someone else's list! One of my all time favorites, both for it's grasp on the sweep of history and for it's fine focus on human nature. Not exactly a lighthearted read, though.
I’m new to reading books outside of school. So sci fi is where I’m starting since I love sci fi movies and just every thing different from modern reality. So I’m just almost entirely new and this really helped
Just finished Project Hail Mary and absolutely loved it. Now I’m half way through Golden Son and really enjoying that as well.
Yes for "Canticle"! I have always thought of it as my favourite book even though I haven't read it for a long time. I just re-read it for the first time in about fifteen years and it held up. It's also funny.
I remember reading it way back in high school. I didn't know it was actually three stories put together, so I got quite a shock about a third of the way through the book!
Personally, I would recommend Pandora's Star to anyone who loved WoT.
If you don't mind but what are the similarities between the two? As having only read part of WoT I am very curious
@@Rogillar The Commonwealth Saga has a lot of intricate politics and detailed world building. It also has a lot of simultaneous plot lines, large-scale grand strategy, and big events. Plus the writing style is similar in the sense that that they both have a lot of detail and are more verbose than average, but in a way that I enjoy. Plotting is also similar in that both are a bit slowly paced, but reward you well for the wait.
I loved Pandora’s Star.
Pandora's Star is great, I feel like most people that have read it will recommend it, but not enough people have read it because it's like 900 pages long and only half a story. 😅
the Arc of a Scythe trilogy is soooo good, I love it!
I was so happy to see The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy on this list. I haven't really gotten started with any of the more epic stuff, but The Hitchhikers Guide is definitely a good read 😊 just the first few sentences sets the tone of a really fun but also clever book that I personally found a great introduction to the sci-fi genre😊
A quote from the beginning of the second book:
"The story so far:
In the beginning the universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded a bad move."
The Wayfarer series by Becky Chambers. Great entryway especially those who aren't thrilled with the darker/nihilistic storylines.
I would recommend Heinlein's "juvenile" novels, a precursor of modern YA. My favorite has always been Have Spacesuit, Will Travel.
That's a good one, my favorite would be Citizen of the Galaxy or The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
Really sold me with the Mary Shelley argument. Frankenstein is one of my favorite books, so I really ought to give the genre a bit more attention. Thanks for the video!
My first sci-fi book was dune. I proceeded to binge the entire series in like 3 months and then went to three body problem and then the expanse. I’ve loved them all so much
I'm going to recommend Leguin's short stories! She plays a lot with psychological science fiction and gender and stuff like that. A fisherman of the inland sea, birthday of the world, and the compass rose have some of my favourite stories. It's softer science fiction than some, but it's definitely science fiction and not fantasy in space
She is my favorite for over all worldbuilding. I want to live in her worlds.
What's her name?? And how to start with her??
@@thechitranshkamleshworks3584 Ursala K. Leguin! For short stories, I'd suggest one of the collections I mentioned. For novels, I've mostly read her fantasy stuff, but left hand of darkness is one of the first she wrote
Changing Planes is probably my favourite short story collection
Popping in for a more intermediate-level recommendation with The Player of Games from Iain M Banks. The Culture series as a whole is more of an advanced-level read, but this one is probably the best entry point. It helps that you can read the books in any order.
Bonus amazing spaceship names, I'm partial to Serious Callers Only.
You have read my mind goblin man. I was looking for sci-fi recommendations last night.
Hitchhiker’s Guide, yes! Thank you for reminding me that I’m due for a reread.
Hyperion: my first sci fi novel which lead me into the wonderful world of fantasy
Dune is the first book I read as a adult and it's not just a great book it also teaches how to use your own fear to your advantage.
I love how you wiped the thinking off your desk!!! I am not religious either, and, also, find religious/faith based scifi and fantasy just as interesting as nonreligious... i like that you added a YA book here too, i think, sometimes, YA is a good start for any genre...
And, OMG, so glad to see Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy on this video, for some reason... i love this book, soooooo much... i use quotes, from this book, to answer my children's questions sometimes, lol...
I am excited to start Red Rising, a friend suggested it highly...
Love, love, love the old scifi, and, enjoying where the genre is going now...
I haven't read all of those but I agree with the recommendations for the ones I have read, so I'll add the others to my TBR list. I actually just started reading the Foundation series.
Bobiverse is a great entry as it's so fun. That was first foray into the genre and I would definitely start there again if I was to do over
You think? It's certainly good, but there are a lot of "nerd culture" references, particularly from the 90's. Maybe it would be a good intro for somebody who's been watching TVs/movies but not reading.
I'm about to finish Childhood's End by Arthur C Clarke as one of my first scifi books. I strongly recommend it to anyone watching (I also believe it was The Goblin's second review on this channel, check it out for very young Goblin)
I’ve always enjoyed the Long Earth series, part written by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter. Great premise, writing and world building, a pretty easy read to get into.
Just had to say thanks for the recommendation on Red Rising! It has been a long time since I’ve read any sci-fi books (or books at all 😅) and I’m rarely enjoying that series so far. I had to come and rewatch this video to get another recommendation while I wait for the next book in the Red Rising series.
Children of time was a great sci-fi story
I don't usually go for sci-fi, but I got recommended Ender's Game and I found it a great entry point. The audiobook especially is on point! Hyperion is also an excellent read 👌
Very impressed by your bookcase background. Nice!
The Silo series is such a great entry into dytopian Sci-fi. The setting is based in actuality, not epic space ships and whatnot, and the ideas presented are thought provoking.
I know you dislike it Daniel, but Ender's Game could be great for some people
That was definitely a big one for me getting into sci-fi.
Yep...indeed. Ender's Game. One of the great sci-fi books of the 80s.
Yup! I loved Enders Game when I read it
Booo hissss boooo
@@DanielGreeneReviews Don't get me wrong, Orson Scott Card is a fucking abysmal human being, but I think the book is pretty decent for a specific demographic (10-15).
I enjoyed Canticle for Leibovitz when I read it for my grade 11 English ISU. Would recommend.
Also I actually liked red rising from the beginning. My only problem with the trilogy is that the uprising succeeds in the end because I liked the society as it was.
That intro is absolutely sending me - I cannot stop rewatching it
Thanks for the recommendations sir! I needed ideas for my sci-fi summer tbr
When people want to get into sci-fi, I usually ask them if they want it more on the science side of science fiction or more on the fiction side. If they respond with the former, I usually point them towards the Revelation Space books or The Expanse. If the latter, I usually point them towards Iain M Banks' Culture series or the series of novellas that comprise the Xeelee Sequence.
Thank you👍👍
Just point them towards my channel next time
@@MediaDeathCult your channel is the best!
I also would recommend my personal favorite, Enders Game by Orson Scott Card
Great book and series overall. The movie really messed it up though.
Daniel I love your videos and suggestions keep up the fantastic work
so glad Canticle is being suggested!! LOVE this book
100% agree on the “Canticle for Leibowitz” recommendation!
I started with a few Star Wars legends books, then Asimov and now I'm hooked on Warhammer 40k and the Horus Heresy.
Edit: The Metro Trilogy is fantastic especially if you are a fan of the games. It's a great starting point as well (the second is slow bit the others are amazing)
I also started Sci Fi with Warhammer 40k and it was a good choice.
I started reading Sci-Fi this year. I decided to go with granddaddy of Sci-Fi and go with Foundation world, read the OG trilogy and the sequel duology and now making my way through the prequel duology.
Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga is one that I often recommend and quote regularly. Thanks for the review!