Thanks for this! I am a huge Star Trek fan. Watching old episodes of Star Trek for comfort and reassurance is something I do all the time. So, regarding the books, I read Redshirts when it came out and enjoyed it, but haven't read it again. I will definitely look at Elder Race and The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. Have you read any of the other books in the Small Angry Planet series? Anyway, thanks again for the video! 🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖
One thing I enjoyed about The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet is the aliens seem /really/ alien -- not just humans with stuff glued to their foreheads or a normal human characteristic taken to extreme (cough, Star Trek, cough). Also, the crew had a great chemistry.
I like Becky Chambers work so I'll have to check that one out. I read Adrian Tchaikovsky's books on your recommendation and thought they were great so thanks for that too. 🛸
Up Against it is one of those books where I feel like I'm the only one who has read it as no one else ever mentions it. Until now! Let's see, How about Battlestar Galactica both original and remake, and Westworld.
I'm a huge Trekkie too with my favorites being TNG and DS9. Wasn't a huge fan of Redshirts though. I appreciate what Scalzi was doing with it, but it felt like it really jumped the shark.
Ooo, “Up Against It” particularly caught my ear, and I can score a copy from one of our 🇬🇧 bookshops too. Bonus! One of my favourite SF TV shows is “Blake’s 7” which is coincidentally getting a season 1 remastered Blu-ray release in November. I am massively excited about this, because it has been a great many orbits around the sun since I watched it and thus I know what I’m going to be doing this Xmas 😊
I’m a Star Trek fan and I’ve been wanting to rewatch Next Generation and Voyager since those are my favorites by far! I love Elder Race!! I really want to read more of his books.
Another great video! This was an especially fun one. I look forward to reading Redshirts, Elder Race, and the long way to a small angry planet. They have all been on my shelf or my kindle for quite some time. The Szal series definitely sounds interesting as does Up Against It. 📺
Great Idea. You could extend the media to vidoe games. For example many people consider 'Soma' to be a horror themed game. But at it's core it is a deeply sci fi story. I think it has one the most compelling and mind bending narrative I've witnessed in any game.
I am a fan of Star Trek - Original Series. I would watch with my Dad. I did watch TNG as well, but I don't remember it as well as TOS. I just love The Trio dynamic from TOS. The red shirt book does sound like something I would like. I don't read a lot of sci-fi, but I would like for that to change. I actually have, like 50 books, my old library gave me of Star Trek TOS novels! That was so nice of them. =)
I really liked Star Trek Voyager. I thought Janeway was a great character and a very realistic female captain. I feel like some recent shows have done a bad job with strong female characters (Captain Marvel, Galadriel in Rings of Power), but I can't exactly express why they seem wrong while someone like Janeway seems true to life.
I am currently watching From, which has a lot of comparisons to Lost. I would love any recommendations you have for thing that are similar to either of those :)
In fact I read Elder Race last month based on a prior recommendation of yours. Really enjoyed it! ☺️ Long Way to a Small Angry Planet definitely on the list. 📺
Really loving these videos about "If you like this, then you will like that". Thank you. I love reading Science Fiction, and am currently reading Star Trek: Post Nemesis (the last TNG movie) era...called the Trek Lit Reading Flowchart. I've read about 35-36 books of a 80+ book "trek". Having a LOT of fun. It is really cool, since there are many points of entry...and "of course" you can skip around (which I have been doing). Also love The Expanse. Still need to read ALL the novellas. I've read a few of the novellas, but haven't completed them all. Love the books associated to this series...and have read a few of them. Again, thanks for doing this. PS - I'm also reading the Star Wars: Legend/Extended Universe books at the moment, too. I'm about 80+ books in, and just a little ways into the Galaxy, far, far away. I'm currently in The Clone War era...so it is in the Rise of the Empire time period. So much fun. Again, thank you.
Definite Trekkie here and as for as recommendations I know Firefly has been said would add a movie/tv show from the late 80s to early 90s Alien Nation. On the surface it was a cop buddy drama but with the twist of an Alien species having arrived in pods all through out the world and being integrated into the human population. Not sure if there are books similar but would be interesting if there were.
Thanks for this! Love your recs. Embarrassed to say I never watched Star Trek. Any recommendations for fans of Dark (Netflix) or 12 Monkeys (tv series)?
Great video! Its bringing several books to the forefront of my tbr. I loved all the Star Treks, with DS9 as maybe my favorite. I wish I could see them in a better format on tv, without the two black bars on either side.
Most of those sound interesting (read the Becky Chambers and actually just picked-up the entire Shards trilogy from a charity shop last week for the equivalent of about 2 dollars - result ! :). Star Trek-esqe: i'm two thirds through and enjoying (after a slightly bumpy start IMO) the "Universe After" trilogy by Drew Williams. Or one of my all-time faves, "Excession" by Iain M Banks. Expanse-esque: Alan M Steele's "Rude Astronauts" books don't seem to get much love these days (been a while, maybe they haven't aged well ?) but I remember them having a similar near future realism and "roughnecks in space" feel (minus the "big sci-fi" aspects). Black Mirror-esque: I feel like quite a few sci-fi stories are, in that they often warn of the downside of technology (think it was Fred Pohl that said something like "If someone invents the car it's up to sci-fi writers to invent the traffic jam" :) but I recently enjoyed the Inscape trilogy by Louise Carey which, to me, has some similar tech-dystopian themes (though arguably in a more straightforward sci-fi espionage package).
Great vid!👍👍👍🤖🚀🐲 I'm also more of a tng, ds9 and voyager-fan than original trek. A few of these are already on my tbr📚 But I'm adding the test, up against it, version control, and vigilance to my tbr📚 making a similar vid for others shows, for example, Babylon 5, the peripheral, stranger things, travelers, lost in space, dark, severance...just to name a few...🤗🤗🤗
I grew up on " New Generation" just as it's Polish tv it disappeared for years at some point. I really enjoyed "Redshirts" first time I've read it but I gave a listen to the audiobook before holidays. It goes even more meta being read by Will Wheaton.
It has been one of my Favs. for years. Have you seen Sanctuary it is also a really good sci-fy show. I would like some book recommendations for that too. I haven’t seen anything quite like it movie or book.
🖖fellow trekkie here! 🖖i've read all of your star trek recs & i definitely agree with them! as ds9 is my favorite, i'd love more recommendations for scifi with that vibe (i feel like downbelow station by c.j. cherryh might be one!).
How about Battlestar Galactica (the new version from the early 2000s), which I think was one of the best sci-fi shows ever? Also, Red Shirts sounds like a riot and I can’t wait to read it!
this might be a tough nut to crack but I'm curious if anyone's got any suggestions for stories like Farscape! I just finished the show for the first time and adored it to bits, especially in regards to The Hensen Company's additions to the overall tone
As you may recall me saying I was a big fan of the original series when it first aired but moved on to other things after the show was canceled. Didn’t know about the red shirt guys who were always doomed but guess it’s kind of like the canary in the coal mine who gets snuffed out after it tweets its warning.⚛️❤
With canaries it's the dying itself that's the warning in fact :). (the "redshirt curse" has been a thing for decades though in later Trek shows it was more often "yellowshirts" because they swapped from red in TOS to yellow/gold in TNG etc. for the security personnel)
I'm reading Children of Time by Tchaikovsky right now. I'm almost done with book 2, and I'm kind of...bored... I don't think I'm up for more from that author. I typically only ready Fantasy. Finding SciFi I'm interested in has been a struggle.
I don't think "The Long Way..." is anything at all like Star Trek, it's way too shallow, characters are too clichéd, and the plot is non-existent. Most Star Trek episodes have way more interesting plot lines, sci-fi premises, philosophical quandaries and stranger aliens.
I'd like recommendations matching "Stargate" and "Firefly."
For Firefly, I highly recommend the Keiko series by Mike Brooks. Very similar crew vibe.
How about for the show Severance? HIGHLY recommend that if you haven't seen it, my favorite show since Stranger Things.
I still need to watch Severance!!
I haven't heard of it! I will have to check it out
I really enjoyed the novel, but haven’t seen the series yet.
Great video and I loved the concept of books that are similar to shows. Thanks for doing Science Fiction
Thanks Dale
Thanks for this! I am a huge Star Trek fan. Watching old episodes of Star Trek for comfort and reassurance is something I do all the time. So, regarding the books, I read Redshirts when it came out and enjoyed it, but haven't read it again. I will definitely look at Elder Race and The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. Have you read any of the other books in the Small Angry Planet series? Anyway, thanks again for the video! 🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖
I couldn't get into the 3rd Wayfarer book despite trying several times
One thing I enjoyed about The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet is the aliens seem /really/ alien -- not just humans with stuff glued to their foreheads or a normal human characteristic taken to extreme (cough, Star Trek, cough). Also, the crew had a great chemistry.
So true!
I have bought Elder Race thanks to this video 😃
I like Becky Chambers work so I'll have to check that one out.
I read Adrian Tchaikovsky's books on your recommendation and thought they were great so thanks for that too. 🛸
The second book is a great read. Tons of fun.
Up Against it is one of those books where I feel like I'm the only one who has read it as no one else ever mentions it. Until now!
Let's see, How about Battlestar Galactica both original and remake, and Westworld.
Yes I never hear anyone talk about it
I'm a huge Trekkie too with my favorites being TNG and DS9. Wasn't a huge fan of Redshirts though. I appreciate what Scalzi was doing with it, but it felt like it really jumped the shark.
Yeah I struggle with Satire so it was a bit much for my tastes
Children of Memory is probably the most Star Trek book that isn't Star Trek (that I've read)
Redshirts is definitely a read for fans of the original series. Scalzi did a great job with all the stereotypical situations.
Ooo, “Up Against It” particularly caught my ear, and I can score a copy from one of our 🇬🇧 bookshops too. Bonus!
One of my favourite SF TV shows is “Blake’s 7” which is coincidentally getting a season 1 remastered Blu-ray release in November. I am massively excited about this, because it has been a great many orbits around the sun since I watched it and thus I know what I’m going to be doing this Xmas 😊
I'll have to look up Blake 7
'Redshirts' is so fun and everything by Becky Chambers is enjoyable.
I’m a Star Trek fan and I’ve been wanting to rewatch Next Generation and Voyager since those are my favorites by far!
I love Elder Race!! I really want to read more of his books.
Glad you also loved Elder Race
Another great video! This was an especially fun one. I look forward to reading Redshirts, Elder Race, and the long way to a small angry planet. They have all been on my shelf or my kindle for quite some time. The Szal series definitely sounds interesting as does Up Against It. 📺
I've just started Elder Race, thanks for the rec. Very Who Watches The Watchers 😎
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Love loved loved Elder Race!
Great Idea. You could extend the media to vidoe games. For example many people consider 'Soma' to be a horror themed game. But at it's core it is a deeply sci fi story. I think it has one the most compelling and mind bending narrative I've witnessed in any game.
Yeah I've been playing around with that idea. I don't know how many gamers watch my channel
I am a fan of Star Trek - Original Series. I would watch with my Dad. I did watch TNG as well, but I don't remember it as well as TOS. I just love The Trio dynamic from TOS. The red shirt book does sound like something I would like. I don't read a lot of sci-fi, but I would like for that to change. I actually have, like 50 books, my old library gave me of Star Trek TOS novels! That was so nice of them. =)
I really liked Star Trek Voyager. I thought Janeway was a great character and a very realistic female captain. I feel like some recent shows have done a bad job with strong female characters (Captain Marvel, Galadriel in Rings of Power), but I can't exactly express why they seem wrong while someone like Janeway seems true to life.
So glad you also loved Janeway
I am currently watching From, which has a lot of comparisons to Lost. I would love any recommendations you have for thing that are similar to either of those :)
I've just read Red Shirts and got it autographed by the autor. This book is so fun!
Nice!
In fact I read Elder Race last month based on a prior recommendation of yours. Really enjoyed it! ☺️ Long Way to a Small Angry Planet definitely on the list. 📺
So glad you enjoyed it
Really loving these videos about "If you like this, then you will like that". Thank you.
I love reading Science Fiction, and am currently reading Star Trek: Post Nemesis (the last TNG movie) era...called the Trek Lit Reading Flowchart. I've read about 35-36 books of a 80+ book "trek". Having a LOT of fun. It is really cool, since there are many points of entry...and "of course" you can skip around (which I have been doing).
Also love The Expanse. Still need to read ALL the novellas. I've read a few of the novellas, but haven't completed them all. Love the books associated to this series...and have read a few of them.
Again, thanks for doing this.
PS - I'm also reading the Star Wars: Legend/Extended Universe books at the moment, too. I'm about 80+ books in, and just a little ways into the Galaxy, far, far away.
I'm currently in The Clone War era...so it is in the Rise of the Empire time period. So much fun.
Again, thank you.
Thanks Graff. I'll have to check out some of those tie ins
Definite Trekkie here and as for as recommendations I know Firefly has been said would add a movie/tv show from the late 80s to early 90s Alien Nation. On the surface it was a cop buddy drama but with the twist of an Alien species having arrived in pods all through out the world and being integrated into the human population. Not sure if there are books similar but would be interesting if there were.
I'll have to look up Alien Nation
Yep Trekkie here. Like the original show the best even though it’s OLD. 😂
Thanks for this! Love your recs. Embarrassed to say I never watched Star Trek. Any recommendations for fans of Dark (Netflix) or 12 Monkeys (tv series)?
I'll have to watch those two first
Great video! Its bringing several books to the forefront of my tbr. I loved all the Star Treks, with DS9 as maybe my favorite. I wish I could see them in a better format on tv, without the two black bars on either side.
DS9 was incredible during the Dominion War
Most of those sound interesting (read the Becky Chambers and actually just picked-up the entire Shards trilogy from a charity shop last week for the equivalent of about 2 dollars - result ! :).
Star Trek-esqe: i'm two thirds through and enjoying (after a slightly bumpy start IMO) the "Universe After" trilogy by Drew Williams. Or one of my all-time faves, "Excession" by Iain M Banks.
Expanse-esque: Alan M Steele's "Rude Astronauts" books don't seem to get much love these days (been a while, maybe they haven't aged well ?) but I remember them having a similar near future realism and "roughnecks in space" feel (minus the "big sci-fi" aspects).
Black Mirror-esque: I feel like quite a few sci-fi stories are, in that they often warn of the downside of technology (think it was Fred Pohl that said something like "If someone invents the car it's up to sci-fi writers to invent the traffic jam" :) but I recently enjoyed the Inscape trilogy by Louise Carey which, to me, has some similar tech-dystopian themes (though arguably in a more straightforward sci-fi espionage package).
Loved seeing your recs for these shows
Great vid!👍👍👍🤖🚀🐲 I'm also more of a tng, ds9 and voyager-fan than original trek. A few of these are already on my tbr📚 But I'm adding the test, up against it, version control, and vigilance to my tbr📚 making a similar vid for others shows, for example, Babylon 5, the peripheral, stranger things, travelers, lost in space, dark, severance...just to name a few...🤗🤗🤗
Good suggestions. Some of those I still need to watch
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I grew up on " New Generation" just as it's Polish tv it disappeared for years at some point. I really enjoyed "Redshirts" first time I've read it but I gave a listen to the audiobook before holidays. It goes even more meta being read by Will Wheaton.
That's so cool! Will Wheaton is a good narrator. Definitely need to check out the audiobook.
I would like for you to do recommendations for the series Farscape.
I still need to watch that one
It has been one of my Favs. for years. Have you seen Sanctuary it is also a really good sci-fy show. I would like some book recommendations for that too. I haven’t seen anything quite like it movie or book.
🖖fellow trekkie here! 🖖i've read all of your star trek recs & i definitely agree with them! as ds9 is my favorite, i'd love more recommendations for scifi with that vibe (i feel like downbelow station by c.j. cherryh might be one!).
Hmm yes DS9 is tougher. Downbelow is a good suggestion
Debating the Storm Blood series or the Honor Harrington series. Which would you recommend first for big Expanse fan?
I think you'll find Stormblood and moreso it's sequel to be closest
How about Battlestar Galactica (the new version from the early 2000s), which I think was one of the best sci-fi shows ever?
Also, Red Shirts sounds like a riot and I can’t wait to read it!
Ooo yes I loved Battlestar Galactica... I'd just have to think of the pairings
The new Battlestar Galactica is one of my favourite sci-fi shows too. Would love to see a book pairing for this as well.
this might be a tough nut to crack but I'm curious if anyone's got any suggestions for stories like Farscape! I just finished the show for the first time and adored it to bits, especially in regards to The Hensen Company's additions to the overall tone
I still need to watch Farscape
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Now i need to read Elder Race just to see if you are referring to the the same episode as i think you are.
I hope you can figure it out
You talking about sci fi only? Oh the horror!
Lovely video. Babylon 5 please
Ooo I'd have to think
I await the final season of lower decks
What about a book for Farscape or Babylon 5 fans 👀
As you may recall me saying I was a big fan of the original series when it first aired but moved on to other things after the show was canceled. Didn’t know about the red shirt guys who were always doomed but guess it’s kind of like the canary in the coal mine who gets snuffed out after it tweets its warning.⚛️❤
With canaries it's the dying itself that's the warning in fact :).
(the "redshirt curse" has been a thing for decades though in later Trek shows it was more often "yellowshirts" because they swapped from red in TOS to yellow/gold in TNG etc. for the security personnel)
If you like Star Trek episodes with accidental time travel and space battles, I recommend the Saga of the Iron Dragon by Robert Kroese.
Thanks for the rec
I see Legend of the Galactic Heroes has made the shelf in the back left. Have you started reading it yet?
I read the first three but I want to go back to the beginning
@@TheShadesofOrange, I hope you enjoy them! They can be a little dense at times, but so rewarding.
What about Battlestar Galactica?
Ooo yes good idea
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Elder Race: One book I always recommend if you're in a slump.
Agreed!
Thine Own Self?
I'm reading Children of Time by Tchaikovsky right now. I'm almost done with book 2, and I'm kind of...bored...
I don't think I'm up for more from that author. I typically only ready Fantasy. Finding SciFi I'm interested in has been a struggle.
If you loved Forbidden Planet, read The Tempest by Wm Shakespeare. :-)
Dark Mirror? Amalgamation of Black Mirror and Dark Matter?
Yes my brain is dumb when I film 🤦♀️
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Sorry, were you talking about "BLACK Mirror" or "Dark Matter" ?
Black Mirror. Mixed up my titles
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Scalzi and goofy? I don't believe a word of it! Viligance sounds serious though😅
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You confuse me, you kept saying Dark Mirror and I assume you meant Dark Matter.
in any event, you're still cool :)
Just a little dumb when filming sometimes 🙃
I don't think "The Long Way..." is anything at all like Star Trek, it's way too shallow, characters are too clichéd, and the plot is non-existent. Most Star Trek episodes have way more interesting plot lines, sci-fi premises, philosophical quandaries and stranger aliens.
Totally fair to disagree
Black Mirror