Science Fiction for Beginners | Where to Start with the Genre
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A black female that likes scifi thank you thank you. So glad u found you.
Franc Ingram You’re so welcome! I’m happy you found me! 🤗
I can't believe I found you with this video, I had a hard time trying to get into this genre and the last book I picked up from this genre didn't go so well BUT I'M GLAD YOU MADE THIS VIDEO !! 💕
Thanks for the suggestion I added all on my list and I can’t wait to read them
Thank you for posting this video! It's been a goal of mine to try more Sci-Fi, but I've had NO idea where to begin. Your passion for books is inspiring!
So agreed about so many of these! The N. K. Jemisin and Ted Chiang adoration is real. Also, The Hitchhiker's Guide was the first SciFi I ever read!
That’s awesome that was your first SF book! 🥳
Arthur C Clarke is my standard recommendation for those new to science fiction. His work, from short stories to novels, defines the genre's best aspects. Isaac Asimov is another name to seek out, any of his science fiction being wonderful.
More contemporary favorites include William Gibson, especially Neuromancer but really all his novels and stories, and Bruce Sterling, who can capture setting with breathtaking realism. They even collaborated on The Difference Engine, which introduced steampunk to a wider audience.
The Female Man by Ursula K Le Guin is superb, anything as by James Tiptree, Jr. (who was actually Dr. Alice B Sheldon), is the best you can get, and the wild, intense, compassionate work of Harlan Ellison in all its many shapes dazzles.
Wow! Great recommendations! I've actually never read a scifi book, and this year in lockdown I even started with genre in movies, but still didn't know where to begin with reading. This helps a lot, than you! :) I'd gladly continue following your vlogs.
Great video. Your recommendations are right up my street. The RUclips algo really worked!
I have been looking for a video like this! Love this and love your channel!
Thank you so much!! 🤗
Kindred will ALWAYS be my jam. I just downloaded Stories of Your Life - thank you for your suggestions!
What a great list! I haven’t read all these, but have read about half of them. Given how much I tend to agree with your tastes in books, I see that I need to step up! Especially in regards to Octavia Butler and Ted Chiang. I’ve been wanting to read them for some time now.
Two must-read authors! I’m so excited for you to get to them! And thank you 🤗
Just found your channel today, and subscribed. Really loving your videos :)
The Martian Chronicles is one of my all time favorite books! I love, love LOVE it so much. I haven't read Farenheit 451, I should read that one soon. Thank you so much for this list! I'm just getting started on sci-fi, although I kinda got used to the classics and I need to start reading more modern stuff. I'm definitely subscribing to your channel. You have such a nice vibe, you seem super sweet and passionate about books
Thank you so much, and welcome!🤗 I'm glad you found this helpful!
Just watching you talk about these books I decided to subscribe to you - only to realize that I already am subscribed to you.
Keep being awesome.
Love it haha! 😁
This is such an awesome list of books. What’s funny is that I don’t normally think of myself as a sci fi reader, but I’ve read and enjoyed most of these. Lists like this are so helpful not only for the awesome books but as a reminder that genre is fluid. Kindred, Fifth Season, Fahrenheit 451, and Hitchhiker’s Guide are favorites from these you mentioned. I’ve been recommending Exhalation to everyone since reading it last summer. I need more Ted Chiang in my life!
Definitely agree about genre being fluid! And I love that you’re recommending Exhalation! I need more of Ted Chiang too 😩
Enjoyed this video a lot, thank you for these recommendations! I love the genre but haven't read that much in comparison to fantasy because I never know where to continue, so this is a great list to start with. I have read a few of these, but not all of them, so that's really nice :D
Thank you for watching! I’m so happy to hear you enjoyed it!
I love every one of those books (except Red Rising which I haven’t read yet)! So excited to find someone who seems to really enjoy the same books I do.
I’m so glad I found your channel! These were excellent recommendations, I can’t wait to read some of these to get more into sci-fi! 😄
Thank you! And welcome! 😃
Great list. Thanks for the recommendation.
You're welcome! Thanks for watching! :)
this video is so great!! i adore red rising!!!! especially the audiobooks!! also i really want to read farenheit 451!
This is a genre I want to explore. Thanks for the recommendations!
Good luck exploring the genre and finding what works for you in SF! I’m excited for you ☺️
I instantly like you and your book taste. I can't believe I discovered your channel only now.
I started with Wool. I remember having it recommended to me when it was first produced (and I loved it) but I need to ramp up my Sci-Fi reading. Thanks for these additions to my TBR.
much love,
amy
Amy Pinkelman You’re very welcome!!
Just found you love this my first scifi was Dune been reading scifi since🤗
Agree with your recommendations starting from #1! Fahrenheit 451 was my favorite book for a good while before I got into Butler and King. However Kindred is one that gives me feelings of dread, can’t finish it. It’s the only one of hers I can’t get through.
I loved Ready Player One so much! And Kindred is the only Octavia Butler novel I’ve read of you can believe that!! These are great recommendations. ✨
Butler's work is amazing! You definitely have to check out parable of the sower :D
An excellent list!
Thank you!
What a great list. As a fairly newbie (in the last couple of years) to sci-fi most of these books are already on my radar.
As amazing as Kindred is, the Parables duet (and you should read them back to back) BLEW MY MIND. It's almost as if Queen Octavia could see the future through a crystal ball or something... One of the few books/series that will merit a schedued at some point re-read for me. Lillith's Brood is next up. TFS :)
I’m going to have to bump this up my reading list now! I hope you enjoy Lilith’s Brood!
@@ToriMorrow Thx.
I'm loving your videos!
Thank you! 😃
Hi Tori! I'm a beginner in the genre, and it all started back in 2015 when I read "Genesis" by Bernard Beckett, thinking it was going to be something else, but I LOVED the book and, as you said, it stayed with me for a long long time. Have you read it? It seemes nobody knows about it!
I came here because - I think - your recs on The Shades of Orange, but I've been loving the channel! See you soon!
You make me want to read all of these. They sound awesome.
They really are! I hope you end up reading a few :D
Thanks for doing this video, because I've wanted to start reading sci-fi but had NO CLUE where to begin.
ThatChickKim You’re so welcome, I hope this was helpful! 😃
I love your channel! :D I've been more interested in sci-fi this year and I think you have some great recommendations! I loved Ready Player One as well, and Flowers for Algernon that you mentioned in your other video! And I read both of Ted Chiang's short story collections and they are amazing! Have you read Exhalation?
That’s so sweet, thank you! I’m glad you like the recs 😃 and I loved Exhalation!! One of my favorite reads last year
Tori these are great recommendations! A perfect slew of some that I have read and some I haven't! It seems as though I really need to get my hands on Ready Player One...
I’m glad to hear you enjoyed the recs! Ready player one is such a fun read, I hope you enjoy it whenever you get around to reading it!
Ted Chiang's book is stupendous. He is highly under-rated.
He really is! Hopefully more readers will start coming around to his work
Great choices. I've just found The Undefeated. I LOOOOVE Tor novellas
Agreed! I usually have bad luck with novellas but the last couple I picked up from Tor have been really solid (and underrated)!
Lilith’s Brood is amazing. That trilogy and The Sparrow and Children of God by Mary Doria Russell changed me as a human.
I seriously love hearing that about The Sparrow! I’m looking forward to finally reading it some time this year. Lilith’s Brood is also high on the list 😃
That was my first Dystopian book too
Lady where have you been all my life? All the books you've talked about I've either read or they are on my list. Great recommendations. Loved this video, can't wait to explore more on your channel
I actually read The Martian Chronicles as a junior or sophomore in HS and it opened up my eyes to the scifi genre. I still think about this book, though I don't remember quite what I read I remember vividly how it blew my mind.
Thank you so much, and welcome!! 🥳
This video is what I needed! I am a writer who needs help writing a sci-fi story and I am always looking for good books to read. Thank you!
You're very welcome! I'm happy you enjoyed it :D
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Thank you! 😊
Oh wow, this is a great list of books! I'd really love to read more Ray Bradbury and give Octavia Butler a try!
Please do! Octavia Butler's work is fantastic 😊
The first like non kids book scifi I can remember reading was Have Spacesuit Will Travel by Robert Heinlein
Same for me. I read it in 1960. Never forgot it.
@@locutusdborg126 It is a really good book
I like Dune but I think it takes some work to figure out the 4 political/religious groups involved. A guide to theses groups online helps a lot! I think once you’re clear on that, the plot is fairly straightforward
when i got back into reading about three years ago THE FIFTH SEASON was probably the first really big sci-fi/fantasy book i picked up and i think i was too overwhelmed by the world and its very unique lingo to fully apprecciate it.. i have yet to re-read it so i can finally continue with the series. therefore i'm not sure i would recommend it to a beginner to the genre 🤔
but thinking about it, the sci-fi books i enjoyed in the past couple of years are all a bit.. weird and different. i guess you just have to find specific sub-genres that work for you and that takes some time and most likely some books you don't like.
the first sci-fi book i fell in love with was AGENTS OF DREAMLAND by caitlín r. kiernan altough that's a very trippy story i'm not sure i would recommend to a sci-fi beginner either 😅 the same with STATION ELEVEN by emily st. john mandel which i adored but for someone going into this dystopia expecting an adventurous adrenaline-filled story would be disappointed. then there's LIGHT FROM OTHER STARS by erika swyler, one of my favourite reads from last year 🧡 and lastly the short story WAITING ON A BRIGHT MOON by j.y. yang.
oh, and i forgot to mention that i added THE UNDEFEATED by una mccormack to my radar shelf on goodreads, because older characters need to be in more stories 😊 thanks for the recommendation!
I loved the time machine but I wish it was a bit longer. I wanted more!
I’m glad to hear you loved it! 😃
I loved the time machine!!! The island of Dr Moreau is great too, I’ve also just watched the invisible man in cinemas and I might have to read it!!
Thank you 😊
You’re so welcome!! 😊
Really cosy atmosphere
Thanks, Marina!
Yay!!!!!
I know what books i am getting now👍👍
Hi there, I just discovered your channel and thank you for sharing! I am yet to go through your other videos, but if u haven’t read it yet, ‘the three body problem’ series by CiXin Liu won’t disappoint you 💗
I'm not particularly a beginner when it comes to sci-fi but I would say I'm in a sci-fi reading dump so this is perfect for me right now lol.
Managed to reserve 3 of these from my library! Thanks for the recs!!
You should read the Victorian Trilogy by Felix J. Palma.
I had sorta the same experience with red rising! I started it like 10 different times on audiobook and I kept falling asleep and waking up at random parts until I finally got through the first part. Did you finish Dark age? (I see it on your shelf) I finished it last night and I've been dying to talk about it.
I've tried the fifth season I haven't got past the first chapter. I'm gonna try it again. We have really similar taste so if you say it's good. I'm gonna try.
I also started Wool. I finished the first part and I'm not sure how I feel about it.
I'm looking forward to your Ray Bradbury video!
I haven’t gotten to Dark Age yet but definitely plan to early this year! And I hope you give The Fifth Season another go. I got through most of Wool last year, but ultimately had to DNF it. I’ll be interested to hear what you think when you finish!
@@ToriMorrow I wanna hear about dark age when you finish it! I'm still processing it and I'll probably re-read it.
But I'll let you know about Wool. I might dnf it. But if I dont I'll let you know.
And I'm gonna start the 5th season again this week.
You’re so intellectual
Snow crash done it for me...........
Octavia Butler was a woman ahead of her time.
She definitely was!
Where to Start? Intimidated? I usually just pick a book that piqued my interest.
Good for you 👍🏽
@@ToriMorrow envy is an ugly thing :D