Beginner's Guide to Sci Fi || Book Recommendations 2020
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- Опубликовано: 2 апр 2020
- Time for more book recommendations! Here's my second beginner's guide to sci-fi! Depending on your favorite genre, here are the books you should pick up!
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I love how my idea of taking a break from reading all day is to just come on RUclips and watch book tubers review and talk about books
Sameee 😂
Ikr I always do that. 😁😁
This is so funny to me because I’m doing the opposite - I’m trying to read more so I’m watching booktubers to motivate me instead of tik tok compilations 😪
ME AF
Emily: New sci-fi recommendations
Me: Say no more, woman.
(Adds to my TBR)
Jurassic Park was the hardest book to "shake off" that I've ever read. I was so deeply immersed in that world that I half expected to look up and see a flying dinosaur. The feeling lasted days.
For me too. I loved it!
No mentions of Steve. Woman we need updates on Steve 😂
He will be in my next vlog!
I did accidentally throw a peanut at his head this week so I don’t think we’re on good terms right now lol
BookswithEmilyFox yay!!! He will come around, peanuts are yummy
@@BookswithEmilyFox "accidentally"
I wouldn't hurt that poor squirrel on purpose! I'm glad I wasn't filming though because I couldn't stop laughing while apologizing XD
I won't go in depth about some of the obvious choices (Red Rising, etc.), but here are a few sci-fi books I really enjoyed that aren't talked about very often:
1. Pivot Point and Split Second by Kasie West (YA): A girl lives in an isolated community with people with powers and her power is that see the outcome of two choices before she makes the choice and the book starts with her parents getting divorced and her mom is staying in the compound, while her dad is moving to the real world. She gets to choose who she wants to live with and each chapter flips back and forth between each potential future.
2. The Body Electric by Beth Revis (YA): A girl has the ability to help people relive their favorite memories, but one day, a boy comes up to her claiming that he knows her and proves it by listing off tons of things no one should know about her, which means that someone, somehow, altered HER memory.
3. The Prestige by Christopher Priest (it's also a Christopher Nolan movie starring Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale!): Two enemy magicians both frantically trying to perfect the same trick, but they go about it in VERY different ways.
4. A World Without You by Beth Revis (YA, mostly contemporary): Bo thinks he can time travel, his family thinks he's mentally ill. He thinks he's at a school for people like him, who have superpowers, his family sent him to a school for "troubled youth." His girlfriend there dies and he thinks he can go back in time to change that, his family thinks he's just grieving. Who's right and who's wrong? Read the book and find out!
how long have you waited for this video?
me: it's been 84 years
i'm so ready!
Yessssssss I'm so excited to see a new video about sci-fi! Great recommendations, too! *chefs kiss*
To all the sci-fi that is already on my TBR, I’m so sorry I just found more 😐
Wow! Literally ALL of these have been on my TBR for a few years now besides Jurassic Park and vicious (which I’ve read) and the sudden appearance of hope which I just added to my TBR! What a great video! Makes me really wanna read some sci fi now!
Hi pls make a video all about Psychological thriller books prettyplsss 😘
I'm reading Six Wakes right now; it has a great premise, very unique imho. Sci fi has always been my favorite genre, I'm definitely picking up a couple of these books. Thank you for the recommendations and the video, delightful to watch, as always. Stay safe
I so desperately wanted to like "They Both Die In The End", but it ended up being 3.5 stars for me. In a way, it's a perfect YA book, and that's probably was the issue for me - I wanted for it to go darker, more life reflection, more angst, more despair, but it was more of an adventure quest with a big sad ending. I can see, though, why other people like it so much, it plays with really interesting themes and ideas!
I just downloaded the audio book for life after life. I can’t wait to listen to it. Thanks for the recommendations!
Thank you for the Six Wakes recommendation! My daughter and I listened on audible on our trip home and could NOT stop listening ❤️
I just finished Vicious and I LOVED it.
I love Six Wakes! I thought it was a unique story with some nice twists and turns. Great book and an excellent recommendation.
Omg i have life after life on my shelf for years. Definitely gonna pick it up, if it has the Emily stamp of approval!.
The sudden appearance of hope and the last policeman sound really good too. Going to keep those on my radar.
Thanks for the great recommendations!
I love how you post SciFi recommendations! I don't see many of these on BookTube, and it's so helpful for me as I try to get into the genre!
I really enjoy ve / victoria schwab books a lot 🌺 six wakes sounds really good! Thank you Emily for keeping on posting 💜 I didn’t like life after life that much 😞
Me too i finally decided to read Jurrasic Park and Lost World last summer and was shocked, but pleasantly so, at how different books and films are. Another good book from the author is Sphere
I read Six Wakes and adored it. I keep looking for something else like it because I loved it so much.
Thanks for the recs Emily!❤️ Will for sure be checking these out... Btw, Hank Green just put up a video (on hankschannel) about how the pandemic will affect the content of the sequel, which was very interesting!
I found out that The Last Policeman is available on Scribd following your video and... I am already 20% in and enjoying it so far! Merci Emily!
I have been wanting to read more Sci-Fi. I really loved Skyward and I recently bought the Binti series which is a super short Sci-fi series. The John Carter books are some classic Sci-Fi books that I want to pick up as well. I loved the Jurassic Park movie and need to read the book! I have Viscious on my shelf but haven't read it yet, which is definitely on my list.
Ooo I have a recommendation that I thought you were going to give when you said "this is for people who like thrillers" : Blake Crouch, Dark Matter!! ❤️
I think she's already given this recommendation in a previous video.
@@unprofessionalcritic3107 I know she really likes it and I probably read it because of her! I'm just saying it would have fit pretty well here :)
@@berenicethegirl I mean in her previous Beginner's Sci fi video she recommended Dark Matter for thriller lovers. So she probably didn't want to repeat the same book in the same category. :)
@@unprofessionalcritic3107 ah okay! Fair :)
I LOVE Crichton! My favourite is Sphere, closely followed by Jurassic Park. I'm about to start Pirate Latitudes by him
omg finally, I absolutely adore sci fi but it has been a while since I have read a sci fi book
I LOVED Six Wakes. Such a great closed circle murder mystery. She also has some fun urban fantasy books (The Shambling Guides series).
Yay so excited! 🥰
8:12 wow I'm definitely checking this one out.
Been waiting for this!
I would also recommend Illuminae for sci-fi beginners.
7:07 Woah there, spoiler warning! XD In all seriousness, it's always refreshing to watch a booktuber cover scifi! Ringworld is a classic and I feel like it's a good intro, because it's not ridiculously heavy. Otherwise probably like The Martian or something.
Thanks for the recommendations The sudden Appearance of Hope was my favourite book of ( I think) 2014 One of my recommendations would be ..er..2001 : A Space Odyssey. It genuinely was or still is one of my favourite sf books . I even went to the length of learning chapter 40 off by heart like a poem : The StarGate opened The Stargate closed . In a moment of time too short to be measured .....etc
I just finished 'The Machine Stops' by E. M. Forster, which is a sci-fi/dystopian novella, short (40-ish pages), very accessible, and it blew my mind! It kind of predicted the Internet, it has a 'Black Mirror' vibe (if you like the show, you might like this). And it was written in 1909.
My friend sent me a link to that like 10 years ago! It’s stuck with me since, love it.
My absolute favorite sci-fi is Connie Willis’ Blackout and All Clear duology. Give me some time-traveling historians, any day! 😀 Love Jurassic Park, great recommendation.
What would you recommend to someone who likes high fantasy?
I'm 1000% with you I love scifi and I wish more people would give it a chance
Emilyyyy pls recommend me ur favorite books about witches! Its urgent!
Yes please!
Really enjoyed this. Please do more on scifi for adults for more hardcore fans
The Expanse series
My fav genre!! Yaay
You should do a beginners guide to Fantasy!
A 3rd Villains book was announced?? WHEN? WHERE?
For people who like literary fiction, I'd recommend This Is How You Lose the Time War. It has beautiful prose and a heart wrench love-story at the center. It's also quite short. It for sure made me practice my English, because English is not my native language .
Jurassic park is so good I love it so much more than the movie! They both die at the end is also a solid ya actually. Yes to Vicious and Vengeful!! Life after life I just added to be TBR but I might have to get into audio and e books due to my library being closed!
I'm reading The Host right now. Have you read it?
69th! Nice. (Better than 1st imo)
This was great, Emily! For a beginner's list I was pleasantly surprised to see that most of them were ones I wouldn't have thought of, so good work. Yay/damn you for bigger TBR!
I’ve wanted this so badly!! Beacause of you all I want to read is adult sci-fi 😂
Are you doing the Owls this month?
Please please please make a video similar with classic books??
I love vengeful and vicious 😍🤗
Thanks for the recommendations I love scyfy. Not a genre that's talked about too much
What about the Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells? Is that a good series for beginners?
K A It’s so good! The books are short, but so funny and a great world to spend time in.
Did you read "The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy"?
I picked up and read More Than This by Patrick Ness just by fluke, I knew nothing about it but ended up loving it!
I read life after life by kate Atkinson. I thought it was pretty good but I listened to it on audiobook and I got confused a couple of times. Still enjoyed it 😊
We need more sci fi recommendations please
I read and really enjoyed Jurassic Park last year!!!
Oh Emily... as if my tbr wasn’t ridiculously huge!!
G.S. Jennsen - Aurora Rhapsody - 9 book series. Awesome!
Emily, the following quote is from a science fiction or fantasy book that I read over two decades ago, but I neglected to write down the author and book title. Now I can’t find the quote anywhere. Please post below if you know the source. Thanks! “Ultimately, there is no difference between fantasy and reality, so what is written becomes reality, somewhere, in some universe.”
we need more update on Steve! He should move in with you ❤🐺
I STILL NEED TO READ VICIOUS/VENGEFUL SO BADLY
Do it, Vicious is amazing! (Haven't read vengeful yet either oops)
Ha can you please recommend some science fiction books that makes the reader fall in love with the book
Hey Emily what was that book that you said you wanted to read a few months ago about a woman that suddenly wakes up and her world has changed, she lives in another place, she has another husband and family and nobody seems to remember her old life only her I really want to read it but I don’t remember the title😭😭
Needed this so bad rn. Getting into a new genre can be so difficult sometimes
It can definitely be overwhelming!
There is one which I have read and loved and later found out it is sci-fi. The novel is called Never Let Me Go written by Kazuo Ishiguro (the name is Japanese but he is Brit Lit) There is a film too but I'm not that fond of it. The novel though is great.
yes! that was a great read. highly recommend.
I thought the Jurrassic Park book was so much more tense and exciting than the movie. Still love the movie, but the book had me on the edge of my seat a lot.
Please tell me what lipstick that is!! A colour I have been searching for! Haha 😆
Too many books on my TBR >.< Stop adding more! (But also, thanks for the recs).
I'm pretty sure An Absolutely Remarkable Thing can be classified as new adult sci-fi. I can't wait for new adult to become a more recognized genre/age group so it can be easier to find books in that "between YA and adult" zone.
For a historical fiction/scifi book that reads like literary fiction, Midnight at the Electric by Jodi Lynn Anderson is a great book.
You can always start like me - with Herbert Wells!
Need Help. I read a sci-fi book about a way station with llama-like mother and 'son' who run an inn. there was sloth-like alien in a mechanical suit and several other folks who get stranded on the surface when satellites start crashing into each other and crashing onto the surface. Please tell the Title or Author, I can't remember.
ps the name of author might have been Clegg.
Jurassic Park!!! 🦖🦕❤️ It's so amazing, one of my top favorite books ever
Obsidian by Jennifer l Armentrout
Alienated by Melissa
💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓
Both series are my favorite
What word are you saying for the first genre you mention? I can't hear at, don't recognize the term. Also at 3:51..' it's kind of in between adult ....... in my opinion' ?
YA in both cases aka Young Adult books
@@BookswithEmilyFox Ah thanks. Learned something again!
Emily has a birthday hat. Is she an aries? ♈️
I actually really didn’t like Jurassic park because it was so repetitive. Like once we got to all the action and climax( it was quite early) I felt like it just kept being the same after that. I would recommend recursion because even though it’s more science heavy, I know loads of people who don’t read sci fi who has loved it (dark matter inc) bit also “Minecraft: the island” it’s about this person who is all of a sudden dropped into the world of Minecraft. It’s so simple, but also just an interesting story because we don’t know anything about this person before this and neither do they. They are also the only person in the whole book. Which is so rare, I’ve nerver heard of that before . Thanks Emily!
The premise of that last book sounds a lot like The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue🤔 wonder how similar it is though…
Six wakes sounds verryy interesting 😏
What is a Y reader?
YA = Young Adult
@@BookswithEmilyFox ahhh, lol ok. Makes sense. I wasn't hearing the A
It’s so weird to me when ppl liked more than this by Patrick ness. That, red white and royal blue and Grasshopper Jungle are the only books i actually hate, truly hate. Like with a Passion
I didn't really like they both die at the end.
Snow globe Emily has her birthday 🎂 hat on cute! And happy early birthday as well, ooh I have they both die in the end.
Jurassic Park was definitely a good read. Lex was an idiot and should have been sacrificed to the T-Rex for the betterment of everyone else involved.
This is perfect! I’ve been interested in exploring sci-do but I’ve never known where to begin
Some of the best scenes in the book Jurassic Park aren’t even in the movie.
I ABSOLUTELY hated an absolutely remarkable thing.it was painful to read and the ending just got me furious.
The trouble with so many of these books is that they are NOT unique. The old "waking up in a new body / place / time" has become a cottage industry on par with pandemics causing zombies, fleeing Earth due to climate change or teens saving the world from aliens millions of years more advanced.
Science fiction (not fantasy, horror, etc) offers flights of the imagination but is being harmed by several trends. Sequelama - the practice of adding more and more follow-ups - has taken over. Self-publishing allows works from folks who say irregardless, mix "further" and "farther" and misspell "Medieval". (I recall one - 4.5 stars - a zombie apocalypse in the South where every sentence was a paragraph (!), folks talked like Aunt Jemima and fighting zombies involved Bible studies for everyone, "even Jews".
U r very cute.
God I hated they both die at the end. It was trying to be profound, but it was just lame.
It's not a favorite of mine but I can still see YA contemporary lovers enjoying it lol