Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite sci-fi books?
by zeroonetwothree on Sunday May 21, 2023 @11:04AM
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Conversely I think these are some of the worst books I’ve ever read (and I’ve read basically everything mentioned in this thread). The characters are uninteresting, the plot is haphazard and the ideas are derivative. I can see how it would be appealing if you don’t read much at all but once you’ve experience some higher quality stuff it’s just bad.
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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite sci-fi books?
by markus_zhang on Sunday May 21, 2023 @12:30PM
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It depends. I found them very enjoyable. I'm perhaps not an avid sci-fi reader but I did read some classics.
Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite sci-fi books?
by omnimus on Monday May 22, 2023 @02:18AM
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I try to not be pedantic about plot holes but i’ve felt there were so many ilogical and unexplained decisions. Author just moves on and does not care that it was very distracting.
I liked some of the ideas although i think you can find books that dig into similar ones a bit deeper.
What also doesnt help is that this seems to be the book that people that dont read sci-fi (because its for kids) all read and they love it. I got so many raving reviews from people telling me if scifi was like this they would read sci-fi… annoying as hell.