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Our [New Scientist] writers pick their favourite science fiction books of all time
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Really pleased to see 17776 getting some recognition. I don't even like American football and I love that story.
I couldn't decide if I wanted to add that one to my reading list or not. I hadn't heard of it before, and I'm not at all a sports guy, but it sounds interesting.
It's not purely text. Wikipedia describes it as "a serialized speculative fiction multimedia narrative", which I think is pretty accurate.
Link here: https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football
I got around to reading 17776 today. That was fun, thanks for the recommendation!
Awesome, glad you enjoyed it!
Well that's... really interesting. I love it when people experiment with new ways of telling a story. That might move this up much higher on my list. Thanks for the link.
It's chaos, but Jon Bois is amazing at putting order to even the most chaotic things. If you don't know him, he's purely a sports guy, but he has a number of video series on YouTube that are absolutely great watches, regardless of whether you like sports. I hate (American) football, but he has a number of videos I watched intently, because he does a great job of analyzing random number sets and plotting them out in a way that is visually appealing. Guy is a nut, and it makes for great television (obviously not TV but yeah).
If American Football was like that I would probably watch it.
Yeah, the 17776 version sounds way more entertaining. Especially if it is commentated by three sapient space probes.
The Mars trilogy is good, although Blue Mars is my favourite, Hitchhiker's is good but is more of a comedy, Flatland is ok but is more of a satire of Victorian society. The Planiverse by AK Dewdney is a better 2d world book.
You say that like that's a bad thing...
Oh no, it's not a bad thing at all. It just means it doesn't really belong in a list of sci fi books.
Thanks for posting the list like this!
Thanks for doing that
Long Earth was good, lots of classics here as well
I got it because I love Sir Perry's Discworld books, and was blown away by how much I liked it!
I've read quite a number of the books on the list, but hadn't read that one, so I put it on my list.