Sci-fi, fantasy and/or post-apocalyptic book suggestions - Page 2

WillAdams · 05-12-2018, 08:02 AM

Rather than Stirling's "Novels of The Change" (Emberverse), I'd suggest the story they're based on Steven R. Boyett's _Ariel_ and _Elegy Beach_ --- the former has flaws typical of a first novel, but some interesting ideas.

haertig · 05-12-2018, 09:29 AM

Try the trilogy "The Breach", "Ghost Country", and "Deep Sky" by Patrick Lee.

Try "Wool" by Hugh Howey. Note that this series originally came out as a sequence of shorter reads, but they have been collected into one book - this omnibus is the one you want to get.

HLS · 05-18-2018, 08:09 PM

Sleeping Beauties was good. End of the world in the hands of women

drofgnal · 05-19-2018, 06:19 AM

Hugh Howey's 'Wool'

ReadingManiac · 05-28-2018, 04:35 AM

The main characters in Time Shifters by Shanna Lauffey definitely fit the OP description. I've just noticed the first episode is going free at Smashwords.
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/471396

It's self-contained but there are now 8 books in the series. Episode 8 was just released.

BenG · 05-28-2018, 09:42 AM

New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson.

Manhattan is under water (sea levels have risen 50 feet) and people live and work in the upper stories of the city's skyscrapers. Skyscrapers are islands and streets have become canals. The book follows several of the inhabitants of one building, male and female. The main characters are all likable even some that seem self-centered at first.
Robinson sometimes is given to some long expository passages which he mentions with a wink in the text:

Quote:

But pause ever so slightly—and those of you anxious to get back to the narrating of the antics of individual humans can skip to the next chapter, and know that any more expository rants, any more info dumps (on your carpet) from this New Yorker will be printed in red ink to warn you to skip them (not)—pause, broader-minded more intellectually flexible readers, to consider why the First Pulse happened in the first place.

I read it on my kindle so I'm not sure if there really is red ink or not. It was one of my favorites from last year. I'm usually somewhat put off by the length of his novels but I am quickly engaged once I start.

https://locusmag.com/2017/04/gary-k-...ey-robinson-3/

taosaur · 07-30-2018, 05:41 AM

I just finished up Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time, and it was both thoughtful and a lot of fun, if a touch misanthropic. The stumbling block for the OP (who obviously isn't around anymore), would be likable characters. They're in there, but the question at the heart of the novel is whether humanity deserves to survive in the first place, and what it would take for us to get over our destructive tendencies. So, no one in the book is without flaws.

Still, there are strong leads (and arguably villains) of both sexes, and it's both sci-fi and post-apocalyptic from an author who has mostly written fantasy. It operates on something like a 2500 year timescale, but has at least three sets of main characters throughout, each experiencing that span in different ways.

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05-12-2018, 08:02 AM	#16
WillAdams Wizard Posts: 1,234 Karma: 3350652 Join Date: Feb 2008 Device: Amazon Kindle Paperwhite (300ppi), Samsung Galaxy Book 12	Rather than Stirling's "Novels of The Change" (Emberverse), I'd suggest the story they're based on Steven R. Boyett's _Ariel_ and _Elegy Beach_ --- the former has flaws typical of a first novel, but some interesting ideas.

05-12-2018, 09:29 AM	#17
haertig Wizard Posts: 1,738 Karma: 26006874 Join Date: Sep 2017 Device: PW3, Fire HD8 Gen7, Moto G7, Sansa Clip v2, Ruizu X26	Try the trilogy "The Breach", "Ghost Country", and "Deep Sky" by Patrick Lee. Try "Wool" by Hugh Howey. Note that this series originally came out as a sequence of shorter reads, but they have been collected into one book - this omnibus is the one you want to get.

05-18-2018, 08:09 PM	#18
HLS Wizard Posts: 2,027 Karma: 15107670 Join Date: May 2017 Device: Sage, Scribe, Boox Note 2 Plus, iPad Pros and Samsungs S6,S7,S8	Sleeping Beauties was good. End of the world in the hands of women

05-19-2018, 06:19 AM	#19
drofgnal Wizard Posts: 1,227 Karma: 7838248 Join Date: Dec 2009 Device: Ipad Pro/Kindle Oasis 3/iPhone 13 Pro Max	Hugh Howey's 'Wool'

05-28-2018, 04:35 AM	#20
ReadingManiac Genre Jumper Posts: 1,070 Karma: 11070900 Join Date: Dec 2015 Device: Kindle paperwhite	The main characters in Time Shifters by Shanna Lauffey definitely fit the OP description. I've just noticed the first episode is going free at Smashwords. https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/471396 It's self-contained but there are now 8 books in the series. Episode 8 was just released.

07-30-2018, 05:41 AM	#22
taosaur intelligent posterior Posts: 1,562 Karma: 21295618 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Ohiopolis Device: Kindle Paperwhite 2, Samsung S8, Lenovo Tab 3 Pro	I just finished up Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time, and it was both thoughtful and a lot of fun, if a touch misanthropic. The stumbling block for the OP (who obviously isn't around anymore), would be likable characters. They're in there, but the question at the heart of the novel is whether humanity deserves to survive in the first place, and what it would take for us to get over our destructive tendencies. So, no one in the book is without flaws. Still, there are strong leads (and arguably villains) of both sexes, and it's both sci-fi and post-apocalyptic from an author who has mostly written fantasy. It operates on something like a 2500 year timescale, but has at least three sets of main characters throughout, each experiencing that span in different ways.