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June Book Club Read - Nature - The Word For World Is Forest by Ursula K. LeGuin - Announcement

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/r/PrintSF will be going private June 12-14 to protest the changes to Reddit's API which are likely to kill off 3rd-party apps and helpful bots.

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Posted by6 hours ago

Stories about exploring a new planet, early stage as in not terraforming but first exploration

There's of course 'The Martian'. Not as advanced stage as Mars Trilogy. I am looking for something like a small group of scientists/ solo explorer.

But what else ? Something that explore more exotic planets. There was a short story I once read of an expedition in Europa.

I like stories which have themes like these - survival, research work, trouble shooting, geology / biochemistry of new planets etc. Sciency stuff !

Thanks in advance

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Posted by8 hours ago

Finished reading Cixin Liu's The Dark Forest. About to start Death's End. What am I in for?

I really liked the first novel, The Three Body Problem, and gave it a 4/5, but The Dark Forest was a straight up 5/5. Can't wait to start Death's End. Am I in for just as good of a read as TDF, or something slower and along the lines of the first book? Will my head be blown?!

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What ( if any) realistic yet hopeful speculative fiction is there?

What if any realistic yet hopeful speculative fiction is there (or is my question an oxymoron?)?

I am tired of the dystopian genre and our cynical, disintegrating culture and want to read some quality speculative fiction that helps me feel hopeful about humanity and our possibly viable future.

Granted, it's difficult enough to write about the process of creating a utopian society, but it's even more difficult to envision how we might realistically get from here to.........a better world with policies that help renegerate the planet. ....and people who care about each other and humanity as a whole.

And is it too much to ask for three-dimensional characters too, who are learning how to relate humanely and communicate sensitively?

We probably would need some highly evolved alien to help us, at which point, we are probably far from realism.....but maybe still in the realm of possibility.

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Posted by16 hours ago

Are any of the seemingly random things that happen in The Forge of God explained in the sequel?

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Posted by59 minutes ago

How would you rank Neal Asher's Polity books?

Kind of surprised when I searched this I didn't get any results here, especially when people love ranking stuff like Banks's Culture series. I'm a sucker for rankings, and I have only just started this universe, yet surprisingly - surprising because I don't read much sci-fi nowadays and I dislike a lot of books in general - I really loved The Skinner (enough to reread it - it just has such an incredible setting, characters, intertwining plots, aliens, everything that makes sci-fi cool) and am loving Dark Intelligence. I'd love to hear which of the books people personally rate most highly, and hopefully I'll use some opinions to get an idea of what order to read (so far I'm thinking I'll read the whole Transformation trilogy if Dark Intelligence is great, and then probably go back to Spatterjay and finish the next two, then I'm not sure, maybe the Jane trilogy because it sounds wild).

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**A place to discuss published speculative fiction**—novels, short stories, comics, and more. Not sure if a book counts? Then post it! Science Fiction, Fantasy, Alt. History, Postmodern Lit., and more are all welcome here. **The key is that it be speculative, not that it fit some arbitrary genre guidelines**. Any sort of link or text post is welcome as long as it is about printed / text / static SF material.

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