Sci-Fi worth consuming

I asked on Twitter for recommendations as I want to get into reading Sci-Fi novels. The below is the result. Thanks everyone for recommending your favorites! :)

Personally I'm going to start with the first three.

• Foundation, Isaac Asimov
• Dune series, by Frank Herbert
• Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
• The Martian
• The Golden Age
• Oryx and Crake
• Glasshouse
• Spin
• Rendevous with Rama
• Cryptonomicon
• A Fire Upon the Deep
• Ready Player One
• The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. Le Guin. (Sci fi, sociology and philosophy)
• Culture, by Iain Banks
• Wetware, by Rudy Rucker
• Timestorm, by Gordon R. Dickson
• Childhoods
• End, by Arthur C Clarke
• Fahrenheit 451
• Brave New World
• 1984
• Old man's war
• Daemon series
• Neuromancer
• Sphere, by Crichton (my favorite novel. Movie was worse than terrible.)
• The Culture Novels, by Iain M Banks
• Night's Dawn Trilogy, by Peter Hamilton
• Ready Player One (one of the best I've ever read)
• Roadside Picnic (one of the best books I have ever read)
• Daemon Inc
• Freedom (sequal to Daemon Inc)
• Book of the Long Sun, by Gene Wolfe
• Book of the New Sun, by Gene Wolfe
• The Bone Clocks (If you liked Cloud Atlas this is a good read)
• Stranger in a strange land
• Battlefield Earth
• Starship Troopers
• Old Man's War, by John Scalzi (also has some nice follow ups)
• Enders Game, by Orson Scott Card
• A fire upon the deep, by Vernor vinge
• Childhood's End, by Arthur C. Clarke
• Hyperion
• Solaris
• House of Suns, by Alastair Reynolds
• Fallen Dragon, Peter F. Hamilton
• Almost anything by Greg Egan (His works are mind bending) (TODO: list his books)
• Anything by John Scalzi. (TODO: list his books)

More here

• Serenity (Firefly)

• Firefly
• Stargate SG1
• Stargate Atlantis
• Battlestar Galactica
• Star Trek (TODO: which ones?)
• Farscape

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