Thank you so much Rosamunde! This was such an enjoyable video! I once again learned so much! And added a couple more books to my already huge TBR pile!😀 hello to Tilly as always! She is as cute as ever!😍
Tilly is a little treasure. I love her little face. I love science fiction and had a period in my life where I read almost nothing else. HG wells, Isaac Asimov and Jules Verne were favourites. Just read Never let me go and loved it. Great video, thank you.
Oh, this was wonderful. You really got me excited about this genre. I have to read some of the books your recommended soon. 🙂 The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham is my all time favourite, and so is Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. I am also excited to read all of your books. They all sound wonderful... 🙂 Thank you so much and happy reading.
Dark River is a favorite river and reminds me of a Non-fiction I have I could consult in tandem with yours which sounds fascinating. I've not heard of Ben Elton' s, tho as the cover looks familiar, I must have seen it at bookstore. Little Brother Iust read too, heard so much good of it, set in my City. Thank you a bunch for another splendid video on a shut- in day. Yours are so uplifting.
I really enjoyed this, thank you. I love ❤️ teaching Sci-Fi. The discussion it can prompt is so fascinating and rewarding. I just finished 'The Giver' by Lois Lowry with my two Year 8 classes. It was wonderful 😁.
If someone had told me "Never Let Me Go" was science fiction I would never have read it. Same for "The Time Traveller's Wife". And yet, two of my favourite books.
Oh, you’ve got to read ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’. It is a can’t put the book down page turner. My big sister got me into reading Sci-Fi. I read all the classics while I was still a teeny-bopper. I know what grok means.😉
Great fun. One subgenre you didn't mention is military science fiction. Some classic examples are Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein, Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, and The Forever War by Joe Haldeman. I have the Haldeman and Heinlein books on my TBR, and I've read Ender's Game several times. I only mention it because it's quite a large subgenre.
Thank you for the expanded list of books and history review. I didn't think that science fiction started so early in time. One more recommendation from myself in the time travel category is Stephen Fry's "Making history" about time travel as a try to prevent Hitler's born 😅 A lot of humour as always with this author and predictable consequences of the protagonist's actions. 🖖🖖🖖
My first exposure to Ursula Le Guin was the children's book series Catwings, about some kittens who were born with wings, and flew away from the city to the safety of the country. Entirely captivating and highly recommended 😊. Also, Great North Road by Peter Hamilton is a good SF read. Thanks for your videos!
Finally, someone utters the name Mark Twain. You are the first booktuber I have heard mention him at all, which is perplexing and disappointing. A bit ironic that it was in the context of science fiction. I loved Connecticut Yankee ❤
I'm Jenny from Sourh Africa. Love SF & F. My favourite books change every now and again, but Ursula le Guin is always in the top 5. I would recommend N.K. Jemisin Broken Earth trilogy, Becky Chambers books and James SA Corey's Expanse series.
Awesome collection :) I was trying to work out if Gulliver's Travels would fit in there as an early Sci Fi? You might like a couple of books by Marge Piercy if you've not tried them - 'Woman on the Edge of Time' (similar premise to Left Hand of Darkness in some ways) and 'Body of Glass'. I also liked 'O-Zone' by Paul Theroux. Ex Machina film was based on book by Alex Garland. I am not sure what my favourite Sci Fi book is though... 🤔 good question. I too am a big fan of the Narnia books - I see from your website you have your original copy; I too have my original boxed set from 1976! Complete with the price sticker still on the back - £3.60...
Thank you! I did see Gulliver's Travels mentioned on an article about science fiction - in the context that it was one of those that one could argue for or against as science fiction! Thanks for the suggestions - and for the clarification over Ex Machina (loved the film!). Always love meeting other fans of Narnia too 🙂
@@booksfrommybookshelf I might watch that - I really didn't like 'The Beach' so I have not read or watched any other of their books - there seem to be only so many hours in a day somehow!! (also - I just got a delivery from WoB - Wildacre; The Walking Stick and this Rough Magic 😂😂... now who gave me those ideas??) 🐶x
You know what's weird? I haven't been able to find very many stories where modern and real historical people interact. It would be cool to have more novels where past people time travel here, or modern people write letters to the past (those letters magically time travel), or modern people go meet past people.
The book I'm currently writing is about a woman who travels to the past and meets some of her ancestors. Hope that fits your ideas! I also like the idea of the letters - and also people from the past visit our time, although I'm not sure people from over 200 years ago would be able to cope with our modern world!
@@booksfrommybookshelf Yeah. I've played with the idea of having past people visit our time. The only way that I can make it work is to have a government project where they meet time travelers (who they know are from the future government), who prep them as much as possible and keep their visit incognito to the public, purposeful, and structured. The past people would have to visit in teams so they'd have someone to debrief with afterwards. They'd have to be from at least the time of Benjamin Franklin so they'd have heard of electricity.
It's generally set in space, on a space ship, on a distant planet, or in the future in space on a spaceship or on a distant planet. It sometimes has robots or aliens. If it's really good it has sandworms.
Hallo Rosamund, lately I read "Divine Misfortune" by A. Lee Martinez. The story takes place in the near future. Its normal to people to hire Gods to have a better life, for example to get rich, to have more luck, or to climb the career ladder more quickly. Its a very funny read because to life with Gods is not simple and full of complications. Best wishes from Berlin Susanne
You can have Dystopia without an Apocalypse and vice versa. For example Nazi Germany and the brilliant tv series "Survivors"-Terry Nation. One was Dystopic without disaster and one was after a disaster-yet didn't have a central power that controlled everyone.
Disagree "Lord of the Flies" is sci-fi. It is a psychological study of human nature but totally belevable and realistic. I call that realism, not science fiction. Just my opinion though. If this is sci-fi you could say the same of The Secret History. Both in my faves list too. Really wasn't keen on Frankenstein.
Thank you so much Rosamunde! This was such an enjoyable video! I once again learned so much! And added a couple more books to my already huge TBR pile!😀 hello to Tilly as always! She is as cute as ever!😍
Tilly is a little treasure. I love her little face. I love science fiction and had a period in my life where I read almost nothing else. HG wells, Isaac Asimov and Jules Verne were favourites. Just read Never let me go and loved it. Great video, thank you.
Thanks a lot, Rosamunde. 💐 Carol
Thank you very much!
Oh, this was wonderful. You really got me excited about this genre. I have to read some of the books your recommended soon. 🙂 The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham is my all time favourite, and so is Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. I am also excited to read all of your books. They all sound wonderful... 🙂 Thank you so much and happy reading.
This was fun! 💜 and the pup is adorable.
Hooray for Outlander series!
Dark River is a favorite river and reminds me of a Non-fiction I have I could consult in tandem with yours which sounds fascinating. I've not heard of Ben Elton' s, tho as the cover looks familiar, I must have seen it at bookstore. Little Brother Iust read too, heard so much good of it, set in my City. Thank you a bunch for another splendid video on a shut- in day. Yours are so uplifting.
I really enjoyed this, thank you. I love ❤️ teaching Sci-Fi. The discussion it can prompt is so fascinating and rewarding. I just finished 'The Giver' by Lois Lowry with my two Year 8 classes. It was wonderful 😁.
If someone had told me "Never Let Me Go" was science fiction I would never have read it. Same for "The Time Traveller's Wife". And yet, two of my favourite books.
Oh, you’ve got to read ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’. It is a can’t put the book down page turner. My big sister got me into reading Sci-Fi. I read all the classics while I was still a teeny-bopper. I know what grok means.😉
Great fun. One subgenre you didn't mention is military science fiction. Some classic examples are Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein, Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, and The Forever War by Joe Haldeman. I have the Haldeman and Heinlein books on my TBR, and I've read Ender's Game several times. I only mention it because it's quite a large subgenre.
Thank you for this - you're right, this probably quite a large and popular sub-genre.
Thank you for the expanded list of books and history review. I didn't think that science fiction started so early in time. One more recommendation from myself in the time travel category is Stephen Fry's "Making history" about time travel as a try to prevent Hitler's born 😅 A lot of humour as always with this author and predictable consequences of the protagonist's actions.
🖖🖖🖖
Oh, I love Stephen Fry. That's definitely one I'd like to read!
My first exposure to Ursula Le Guin was the children's book series Catwings, about some kittens who were born with wings, and flew away from the city to the safety of the country. Entirely captivating and highly recommended 😊. Also, Great North Road by Peter Hamilton is a good SF read. Thanks for your videos!
I didn't know about that Le Guin! Thank you.
Catwings sounds wonderful!
Finally, someone utters the name Mark Twain. You are the first booktuber I have heard mention him at all, which is perplexing and disappointing. A bit ironic that it was in the context of science fiction.
I loved Connecticut Yankee ❤
I mentioned Tom Sawyer in another video recently too!
@booksfrommybookshelf I heard you do so after making my comment. I'm glad you have enjoyed some of his work, and I'm happy you mentioned him.
I'm Jenny from Sourh Africa. Love SF & F. My favourite books change every now and again, but Ursula le Guin is always in the top 5. I would recommend N.K. Jemisin Broken Earth trilogy, Becky Chambers books and James SA Corey's Expanse series.
Thank you!
Awesome collection :) I was trying to work out if Gulliver's Travels would fit in there as an early Sci Fi? You might like a couple of books by Marge Piercy if you've not tried them - 'Woman on the Edge of Time' (similar premise to Left Hand of Darkness in some ways) and 'Body of Glass'. I also liked 'O-Zone' by Paul Theroux. Ex Machina film was based on book by Alex Garland. I am not sure what my favourite Sci Fi book is though... 🤔 good question. I too am a big fan of the Narnia books - I see from your website you have your original copy; I too have my original boxed set from 1976! Complete with the price sticker still on the back - £3.60...
Thank you! I did see Gulliver's Travels mentioned on an article about science fiction - in the context that it was one of those that one could argue for or against as science fiction! Thanks for the suggestions - and for the clarification over Ex Machina (loved the film!). Always love meeting other fans of Narnia too 🙂
@@booksfrommybookshelf I might watch that - I really didn't like 'The Beach' so I have not read or watched any other of their books - there seem to be only so many hours in a day somehow!! (also - I just got a delivery from WoB - Wildacre; The Walking Stick and this Rough Magic 😂😂... now who gave me those ideas??) 🐶x
You know what's weird? I haven't been able to find very many stories where modern and real historical people interact. It would be cool to have more novels where past people time travel here, or modern people write letters to the past (those letters magically time travel), or modern people go meet past people.
The book I'm currently writing is about a woman who travels to the past and meets some of her ancestors. Hope that fits your ideas! I also like the idea of the letters - and also people from the past visit our time, although I'm not sure people from over 200 years ago would be able to cope with our modern world!
@@booksfrommybookshelf Yeah. I've played with the idea of having past people visit our time. The only way that I can make it work is to have a government project where they meet time travelers (who they know are from the future government), who prep them as much as possible and keep their visit incognito to the public, purposeful, and structured. The past people would have to visit in teams so they'd have someone to debrief with afterwards. They'd have to be from at least the time of Benjamin Franklin so they'd have heard of electricity.
@@booksfrommybookshelf I love your idea of a woman meeting her ancestors. I wish I could meet some of mine.
@@TimeTravelReads Sounds like an interesting idea!
Highly recommend Dark River, and in fact any of Rosamunde’s books peeps!📚📚📚
Very kind of you to post this - thank you!
It's generally set in space, on a space ship, on a distant planet, or in the future in space on a spaceship or on a distant planet. It sometimes has robots or aliens. If it's really good it has sandworms.
Not always - there's a large amount of science fiction not set in space. Sandworms are fun, though. 🙂
Hallo Rosamund, lately I read "Divine Misfortune" by A. Lee Martinez. The story takes place in the near future. Its normal to people to hire Gods to have a better life, for example to get rich, to have more luck, or to climb the career ladder more quickly. Its a very funny read because to life with Gods is not simple and full of complications. Best wishes from Berlin Susanne
That does sound like a fun read - thanks for the suggestion!
You can have Dystopia without an Apocalypse and vice versa. For example Nazi Germany and the brilliant tv series "Survivors"-Terry Nation. One was Dystopic without disaster and one was after a disaster-yet didn't have a central power that controlled everyone.
What about Kate Atkinson "Life After Life"? Possibly my favourite author up to a point. Last two or three disappointing.
I think I've heard of that, but haven't read it. I'll look out for it.
Disagree "Lord of the Flies" is sci-fi. It is a psychological study of human nature but totally belevable and realistic. I call that realism, not science fiction. Just my opinion though. If this is sci-fi you could say the same of The Secret History. Both in my faves list too. Really wasn't keen on Frankenstein.
I tend to agree with you about Lord of the Flies - hence my slight surprise when I saw it listed on a list of science fiction books!