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  • @christinefisher506
    @christinefisher506 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I’m currently reading Adrian tchaikovskys architect series and it’s surprisingly engaging. Really enjoyed book one and just started 2. Love your videos btw.

    • @SciFiScavenger
      @SciFiScavenger  4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Hi Christine, fab, glad you're enjoying the videos, great to hear. I read that Architects trilogy last year, i found it tailed off a bit by book 3 but there was still lots to like. thanks for watching 👀!

  • @ericholt7099
    @ericholt7099 5 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    My plan is to try to read the Xeelee Sequence, Revelation Space series, and The Polity books next year. Probably with singleton novels and short story collections in between each series. I've tried parallel reading but prefer to stay in-universe until I finish a series.

    • @SciFiScavenger
      @SciFiScavenger  5 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Nice, I almost included Asher in my loose plans but I have soooo many of them! I didn't think to include the revelation space books, those would have been in the re-read section. We can compare notes on the Xeelee books. Cheers Eric thanks for watching 👀!

  • @User_Un_Friendly
    @User_Un_Friendly 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I'm thinking of finally tackling the Galactic Center saga by Benford. Reread some Heinleins to get in shape, then just go for it, after a reread of some fantasy books...(seasoning, you understand. 😋😋)
    Plus, I need to catch up on some books that have caught my interest...not necessarily SF, but I've got a backlog of fantasy to read too.🙄🙄😉
    For your rereading, I'm going to remind you of how keen you were when I mentioned I just finished rereading the Belgariad. 🐶😛 I'm going to recommend that. 😉

    • @SciFiScavenger
      @SciFiScavenger  4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      i'm still missing one of the belgariad books! thanks for watching 👀!

  • @Deosis
    @Deosis 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Helliconia is on my TBR, though I'm not sure I'll get to it next year.
    I definitely want to start the Expanse series I got this year and also read the Earthsea series by LeGuin. And a bunch of standalones in between.
    Also I'm going to re-read God Emperor of Dune. It's been a while since I've read it.

    • @SciFiScavenger
      @SciFiScavenger  2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      The Expanse is great fun, tho Helloconia is better written I'd say. Thanks for watching 👀!

  • @Montie-Adkins
    @Montie-Adkins 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I have ordered the 6 Emortality books by Stableford. I intend to read them next.

    • @SciFiScavenger
      @SciFiScavenger  4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      oh great you can let me know how they are before I plough on and get the other 3 or 4 I'm missing! cheers Montie, thanks for watching 👀!

  • @DaBIONICLEFan
    @DaBIONICLEFan 5 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    So that's what you’ll read in 1 month, what about the rest of the year? 😆
    I must confess I'm not really one for series, at least in SF, but one I do plan to read through next year is Gibson's Sprawl trilogy. I have them all now (including Burning Chrome) and plus it gives me a reason to read Neuromancer again, which is a masterpiece.

    • @SciFiScavenger
      @SciFiScavenger  5 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Actually I've already read them all, work of moments! I doubt I'll get to all of the books I mention, but whatever I get to, they'll be spread out a bit across the year. Thanks for watching!

    • @morrisjensen1959
      @morrisjensen1959 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Just checked, I have the three in audiobook - and Burning Crome, is there a connection? MJ

    • @DaBIONICLEFan
      @DaBIONICLEFan 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@morrisjensen1959 some of the stories in Burning Chrome are set in the Sprawl universe and feature share some characters with each other; Molly from Neuromancer appears in the short story 'Johnny Mnemonic'

    • @User_Un_Friendly
      @User_Un_Friendly 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I'm thinking of doing that too.😉

  • @SlowDazzle11
    @SlowDazzle11 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Off the top of my head, projected series for next year: the Revelation Space series- only read his stand-alones; the Annihilation trilogy; Helliconia; possibly the Culture, though that might be too much; the Three Body Problem trilogy, if I like the first book!

    • @SciFiScavenger
      @SciFiScavenger  4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      i ought to have included revelation space in the re-read section as i have recently re-read the first one. oh well, maybe i'll get to it anyway as an extra during the year. cheers David, thanks for watching 👀!

  • @mikejcross
    @mikejcross 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    That's an ambitious list :)
    Cherryh: I wouldn't recommend starting the Alliance/Union books with Downbelow Station, even though it won a Hugo. I read her books as they came out in DAW mmpb, DS was the 12th one. I'd loved almost the preceding ones, but found DS rather slow, & dull - things I would say about v few of her books. The A/U books do jump all over the timeline, but there are short sub-series that need to be read in order. I would suggest starting with some of the definitely standalone, and shorter books: Cuckoo's Egg, Serpent's Reach, Merchanter's Luck, Rimrunners.
    Her Foreigner series is a bit longer than 9, it's now up to #21!
    For a shorter series of hers, I would v strongly recommend the 5-book Chanur series, which starts with The Pride of Chanur; it's set in a part of the universe with lots of alien species but humans are unknown... until a single slightly battered & confused specimen turns up.

    • @SciFiScavenger
      @SciFiScavenger  4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      thanks for the CJ Cherryh intel, i shall do some further research, although my actual reading will be constrained by the book i have on my shelves, and most of those you mention are not. yet.
      thanks for watching 👀!

  • @alanpinks
    @alanpinks 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I have just this evening finished Halfway Human, the first of Carolyn Ives Gliman's Twenty Planets books. I went into it totally blind and not expecting much, but it's really quite excellent and I recommend it highly. I'm not sure how much the Twenty Planets count as a series by your definition, mind. Two of the four books are, putting it generously, novellas, and I believe that the four are connected by setting rather than plot. I have the other three, so I expect I'll read them over the course of next year.
    Some other series I hope to continue:
    Le Guin's Hainish books, once I get around to buying City of Illusions.
    Helliconia, where I've just got Winter to go.
    I re-read Hyperion earlier this year and it's as good as I remembered, so I'll probably get onto The Fall... and then see if I can be bothered with the other two.
    There may also be others that don't start with H, and I've got a load of books in series that I haven't started yet: Benford's Galactic Centre; Wolfe's Book of the New Sun; Scalzi's Old Man's War; Niven's Ringworld; Reynolds's Revelation Space (although I have actually read Revelation Space about 20 years ago, but I remember almost nothing about it).
    I can never keep track of these things with all the booktubers I watch, but have you read Chris Beckett's Dark Eden trilogy? If not, you really, really should. Spectacularly good "proper" SF.

    • @SciFiScavenger
      @SciFiScavenger  3 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Good to hear about 20 planets, I shall look that up, sounds interesting. And yes, have read the Eden trilogy, earlier this year in fact, loved it, among my favorite reads this year (see tomorrow's top.15 video!). Thanks for watching 👀!

  • @morrisjensen1959
    @morrisjensen1959 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Another great list, and some good recommendations in the comments, so thanks to everyone.
    Would it be possible to have the books, even just one if its's series, placed on a stand as you chat. Stephen, over at Outlaw Book Seller does this and it's really useful to give us old buggers time to jot down the names and tiles.
    I'll look through my audiobook list and post my favourites series soon. Off to watch your Tolkien's Heir? Lord Valentine's Castle by Robert Silverberg video - looking forward to it.

    • @SciFiScavenger
      @SciFiScavenger  5 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Hi Morris, I don't have a stand, unfortunately. I do usually list out all the books mentioned in the video in the description for reference. thanks for watching 👀!

  • @kid5Media
    @kid5Media 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Quantum Thief is great fun.

    • @SciFiScavenger
      @SciFiScavenger  4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      good to hear, thanks for watching 👀!

  • @TuftyMcTavish
    @TuftyMcTavish 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    🦆 Laughing along at the bird tangent halfway through! 😆
    I think that I’ve tried Cherryh’s “Downbelow Station” a few times, but I cannot recall ever finishing it 🤷‍♂️ It sounds excellent, I now have quite a few in the series - Downbelow Station, Alliance Space, Tripoint and Finity’s End, all of which I acquired spread over a time span from 2004 to 2018 according to my records - but I only seem to have read “Tripoint” and can remember nothing at all.
    I also remember those early Baxters as being quite challenging reads when I had far fewer orbits of the sun to my name. But golly gosh I adored “Ring” in particular.

    • @SciFiScavenger
      @SciFiScavenger  5 วันที่ผ่านมา

      quack to you too! 🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆
      thanks for watching 👀!

  • @callmeal4183
    @callmeal4183 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I've read and thoroughly enjoyed Tom Tomer's books. I understand that he planned to write more.

    • @SciFiScavenger
      @SciFiScavenger  4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      oh that's good to hear, I'm really looking forward to those. thanks for watching 👀!

  • @garymoraco3184
    @garymoraco3184 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I often watch this and other TH-cam programs. ? Do the thumbs up count on the TV?

    • @SciFiScavenger
      @SciFiScavenger  4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      i believe so, yes! thanks for watching 👀!

  • @sambell2743
    @sambell2743 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I really enjoyed the Noumenon series, even buying a copy of the first book for a friend. I will say though that the first two books are more engaging than the third book imo.

    • @SciFiScavenger
      @SciFiScavenger  4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Hi Sam, oh that's good, although I am hearing mixed reports. If time allows it'll get a read next year, at least book 1. thanks for watching 👀!

  • @mikejcross
    @mikejcross 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Bujold: Barrayar is much better than Shards of Hono(u)r. If you've sat at home while your other half goes shopping, wondering what they might bring back, there's a scene in Barrayar which will blow your socks off :)

    • @SciFiScavenger
      @SciFiScavenger  4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Ha OK, I shall look out for that! Glad to hear Barrayar is a step up from SoH. Cheers Mike, thanks for watching 👀!

  • @MarkCheverton
    @MarkCheverton 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Downbelow station is definitely the right place to start - awesome novel. Hannu is also a genius, I'd compare him with M John Harrison - difficult reading but I feel Hannu does it much better - wish he'd write more. I didn't get on with noumenon - sacked it off after the first. On my series list is a mix of new and reread including Gary Gibson if I can haul stealing light (have the second two), helliconia, Eden trilogy, suneater, uplift, children of time, 3 body problem. Probably way too optimistic.

    • @SciFiScavenger
      @SciFiScavenger  5 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I've only read one M John Harrison (Centauri Device) which I found very fussy to read, which doesn't bode well for young master Hannu. Some good reading ahead of you there Mark. thanks for watching 👀!

  • @inocanandrei6950
    @inocanandrei6950 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Wonderful series. You are right The Red Saga books get better. You will continue the re-read The Revelation Space ? And one more question What do you think of Brian Herbert's books in the Dune universe ?

    • @SciFiScavenger
      @SciFiScavenger  5 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      I had forgotten about Revelation Space, I may well get to one or two of those. I have read the Brian Herbert Dune books, they are just OK, no more than that. Cheers Andrei, thanks for watching 👀!

    • @inocanandrei6950
      @inocanandrei6950 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @SciFiScavenger Thanks for our answer and your opinion about the Dune books. I think I want to read them.

    • @User_Un_Friendly
      @User_Un_Friendly 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@inocanandrei6950 I agree with Jon's assessment. And if you're planning on reading the Destination Void series, avoid the last book. What a mess. 🙄🙄😵😵

  • @kufujitsu
    @kufujitsu 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I'm reading The Wraeththu Trilogy by a relatively forgotten writer named Storm Contantine. Exotic name, & her books read like that. Descriptive slow burn, great stuff.

    • @SciFiScavenger
      @SciFiScavenger  5 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ooh haven't heard of that, sounds interesting. thanks for watching 👀!

    • @DonnaAbbati
      @DonnaAbbati 5 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Read those books years ago. Enjoyed them.

    • @kufujitsu
      @kufujitsu 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @DonnaAbbati I've read another of her's - Burying the Shadow. Beautifully written and evocative as I've come to expect from her. I may read her entire list.....

    • @DonnaAbbati
      @DonnaAbbati 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Yes. All very well written. I haven't read anything else of hers. May have to check other books out.

  • @BobbyHall-eu1xv
    @BobbyHall-eu1xv 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    A Requiem For Homosapiens Cycle by David ZIndell, first book is Neverness.

    • @SciFiScavenger
      @SciFiScavenger  5 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Thank you, I think I have Neverness on my shelves somewhere. Cheers Bobby, thanks for watching 👀!

    • @MrLazyPhD
      @MrLazyPhD 5 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      I read Neverness recently, it's definitely a fun and somewhat strange read

  • @Scottlp2
    @Scottlp2 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Think it is time to re-read Simmons Endymion (all 4 volumes)

    • @SciFiScavenger
      @SciFiScavenger  3 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Ooh good shout, been a long time since I read that. So many books, so little time! Thanks for watching 👀!

  • @psikeyhackr6914
    @psikeyhackr6914 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Barrayar is better than Shards of Honor and Warrior's Apprentice.
    The Merchant Princes series by Charles Stross
    Gibraltar Earth trilogy by Michael McCollum
    Pillars of Reality by Jack Campbell.

    • @SciFiScavenger
      @SciFiScavenger  4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I very nearly put Merchant's Princes on the re-read pile but was already surrounded by piles of books at that point. I really love that series and may well still give it another go next year. Noted on the others, thanks for watching 👀!

    • @psikeyhackr6914
      @psikeyhackr6914 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @SciFiScavenger
      Have you considered seeing a psychiatrist?

    • @SciFiScavenger
      @SciFiScavenger  4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@psikeyhackr6914 eh?

    • @psikeyhackr6914
      @psikeyhackr6914 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@SciFiScavenger
      This huge obsession with vast quantities of science fiction books must be an OCD. 😆