What makes The Murderbot Diaries so engaging is the voice of the narrator, which is sarcastic, introspective, and surprisingly relatable. The best sci-fi books of the decade offer a mix of thought-provoking ideas, engaging narratives, and well-developed characters.
Asimov’s fabulous Robot novels “Caves of Steel”, etc. Rather, this is just a list of of · relatively RECENT reading over the past year or two. But that said… oh my lord… ... My #1 recent find was David Weber’s “Honor Harrington” series.
Enjoyable novel with rotating black holes, event horizons, and "black · hole guilt". (Has a series of sequels where the science gets too "far out" for inclusion on this list.) Reynolds, Alastair Revelation Space. 2000, Ace. In this complex, film-noir style novel, ancient alien races
818) place it firmly within the tradition of anti-science fiction, and The Last · an (1826), a fatalistic disaster story, is equally antithetical to the philoso- hy of progress. Neither work made its influence felt immediately, but both · came formative templates heading powerful traditions of imaginative fic- on. The Frankenstein formula of an unruly and unfortunate artefact bring- g about the downfall of its creator became established in the last decade...