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What's a book you really enjoyed, that you feel like no one else on lemmy has read? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I read some free kindle books back in the day, that probably only a few thousand other people have read, so very plausibly no one on Lemmy has ready.

So, what books have you enjoyed that you feel confident no one else on Lemmy has read?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I have never met anyone who has read Alastair Reynolds’ Revelation Space series. It’s one of my favourite sci-fi’s and I can’t even get someone I know to read it, everyone thinks it’s boring :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Great series, love all his works. He also wrote the Zuma blue episode for Netflix's love death and robots

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

A friend gave me that and name of the wind for my birthday 10+ years ago. Loved name of the wind but never picked up the Alastair Reynolds book.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Got an elevator pitch for us?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Post and trans humanism, far future, long time scales, democratic experiments, aliens, old aliens, new aliens, robots, organic tech, living tech, harmless aliens. It kinda has everything. Space opera with some urban fantasy elements, but rather dark and not light-hearted. No FTL travel (at first, can't remember if there was some at the end), which makes for interesting timescales.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I've read Revelation Space and Chasm City.
I'm sorry, but they are a massive struggle.