I just finished Blindsight by Peter Watts, and I really enjoyed it. It has a lot of cool worldbuilding in the background, even though the main plot centers on a small crew on a spaceship. If you're into the more small scale hard scifi of a crew dealing with alien circumstances, you should give it a go.
On the less hard scifi and more space opera side of things I recommend both the Foundation series by Asimov for a large scale story about the rise and fall of space empires, and Ancillary Justice (and its sequels) by Ann Leckie for a smaller scale story about AI and revenge. That one also has incredibly strong world building.
I had a three day existential crisis after reading Blindsight and I reccomend following it up with David Graeber's What's the Point if we Cant' Have Fun? as a palate cleanser so you don't blackpill.
https://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm - Blindsight is a quick read and it's available in it's entirety here.
CW: sexual violence, cannibalism, cosmic horror, cosmic horror, and cosmic horror.
Everyone is telling me to read Blindsight but having a vampire as the captain of a starship sounds really dumb. Maybe I just don't like mixing fantasy and sci-fi, maybe I need to get over it and read the damn book.
I just finished Blindsight by Peter Watts, and I really enjoyed it. It has a lot of cool worldbuilding in the background, even though the main plot centers on a small crew on a spaceship. If you're into the more small scale hard scifi of a crew dealing with alien circumstances, you should give it a go.
On the less hard scifi and more space opera side of things I recommend both the Foundation series by Asimov for a large scale story about the rise and fall of space empires, and Ancillary Justice (and its sequels) by Ann Leckie for a smaller scale story about AI and revenge. That one also has incredibly strong world building.
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I had a three day existential crisis after reading Blindsight and I reccomend following it up with David Graeber's What's the Point if we Cant' Have Fun? as a palate cleanser so you don't blackpill.
https://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm - Blindsight is a quick read and it's available in it's entirety here.
CW: sexual violence, cannibalism, cosmic horror, cosmic horror, and cosmic horror.
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Everyone is telling me to read Blindsight but having a vampire as the captain of a starship sounds really dumb. Maybe I just don't like mixing fantasy and sci-fi, maybe I need to get over it and read the damn book.