Ask HN: Please recommend sci-fi books similar to "children of time" or "anathem"

6 points by rishabhpoddar 26d ago ↗ HN

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db48x 26d ago ↗

A Deepness in the Sky, by Vernor Vinge

Dune, by Frank Herbert

Diaspora, by Greg Egan

The Clockwork Rocket, by Greg Egan

The Book of the New Sun, by Gene Wolfe

Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir

rishabhpoddar 24d ago ↗

thanks!

db48x 22d ago ↗

You’re welcome.

satvikpendem 26d ago ↗

Remembrance of Earth's Past, often called by its initial work's name, The Three-Body Problem.

rishabhpoddar 24d ago ↗

oh yea! three body problem is awesome! But it already has a TV show for it which i had watched

satvikpendem 22d ago ↗

This is a terrible way to assess books honestly, usually because adaptations are usually garbage compared to the actual books simply due to time constraints.

jr_isidore 24d ago ↗

Children of Time is nothing like Anathem, but both are so, so bad. CoT was good for about a hundred pages, and then I just got sick of spiders berating each other. Quit around the midpoint.

db48x 22d ago ↗

Anathem is excellent; why do you call it “so, so bad”?