Most of my favourite books/movies/TV shows are Sci fi - I love Mary Shelley, slaughterhouse five, annihilation (both the book and the movie), The Thing, x files, the invasion, and the OA. This feels like a pretty wide variety of writing styles when I line them up but 90% of the sci fi I read/watch I just don’t enjoy at all. It’s a shame because when I love something sci fi I feel like it’s changed my whole life, but when it comes to finding new things I can just enjoy its easier to go through other genres. Is anyone else like this? Does anyone have reccomendations based on what I do like?
I just purchased this. I’m excited to read it but it’s a few books down on the pile yet. I purchased the new translation from Bill Johnston.
Brace yourself for a good chunk of hard-SF. It’s slow paced, but there’s the feeling of unknown, a conviction that there’s a monster hiding in the dark, much like the Organism from the Thing.
Have fun.