Beginner's Guide to Sci Fi || Book Recommendations 2020

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Need Help. I read a sci-fi book about a way station with llama-like mother and 'son' who run an inn. there was sloth-like alien in a mechanical suit and several other folks who get stranded on the surface when satellites start crashing into each other and crashing onto the surface. Please tell the Title or Author, I can't remember.
ps the name of author might have been Clegg.

U r very cute.

The premise of that last book sounds a lot like The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue🤔 wonder how similar it is though…

We need more sci fi recommendations please

I love Six Wakes! I thought it was a unique story with some nice twists and turns. Great book and an excellent recommendation.

Jurassic Park was definitely a good read. Lex was an idiot and should have been sacrificed to the T-Rex for the betterment of everyone else involved.

G.S. Jennsen - Aurora Rhapsody - 9 book series. Awesome!

The trouble with so many of these books is that they are NOT unique. The old "waking up in a new body / place / time" has become a cottage industry on par with pandemics causing zombies, fleeing Earth due to climate change or teens saving the world from aliens millions of years more advanced.

Science fiction (not fantasy, horror, etc) offers flights of the imagination but is being harmed by several trends. Sequelama - the practice of adding more and more follow-ups - has taken over. Self-publishing allows works from folks who say irregardless, mix "further" and "farther" and misspell "Medieval". (I recall one - 4.5 stars - a zombie apocalypse in the South where every sentence was a paragraph (!), folks talked like Aunt Jemima and fighting zombies involved Bible studies for everyone, "even Jews".

Obsidian by Jennifer l Armentrout
Alienated by Melissa
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Both series are my favorite

Thank you for the Six Wakes recommendation! My daughter and I listened on audible on our trip home and could NOT stop listening ❤️

I didn't really like they both die at the end.

Ha can you please recommend some science fiction books that makes the reader fall in love with the book

I love vengeful and vicious 😍🤗

It’s so weird to me when ppl liked more than this by Patrick ness. That, red white and royal blue and Grasshopper Jungle are the only books i actually hate, truly hate. Like with a Passion

Emily, the following quote is from a science fiction or fantasy book that I read over two decades ago, but I neglected to write down the author and book title. Now I can’t find the quote anywhere. Please post below if you know the source. Thanks!   “Ultimately, there is no difference between fantasy and reality, so what is written becomes reality, somewhere, in some universe.”

Oh Emily... as if my tbr wasn’t ridiculously huge!!

I would also recommend Illuminae for sci-fi beginners.

I picked up and read More Than This by Patrick Ness just by fluke, I knew nothing about it but ended up loving it!

For a historical fiction/scifi book that reads like literary fiction, Midnight at the Electric by Jodi Lynn Anderson is a great book.

Emilyyyy pls recommend me ur favorite books about witches! Its urgent!

Please please please make a video similar with classic books??

I read Six Wakes and adored it. I keep looking for something else like it because I loved it so much.

God I hated they both die at the end. It was trying to be profound, but it was just lame.

There is one which I have read and loved and later found out it is sci-fi. The novel is called Never Let Me Go written by Kazuo Ishiguro (the name is Japanese but he is Brit Lit) There is a film too but I'm not that fond of it. The novel though is great.

I LOVED Six Wakes. Such a great closed circle murder mystery. She also has some fun urban fantasy books (The Shambling Guides series).

Hey Emily what was that book that you said you wanted to read a few months ago about a woman that suddenly wakes up and her world has changed, she lives in another place, she has another husband and family and nobody seems to remember her old life only her I really want to read it but I don’t remember the title😭😭

Snow globe Emily has her birthday 🎂 hat on cute! And happy early birthday as well, ooh I have they both die in the end.

Jurassic Park!!! 🦖🦕❤️ It's so amazing, one of my top favorite books ever

I love how you post SciFi recommendations! I don't see many of these on BookTube, and it's so helpful for me as I try to get into the genre!

Some of the best scenes in the book Jurassic Park aren’t even in the movie.

I LOVE Crichton! My favourite is Sphere, closely followed by Jurassic Park. I'm about to start Pirate Latitudes by him

I really enjoy ve / victoria schwab books a lot 🌺 six wakes sounds really good! Thank you Emily for keeping on posting 💜 I didn’t like life after life that much 😞

For people who like literary fiction, I'd recommend This Is How You Lose the Time War. It has beautiful prose and a heart wrench love-story at the center. It's also quite short. It for sure made me practice my English, because English is not my native language .

Me too i finally decided to read Jurrasic Park and Lost World last summer and was shocked, but pleasantly so, at how different books and films are. Another good book from the author is Sphere

69th! Nice. (Better than 1st imo)
This was great, Emily! For a beginner's list I was pleasantly surprised to see that most of them were ones I wouldn't have thought of, so good work. Yay/damn you for bigger TBR!

I actually really didn’t like Jurassic park because it was so repetitive. Like once we got to all the action and climax( it was quite early) I felt like it just kept being the same after that. I would recommend recursion because even though it’s more science heavy, I know loads of people who don’t read sci fi who has loved it (dark matter inc) bit also “Minecraft: the island” it’s about this person who is all of a sudden dropped into the world of Minecraft. It’s so simple, but also just an interesting story because we don’t know anything about this person before this and neither do they. They are also the only person in the whole book. Which is so rare, I’ve nerver heard of that before . Thanks Emily!

Six wakes sounds verryy interesting 😏

Emily has a birthday hat. Is she an aries? ♈️

I just downloaded the audio book for life after life. I can’t wait to listen to it. Thanks for the recommendations!

You should do a beginners guide to Fantasy!

A 3rd Villains book was announced?? WHEN? WHERE?

Too many books on my TBR >.< Stop adding more! (But also, thanks for the recs).
I'm pretty sure An Absolutely Remarkable Thing can be classified as new adult sci-fi. I can't wait for new adult to become a more recognized genre/age group so it can be easier to find books in that "between YA and adult" zone.

Please tell me what lipstick that is!! A colour I have been searching for! Haha 😆

Thanks for the recommendations The sudden Appearance of Hope was my favourite book of ( I think) 2014 One of my recommendations would be ..er..2001 : A Space Odyssey. It genuinely was or still is one of my favourite sf books . I even went to the length of learning chapter 40 off by heart like a poem : The StarGate opened The Stargate closed . In a moment of time too short to be measured .....etc

Wow! Literally ALL of these have been on my TBR for a few years now besides Jurassic Park and vicious (which I’ve read) and the sudden appearance of hope which I just added to my TBR! What a great video! Makes me really wanna read some sci fi now!