I know I’ve asked y’all for a lot of recommendations and I have a mountain of books to get through in my room as well as a stack of like 30 books in my hallway to get through immediately (currently reading Revelation from Star Wars legends series).
As a fan of sci-fi and murder mystery/cop drama has anyone ever read a book that combines the two? I read A Scanner Darkly last year which is set in the future but any cop stories or detective stories that take place in a space colony or far future as well? Thanks.
I've got quite a few books. Almost entirely Fiction.
Space Opera Sci-Fi and Comedic Fantasy.
Number of books: 216 (In no particular order):
Barry Sadler
Casca 1: The Eternal Mercenary (1979)
Casca 2: God of Death (1979)
Casca 3: The War Lord (1980)
Casca 4: Panzer Soldier (1980)
Casca 5: The Barbarian(1981)
Casca 6: The Persian (1982)
Casca 7: The Damned (1982)
Casca 8: Soldier of Fortune (1983)
Casca 9: The Sentinel (1983)
Casca 10: The Conquistador (1984)
Casca 11: The Legionnaire (1984)
Casca 12: African Mercenary (1984)
Casca 13: The Assassin (1985)
Tony Ballantyne
Recursion Trilogy
Recursion, Macmillan, 2004
Capacity, Macmillan, 2005
Divergence, Macmillan, 2007
Julie E. Czerneda
Web Shifters
Beholder's Eye (1998)
Changing Vision (2000)
Hidden in Sight (2003)
Robert A. Heinlein
Citizen of the Galaxy (1957)
Douglas Adams
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979)
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980)
Life, the Universe and Everything (1982)
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (1984)
Mostly Harmless (1992)
Eoin Colfer
And Another Thing... (2009)
H. P. Lovecraft
Necronomicon (2008)
Ursula K. Le Guin
Earthsea Quartet (1993)
Gayle Greeno
Ghatti's Tale
Finders Seekers (1993)
MindSpeaker's Call (1994)
Exiles' Return (1995)
S. L. Viehl
Stardoc
Stardoc (ROC, 2000)
Beyond Varallan (ROC, 2000)
Endurance (ROC, 2001)
Shockball (ROC, 2001)
Eternity Row (ROC, 2002)
Rebel Ice (ROC, 2006)
Plague of Memory (ROC, 2007)
Omega Games (ROC, 2008)
Crystal Healer (ROC, 2009)
Blade Dancer (ROC, 2003)
Bio Rescue (ROC, 2004)
Afterburn (ROC, 2005)
Toby Frost
Space Captain Smith (2008)
Howard L. Myers
A Sense of Infinity (2009)
Frederik Pohl
Heechee
Gateway (1977)
Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (1980)
Heechee Rendezvous (1984)
Robert Reed
Marrow
Marrow (2000)
The Well of Stars (2004)
Down the Bright Way (1991)
Sister Alice (2003)
Charles E. Gannon
Fire with Fire (2013)
David Weber
A Beautiful Friendship (October 2011)
Fire Season with Jane Lindskold (October 2012)
Treecat Wars with Jane Lindskold (October 1, 2013)
Dani Kollin & Eytan Kollin
The Unincorporated Man (2009)
The Unincorporated War (2010)
The Unincorporated Woman (2011)
The Unincorporated Future (2012)
H. Beam Piper
Little Fuzzy (1962)
Stephen Baxter
The Long Earth (2012)
The Medusa Chronicles (2016)
Elizabeth Moon
Familias Regnant universe
Heris Serrano trilogy
Hunting Party (July 1993)
Sporting Chance (September 1994)
Winning Colors (August 1995)
The Serrano Legacy: Omnibus One (December 2006)
Esmay Suiza continuation
Once a Hero (March 1997)
Rules of Engagement (December 1998)
The Serrano Connection: Omnibus Two (September 2007)
Suiza and Serrano
Change of Command (December 1999)
Against the Odds (December 2000)
The Serrano Succession: Omnibus Three (February 2008)
Vatta's War
Trading in Danger (October 2003)
Marque and Reprisal (October 2004)
Engaging the Enemy (March 2006)
Command Decision (February 2007)
Victory Conditions ( February 2008)
George R. R. Martin
Tuf Voyaging (1986)
Jamie Sawyer
Lazarus War
Artefact (2015)
Peter F. Hamilton
The Night's Dawn Trilogy
The Reality Dysfunction (1996)
The Neutronium Alchemist (1997)
The Naked God (1999)
The Confederation Handbook (2000)
Commonwealth Saga
Misspent Youth (2002)
Pandora's Star (2004)
Judas Unchained (2005)
Void Trilogy
The Dreaming Void (2007)
The Temporal Void (2008)
The Evolutionary Void (2010)
The Chronicle of the Fallers
The Abyss Beyond Dreams (2014)
Night Without Stars (2016)
Fallen Dragon (2001)
Great North Road (2012)
A Second Chance at Eden (1998)
Manhattan In Reverse (2011)
Gary Gibson
The Shoal Sequence
Stealing Light (Tor, 2007)
Nova War (Tor, 2009)
Empire of Light (Tor, 2010)
Marauder (Tor, 2013)
Alastair Reynolds
Revelation Space
Revelation Space (Gollancz. 2000)
Chasm City (Gollancz, 2001)
Redemption Ark (Gollancz, 2002)
Absolution Gap (Gollancz, 2003)
Poseidon's Children
Blue Remembered Earth (Gollancz, 2012)
On the Steel Breeze (Gollancz, 2013)
Poseidon's Wake (Gollancz, 2015)
Century Rain (Gollancz, 2004)
Pushing Ice (Gollancz, 2005)
House of Suns (Gollancz, 2008)
Terminal World (Gollancz, 2010)
The Medusa Chronicles (with Stephen Baxter) (Gollancz, 2016)
Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days (Gollancz, 2003)
Zima Blue and Other Stories (2006)
Galactic North (Gollancz, 2006)
Beyond the Aquila Rift (Gollancz, 2016)
Michael Cobley
Humanity's Fire
Seeds Of Earth (2009)
The Orphaned Worlds (2010)
The Ascendant Stars (2011)
Ancestral Machines (2016)
Ben Jeapes
Phoenicia's Worlds (2013)
Terry A. Adams
The D'neeran Factor (2013)
Markus Heitz
The Dwarves
The Dwarves (2009)
The War of the Dwarves (2010)
The Revenge of the Dwarves (2011)
The Fate of the Dwarves (2012)
Robert Jordan
The Wheel of Time
New Spring (2004)
The Eye of the World (1990)
The Great Hunt (1990)
The Dragon Reborn (1991)
The Shadow Rising (1992)
The Fires of Heaven (1993)
Lord of Chaos (1994)
A Crown of Swords (1996)
The Path of Daggers (1998)
Winter's Heart (2000)
Crossroads of Twilight (2003)
Knife of Dreams (2005)
The Gathering Storm (2009) coauthored by Brandon Sanderson
Towers of Midnight (2010) coauthored by Brandon Sanderson
A Memory of Light (2013) coauthored by Brandon Sanderson
Terry Pratchett
Discworld
The Colour of Magic
The Light Fantastic
Equal Rites
Mort
Sourcery
Wyrd Sisters
Pyramids
Guards! Guards!
Eric
Moving Pictures
Reaper Man
Witches Abroad
Small Gods
Lords and Ladies
Men at Arms
Soul Music
Interesting Times
Maskerade
Feet of Clay
Hogfather
Jingo
The Last Continent
Carpe Jugulum
The Fifth Elephant
The Truth
Thief of Time
The Last Hero
Night Watch
Monstrous Regiment
Going Postal
Thud!
Making Money
Unseen Academicals
Snuff
Raising Steam
The Wee Free Men
A Hat Full of Sky
Wintersmith
I Shall Wear Midnight
The Science of Discworld (1999)
The Science of Discworld II: The Globe (2002)
The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch (2005)
The Science of Discworld IV: Judgement Day (2013)
The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents
The Carpet People
The Dark Side of the Sun
Good Omens
Nation
A Blink of the Screen
The Long Earth
The Nome Trilogy
Truckers
Diggers
Wings
&
The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction (2007)
Reach for Infinity (2014)
I'd definitely recommend Alastair Reyonolds for Space Opera. As well as Micheal Cobley, Gary Gibson, and Peter F Hamilton. Throw in Robert Reed and Elizabeth Moon too. Oh, and Julie E Czerenada.
Thank you so much! I have some of those but I need to chip away at this list. Earthsea is like blend of sci fi and fantasy right?
Earthsea is probably the last I would recommend. Much too Fantasy, and vague magic Deus Ex Machina. Depends on what you like I guess.
Ok but I copied the list you gave me and downloaded it on my phone. I read the wheel of time series during Covid. From what I hear the show is garbage
I was interested in the show when it first announced. I shouldn't have been. It does look to be trash now, yeah. I won't even hate-watch it (I rarely do either).
I'd be wary of getting too into Earthsea. The original trilogy is pretty solid, though much of what made it good has been done better since it came out, but the author is an open feminist who wrote the later series as a direct soapbox for that as well as trying to "fix" her former sins by turning the world almost cartoonishly "men exist to hate women and oppress them."
Whoa, that's a list. What do you use to track/record, out of curiosity?
Nothing really, I just did this as a write-up for another forum. Comes in handy now and then ;)
Ah, gotcha. Thanks.