What is your favorite type of sci-fi? For me since Ive always been interested in life in the universe/space exploration, anything regarding that. I love golden age sci-fi and reading what they thought we would do in space back in the 40s and 50s
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Whoof. That's a good question.
...I don't even know if there's a phrase or label to explain it, but the books that tend to really stand out to me - the one's I'm going back to time and time again in the realm of Science Fiction can best be described 'Exotic Hard Science Fiction'.
The one's that put in the effort to do the research and study to make things really exotic and out there yet completely based off of actual science. Stuff like 'Revelation Space' or 'Accelerando' or 'Blindsight'. Stuff with teeth, with actual goddamn cite notes and references.
Yeah, I know. I'm a little bit weird. For added bonus points, my personal opinion of the authors for the last two can basically be summed up as 'Pieces of shit who need to be punched in the throat', but hey, nothing's perfect.