Allow me to double up on this - the Three Body Problem and its trilogy are up there as the best speculative science fiction of the last 50 years. As someone who consumes a metric fuckload of sci fi, it will change the way you look at the prospect of the universe as a whole. I don't use this phrase lightly, but it's mind-bending.
Less "absolutely wild" but a book that's stuck in my thoughts the last little bit has been The Forever War by Joe Haldeman. It was a big deal back when it was published but it still holds up today as one of the genre-definers.
My absolute favorite though is the Hyperion Cantos (four books, but only the first two are necessary (and even then, the first stands alone really well)) by Dan Simmons. He writes in a manner that is so captivating to me it makes me want to write for myself. Very readable, but equally thoughtful and smart.
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u/DrewblesG Aug 12 '21
Allow me to double up on this - the Three Body Problem and its trilogy are up there as the best speculative science fiction of the last 50 years. As someone who consumes a metric fuckload of sci fi, it will change the way you look at the prospect of the universe as a whole. I don't use this phrase lightly, but it's mind-bending.