I think watching these early TV shows subliminally implanted my love for synthesizers & technology .
Dr Who = EMS VCS 3 & the BBC Radiophonic workshop.
Star Wars = Arp 2600
Close Encounters = ARP 2500
Blade Runner = Yamaha CS 80
..... the list goes on, and on.
So if you are into synths, I think there is also a high probability, that you have an interest in Sci-Fi
The genre is huge, so where does one find the best books?
I think the Hugo & the Nebula awards are great places to look.
The finalists for the 2020 Hugo Awards, Lodestar Award For Best Young Adult Book, and Astounding Award for Best New Writer were announced by CoNZealand, the 78th World Science Fiction Convention, on the convention’s YouTube Channel on April 8, 2020 (NZST).
The winner will be announced on the 1st August, 2020.
http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2020-hugo-awards/
The Hugo was first awarded in 1953 and is considered the premier award in Science Fiction.
They are chosen by members of Worldcon and the event is named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the science fiction magazine Amazing Stories.
Here is a list of the best novel category for the last decade (2019 to 2010).
I think if you only read just a few books per year, you can't go far wrong if you read any these titles.
I've also added a few of my personal favorites from the last decade (and before)
2019
The Calculating Stars
2018
The Stone Sky
2017
The Obelisk Gate
2014
Ancillary Justice
Ann Leckie (Orbit US/Orbit UK)
Nebula Award for Best Novel (2014)
BSFA Award for Best Novel (2013)
Arthur C. Clarke Award (2014)
Locus Award for Best First Novel (2014)
Ancillary Justice, Ancillary Mercy & Ancillary Sword review
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2013
Redshirts
John Scalzi
Awards Hugo Award for Best Novel (2013)
Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (2013)
ISBN 978-0-7653-1699-8
2012
Among Others, Jo Walton (Tor)
Originally published: 18 January 2011 (Hardcover)
This book also won the Nebula Award.
2011
Blackout/All Clear, Connie Willis (Ballantine Spectra)
This book also won the Nebula Award.
2010
This years awayd was held in Melbourne, Australia.
It was a tie between two books:
- The City & The City, China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan UK) (tie)
- The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade) (tie)
The City & The City, China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan UK)
It's a crime novel.
This was made into a TV series.
The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade)
This book also won the Nebula Award.
My personal favourites from this decade:
Among Others, Jo Walton
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
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More Personal Favourites:
The Left Hand of Darkness
It also won the Nebula
First published as an Ace paperback original (and later in hardcover) in 1969.
The Martian by Andy Weir
(Broadway Books, 2014)
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The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
(Sarah Monette)
(Tor Books, 1st April, 2014)
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Dune
Chilton Book Company
First Edition : blue cloth boards, the rear panel has a map.
The price on the jacket flap should be $5.95 and the rear flap should have the Chilton address across four lines.
Prior to its publication in book form, parts of Dune were published in Analog Magazine as a three part serial called Dune World in 1963-1964 and later as a five part serial called Prophet of Dune in 1965.
The Dune Universe is huge.
For more info:
+ Dune - The Chronological order of the novels
+ Dune Universe Timeline
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Foundation & I, Robot are classics that still influence us today
+ Foundation - Isaac Asimov's
+ I, Robot - Isaac Asimov - novels & Magazines
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NeuroMancer (1984)
First published: July1, 1984
Ancillary Sword (2014)
This is part two of the
Imperial Radch space opera trilogy.
Ancillary Justice, Ancillary Mercy & Ancillary Sword review
Ancillary Mercy (2015)
Ann Leckie (Orbit US/Orbit UK)
6 October 2015 (paperback)
The stunning conclusion to the Imperial Radch trilogy
Ancillary Justice, Ancillary Mercy & Ancillary Sword review
Sci Fi links
+ Hugo Awards Best Sci Fi novels of the 1950's
+ Hugo Awards Best sci fi novels of the 1960's
+ Hugo Awards Best Sci Fi novels of the 1970's
+ Hugo Awards Best Sci Fi Novels of the 1980's
+ Hugo Awards Best Sci Fi novels of the 1990's
+ Hugo awards Best sci fi novel of the 2000's (2000 - 2009)
+ Hugo Awards Best Sci Fi novels for the decade 2010-2019
+ Foundation - Isaac Asimov's
+ Dune - The Chronological order of the novels
+ Dune Universe Timeline
+ I, Robot - Isaac Asimov - novels & Magazines
+ Star Wars
+ vorkoisgan saga reading order - Lois McMaster Bujold
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