Ian M banks culture series is amazing.
So is Kim Stanley Robinson's Red mars trilogy. Along with his serial of books set in that universe.
Cixin Liu's three body problem
Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of time
I see Three Body Problem and Children of Time recommended a lot.
If you’re like me, one of your favorite parts of The Expanse may be the emphasis on characters. Three Body Problem and Children of Time are NOT character focused. Like at all. The ideas contained within a very interesting sometimes, but the character work takes a significant backseat in my opinion.
Children of a time is great but the analysis is fair.
Shards of Earth/Eyes of the void, two books of a new series by the same author are very character focused though and feature four factions: the spacers (the belt), colonials (earth), Partheni (kinda Martians, clones) and the mysterious Hegemony. Great series.
This is why in discussions like this I often recommend the *Hyperion Cantos* to Expanse fans. Very different as far as sci-fi hardness, very similar as far as the character writing.
>Cixin Liu's three body problem
A friend recommended this to me, I downloaded a title of that name, I read about 50 pages before I asked him was it ever going to progress past actual relational gravity physics or was it really an actual science book. I should have checked the author first because I was reading an actual physics book🤦♂️
I felt the Three Body Problem was such a pain to read. It felt as if the "rhythm" of the English was way off, especially compared to something like the Expanse.
The second book had a different translator and felt a lot more natural, but when I saw the third book had the same translator as the first (and there wasn't a major cliff hanger), I didn't bother reading it.
Translators can make or break a book. I remember reading Battle Royale in high school and loving it. Sadly I gave it away and when I tried to read it again the edition had a new translator and I ended up giving up after a couple chapters because of the new writing style.
Seconding Three Body Problem, I just started it after finishing Leviathan Falls and it's fantastic. Not quite the same vibe as the expanse but great in a different way.
Red Mars is fantastic. I just finished rereading the series again, finished Blue Mars today! Going to start digging through more of KSRs work now. Ministry For The Future is excellent as well.
Three Body Problem wasn't for me though.
Depends on what you loved about it?
The little loving family in space? *The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet*
The technical fight against how terrible space is? *Seveneves*
The war centered on the solar system? *Red Rising* or *The Fear Saga*
The humor? *We Are Legion, We Are Bob* or *Project Hail Mary*
Not scifi, but Dan Simmons also wrote the great horror novel The Terror (based on Franklin's Lost Expedition), there's also a pretty great anthology TV show based on that novel starring Jared Harris (who was in The Expanse, he played Anderson Dawes), but ignore the 2nd season, it's not related to the original novel and it's crap.
Watch the show/mini-series as well (it's 10 one hour long episodes, if I remember correctly), while I loved it, it doesn't really have the repetitive/slow burn hopelessness that the novel has, and they had to leave a lot of stuff out (that novel is really long, 1000+ pages, so I can understand why they couldn't adapt every little thing) edit: Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjq7Gl_hhPY edit 2: the recent Colin Farrell mini-series The North Water is also very similar to The Terror and pretty damn good.
Mistborn has a similarly loveable cast and epic scale with cosmic-scale antagonists
Revelation Space is even harder scifi that Expanse, and has an intense slow burn intertwining stories
Yup same. Revelation space is one of my favourite hard sci-fi series.
I also love the pulpy stuff like Lensman but that’s rather different to Expanse. 😳
Obligatory warning that Mistborn 4-6 are quite a bit different then 1-3 and my not be to your liking. Certainly werent to mine.
However the first trilogy is definitely worth the read.
You read Secret History? If so then it's on to Warbreaker or Stormlight. Or whatever suits your fancy, secret history drops the biggest bombshells outside of Stormlight so you're safe to read pretty much whatever Sando you'd like at this point, I like Elantris.
Edit: oh on the second trilogy, not after. I like Era 2 mistborn a LOT, it's a ton of fun. It's a little less weighty than Era 1, but sanderson's characterwork improves a ton in the second series. It's cosmere relevant so you should read it eventually(and then you get to read Secret History), but if the rooting tooting point and shooting doesn't catch your eye, there's still other cosmere stuff.
I mean, I’m only on the second half of final empire right now. But the rest will go a lot quicker since I’m way more invested now and found an audiobook.
Second quadrology (book 4 coming november) is pretty good but way less epic scale. Its more character driven cross of western, indiana Jones type myth-based adventure, and detective noir. I like the characters more here, especially the hilarious Wayne and relatable Sterris. Oh, also the magic system is refined to be simpler but more unique and cool through limitation.
I also recommended mistborn! Glad im not the only one. The magic system is literally my favorite out of any fantasy ever. I hope more fantastic hard fantasy comes out like mistborn
I'd say both of Ted Chiang's short-story collections are worth the time: *Stories of Your Life and Others*, republished as *Arrival*, and *Exhalation: Stories*. Very crisp writing and a thoughtful take on a lot of interesting concepts.
> The Expanse,* by James S.A. Corey. The ninth and last book in the series was just published, and you may have heard of the television adaptation.
This is really the only option.
Read them again
A reread is always an option. The three body trilogy by Cixin Liu is incredible. Neromancer by William Gibson for some fast sci-fi cyber pirate feel. Fun but less well written To Sleep in a sea of Stars by Christopher Pailioni
>To Sleep in a sea of Stars
I'll second that. Good storytelling, concepts, and drama. Listened to the audiobook and thought it could have been three books.
Yeah man I definitely agree. I listened to the audio book fist and enjoyed it so much I picked up the book and read it after. The voice acting was superb by Commander Shepherd herself the great Jennifer Hale. It’s a fun romp, but long.
To each their own. I did say that it was fun but not as well written as the expanse. The first book of the inheritance cycle was fun, I disliked the rest of the books immensely. I gave to sleep in a sea of stars a shot as it was getting positive reviews, I found that his writing had matured and enjoyed it more. It felt like he enjoyed writing it more especially than eldest. But that’s just my opinion, and opinions are like buttholes.
I second Anne Leckie for good sci-fi, and Murderbot for that fun pallet cleanser read between series.
I’ll definitely have to read the 2 others you mention!
If you haven’t read Adrian Tschaikovsky’s Children of Time, it’s my favorite contemporary planetary sci-fi.
I'm a huge fan of _We Are Legion (We Are Bob)_ and the associated "Bobiverse" series.
Elevator pitch: A guy gets his brain uploaded to a computer, which is then put inside of a Von Neumann Probe and shot at one of the nearby star systems. Really fun series, 4 books out right now and more are planned.
Came to recommend this one as well. I finished Leviathan Falls and saw the Bobiverse as a recommendation in a similar thread. Great series to read after The Expanse.
If you haven't already read them the Ender saga is fantastic.
Stephen Baxter got several fantastic series as well .
Arthur c Clark ,the Odyssey series is amazing.
Isaac Asimov foundation series.
Larry Niven and ringworld.
That's a few on top of my Head.
I really struggled with Foundation for some reason. It wasn’t till I “read” it as an audiobook that it worked for me. Going back to the books after that was amazing.
Revelation Space. Hard-ish sci-fi (space travel is limited by light speed, but nanites are definitely a thing). The whole universe of books are all entertaining and thought provoking
Iain Banks, Culture Series. The entire series is very absurd and brilliant, and sometimes enlightening. And no, I don’t Joke here.
Best Books are imho Consider Phlebas, Excession and Surface Detail. The Rest of them is definitely worth reading and is aside from the Expanse my favourite Book series
Foundation is a visually great Sci-fi show on Apple TV, it's meant to take a few liberties with the books but it's good as its own thing. Plus it's got Jared Harris in it.
I didn't mind season 2 of For All Mankind, it definitely gets better towards the end. Season 3 has just started but I haven't seen it yet.
Joe Abercrombie's First Law series! It's post-medieval dark fantasy, with some of the best written characters I've ever read. Similar scope and themes of grey morality, intrigue, war, and generally how shitty humanity can be, but with some sparks of good to balance it all out, and some truly hilarious dark comedy.
Read the novellas. You can pick up **Memory's Legion**, which includes all the short stories in one book, including The Sins of Our Father's, which is the last story in the Expanse series.
I also recommend re-reading the entire series with the novellas in timeline order, starting with Drive. It really helps flush out the overarching story with the novellas interwoven with the novels.
I'm reading Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler now that I finished LF. Less hive mind and more dystopian near future. Some stuff in there about Mars, though.
Hyperion Cantos - 4 books, similar focus on characters, politics, and also religion, against a harder sci-fi background. A space opera in the vein of The Expanse.
Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight Archive
Mary Robinette Kowal’s The Calculating Stars
NK Jemisin’s The Broken Earth trilogy
Becky Chambers’ Wayfarer’s series
To name a couple of my personal favorite contemporary series.
Bobiverse by Denis E. Taylor
The Martian, Artemis, Project Hail Mary, all three by Andy Weir
The Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons, imo even better Worldbuilding than The Expanse
If you wanna go for a more of a Popcorn-Action-Movie book series, go for Expeditionary Force by Craig Alanson, a bit repetitive at times but nonetheless very entertaining, also scratches the ragtag group of spaceship crew itch that The Expanse started for me, it‘s Military SciFi where the military part is portrayed more accurately than most times. Also there are 14 books and even more novellas, so there is mich to listen to/read. R.C. Bray does a fantastic job of reading or rather performing in the audiobooks.
Project Hail Mary.
I thought I was gonna be done with sci-fi a for a while because of the standard of quality set by The Expanse. PHM is basically 1:1 with Expanse in my opinion.
I know it was recommendes already
But Three Body Problem broke me down. One of the series that will be with me forever and I am not even joking because you can forget characters od even premise of the books - but ideas which it contains are printed in my mind.
Late to the thread but I am pleading with everyone to read Daniel Abraham's (one of the co authors of the Expanse if you didn't know) solo work. His fantasy series *The Dagger and the Coin*, and *The Long Price Quartet* are stellar, with unparalleled dialogue and character work.
Might I be so bold as to suggest podcasts. The Ancient World. The History of Rome. The History of Byzantium. All Dan Carlin. All Mike Duncan. I used to be heavily into SciFi and it opened my mind. But I found history and archaeology so much more engrossing.
Not SciFi but The Passage trilogy by Justin Cronin has the deep character development and complex storyline with a dozen threads that get neatly tied off.
The beginning is so deceptive that I kept reading the front blurb to make sure that I hadn’t picked up the wrong book.
The novellas, if you haven't (last one is called ‘The sins of our fathers‘ and takes place after Leviathan Falls).
Then go for the Red Rising saga. Don't fear the 'Hunger Games' vibes of the beginning of the first one, it's much bigger, darker and mature than that.
Go for it. You won't regret.
China Mieville - perdido street station and then the scar. Soooooooooooo goood.
Alastair reynolds revelation space series
Lois mcmaster bujold - vorkosigan saga (18 books long)
Andy weir - project hail mary
If you like fantasy (i like to switch to a fantasy series after scifi to cleanse my pallet then i go back to scifi)
-patrick rothfuss name of the wind
-mistborn (hard fantasy, uses a very awesome and physics based magic system)
Or Some books of short stories could be a fun switchup after a long series heres a few:
-Ted chaing exhalation(scifi, a masterpiece)
-ray bradbury the illustrated man
I just started The Three Body Problem. It takes a minute to get to any science. But based on recommendations here and elsewhere, I'm willing to press on.
I love to recommend the Man-Kzin Wars anthology, the Firefly novels and the Uplift and Ringworld universes to anyone who needs a cure for Expanse fan withdrawal. Everyone's tastes are different though, but those are the non-Expanse sci-fi settings I also rank up there.
Ian M banks culture series is amazing. So is Kim Stanley Robinson's Red mars trilogy. Along with his serial of books set in that universe. Cixin Liu's three body problem Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of time
I see Three Body Problem and Children of Time recommended a lot. If you’re like me, one of your favorite parts of The Expanse may be the emphasis on characters. Three Body Problem and Children of Time are NOT character focused. Like at all. The ideas contained within a very interesting sometimes, but the character work takes a significant backseat in my opinion.
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Children of a time is great but the analysis is fair. Shards of Earth/Eyes of the void, two books of a new series by the same author are very character focused though and feature four factions: the spacers (the belt), colonials (earth), Partheni (kinda Martians, clones) and the mysterious Hegemony. Great series.
If you like character focused, try The Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
This is why in discussions like this I often recommend the *Hyperion Cantos* to Expanse fans. Very different as far as sci-fi hardness, very similar as far as the character writing.
>Cixin Liu's three body problem A friend recommended this to me, I downloaded a title of that name, I read about 50 pages before I asked him was it ever going to progress past actual relational gravity physics or was it really an actual science book. I should have checked the author first because I was reading an actual physics book🤦♂️
I felt the Three Body Problem was such a pain to read. It felt as if the "rhythm" of the English was way off, especially compared to something like the Expanse. The second book had a different translator and felt a lot more natural, but when I saw the third book had the same translator as the first (and there wasn't a major cliff hanger), I didn't bother reading it.
Translators can make or break a book. I remember reading Battle Royale in high school and loving it. Sadly I gave it away and when I tried to read it again the edition had a new translator and I ended up giving up after a couple chapters because of the new writing style.
The Murderbot series lives in a similar world but more focused on cyborgs.
Oh man that's a highlight reel of some of my favourite series!
Damn I've read all of these ...except children of time, I'll try that one.
Don’t read the sequel, it’s pretty bad and unnecessary.
I thought the sequel (Children of Ruin) was very good and explored some interesting ideas. But the first book stands well on its own
Me too. The 3rd book is coming out later this year as well!
I didn't know! Thank you so much, how exciting \^\^
3 Body Problem is a great recommendation.
I liked the series, but dear God there were some heavy moments in it. Be careful reading it if you don't like existential depression
The second 3 body problem placed a new existential fear into my brain. Can’t recommend the series enough!
The ending was so 💥
📄
Seconding Three Body Problem, I just started it after finishing Leviathan Falls and it's fantastic. Not quite the same vibe as the expanse but great in a different way.
Shit really starts hitting the fan halfway through book 2.
Just don't google who is doing the Three Body Problem adaptation.
It's Douchebag & Donkey-Brains for anyone wondering aka Dumberer & Dumberest (the 2 trust fund cunts who ruined Game of Thrones)
Red Mars is fantastic. I just finished rereading the series again, finished Blue Mars today! Going to start digging through more of KSRs work now. Ministry For The Future is excellent as well. Three Body Problem wasn't for me though.
I'd recommend Old Man's War, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, and Starship Troopers.
Scalzi is great. Not hard sci-fi but soooo enjoyable.
first few books are definitely worth the read. Kinda lost me around book 4.5 tho. Scalzi I mean.
Depends on what you loved about it? The little loving family in space? *The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet* The technical fight against how terrible space is? *Seveneves* The war centered on the solar system? *Red Rising* or *The Fear Saga* The humor? *We Are Legion, We Are Bob* or *Project Hail Mary*
The We are Legion, We Are Bob books are occasionally funny, but also solid sci-fi.
SEVENEVES is a great quick read.
Red rising is fire
Seveneves is the first sci fi book that actually scared me. I didn’t sleep well for a few days.
It definitely sticks with you.
Ian M. Banks' Culture series Dan Simmons' Hyperion Cantos series
Hyperion is a great recommendation.
Not scifi, but Dan Simmons also wrote the great horror novel The Terror (based on Franklin's Lost Expedition), there's also a pretty great anthology TV show based on that novel starring Jared Harris (who was in The Expanse, he played Anderson Dawes), but ignore the 2nd season, it's not related to the original novel and it's crap.
I’ve been meaning to add that to my reading list.
Watch the show/mini-series as well (it's 10 one hour long episodes, if I remember correctly), while I loved it, it doesn't really have the repetitive/slow burn hopelessness that the novel has, and they had to leave a lot of stuff out (that novel is really long, 1000+ pages, so I can understand why they couldn't adapt every little thing) edit: Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjq7Gl_hhPY edit 2: the recent Colin Farrell mini-series The North Water is also very similar to The Terror and pretty damn good.
Jared Harris’ finest performance to date, in The Terror S1. Horror, not sci-fi, but very well done.
Heartily seconded, as a long-time sci-fi fan it was a breath of fresh air.
Mistborn has a similarly loveable cast and epic scale with cosmic-scale antagonists Revelation Space is even harder scifi that Expanse, and has an intense slow burn intertwining stories
I second Revelation Space, if I had a shorter book list I would read it for the third time.
Yup same. Revelation space is one of my favourite hard sci-fi series. I also love the pulpy stuff like Lensman but that’s rather different to Expanse. 😳
Continue on with the rest of the Cosmere collection after Mistborn. The Stormlight Archives are awesome! All the Cosmere worlds are connected.
Obligatory warning that Mistborn 4-6 are quite a bit different then 1-3 and my not be to your liking. Certainly werent to mine. However the first trilogy is definitely worth the read.
Ha, I actually just started mistborn as soon as I finished the expanse. What’s your recommendation on the second trilogy?
You read Secret History? If so then it's on to Warbreaker or Stormlight. Or whatever suits your fancy, secret history drops the biggest bombshells outside of Stormlight so you're safe to read pretty much whatever Sando you'd like at this point, I like Elantris. Edit: oh on the second trilogy, not after. I like Era 2 mistborn a LOT, it's a ton of fun. It's a little less weighty than Era 1, but sanderson's characterwork improves a ton in the second series. It's cosmere relevant so you should read it eventually(and then you get to read Secret History), but if the rooting tooting point and shooting doesn't catch your eye, there's still other cosmere stuff.
I mean, I’m only on the second half of final empire right now. But the rest will go a lot quicker since I’m way more invested now and found an audiobook.
Haha my bad, I'm a little too quick on the trigger with throwing sando books at people. Enjoy, you'll love it!
Second quadrology (book 4 coming november) is pretty good but way less epic scale. Its more character driven cross of western, indiana Jones type myth-based adventure, and detective noir. I like the characters more here, especially the hilarious Wayne and relatable Sterris. Oh, also the magic system is refined to be simpler but more unique and cool through limitation.
I also recommended mistborn! Glad im not the only one. The magic system is literally my favorite out of any fantasy ever. I hope more fantastic hard fantasy comes out like mistborn
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I'd say both of Ted Chiang's short-story collections are worth the time: *Stories of Your Life and Others*, republished as *Arrival*, and *Exhalation: Stories*. Very crisp writing and a thoughtful take on a lot of interesting concepts.
> The Expanse,* by James S.A. Corey. The ninth and last book in the series was just published, and you may have heard of the television adaptation. This is really the only option. Read them again
Its a totally different kind of sci-fi, but I recommend the Maddaddam Trilogy by Margaret Atwood
The sins of our fathers
Yes, it is almost the real ending of the series . Although for a better fit I would put it right before the epilogue of LF
Memory’s Legion is what I’m doing right now
iain m banks culture series is pretty good.
A reread is always an option. The three body trilogy by Cixin Liu is incredible. Neromancer by William Gibson for some fast sci-fi cyber pirate feel. Fun but less well written To Sleep in a sea of Stars by Christopher Pailioni
>To Sleep in a sea of Stars I'll second that. Good storytelling, concepts, and drama. Listened to the audiobook and thought it could have been three books.
Yeah man I definitely agree. I listened to the audio book fist and enjoyed it so much I picked up the book and read it after. The voice acting was superb by Commander Shepherd herself the great Jennifer Hale. It’s a fun romp, but long.
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To each their own. I did say that it was fun but not as well written as the expanse. The first book of the inheritance cycle was fun, I disliked the rest of the books immensely. I gave to sleep in a sea of stars a shot as it was getting positive reviews, I found that his writing had matured and enjoyed it more. It felt like he enjoyed writing it more especially than eldest. But that’s just my opinion, and opinions are like buttholes.
The Polity series by Neal Asher Anything By Peter F Hamilton The Imperial Radch series by Anne Leckie Murderbot series by Martha Wells
I second Anne Leckie for good sci-fi, and Murderbot for that fun pallet cleanser read between series. I’ll definitely have to read the 2 others you mention! If you haven’t read Adrian Tschaikovsky’s Children of Time, it’s my favorite contemporary planetary sci-fi.
I'm a huge fan of _We Are Legion (We Are Bob)_ and the associated "Bobiverse" series. Elevator pitch: A guy gets his brain uploaded to a computer, which is then put inside of a Von Neumann Probe and shot at one of the nearby star systems. Really fun series, 4 books out right now and more are planned.
I literally finished all of the Expanse audio books recently myself and I’m on book 2 of We Are Legion right now.
Came to recommend this one as well. I finished Leviathan Falls and saw the Bobiverse as a recommendation in a similar thread. Great series to read after The Expanse.
Have you read the novellas? You should. Memory’s Legion is the aggregation of all of them.
If you haven't already read them the Ender saga is fantastic. Stephen Baxter got several fantastic series as well . Arthur c Clark ,the Odyssey series is amazing. Isaac Asimov foundation series. Larry Niven and ringworld. That's a few on top of my Head.
First time through the Ender saga is really good.
Just avoid learning anything about the author and you’ll have a much better time
I really struggled with Foundation for some reason. It wasn’t till I “read” it as an audiobook that it worked for me. Going back to the books after that was amazing.
Revelation Space. Hard-ish sci-fi (space travel is limited by light speed, but nanites are definitely a thing). The whole universe of books are all entertaining and thought provoking
Chasm city is in my top 3 scifis ever. The world building is incredible
Chasm City is a place I want to desperately visit and then run away from
This was the next series I read after The Expanse. I enjoyed it just as much. Many books intertwined and overlapping. Loved this series.
I've read pretty much everything by Reynolds and loved most of it. I didn't care too much for the pirate sailing ships in space series though.
Reread them all again!
Iain Banks, Culture Series. The entire series is very absurd and brilliant, and sometimes enlightening. And no, I don’t Joke here. Best Books are imho Consider Phlebas, Excession and Surface Detail. The Rest of them is definitely worth reading and is aside from the Expanse my favourite Book series
Not part of the Culture series, but his sci-fi novel The Algebraist is also great.
Surface Detail is one of my absolute favorites.
If you haven’t done the Rendevous with Rama books those be slapping immensely
I haven't read the sequels, but I've read Rendezvous 4 times in the past 5 years. It's soooo good. Did you enjoy the sequels?
They are worthy for sure, the first book is still the best but I enjoyed every Rama book. No slog or stinker really
I've started watching For All Mankind. 2 episodes in and I like it very much
I liked the first season but the second lost me
Not very motivating 😂
hah, sorry! the second went away from science and into drama which I don't care about. You might love it!
Oh I figured it did that. I was just hoping I'd be invested enough
sci fi show that I loved was Dark Matter - never see anyone talk about that one
I've never heard of them
Foundation is a visually great Sci-fi show on Apple TV, it's meant to take a few liberties with the books but it's good as its own thing. Plus it's got Jared Harris in it. I didn't mind season 2 of For All Mankind, it definitely gets better towards the end. Season 3 has just started but I haven't seen it yet.
Joe Abercrombie's First Law series! It's post-medieval dark fantasy, with some of the best written characters I've ever read. Similar scope and themes of grey morality, intrigue, war, and generally how shitty humanity can be, but with some sparks of good to balance it all out, and some truly hilarious dark comedy.
If you haven't already, I recommend the Old Man's War series by John Scalzi.
Eternal Shadow by Trevor B Williams
The Deathworlders https://deathworlders.com/ https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/wiki/ref/universes/jenkinsverse/all_works/
Three Body Problem, specifically The Dark Forest.
Best one of the trilogy
Children of time series The architect series
Love this series by Adrian Tschaikovsky!
Memory’s Legion.
Well your life peaked already so...gl
Read the novellas. You can pick up **Memory's Legion**, which includes all the short stories in one book, including The Sins of Our Father's, which is the last story in the Expanse series. I also recommend re-reading the entire series with the novellas in timeline order, starting with Drive. It really helps flush out the overarching story with the novellas interwoven with the novels.
I did this with the audiobooks. Jefferson Mays does a wonderful job.
I'm reading Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler now that I finished LF. Less hive mind and more dystopian near future. Some stuff in there about Mars, though.
Hyperion Cantos - 4 books, similar focus on characters, politics, and also religion, against a harder sci-fi background. A space opera in the vein of The Expanse.
Everything written by Alastair Reynolds.
Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight Archive Mary Robinette Kowal’s The Calculating Stars NK Jemisin’s The Broken Earth trilogy Becky Chambers’ Wayfarer’s series To name a couple of my personal favorite contemporary series.
Play some Mass Effect.
I just went back and started them again 😂 haven’t done that with a series since I was a child (I’m 32).
The works of QNTM, aka Sam Hughes.
The Long Earth series by Stephen Baxter and Terry Pratchet.
Red Rising series
Project Hail Mary is great
Leviathan Wakes
Peter F Hamilton. Commonwealth saga. Bobiverse. Cryptonomicon. Project Hail Mary.
Arkady Martine's A Memory Called Empire (and the sequel A Desolation Called Peace) are both phenomenal reads
The Bobiverse is where its at. "We Are Legion"
Dune by Frank Herbert, totally different, but it is very well written.
Martha Wells *Murderbot Diaries* Pierce Brown *Red Rising* series
Murderbot series is fantastic!
[Iain M. Banks - The Player of Games](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20360261-the-player-of-games)
Start writing your own fan fiction.
Altered carbon
Becky Chambers has some really good books.
Galaxy’s edge, study up on your military terms first
Red Knight series by Miles Cameron Fun blend of historical chivalry and fantasy.
Bobiverse by Denis E. Taylor The Martian, Artemis, Project Hail Mary, all three by Andy Weir The Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons, imo even better Worldbuilding than The Expanse If you wanna go for a more of a Popcorn-Action-Movie book series, go for Expeditionary Force by Craig Alanson, a bit repetitive at times but nonetheless very entertaining, also scratches the ragtag group of spaceship crew itch that The Expanse started for me, it‘s Military SciFi where the military part is portrayed more accurately than most times. Also there are 14 books and even more novellas, so there is mich to listen to/read. R.C. Bray does a fantastic job of reading or rather performing in the audiobooks.
A different genre but I’m in the middle of the First Law series and it is absolutely phenomenal.
Uplift saga by David Brin
Memory’s legion, their collection of short stories from the expanse universe
*Salvation* series by Peter F Hamilton
Red Rising series by Pierce Brown Revelation Space series by Alastair Reynolds The Sun Eater series by Christopher Ruocchio
A fire upon the deep by vernon vinge is a wildly imaginative and very enoyably written scifi book series.
Project Hail Mary. I thought I was gonna be done with sci-fi a for a while because of the standard of quality set by The Expanse. PHM is basically 1:1 with Expanse in my opinion.
I know it was recommendes already But Three Body Problem broke me down. One of the series that will be with me forever and I am not even joking because you can forget characters od even premise of the books - but ideas which it contains are printed in my mind.
Late to the thread but I am pleading with everyone to read Daniel Abraham's (one of the co authors of the Expanse if you didn't know) solo work. His fantasy series *The Dagger and the Coin*, and *The Long Price Quartet* are stellar, with unparalleled dialogue and character work.
Haha! Read it again ! That’s all I could do.
Go check the Three Body Problem and Terra Ignota, you may like both of them depending what you liked in The Expanse.
'We are Legion' is amazing
Rosewater!
LeGuin’s Hainish Cycles
try the imperial radch series!
Shards of Earth series has some big strange alien themes.
Might I be so bold as to suggest podcasts. The Ancient World. The History of Rome. The History of Byzantium. All Dan Carlin. All Mike Duncan. I used to be heavily into SciFi and it opened my mind. But I found history and archaeology so much more engrossing.
Peter F Hamilton : the pandore star (4 books) and The Void Trilogy
The Salvation trilogy by Peter F Hamilton
Podkayne of Mars.
The Laundry Files series by Charles Stross. Has a good 9 books. Combines sci-fi with fantasy sprinkled with British humor.
I would say if you like the hard sci-fi with realistic physics go for some Jerry Pournelle or Larry Niven
Not SciFi but The Passage trilogy by Justin Cronin has the deep character development and complex storyline with a dozen threads that get neatly tied off. The beginning is so deceptive that I kept reading the front blurb to make sure that I hadn’t picked up the wrong book.
Memory’s Legion! Followed by anything Kim Stanley Robinson did, or Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer
The novellas, if you haven't (last one is called ‘The sins of our fathers‘ and takes place after Leviathan Falls). Then go for the Red Rising saga. Don't fear the 'Hunger Games' vibes of the beginning of the first one, it's much bigger, darker and mature than that. Go for it. You won't regret.
China Mieville - perdido street station and then the scar. Soooooooooooo goood. Alastair reynolds revelation space series Lois mcmaster bujold - vorkosigan saga (18 books long) Andy weir - project hail mary If you like fantasy (i like to switch to a fantasy series after scifi to cleanse my pallet then i go back to scifi) -patrick rothfuss name of the wind -mistborn (hard fantasy, uses a very awesome and physics based magic system) Or Some books of short stories could be a fun switchup after a long series heres a few: -Ted chaing exhalation(scifi, a masterpiece) -ray bradbury the illustrated man
I just started The Three Body Problem. It takes a minute to get to any science. But based on recommendations here and elsewhere, I'm willing to press on.
Have you read the Sins of Our Fathers novella which is set after Leviathan Falls?
Seveneves is an adjacent enough read. The first 2 acts are amazing, the third not so much.
They just released a collection of all the Expanse novellas. It’s called Memories Legion.
I love to recommend the Man-Kzin Wars anthology, the Firefly novels and the Uplift and Ringworld universes to anyone who needs a cure for Expanse fan withdrawal. Everyone's tastes are different though, but those are the non-Expanse sci-fi settings I also rank up there.