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Foundation is probably the best harder scifi going right now, just the idea of the clone kings dawn dusk and day is worth it let alone the prime radiant and foundation itself.
Raised by wolves is a good one in a similar style, but it got cancelled before it was able to answer the bigger questions of the world building which is frustrating
Raised by Wolves was pretty bizarre. I loved the first season, up until the weird flying worm thing, and second season just seemed off-the-rails batshit insane. haha
I was definitely intending to watch season 3, though I didn't really understand what was going on. I'm not completely surprised it was canceled.
Wow I had no idea there was a tv adaptation of it! I was talking about the books haha
ha funny, I'm not a reader so it never even crossed my mind that you weren't talking about the show. well still, I highly recommend the show!
hey I watched the tv show last night thanks to your accidental recommendation and it's great!! I was under the mistaken impression that s1 and 2 were all out and s3 was being released so now i'm devastated but I'll binge s2 as soon as this season is finished and then wait for more haha
Funny people are saying the book is so hard to like, I have to assume the show is only as good as it is because it has the depth of the source material to draw from! Also when you're done with foundation do Raised by Wolves for a similar vibe, and for a very different vibe the best new series of 2017: Blood Drive. It's not directly comparable to foundation, but I tell everyone to watch it anyway. give it at least until the Suck Bus episode!
Glad you mentioned it though, because indeed I might be interested in a tv version that's easier to get into than the books.
Harder sci-fi? It leans hard on religion and philosophy and royal court intrigue.
I was coming to post Foundation for all those reasons. I wish there were more choices for people who want “hard” sci-fi.
The last decent one I came across was “Braking Day” by Adam Oyebanji.
Does anyone have recs for hard sci-fi that doesn’t lean on “magic”?
there was a conversation on here about Greg Egan the other day.
thats what i call hard scifi.
i used to read that at lot and was glad to be reminded to look it up again.
http://www.gregegan.net/
permutation city, all the short stories, diaspora, i started on quarantine, still think that's a cool idea, even if it is improbable (thats a joke, it's not a spoiler until you observe the story).
i think i gave up around teranesia which might've started to go over my head.
but reading this group has inspred me to go back and revisit.
damn ive got to start buying Interzone again.
edit >>>> link to actual thread: https://lemmy.world/post/1892921
maybe it was a different group . . .