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I love Sci fi but I'm very picky (discuss.online)
submitted 1 year ago by mdrw@discuss.online to c/sciencefiction@lemmy.world
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Most of my favourite books/movies/TV shows are Sci fi - I love Mary Shelley, slaughterhouse five, annihilation (both the book and the movie), The Thing, x files, the invasion, and the OA. This feels like a pretty wide variety of writing styles when I line them up but 90% of the sci fi I read/watch I just don't enjoy at all. It's a shame because when I love something sci fi I feel like it's changed my whole life, but when it comes to finding new things I can just enjoy its easier to go through other genres. Is anyone else like this? Does anyone have reccomendations based on what I do like?

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[-] ScrivenerX@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

You seem to like character driven stories with fantastical elements. The stories you list I put in the category of "weird shit happens to people" which is distinct from space operas and world building, which is most of sci-fi.

You might want to look at the nightside books by Simon Green, for pulpy action mysteries in a fantastical London. American Gods by Neil Gamain for a world just beyond our sight. Or maybe even Horrorstöre by Grady Hendrix for a haunted IKEA.

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