hh on Nostr: I first read Dune (a Catalan translation) when I was 12, and more than 30 years later ...
I first read Dune (a Catalan translation) when I was 12, and more
than 30 years later I still go back to the original series every couple
of years. Again and again and again... and I keep finding things within
things within things every single time.
Dune is
on a league of its own. There are many other fantasy (I don't consider
it sci-fi) series that are master works, but the world-building and the
writing really set it apart.
If you want to try
more "conventional" fantasy, the rage these last couple of decades is
the "grimdark" subgenre, and within that, all you really need to do is
read Joe Abercrombie's First Law Trilogy.
For
more conventional modern sci-fi, you can't go wrong with The Expanse by
James S A Corey, which is a pseudonymous for Ty Franck and Daniel
Abraham.
Who, by the way (Abraham) also has a fantasy series called The
Coin and the Dagger which was extremely enjoyable to me, and another one that I don't know any woman who hasn't fallen in love with for its incredible world building in a sort of pseudo-feudal Japan setting with magic and poetry: the Long Price Quartet (I enthusiastically recommend it regardless - woman, man or whatever).
In any case, really, have you read the "classics" such as The Lord of the Rings (Tolkien), or the new classic A Song of Ice and Fire aka Game of Thrones (George RR Martin)? And in sci-fi Rendezvous with Rama (Arthur C Clarke), the Foundation series (Asimov), any of Philip K Dick's (Blade Runner, etc)...
than 30 years later I still go back to the original series every couple
of years. Again and again and again... and I keep finding things within
things within things every single time.
Dune is
on a league of its own. There are many other fantasy (I don't consider
it sci-fi) series that are master works, but the world-building and the
writing really set it apart.
If you want to try
more "conventional" fantasy, the rage these last couple of decades is
the "grimdark" subgenre, and within that, all you really need to do is
read Joe Abercrombie's First Law Trilogy.
For
more conventional modern sci-fi, you can't go wrong with The Expanse by
James S A Corey, which is a pseudonymous for Ty Franck and Daniel
Abraham.
Who, by the way (Abraham) also has a fantasy series called The
Coin and the Dagger which was extremely enjoyable to me, and another one that I don't know any woman who hasn't fallen in love with for its incredible world building in a sort of pseudo-feudal Japan setting with magic and poetry: the Long Price Quartet (I enthusiastically recommend it regardless - woman, man or whatever).
In any case, really, have you read the "classics" such as The Lord of the Rings (Tolkien), or the new classic A Song of Ice and Fire aka Game of Thrones (George RR Martin)? And in sci-fi Rendezvous with Rama (Arthur C Clarke), the Foundation series (Asimov), any of Philip K Dick's (Blade Runner, etc)...