The Sea Girl is a 1930 lost world novel by Ray Cummings dealing with a lost world in the deeps of the ocean. As a bonus, there are mermaids. Of a sort. There's also a beautiful but evil undersea empress and atomic submarines. A fine adventure.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/09/ray-cummings-sea-girl.html

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This is the exciting, compelling, and totally enjoyable sci-fi series I've been missing since I was an adolescent ripping through Dune, Harry Potter, and Ender's Game. (ugh, what a problematic list!)

Necromancers in space? Queer characters with biting and ridiculous sarcasm? World building that unfolds in amazing twists? Pulse-pounding endings? Very yes. Very recommend.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon_the_Ninth

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Just finished the second book in Tamsyn Muir's Locked Tomb series. It's terrific.

The twists pulled off in the second book still feel fresh, surprising, and yet totally connected with the material in the first. I'm hugely impressed with the plotting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrow_the_Ninth

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Clinton Constantinescu’s 1931 novel War of the Universe is certainly not great sci-fi but it features super-intelligent giant bugs, birdmen, enjoyable technobabble and space battles on a truly grand scale so it has some appeal.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/08/clinton-constantinescus-war-of-universe.html

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Arthur C. Clarke's A Fall of Moondust (1961), the closest he came to writing a sci-fi thriller. And it's a pretty decent one. The dust cruiser Selene takes tourists on jaunts across the the largest of the lunar dust seas, the Sea of Thirst.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2017/05/arthur-c-clarkes-fall-of-moondust.html

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I'm very close to the end of Max Barry's novel "Providence." Very interesting sci-fi world. Deals with first contact with an alien species, but the most interesting part (to me) is the way that human/AI interactions are imagined.

The book raises interesting questions about how "black box" AI would appear to us if we were working in a genuinely complicated, dangerous, collaborative environment. I'd recommend it!

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Favorite authors is so hard.. in no order

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Robert Jordan #wheeloftime

Herman Hesse #hermanhesse

John Scalzi #scifinovels #scififan

Raymond Feist #FantasyandScienceFiction

Introduction… I’m a former scientist (#molecularBiology). My hobby is starting new hobbies (name one, chances are I’ve tried it and bought supplies for it). I currently make vector files for laser cutting, craft cutters, sublimation, etc. I love animals and we have a dog, a cat, 2 birds, and a tarantula. I know the dogs of our neighborhood better than I know the people. I’m a voracious reader, mostly #scifinovels and #fantasybooks. Oh I also collect #typewriters.

My new #scifi discovery: I really really like M.R. Carey.

The Girl with All the Gifts was great.
The Boy on the Bridge was great.

Almost halfway through Book of Koli, and it's also amazing.

Truly great world building. Any recommendations for new #scifinovels are welcome!