07-11-2015, 02:00 PM
The Culture series by Iain M. Banks. Best space operas I've ever read, period. I recommend starting with Surface Detail, even though it's not the first in the series. It has not one, not two, but THREE awesome female protagonists.
Also anything by Heinlein is good; I'm particularly fond of Stranger in a Strange Land.
If you like your science fiction more on the plausible side, any of the Coyote novels by Allen Steele are fantastic colonization stories.
Also anything by Heinlein is good; I'm particularly fond of Stranger in a Strange Land.
If you like your science fiction more on the plausible side, any of the Coyote novels by Allen Steele are fantastic colonization stories.
And, we dream of home I dream of life out of here Their dreams are small My dreams don't know fear I got my heart full of hope I will change everything No matter what I'm told How impossible it seems We did it before And we'll do it again We're indestructible Even when we're tired And we've been here before Just you and I
Don't try to rescue me I don't need to be rescued
Don't try to rescue me I don't need to be rescued