this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2023
89 points (97.8% liked)

Science Fiction

13569 readers
51 users here now

Welcome to /c/ScienceFiction

December book club canceled. Short stories instead!

We are a community for discussing all things Science Fiction. We want this to be a place for members to discuss and share everything they love about Science Fiction, whether that be books, movies, TV shows and more. Please feel free to take part and help our community grow.

  1. Be civil: disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally insult others.
  2. Posts or comments that are homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, ableist, or advocating violence will be removed.
  3. Spam, self promotion, trolling, and bots are not allowed
  4. Put (Spoilers) in the title of your post if you anticipate spoilers.
  5. Please use spoiler tags whenever commenting a spoiler in a non-spoiler thread.

Lemmy World Rules

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
89
Dune or Hyperion (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
61 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Recently I finished Asimov's Foundation universe and now I want to try something from other authors. Two series I'm most interested in are Dune and Hyperion but I'm not sure which one to read first. Any recommendations?

Edit: I decided to go with Hyperion first and after that I will read Dune. Thank you all for commenting.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Both of these are premium examples of book series that start out amazing and then start cicling the drain in book two. Add in "Ender's Game" for the trifecta.

I expect downvotes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Southern Reach trilogy would be my example. That and Forever War have the worse sci-fi sequels of all time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm sorry, Speaker for the Dead is circling the drain? Complete change in tact sure, but I'd hardly call it bad

Xenocide on the other hand...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You're right, but Hyperion's sequels are better than either Dune's or Ender's Game's.

Also, see Kevin J. Anderson for a dude who's made an entire career out of pooping in other people's sand boxes.