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Frogboy
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Recommend me a book for 2025

April 11, 2025 10:06:00 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire II ForumsSins of a Solar Empire II Forums

Over at Reddit I saw this post.

Now, so far this year, the best book I've read has been the new Bobiverse book. But what about you guys?

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Frogboy
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Reply #1 April 15, 2025 5:52:55 PM
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Now, so far this year, the best book I've read has been the new Bobiverse book. But what about you guys?
I'm quite getting into Taylor Anderson's Destroyermen series. I'm on book one of the series, which can be classified as military sf, and alternate/parallel earth genre. The plot is basically two WWII American destroyers find themselves in a fierce naval battle against The Japanese in spring of 1942 when they try to outrun the Imperial navy, and hide out in a mysterious squall. Both ships are transported to an alternate earth where the dinosaurs were never wiped out by the asteroid, humans failed to evolve past small mammals and two other intelligent species rise to fill the intelligence void: The Lemurians and The Grik. Picture the Lemurians as bipedal Lemur like creatures, with catlike faces and the Grik as intelligent dinosaur like creatures who are enemies of the Lemurians. Both species have navies but more akin to Ships of the line type sailing vessels with ancient cannons. The two American destroyers are lightyears ahead of them in technology, making them the most powerful warships in the world. Whatever species they ally themselves with can tip the balance of power in the war to that species. There's 15 books in the series and it has spawned a spinoff series called the Artillerymen series of which there are so far 4 books. I recommend giving this series a try.

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Reply #2 April 16, 2025 1:08:45 PM
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Dungeon Crawler Carl - it’s basically an rpg written as a novel. I don’t think I can describe it well so if you’re at al interested I would recommend checking out the first few pages (I think k you can preview on something like kindle).  I will admit that I was highly skeptical when Amazon recommended me this book a few years ago but I was in need of something new and it surprisingly hooked me.  I think it’s in the genre or litrpg, which also could possibly have a more catchy name

fallen dragon by Peter Hamilton would be more standard sci fi but it’s is something I really enjoyed (and don’t see in your list).  I felt it was tighter than many of his other books (but I also read it about a decade ago so it may get a higher ranking in my mind due to having read federal sci-fi books)

 

 

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Reply #3 April 16, 2025 7:59:02 PM
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A few of my all-time favorites

Isaac Asimov - The Galactic Empire series

Isaac Asimov - The Robot series

Isaac Asimov - The Foundation series

Orson Scott Card - The First Formic War series

Orson Scott Card - The Second Formic War series

Orson Scott Card - The Ender series

Orson Scott Card - The Shadow series

Wesley Chu - Time Salvager

Wesley Chu - Time Siege

James S. A. Corey - The Expanse series

Edgar Rice Burroughs - The Barsoom Series

Hugh Howey - The Silo series

Joseph R. Lallo - Free Wrench series

Scott Nicholson - After series

Scott Nicholson - Nest series

Andy Weir - The Martian

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