Science-fiction
Ah, this would be my guilty pleasure, if I felt any guilt at reading and watching so much sci-fi. But I don’t, and neither should you!
Science-fiction is such a hugely imaginative genre that it feels like it can go on forever (or until the heat-death of this Universe, or the next if we manage to map through to it, or reverse heat-death, or simulate ourselves with ever-faster processing such that it seems like forever to us, or … you see why I like it?). Robots, space operas, endless wars or virtual paradises — it’s all possible in a science-fiction story.
Some favourites (off the top of my head)
- Anathem
- Culture! Oh how I wish I could live in the Culture.
- Blindsight (Peter Watts)
- The Expanse (series, books and TV are both great)
- Down and Out In the Magic Kingdom (Doctorow)
- Anything by Charlie Stross
- Most stuff by Greg Egan
- Gibson’s cyberpunk classics
- Hyperion, etc … Dan Simmons
- Dreaming Void etc
- Nicolas Fisk!
- Asimov!
- … oh god, there are so many (it’s full of stars!)
Guilty pleasures
- Anything from the Warhammer 40K series
- Anything from the Shadowrun novels
- Star Trek. Yes, even (especially!) Disco
- Iron Man Adventures