save me from disappointing Sci Fi

[darklordmoeser]

I think that I may have mined the best stuff out of my favorite genre. Looking through Amazons best of the year for sci fi and the various best of the decade lists that I found on the internet, I see a common theme of having either read them already, or that they seem of a vaguely similar bent. Its almost as if there is a choose your own

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[darklordmoeser]

I like some of the older style Sci-Fi... certainly Asimov, Heinlein, and Philip K Dick are both wonderful authors, but I have a hard time being interested in the lesser known authors from that era. Perhaps a bit to pulpy for my tastes. There's some good foreign sci fi out there though, I've read two books by Stanislaw Lem, and found them to be powerful or absurd, depending on what book you read.

One of the other big things I noticed about Sci Fi writers, mostly from a piece the BBC did a while back, is that they seem to think that their writings are an important and valuable influence on the sciences. Which annoys me in a very real way, when you consider a good many Sci Fi books are just fear mongering about some poorly thought out concept, and the others can indeed be very imaginative, but its rare to see more than a basic understanding of both science and the issues they bring up in them. It always seems like scientists are working hard to do stuff with what we know and have currently, and the Sci Fi writers are making people annoyed we don't have jetpacks.