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Originally Posted by Mennonite
I've always had a hard time finding good sci-fi books. Usually there is a cool initial concept, but the overall book is disappointing. The book I just read "The Demolished Man" is a good example of this. It's about a billionaire who is plotting to murder one of his rivals. The twist is that there are a number of telepaths of various powers in human society and it's made getting away with murder virtually impossible. Cool idea. Bad execution.
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A lot of stuff you listed in your previous post is pretty dated. I just finished Rendezvous with Rama, which is considered a classic, and wasn’t terribly impressed. I would recommend something a little newer, maybe. Or something that’s aged well. Something like Blindsight by Peter Watts, the Culture series by Iain Banks (each novel is standalone but I wouldn’t start with Consider Phlebas), House of Suns or Chasm City or Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds, Altered Carbon by Richard K Morgan, or Dune. Most of the modern stuff reads much better, IMHO.