hey friends so in celebration of our
October dawn of a new world box I wanted
to bring you some sci-fi book
recommendations for you I have five
books to share with you today each of
them quite different from the last so
let's get into it so the first book I
want to talk about is Leviathan wakes by
James sa Corey this is a book I have
mentioned on this channel several times
already because I completely binge the
series earlier this year and I
absolutely loved it I believe I right up
to the ninth book or the eighth book but
these are chunky books but they fly by
and I absolutely love them um this is
like an epic space opera in set in a
universe in which humanity has colonized
Mars and the moon and the asteroid belt
and Beyond and it follows our main
character Jim Holden and his crew on
board the row so Dante which is their
ship I just love this story is very very
politically driven between people who
have been raised living and in the
asteroid belt between people who lived
on Mars between earthers and it's also
incredibly diverse I just absolutely
love it in this first book they are
looking for a girl who has gone missing
from this rich family and Holden has to
uh Jim Holton has to team up with
detective Miller who is definitely kind
of a shady character in order to try to
find her um I just loved it each book
has its own story but they all weave
together very seamlessly and if you're
just looking for almost like an adult
version of like the crew from like six
of crows or something like that this
definitely has that like family found
family dynamic on board this ship and I
just love it next up I have the final
six by Alexander Munir this one kind of
reminds me of dare mighty things but I
like this one just as much and it has
kind of a similar present but definitely
tells its own story it is about a group
of 20 teenagers from all over the world
who are in basically a reality
competition to become the final six and
these six will be sent to live on one of
the moons
Jupiter because humanity has essentially
destroyed the earth and we need to
recolonize the main characters in this
book are Leo and Naomi Leo is an Italian
boy and he's a swimmer and then naomi is
an iranian-american girl I was just
super smart and they ended up forming a
friendship in this competition and I owe
me a super kind of skeptical of this
program in this competition because the
last mission that happened failed and
everybody on board died and they don't
really know exactly why that happened
it's fast paced it's fun there's a
competition there's friendships there's
betrayal it's a great one
why do you noble pick it up next up I
actually have an adult short story
collection and that is stories of your
life and others by Ted Chang this became
popular because it contains the story
story of your life which actually got
turned into the movie arrival I
thoroughly enjoyed the short story
collection it is definitely sci-fi but
it also just like explores themes of
humanity and what humanity will do when
faced with these incredible situations
if you like short stories I definitely
recommend picking you up is one of the
better anthologies I've ever read and
it's definitely stuck with me over the
years next up is a super popular book
here on booktube and that is the knife
of never letting go by Patrick Ness I
think this is a really good sci-fi if
you're in if you're not super into
sci-fi and you've kind of a lighter dose
I think this one is an easy one to pick
up in case you didn't know this follows
our main character Todd and he grew up
in this place called Prentice town and
in Prentiss town there is noise which
means you can essentially hear that
everybody else's thoughts even the
animals and then one day Todd stumbles
across a pocket of silence in the story
it goes on from there it's such a good
trilogy there's a movie coming out with
it of it soon and then I am very excited
for and I read this story years and
years ago and I can't stop recommending
it if you haven't picked it up yet
Patrick Ness is a wonderful writer also
if you do it I recommend getting the
editions that contain the bonus short
stories at the end so each one contains
an additional story because honestly the
short story in the final book
monsters of men actually changes the
ending of the book money please so
definitely recommend getting the ones
with the short stories that you do pick
up these books and next up I have a book
that isn't actually sci-fi it's just
sigh it's just science but it is such a
good book and it's so uplifting and that
is the astronauts guide to life on Earth
by Chris Hadfield now if you didn't know
Chris Hadfield is a Canadian man who was
the commander of the International Space
Station and he is just such an inspiring
person this book kind of tells his story
of how he became an astronaut and how he
got this incredible position onboard the
space station and how he just like also
maintained his humility if you haven't
seen the video he performed the song
Space Oddity while floating around the
space station it's great google it
but it's just a really wonderful
uplifting book that's some kind of like
self helpy inspirational stuff in here
but it's such a cool story and I know
it's not technically science fiction but
if you're looking for just to feel
inspired pick this one up alright so
those are five science fiction except
for the last one books and I really
recommend that you pick up like I said
this list is inspired by October dawn of
a new world box which contains two very
different incredible sci-fi stories and
I cannot wait for you guys to see it as
I'm uploading this video it is still
available so make sure you can go and
pick it up if you haven't already get
those two books guys but yeah if you
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