Top 10 Sci-Fi Books That Broke Science

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Today, we diving into the top 10 sci-fi books that "broke" science.
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DELPHINE DESCENDS
After her family is killed and her homeworld occupied, young Kathreen Martin is sent to the distant world of Furoris for re-education. She will live the rest of her life as a serf - to be bought and sold as a commodity of the Imperial Network.
When her only chance of escape is ruined, a chance mistaken identity offers her a new life as the orphaned daughter of a First-Citizen Senator and heiress to a vast fortune.
She vows to claw her way into power to sit among the worlds’ elite. Then, with her own hands, she will reap bloody vengeance on them all.
But to beat them, she must play their game. And she must play it better than them all.
BLACK MILK
Prometheus has the chance to bring his wife back from the dead, but doing so will mean the destruction of Earth.
Spanning time, planets and dimensions, Black Milk draws to a climactic point in a post-apocalyptic future, where humanity, stranded with no planet to call home, fights to survive against a post-human digital entity that pursues them through the depths of space.
Five lives separated by aeons are inextricably linked by Prometheus’s actions:
Ystil.3 is an AI unit sent back in time from the distant future to investigate Prometheus’s discovery...
The mysterious Lydia has devoted her life to finding a planet that the last remaining humans can call home…
Tom Jones (he’s a HUGE fan!) is an AI trapped inside a digital subspace, lost and desperate to find his way back to his beloved in real-time…
Dr Norma Stanwyck is a neuroscientist from 24th Century Earth whose personal choices ripple throughout time...
Prometheus must learn the necessity of death or the entire universe will be swallowed by his grief.
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@deepashtray5605
@deepashtray5605 Жыл бұрын
Fascinating how most of the books here came out of the early 70s. I'm sure it had nothing to do with the popularity of mind altering... stuff......
@TheHoveHeretic
@TheHoveHeretic Жыл бұрын
"Constants aren't : Variables don't" Enjoyable as always DW. Thank you. 🖖
@libertyauto
@libertyauto Жыл бұрын
Great video essay. A couple of these I have not read, but they sound fun. And Forever War, I have read, but you reminded me how good it was, and now I think i will re-read it. I read it as a junior in highschool, and now my 64 year old self may see it in a new light. Thanks for your videos.
@dylanho8608
@dylanho8608 Жыл бұрын
Greg Egan has some of the most insane concepts of any Sci-Fi writer I ever read.
@camcolt3530
@camcolt3530 Жыл бұрын
As soon as I read the video title, I knew Egan would be on the list.
@ROGERKP67
@ROGERKP67 Жыл бұрын
No. A C Clarke. is still now years after his death. Breaking Boundries. Etc et. I never liked ASIMOV . Boring Detective stuff. .
@HakimALIGHT
@HakimALIGHT 10 ай бұрын
You should check out Robert Garfinkel
@mattmmilli8287
@mattmmilli8287 4 ай бұрын
@Modernnannenginemarineengine Asimov gets special consideration for being the space opera OG though. Worth reading for deeper reasons Indeed the amount of dues ex machina was really not great and bit bland overall 😅
@cortos_9733
@cortos_9733 20 күн бұрын
I could never finish the first book I got by him.
@H457ur
@H457ur Жыл бұрын
I would add Peter Watts’s “Blindsight”. It broke my brain with how it handles neurologically modified humanity. In the same vein, Watts also wrote “Starfish”, which is equally wild, if not as compelling.
@NeostormXLMAX
@NeostormXLMAX Жыл бұрын
Yeah watts really blew my mind with the concept of life itself being a virus something unnatural and accident, as with consciousness
@camcolt3530
@camcolt3530 Жыл бұрын
Blindsight was one of the most boring books I've ever read. It's badly written, with poor character development. I forced myself to finish it only to find out that it just ends with no conclusion.
@Greenslime300
@Greenslime300 Жыл бұрын
@@camcolt3530 a lot of brilliant scifi doesn't have character development, that doesn't mean it's poorly written
@庫倫亞利克
@庫倫亞利克 6 ай бұрын
The Scramblers have to be some of the weirdest aliens I've come across in scifi. I think they're weirder than Lovecraftian horrors--or rather, they are what Lovecraftian horrors would be like in a hard scifi setting. It could share the crown on top of that list alongside Greg Egan's "Wang's Carpet" and the aliens created by Stephen Baxter.
@TheNebulaNetwork-zi7jd
@TheNebulaNetwork-zi7jd Жыл бұрын
Almost done with Permutation City. Highly recommended!
@bernardcasimir550
@bernardcasimir550 Жыл бұрын
Thank you. Three sci-fi novels that come to mind which I found thought-provoking are Eight Keys to Eden by Mark Clifton, Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear, and Brainwave by Poul Anderson whose Tao Zero you touched on.
@lisagulick4144
@lisagulick4144 Жыл бұрын
I thought of _Brain Wave_ when he talked about _A Fire upon the Deep._
@bryfunkenstein
@bryfunkenstein Жыл бұрын
Eon and Blood Music....by greg bear ...
@brettcoster4781
@brettcoster4781 3 ай бұрын
Definitely agree with Darwin's Radio, it's a terrific book.
@Paul_McSeol
@Paul_McSeol Жыл бұрын
Really fun video! There’s a couple of books I will need to check out. Thanks.
@Joe-lb8qn
@Joe-lb8qn Жыл бұрын
Great idea all books I've enjoyed except for TBP which i just couldn't get on with .
@peterholmes5217
@peterholmes5217 4 ай бұрын
Great choices and an excellent summary.
@utrutr6013
@utrutr6013 10 ай бұрын
Thanks for your video and book suggestions. In the future, Please chapterize your video so it's easier to navigate to the books. Thank you
@stevenredpath9332
@stevenredpath9332 10 ай бұрын
I wonder if the Minds of the Culture series would fit into this. They certainly portray AI quite differently from what we are seeing.
@yolandawashington7271
@yolandawashington7271 Жыл бұрын
Well, my TBR list just expanded again. I tried reading Neuromancer at least 3 times and just couldnt get into it. Maybe I'll try it again now that I have a much deeper understanding of the Internet, VR, and software in general. Thanks for taking the time to make these vids.
@ragragrec1
@ragragrec1 Жыл бұрын
Excellent video. Would make a case for robots series by Asimov
@shitsugane
@shitsugane 7 ай бұрын
This is a great channel
@richarddeese1087
@richarddeese1087 Жыл бұрын
Also: how would senses work in only 2 dimensions? tavi.
@JayPlaysEverything
@JayPlaysEverything Жыл бұрын
Amazing list! A few i've read, a few i've meant to read and a few new ones to read!
@julianbarnes8737
@julianbarnes8737 8 ай бұрын
Great list. Many thanks!
@SardonicHog
@SardonicHog 3 ай бұрын
Thanks. Ringworld is the only one I’ve read.
@MrLazyPhD
@MrLazyPhD Жыл бұрын
Permutation City is such a banger of a book
@Skirne
@Skirne Жыл бұрын
So happy to see Egan mentioned here.
@omniboy-prime
@omniboy-prime Жыл бұрын
Perihelion Summer is going to be my first Egan book. If I like It I Will cointinue with his work
@Sci-FiOdyssey
@Sci-FiOdyssey Жыл бұрын
I wasn’t too keen on Perihelion Summer. I don’t think it’s his best. I’d start with Schilds Ladder as an Egan introduction.
@Skirne
@Skirne Жыл бұрын
@@Sci-FiOdyssey YES! Schild's Ladder is my all time fav by Egan.
@oldforestroad
@oldforestroad Жыл бұрын
Serious list of book, good times. "I know it all sounds bizarre--but the whole point is that, in fact, it's all utterly commonplace. Everyone spends their whole life collapsing the systems they interact with." From 'Quarrantine' by Greg Egan.
@huaweimediapadt3726
@huaweimediapadt3726 Жыл бұрын
My favourite Sci-Fi channel. I would add to the list "The Memory of Whiteness" by Kim Stanley Robinson: Time existing not as a singular point always moving forward, but as an immutable four dimensional structure where all moments exist together.
@bkbland1626
@bkbland1626 7 ай бұрын
The Integral Trees was pretty wild, too. That's Niven, I think
@richarddeese1087
@richarddeese1087 Жыл бұрын
You gotta ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, cyberpunk? tavi.
@disconnected22
@disconnected22 Жыл бұрын
1:02 - suddenly I feel like listening to Synthwave
@williamblakehall5566
@williamblakehall5566 Жыл бұрын
I will always swear by W. Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men and Star Maker.
@sookendestroy1
@sookendestroy1 Жыл бұрын
I love the three body problem series but people give it a lot more credit imo than it deserves when it comes to hard science. It very much verges on science fantasy and if anything is a very compelling telling of the dark forest hypothesis and geopolitics between aliens of massively advanced tech to the point of being magic
@shagdrum
@shagdrum 9 ай бұрын
I would say it's hard sci-fi inasmuch as it's ideas over individuals; something I view as a recipe for bad storytelling (didn't like 3 body, TBH).
@eden20111
@eden20111 2 ай бұрын
3 Body Problem was the best scifi horror I read in years. Truly a masterpiece. Im looking forward to 3BP season 2 on Netflix!
@Ron4885
@Ron4885 7 ай бұрын
Yes! I thought Ring World was fantastic. Maybe i should give it another read. 🤔 😉
@kevinduffy80
@kevinduffy80 7 ай бұрын
Well worth another read.
@PoeLemic
@PoeLemic 3 ай бұрын
Yes, Niven is an awesome writer. I also loved "World out of Time" and "The Flying Sorcerer" (a comedy sci-fi).
@brettcoster4781
@brettcoster4781 3 ай бұрын
I like a lotof Niven's work but just couldn't get into Ringworld. His short stories are tremendous.
@lisagulick4144
@lisagulick4144 Жыл бұрын
_Brain Wave_ by Poul Anderson had a similar concept to Vinge's in that Earth started in a 'low intelligence' zone, but moved into a higher one. Humanity, having developed in the 'low' zone, turned into a race of supergeniuses overnight! (Animals, too!) It's a short novel - check it out!
@mleko23
@mleko23 11 ай бұрын
Number 4 - Tau Zero, let me tell you, there is much older novel by polish autor Stanislaw Lem from 1961 "Return from the stars" where expedition to Fomalhaut returns after 10 years voyage, but on earth over century has passed.
@peterjrmoore3941
@peterjrmoore3941 9 ай бұрын
great book
@jasperdoornbos8989
@jasperdoornbos8989 Жыл бұрын
Interesting topic. What I like about science fiction is not only the ‘technical’ science but the societal developments as well. For me, the Mars trilogy is a good example of that. And can I make a request, Darrel? Could you please make a video about found (alien?) artefacts , that need an explanation? You have suggestions in that departement? Kind regards, Jasper
@StalxD
@StalxD 4 ай бұрын
I just noticed that Tau zero is similar to an upcoming game called Exodus
@ichirofakename
@ichirofakename 5 ай бұрын
thanks for this
@twosometwosome3698
@twosometwosome3698 10 ай бұрын
If you liked the Three Body Problem, check out the original "Dark Forest" novel THE KILLING STAR by Charles Pelligrino. This one is scarier in its setting and also pushed the boundaries on many scientific concepts that were proved to be very feasable.
@thecaptainsarse
@thecaptainsarse 10 ай бұрын
Now I’ve got 7 new books I’m gonna read. Thanks.
@Doc_Tar
@Doc_Tar 11 ай бұрын
I'm surprised "Roadside Picnic" didn't make the list. I've read a few of these with a number in the last few years. Not a fan of "A Fire Upon the Deep," but "Forever War" and "Three Body Problem" were interesting.
@loanthanhbui
@loanthanhbui Жыл бұрын
I'm glad i found this channel, my tbr list has expanded even more and I can't wait to read these. Subsribed! 🫶
@treefarm3288
@treefarm3288 Жыл бұрын
Terrific video!
@TheCatull
@TheCatull Жыл бұрын
Danke!
@Sci-FiOdyssey
@Sci-FiOdyssey Жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@teviston7288
@teviston7288 Жыл бұрын
The Forever War reminds me of an anime called Voices of a Distant Star, same kind of ideas, but anime.
@NeostormXLMAX
@NeostormXLMAX Жыл бұрын
Im surprised he used to do sci fi
@crinolynneendymion8755
@crinolynneendymion8755 6 ай бұрын
"Broke science", of course, the science is that of the time around which the author was experiencing. And "broke"? Think that's just an expression of the fact that there are in fact fewer things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by authors, think it was Russell that said that. I would quibble that a "top 10" makes no sense, and that the list isn't about the books at all. But it was worth putting the list/video together and summarizing, a very useful thought starter.
@markpaterson2053
@markpaterson2053 Жыл бұрын
I'm sure the aliens turned the proton into 3 dimensions, not two
@Kim_Miller
@Kim_Miller Жыл бұрын
Darrell counting the books up from 1 to 10 and the video counting the books down from 10 t0 1. Trying to break mathematics? 😀
@Sci-FiOdyssey
@Sci-FiOdyssey Жыл бұрын
Filming me and editing me need to talk more 😅
@psikeyhackr6914
@psikeyhackr6914 Жыл бұрын
*Brainwave* by Poul Anderson
@vilstef6988
@vilstef6988 Жыл бұрын
Time is there so everything doesn't happen at once!
@shobhitkaul8076
@shobhitkaul8076 Жыл бұрын
I have no time to think on all this
@eden20111
@eden20111 2 ай бұрын
3 Body Problem was the best scifi horror I read in years. Truly a masterpiece. Im looking forward to 3BP season 2 on Netflix!
@AdityaPatel-j5b
@AdityaPatel-j5b 10 ай бұрын
Time machine Flatland Permutation city Three body problem Neuromancer Ringworld Tau Zero The Forever war A fire upon the Deep The gods themselves
@ResidualSelfImage
@ResidualSelfImage 10 ай бұрын
The Forever War is a quick read. Neuromancer narrative was slow and convoluted for me. HG Wells Time Machine is a classic.
@SystemsMedicine
@SystemsMedicine 9 ай бұрын
I would add: Thrice Upon A Time & The Infinite Cage
@teaearlgrayh0t
@teaearlgrayh0t 6 ай бұрын
Sorry, but Ringworld is a derivation from a Dyson Sphere, nothing new here.
@lairdbeager9991
@lairdbeager9991 Жыл бұрын
Daryl, I appreciate your intellect and I like your videos .I've read sy fi my entire life. I was hoping you could help me or someone else who Read's sy fi, . I was trying to find the story of the Starship Captain far in the future who goes on an exploration mission with the turtle people, who are his advisors to the outer spiral arm of the Galaxy where he comes upon a human inhabited planet apparently from a colony ship from Earth possibly 300 years. in the past . although females cannot survive on the planet after the first couple years all females die including animal females only males can live on the planet. So after years a scientist, female by the way, before she dies discovers a way that men can have kids, get pregnant . when the captain arrives, the people on the planet realize he is a human from Earth, who they've had no contact with since they had colonized the planet, nor do they have any idea where earth is.The people although not super technically Advanced,the people on the planet have ships that can reach his orbiting Starship, which they attack they are so upset and mad at earthlings who had sent them out there to live rather horrible lives so it was a planet of all males he does not want to kill any humans,( his code) but they are breaking into his Starship, so he sends cats down to a Moon with an atmosphere 1 million years into the past and programs the cats to become intelligent as humans and to protect him and his starship.... so I don't want to spoil the rest of the story if you haven't read it, I'm wondering if anybody has ever read that? I believe it was in a best pics paperback from either Anderson Paul or p o h l Anderson I gave the book away, and haven't been able to find this story since , but it's so good I enjoyed reading it several times over the years when I had it.i haven't read it for many years , and I was wondering if you or another sci-fi reader could help me find the name or author of that story ?
@peterjackson6700
@peterjackson6700 Жыл бұрын
I used to enjoy your videos but I’ve gone off them because you do not introduce new or novel sci-fi, you just constantly regurgitate the same old books. Tau Zero, The Forever War, Neuromancer, Revelation Space, Vernor Vinge’s novels, Ringworld etc. You have a set group of books that you select out of and you don’t seem to expand it. You also refuse to acknowledge certain brilliant series like the Commonwealth series, The Saga of the Exiles, The Galactic Milieu series, the Rampart Worlds etc. You are becoming boring and predictable. 😢
@abbysweat9202
@abbysweat9202 Жыл бұрын
Hush up and let the man pay his bills. There are other videos you can watch and you don't have to waste your time criticizing a video that obviously took a lot of time and effort to write and film and edit and God knows what else. I don't make content so I don't know what all goes into it but I bet it took a lot more effort to make than your pretentious comment.
@tamerlaaane
@tamerlaaane Жыл бұрын
​@@abbysweat9202maybe it is a bit pretentious.. i mean we cant all be reading tons of books year in year out.. but he is right
@abbysweat9202
@abbysweat9202 Жыл бұрын
@@tamerlaaane that may be true, I'm only a casual viewer so I don't know, but that wasn't constructive criticism. There's a difference.
@treefarm3288
@treefarm3288 Жыл бұрын
Check out his Smash or Pass video from early this year where he briefly reviewed a list of new books by different authors. Also check viewers' comments which add many authors. Thus you can get a couple dozen new authors. I have read all of PF Hamilton but a couple years pass before each new book comes out.
@Dystopianutopiabuilds
@Dystopianutopiabuilds Жыл бұрын
So you just want someone who will create content that you want to see and nothing else? Don't you think that's a little egotistical?
@barabbasrosebud9282
@barabbasrosebud9282 11 ай бұрын
You refer to science many times yet you seem to be quite ignorant of actual science. But you have lots of company.
@theshrubberer
@theshrubberer 10 ай бұрын
how superior of you
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