TOP 25 Sci-Fi Book Series

My Top 25 Science Fiction Series, ranked by my overall enjoyment of the reading experience of the full series.
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[@foodini666]

nice list. added a few of these to my 'to read in the future' list.

[@miljanmatovic880]

Nice list and great recommendations!

[@FIT2BREAD]

Thanks Miljan

[@SeemaSingh-qd7xb]

Great reads!

[@craigexsted6530]

Enjoyed & Thank You !

[@ubik2388]

Great list. Every one is either on my list of top series or on my TBR. It's good to see Gibson's Bridge trilogy getting some love. I think it gets overlooked too often. And with two series on your list, Linda Nagata has moved up a few notches on the TBR queue.

[@FIT2BREAD]

Thanks Ubik. There's a few on the list I'm eager to reread myself...Bridge among them...

[@wordfullyyours]

I love your videos. You give me so much to throw on my TBR list 😅

[@FIT2BREAD]

Thanks for commenting. I appreciate it and it helps motivate me to make each next video!

[@garthok6224]

Your channel never disappoints bro

[@user-bw1zr4rs4i]

This was a good list. It would be interesting to hear your views on some recent series like the Locked Tomb and Teixcalaan.

[@Alchimystic]

Great video. It helped me organize a bit better my long TBR regarding series. Series i already finished: Dune and Foundation Books of series i started in the last 3 months: Fire Upon the Deep, Three-Body Problem, Hyperion and Left Hand of Darkness Books of series to continue now in January: The Dark Forest and Fall of Hyperion. Originally the intent was to read Pandora's Star (and not Fall of Hyperion), but i will follow your advice do read is as close as possible to Hyperion

[@FIT2BREAD]

Awesome. Yeah, it's def meant that hyperion and fall of hyperion are really one book split in half

[@bartsbookspace]

Wow. Great video! I just finished Dark Forest and will be reading Death’s End soon. I’m really excited now as it sounds like it may have been your favorite of the three! 🙌

[@FIT2BREAD]

thanks, sorry ive missed some of your comments as theyve been filtered a bit for some reason...and i havent checked the filtered comments area...

[@bartsbookspace]

@@FIT2BREAD It’s no problem!

[@FIT2BREAD]

@@bartsbookspace it's odd that they keep filtering you...

[@bartsbookspace]

@@FIT2BREAD That is weird, I didn’t even know that filtering existed. 😂

[@lofilazy.]

I will have to give Dune Messiah another go, I try and just found it really jarring to get into for some reason. Though I am happy to see the Sprawl so high on your list, I am currently reading Count Zero now for the first time as a break from the Expanse and I love it.

[@FIT2BREAD]

Nice call, def prefer Sprawl over the Expanse, of course, though The Expanse is a really great series to take a break from other reading from time to time

[@sergioteixeira]

Great list. Full of legendary picks. I was hoping to see the we are bob (bobiverse) series in the mix. Nevertheless stellar job.

[@FIT2BREAD]

thanks. I like we are legion. I had it on my top 210 list and its a great series. if I expanded this list out, it wouldnt take long to find that series on here for me. i still have another book in the series to go

[@chrisconnors7418]

I really liked Nagata's Inverted Frontier series. I'll have to read First Light ones next since you rated them even higher.

[@FIT2BREAD]

I'll be curious how they stack up for u against Inverted Fronteir

[@PeterDaley72]

Oh the Chidren of Time series has three completed books! oh my god!

[@FIT2BREAD]

Yep, it does now. I have to get Children of Memory which just came out in some places. It would definitely make the next list...unless Memory is a dud, but I don't think Tchaikovsky can write a dud

[@PeterDaley72]

@@FIT2BREAD It's different, but I wouldn't call it a dud. Others may disagree, but they'd be wrong^. Love your channel, thanks for all the effort you put into it. and happy new year!

[@secretsauceofstorycraft]

Whew i was scared that now that I finally got the red by nagata, you werent going to have it on the list!!! Boy, Im relieved!

[@FIT2BREAD]

Ha, no way u could leave it off

[@epone3488]

I was going through a few of your videos at the same time I think "Orthe" by Mary Gentle "Golden witchbreed" and "Ancient Light" might be something to put on your TBR too.

[@FIT2BREAD]

Thanks. They were not at all on my radar, so I'll look into those

[@Paromita_M]

Great list. I really like the Hainish Cycle by Ursula K Le Guin and the Xenogenesis trilogy by Octavia E. Butler. BOTNS by Gene Wolfe was very interesting. I just read Dune this year and liked it a lot more on a reread. Haven't read the sequels yet.

[@FIT2BREAD]

Thanks P. I def like Dune more with its sequels than by itself

[@tjabaley]

Solid list. I wish i was reading many of these for the first time. only thing i would change would be to add a little lazarus long and bump up asimov to 1...

[@FIT2BREAD]

Thanks...and yeah I'd be totally good with Asimov at #1

[@RominaJones]

I've been thinking about Alastair Reynolds as his Revelation Space series. It is so often referred to; however, on a personal level I find I need character and engaging dialogue to get me through a book. I can take that over a unique plot if the character is interesting enough. World-building is important too so I know Reynolds has that in his favour. I always hear that character/dialogue caveat you gave so it has warned me off his work for the time being. In contrast, I'm going to check out Bujold though. That was a new recommendation for me.

[@FIT2BREAD]

You can really get lost in the Vorkosigan Saga. It's so well done and there's so many great books. Miles is such a great character

[@christerdehlin8866]

I would say the problem of shallow characters is mainly a problem in Revelation Space. After that his writing improves a lot. The series is as a whole is worth the effort. The best one is the stand alone Chasm City. You could start with that. Also Reynolds's most recent book Eversion, (which not part of Revelation Space), is beautifully written with deep character development and a prose that by far exceeds the quality his earlier works. It's one of the best SF books I've read.

[@stevezeidman7224]

I just found your channel and enjoy it immensely. I noticed you have not published in 6 months. Have you decided to retire from KZbin?

[@cherishsengchonasangma6164]

Honestly, Suneater Series should be on the list if the Red Rising is there.

[@megaklant67]

You should have a complete booklist in the description!!!

[@FIT2BREAD]

thanks for the reminder. I'll go back and add that in at some point

[@fredkelly6953]

I found the last book of the foundation series very anticlimactic, like Asimov just wanted to tie up all the loose ends and finish it. Enders Game for me was one book the others were shadows of the first and speaking of shadows Bean's series of books were probably closer to the first. Dune and Children were the epic space operas, Messiah and God Emperor were more reflective especially God Emperor which really showed Herbert's philosophies. Heretics and Chapter House were like next gen and I felt sharper in writing style. Banks's world building is spectacular and I can never get enough of those Ai's. The Culture series is dense at times but hard to put down. One series I just can't get into but want to is Revelation Space, it's been recommended by so many people but I can barely get past the first chapter. Honorable mentions for this list, Jack Campbell - Lost Fleet, David Weber - Honor Harrington , Harry Turtledove - The Worldwar series.

[@P.EnglishLiterature]

This is a lot to digest. You have read quite a lot of sci-fi series. Cixin Liu's series sound great. I haven't been reading much of science fiction in the past years, I would love to do more this year. Thanks, Michael.

[@FIT2BREAD]

Do it P!

[@akuttpasse1521]

Amazing list!! You need to read «sun Eater» my friend, guessing it would end up in your top 10

[@FIT2BREAD]

Thanks Akutt. I do hope to get to that one eventually

[@akuttpasse1521]

@@FIT2BREAD i animate for a living, so AudioBooks are great company when i draw. Finished 104 scifi books in 2022, including most on your list, and Sun Eater is top 3 for me. Crushes the likes of red rising, on par with hyperion, and might get passed foundation if the final book does the series justice. can’t recommend it enough.

[@FIT2BREAD]

@Akutt Passe ok, I'm def interested...and the author seems like a decent guy. I've watched him on KZbin a few times and I like that he references BOTNS as an influence

[@bertanderson2548]

An interesting list. For myself, I would put the Culture series at the top.

[@FIT2BREAD]

I could have put it #1 and I would have been good with that too

[@fjuran1]

So many great series on the list. Have to get to Linda Nagata, have never read her. Watts and BUtler, I also have to get to.

[@FIT2BREAD]

Frank, those 3 authors alone will keep you busy with great books.

[@HannahSegullah]

My “Why didn’t you include it?” Would be Rama/A.C. Clarke very enjoyable video though. I’ll have to check out more of your stuff!

[@jonathanacuna]

you should play with ChatGPT to ask it to write a science fiction plot with concepts that peak your interest. It wrote me an amazing Alien First encounter script that blew my mind. It’s like choose your own adventure books but now with AI😂. Thank you for sharing!

[@FIT2BREAD]

Interesting...I can't imagine..

[@mondostrat]

'Neuromancer' is my favorite Gibson book but I actually prefer the Bridge series to the Sprawl. I think it has a stronger story arc through-out. I read the Blue Ant series as the books were released. I remember 'Pattern Recognition' as being lovely written & engaging, but I honestly can't remember a thing about the other two. Maybe I need to reread the whole thing all in one go. p.s. Dune > Foundation

[@FIT2BREAD]

I love everything about the Sprawl, and I love Neuromancer and I just couldn't rate Bridge or Ant as high

[@danjhansell1425]

Thanks for sharing your list. Where do you rank the 'Takeshi Kovacs' and 'Expanse series' ?

[@scottwareham6987]

The series that time forgot: Stephen Donaldson's Gap Cycle series. It's absolute genius, imo. Despicable characters, interesting aliens, espionage and dialogue/character development that can sit comfortably next to Simmons...but be warned: the first book is harsh (The Real Story) which sets up the characters going forward. My job is done :) Solid list...!

[@FIT2BREAD]

ha thanks. I have Gap cycle on my radar

[@Silvio67]

Love the Hal9000 shirt

[@FIT2BREAD]

Thanks

[@SeppukuOH]

Can't believe you didn't include the "We are Bob" Series! If you haven't read it, treat yourself!!

[@FIT2BREAD]

It's in my top 30 ...but I also still need to read the last installment

[@myoldchannel0690]

The tines were so awesome. I am by no stretch a dog person and I loved them.

[@FIT2BREAD]

Loved those times and the skroderiders too

[@urizen7613]

The Culture is my ideal future.

[@zephyr2002]

Looks like i found my 2024 to-read list. Ill see how far I get.

[@FIT2BREAD]

Nice. Have you read any of the series on the list yet?

[@zephyr2002]

Oh for sure. I'm familiar with Hamilton, Reynolds, Wolfe, Gibson, Herbert, and Simmons (Hyperion is my #1) but there are so many more on this list that seem to fit my personal taste in Sci-Fi that I'll use it as my checklist ✅. Thanks for the recommendations! Love the quick format and spoiler-free overviews.

[@FIT2BREAD]

@@zephyr2002 awesome thanks

[@epiphoney]

S. Andrew Swann's Apotheosis trilogy was fun.

[@FIT2BREAD]

I've never heard of it. Is it space opera?

[@epiphoney]

@@FIT2BREAD yes

[@williammartinie]

Where can I get some of those SICK shirts???

[@lbuck5366]

Great, informative video. Thanks. Shame Card is a bigot. I'm looking forward to reading Nagata. Where's good to start with the Bujold series?

[@johannyman9822]

Yes, Where do I start?

[@FIT2BREAD]

Thanks yeah, sucks he's such a horrible homophobe. For Vorkosigan I'd start with Shards of Honor or Warriors Apprentice. Also early on read Cordelias Honor and Braryar. You'll definitely be hooked by then. They are short reads...so just commit. Braryar is one of the really great ones. My favorite is Mirror Dance. don't go for it too early. Get to know everyone and then read Mirror Dance around 6th or 7th.

[@user-km3mp7fe1h]

Hell No. List Failed. DUNE IS #1. The GOAT

[@charlesspringer4709]

The Skylark series E E Smith. The Quantum Gravity series by Justina Robson. Ender is a ripoff of Heinlein - Citizen of the Galaxy - and a movie from a year before Ender was published, The Last Starfighter. I can't fathom why high school English teachers are crazy about it.

[@justiitis]

Surprised you skipped The Night's Dawn trilogy by Peter F Hamilton. Who wouldn't upvote a Technology vs Magic Zombie invasion series?

[@FIT2BREAD]

Justin I couldn't rank it, because as great as the first two books are, I haven't read the Naked God or the related short fiction

[@zephyr2002]

Night's Dawn was my first and favorite Hamilton series. So memorable. Lalonde...😮

[@MusicMike939]

Im sure he hasnt read SM Stirling or CJ Cherryh or they would be on the list somewhere.

[@floogelhornzzz4770]

If these books are so great, why haven't they been made into movies? 📽

[@carloscachicamo331]

This is such a bait comment lol

[@karlynwashington2197]

Hey, handsome. I'm back to watching you.

[@FIT2BREAD]

Thank you

[@carloscachicamo331]

Speaker for the dead is sooooo soo good. Completely outshines enders game. But nobody reads it because of how much of a POS OSC is :(

[@robertmullin7884]

I am looking for a sci fi series about an earth invasion that is stopped by an Engineer. The antagonist is narrating the story from ha is cell. The engineer is some galactic hero and is always thwarting the plans of the bad guy. Help, I can't find it! By the way. Dune is number one, don't you know!

[@HannahSegullah]

Prometheus?

[@4everseekingwisdom690]

Can't believe dune wasn't number one. by far the best Book series I've ever read

[@FIT2BREAD]

Part of me wanted it at one or two. I swapped Dune, Ender, Foundation and the Culture several times.

[@4everseekingwisdom690]

@@FIT2BREAD oh I'm sure lol but the truth is they are all in their own way equally great. You had some of my favorites in there as well as a few I need to read thanks!

[@FIT2BREAD]

@@4everseekingwisdom690 what next on your to be read list?

[@4everseekingwisdom690]

@@FIT2BREAD without a doubt the foundation series

[@rediband]

ugh.

[@yzf5172]

This was a good list. It would be interesting to hear your views on some recent series like the Locked Tomb and Teixcalaan.

[@FIT2BREAD]

thanks. I did a review previously on Giddeon the 9th