minnca
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Comment · 5 years ago
This is how you lose the time war is unlike any other book I've read! I thought it was super disorienting – and I loved that.
Comment · 5 years ago
Ken Liu has some excellent short stories. His collection The Paper Menagerie from a few years ago was particularly great. (The titular short story won a Hugo.) He also translated the first and third books in the Three-Body Problem series.
Ted Chiang is another great SF short story writer.
Definitely Maybe by the Strugatsky brother is excellent – though it was published in the 70s so maybe not "modern."
Comment · 5 years ago
I think The Beginning Place is an underrated Le Guin book that didn't make the list! It's definitely not science fiction or even futuristic – more like fantasy plus magical realism – but I found the plot so unique and engaging.
Comment · 5 years ago
I'm a big Le Guin fan and I consider her books to be sort of like "anthropological science fiction," as in they're focused on the societies and people of science fictional societies and less so on the science behind those societies.
Comment · 6 years ago
Google has some pretty good introductory writing resources for developers: https://developers.google.com/tech-writing/one