Fellow bookworms, I am glad to announce that I am at the last book of Cosmere (Yumi and the Nightmare Painter). And then, I will have finished it all. So this is where I need your help. Recommend me some awesome Sci-fi and Fantasy books that you believe will blow away my mind, like the impact needs to be huge, cannot believe this happened type of stuff. Preferred genre are Sci-fi and Fantasy, but if you know some awesome book from other genre, don’t hold back, all suggestions are welcome.

Thank you in advance.

  • ThisIsNotHim@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Of what others have suggested and that I’ve read: the ones most similar to what you’ve finished are:

    • The First Law series by Joe Abercrombie
    • The Expanse series by James SA Corey
    • Hyperion (at least the first two books, w/ optional two more) by Dan Simmons

    New recommendations:

    • Dhalgren by Samuel R Delany (content warning)
    • The Baroque Cycle series by Neal Stephenson (Snow Crash and the Diamond Age may both be better starting points for the author, but may fit your other criteria less)
    • The Book of the New Sun series by Gene Wolfe

    Other works that stretch your genre boundary but may evoke the right emotion:

    • Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
    • If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
    • The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
    • Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
    • The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
    • Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff
    • Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M Danforth
    • John Dies at the End by David Wong