re: Recommend some Sci Fi

There are really two kinds of sci-fi:

1) Stuff that is very sci, and

2) Stuff that is very fi.


Andy Weir's The Martian and Project Hail Mary are both very science-y novels that you could imagine being real. Most of Star Trek is this kind of sci-fi (the Q stuff is the biggest exception). I really like the Red Mars trilogy from Kim Stanley Robinson (though some of his later stuff, like Aurora, is trash).

I really like all of the Ender's Game stuff. That first book is brilliant and very readable. The Ender books after that are great, but rather deep and philosophical, while the Shadow series stays easy to read.

The other kind of sci-fi is simple imaginative fiction that doesn't ask you to take the science literally. Hitchhiker's Guide fits into this category, of course, and I would put Ringworld in there as well.

Another example of the latter kind of sci-fi would be C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, which uses space as a way to talk about humanity and God. As a Christian, I love those books (Perelandra might be my 2nd-favorite novel), but they aren't for everyone.