Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-25131077-20170111020337/@comment-26119768-20170112002833

LOTRMod wrote: Rocket Engineer wrote: @Campinator

I know, my next 2-5 weeks will be spent reading all these books people are suggesting. Unfortunate Events, Phantom Tollbooth, the Space Trilogy... you have great taste in books, my friend!

Edit: Some suggestions to add:

Proxima and Ultima by Stephen Baxter, and the Long Earth series by the same author.

Also, short stories. You would be able to find all of the following online. Short stories are good for quick reads that you don't have to commit to, but despite their shortness, the ideas they present are as profound as those of any full-length novel, if not more so. Maybe that's not your sort of thing, but here they are anyway, and for anyone else who may be interested.

The Tower of Babylon, and Exhalation, by Ted Chiang.

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

The Star by Arthur C. Clarke. The ending in this one hits you right in the stomach. (No spoilers)

They're Made Out of Meat by Terry Bisson.

The Last Question and The Last Answer by Isaac Asimov.

The Fable of the Dragon Tyrant, by Nick Bostrom. I believe that this is hands-down the most important work of fiction ever written, and should be read by everyone. Thank you, although it's less good taste and more reading everything I can get my hands on.