Bookpilled | Is This Really the Best Sci-Fi Book Ever Written? [100 Book Challenge #100] @Bookpilled | Uploaded February 2024 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
Reviewing Gene Wolfe's "The Book of the New Sun" and its coda "The Urth of the New Sun."
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Reviewing Gene Wolfe's "The Book of the New Sun" and its coda "The Urth of the New Sun."
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Atlantis by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
![Is This Really the Best Sci-Fi Book Ever Written? [100 Book Challenge #100]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hAzGdTkEmHw/hqdefault.jpg "Is This Really the Best Sci-Fi Book Ever Written? [100 Book Challenge #100]
Reviewing Gene Wolfes The Book of the New Sun and its coda The Urth of the New Sun.
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Atlantis by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/")
![The 15 Best Sci-Fi Books Ive Ever Read [Updated Again]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/k0H584ftkQU/hqdefault.jpg "The 15 Best Sci-Fi Books Ive Ever Read [Updated Again]
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End music is Beginnings (Intro) by The Tower of Light
Thumbnail Image by 18796645 from Pixabay
00:00 Hothouse by Brian Aldiss
02:10 The Palace of Eternity by Bob Shaw
04:10 Downward to the Earth by Robert Silverberg
05:51 Star of the Unborn by Franz Werfel
08:13 Farewell Earths Bliss by D.G. Compton
09:18 A Case of Conscience by James Blish
10:51 Beyond Apollo by Barry N. Malzberg
12:52 We Who Are About To... by Joanna Russ
15:09 Ice by Anna Kavan
16:51 A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
19:13 The Dying Earth by Jack Vance
21:18 Neuromancer by William Gibson
22:33 Blindsight by Peter Watts
24:48 Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
26:59 Roadside Picnic by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky
30:37 No Dune?!!!!!!!?!?!!!?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1")
![The Biggest Sci-Fi and Fantasy Book Haul of My Life [1k Subscriber Special]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kPjCEKeu1OA/hqdefault.jpg "The Biggest Sci-Fi and Fantasy Book Haul of My Life [1k Subscriber Special]
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This video covers a hopefully-not-reckless purchase spree at thrift stores, libraries and used bookstores. Mostly vintage science fiction and fantasy paperbacks, with a couple horrors and literary fiction finds thrown in.
All music by Aria Rostami:
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![Unexpectedly Good Vintage Science Fiction Finds in Mexico City [Book Haul]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/lymE-F4dQW8/hqdefault.jpg "Unexpectedly Good Vintage Science Fiction Finds in Mexico City [Book Haul]
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![The 5 Best Science Fiction Short Stories Out of the 46 I Just Read [100 Book Challenge #65-67]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/n566xGpJ9lQ/hqdefault.jpg "The 5 Best Science Fiction Short Stories Out of the 46 I Just Read [100 Book Challenge #65-67]
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Bridgers video about anthologies: https://youtu.be/3VNt6N9m 4
The Machine Stops is public domain, dont pay anyone for it:
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00:00 Intro
00:17 5,271,009 by Alfred Bester
02:52 Adam and No Eve by Alfred Bester
03:51 The Night Wind by Edgar Pangborn
05:21 Short in the Chest by Idris Seabright (Margaret St. Clair)
06:44 The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster")
![The Most Valuable Sci-Fi Book Ive Ever Found [Thrift Store Haul]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/p-empGMqGT4/hqdefault.jpg "The Most Valuable Sci-Fi Book Ive Ever Found [Thrift Store Haul]
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In this installment of Matt buys more books than his small apartment can accommodate, we see the rarest, most potentially valuable genre book Ive ever thrifted.")
![The 15 Best Sci-Fi Books Ive Ever Read [Updated]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pP0XnfC1jVM/hqdefault.jpg "The 15 Best Sci-Fi Books Ive Ever Read [Updated]
This is a list of my 15 favorite science fiction books, as of September 2022. My selection criteria were a mishmash of all the variables you might imagine. There is no strict litmus or set of standards I applied. Timestamps are below for those whod like the quick version.
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00:00 Dune by Frank Herbert
01:19 The Mote in Gods Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
02:48 The Stars My Destination / Tiger! Tiger! by Alfred Bester
04:24 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
05:45 The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
08:58 The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin
12:09 Norstrilia by Cordwainer Smith
15:09 City by Clifford D. Simak
17:02 Hothouse by Brian Aldiss
18:57 Neuromancer by William Gibson
20:16 Blood Music by Greg Bear
22:23 The Dying Earth by Jack Vance
24:49 Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
27:29 A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
31:15 Blindsight by Peter Watts
Thanks for watching. This took a ton of work, hope you enjoy it.
This is an update to a similar Top 15 video I made a little over a year ago:
https://youtu.be/SvOstw84Pq4
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