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Other Genres of SF

Sci fi has more or less exploded in the last few decades. I know there's hard sci fi, space opera, and a lot of punk genres. What subgenres are you guys really enjoying? Anything niche?

And are there any subgenres you think should become a thing?

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  • SolarPunk is really nice sometimes. I'd say Becky Chambers (Monk & Robot) and Martha Wells (Murderbot) are kind of the leaders in that genre although I think you could maybe say Kim Stanley Robinson is really the grandfather of it all with stuff going all the way back to the Mars trilogy and the Coasts trilogy, but there's also quite a few authors that I would also submit belong there. For example…

    • Stealing Worlds by Karl Schroeder
    • Walkaways by Cory Doctorow
    • Delta-V and Critical Mass by Daniel Suarez (and also to a degree Daemon and Freedom)
    • Rich Man's Sky and Poor Man's Sky by Wil McCarthy
    • Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson
    • Ministry for the Future by KSR
    • Infomocracy by Malka Older
    • Gamechanger and Dealbreaker by L X Beckett

    Some of these aren't nearly as cozy and heart-warming as stuff by Becky Chambers tends to be, but they all try and portray a positive future for us rather than some bleak dystopia with no way out.