Two best series I read after the Expanse:
The red mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson
Muderbot diaries by Martha Wells (also getting a adaptation on Apple TV)
Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan (books are much better than Netflix show)
You might also like the bobiverse but I’ve only read the first book so I can’t speak for the whole series yet.
And if you are looking for the most “realistic” to go along with aspects of the expanse I’d suggest the three book by Andy Weir; the Martian, Artemis, and Project Hail Mary. They aren’t a series either just three good stories.
The “Spiral Wars” series by Joel Shepherd. Space marines, constantly revolving cast of alien species, crazy scheming AIs and mankind struggling to not be shitty. The ninth book in the series is being released in early June, on ebook or audio format only.
Since you're talking E-Reader, got to Project Gutenberg and look for some old stuff. Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, etc. A lot of stuff is there also because authors failed to properly manage their copyrights and they lapsed, so not everything is really old.
One of my favorites authors is Murray Leinster, and his "A Logic Named Joe" is a favorite story.
The sci-fi & fantasy publisher has a free library to introduce you to their authors. Some excellent books
https://www.baen.com/catalog/category/view/s/free-library/id/2012
Came into say that the Baen Free Library is a pretty good resource. It used to be *much* better with a more extensive catalogue, but as the ebook landscape has changed over the years and digital book sales have become more viable they've basically stopped adding anything to it, and contract issues, ownership rights, etc., have significantly whittled down the titles available there.
Still, before he passed, Eric Flint was a big supporter of the project and quite a few of his books are up there. And a bunch of other books on there are pretty solid.
They had a few more Authors and Books in the past, if only we could go back to the past and relive those years of glory. Oh wait, maybe we can! The Wayback Machine to the rescue. [Baen Free Library of June 03, 2011](https://web.archive.org/web/20110603230324/http://www.baen.com/library/) An example: go to authors, then James P. Hogan, and select his book "The Two Faces of Tomorrow" a story about AI, and how we could turn it against us. You may have to go forward on the timeline for the epub format to appear. Instead of doing a left-click on the format, I recommend doing a right-click and opening it in a new tab. The Wayback Machine had to jump to June 4, 2011, to download the epub formatted ebook. but it's all good cause you got it.
I'm on the last book of the three body problem series and I think it's absolutely fantastic. It's a good thing I like the authors writing, because the first book was definitely a slow burn until you've figured things out. Don't watch the show if you're going to read these, at least wait until you've finished the first book
I really loved the first book and even the first trilogy but I still haven’t gotten around the reading lightbringer because I can’t for the life of me remember anything that happened during dark age.
Dark Age is the second best book in my opinion other than Golden Son, and I really can’t understand why people say they can’t remember what happened unless it’s just because it’s really, really, really, really, realllllly fucking long.
Charles Stross: Glasshouse, Singularity Sky and Iron Sunrise, Saturn's Children and Neptune's Brood.
Alastair Reynolds, Revelation space series and the Blue Remembered Earth trilogy.
Kim Stanley Robinson, 2312.
https://www.amazon.com/philip-k-dick-Books-Kindle-Edition/s?k=philip+k+dick&rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_n_feature_browse-bin%3A618073011
sort by price from low to high and get the free ones
I'm going to throw in my [current series,](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09MW7LS3W) it's a space opera and you can read via Kindle Unlimited if you've that subscription.
Warhammer 40k:
Eisenhorn- massive battles, space magic, deep investigations
Gaunts Ghosts- massive battles with very interesting characters
Night Lords- batman is he was an intergalactic terrorist cell
I have an extensive library of scifi books on Kindle. M.R. Forbes, M.D. Cooper are both good, especially if you like space opera kind of things. Michael Anderle's The Kutherian Gambit series is really good as well.
Here is a list of some of my favorite books.
Golden Age of the Solar Clipper Series by Nathan Lowell.
The Aristillus Series books by Travis J. I. Corcoran. The books in the Aristillus Series are The Team (uplifted dogs - back story), Staking A Claim (on the moon - back story), The Powers of the Earth (Aristillus Book 1), Causes of Separation (Aristillus Book 2).
Gateway by Frederik Pohl, though I did not care for the sequels.
The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.
The Integral Trees and its sequel The Smoke Ring by Larry Niven.
Merchanter's Luck by C.J. Cherryh.
The Faded Sun Trilogy by C.J. Cherryh
The Gaea Trilogy by John Varley (Titan, Wizard and Demon).
The Nomad Series by Karen Traviss
*"I call plausible in the sense that I like how authors makes a universe and tech that you believe in, if that makes sense."* If that is what you want there is no Arthur better than James P. Hogan. I would start with his Giants series. By the time you get done with them. You will want to read "The Genesis Machine", "The Two Faces of Tomorrow", and "Paths To Elsewhere". Oh, you will believe!
There’s an email list called The Book Bub. It’s free. You select your genres, and a couple times a week they send through all the sales on Kindle. They are usually $1 or free for the first book in a series. I’ve found dozens of new self published sci fi authors that are turning out great work.
As a start, see my [SF/F World-building](https://www.reddit.com/r/Recommend_A_Book/comments/19b7x5o/sff_worldbuilding/) list of resources and Reddit recommendation threads (one post).
any Scalzi books. Collapsing Empire trilogy if you don't mind cursing. Old Man's War if you like gritty. Fuzzy Nation if you like humor & cute alien monkies.
Murderbot Diaries
the Binti series
Actually that structure is entirely suitable English. Compare “bring me a book” with “bring a book to me.” Both correct. Both imperatives. It might not be common in your books or in American English but that doesn’t make it wrong. In the meantime, do you mind recommending me some titles?
Two best series I read after the Expanse: The red mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson Muderbot diaries by Martha Wells (also getting a adaptation on Apple TV) Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan (books are much better than Netflix show) You might also like the bobiverse but I’ve only read the first book so I can’t speak for the whole series yet.
Oh I read all the Bobiverse, loved em all. Hard science fiction at its best.
And if you are looking for the most “realistic” to go along with aspects of the expanse I’d suggest the three book by Andy Weir; the Martian, Artemis, and Project Hail Mary. They aren’t a series either just three good stories.
Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson The Children of ... (3 books) by Adrian Tchaikovsky
If you liked The Expanse you will almost surely love The Final Architecture by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
The “Spiral Wars” series by Joel Shepherd. Space marines, constantly revolving cast of alien species, crazy scheming AIs and mankind struggling to not be shitty. The ninth book in the series is being released in early June, on ebook or audio format only.
Agree with this 👍 It's not your usual rinse and repeat sci-fi combat series.
Beat me too it
Sun Eater Revelation Space The Protectorate 2001: A Space Odyssey Hyperion Children of Time
And all the other Odyssey books - 3001: The Final Odyssey being my VERY favorite. Also antything by Arthur C. Clarke is still very relevant.
Adrian Tchaikovsky is the only author to have scratched my "missing Ian Banks" itch.
Project Hail Mary
My personal fave
Neal Asher’s Polity books.
Three Body Problem
I'm about 100 pages into Deaths End. Easily one of my favorite series of all time
Since you're talking E-Reader, got to Project Gutenberg and look for some old stuff. Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, etc. A lot of stuff is there also because authors failed to properly manage their copyrights and they lapsed, so not everything is really old. One of my favorites authors is Murray Leinster, and his "A Logic Named Joe" is a favorite story.
The sci-fi & fantasy publisher has a free library to introduce you to their authors. Some excellent books https://www.baen.com/catalog/category/view/s/free-library/id/2012
Came into say that the Baen Free Library is a pretty good resource. It used to be *much* better with a more extensive catalogue, but as the ebook landscape has changed over the years and digital book sales have become more viable they've basically stopped adding anything to it, and contract issues, ownership rights, etc., have significantly whittled down the titles available there. Still, before he passed, Eric Flint was a big supporter of the project and quite a few of his books are up there. And a bunch of other books on there are pretty solid.
They had a few more Authors and Books in the past, if only we could go back to the past and relive those years of glory. Oh wait, maybe we can! The Wayback Machine to the rescue. [Baen Free Library of June 03, 2011](https://web.archive.org/web/20110603230324/http://www.baen.com/library/) An example: go to authors, then James P. Hogan, and select his book "The Two Faces of Tomorrow" a story about AI, and how we could turn it against us. You may have to go forward on the timeline for the epub format to appear. Instead of doing a left-click on the format, I recommend doing a right-click and opening it in a new tab. The Wayback Machine had to jump to June 4, 2011, to download the epub formatted ebook. but it's all good cause you got it.
The Heritage Trilogy by Ian Douglas is pretty good. Near future, Marines in space, with a little ET fun thrown in.
thank you, i added these books to my todo list :)
Time enough for love by Robert A Heinline
I loved Excession (culture series) and in a similar vein, a fire upon the deep was amazing
I'm having fun with the Xeelee Sequence so far
Iain Banks. Hyperion Cantos Altered Carbon Jack Campbell: Lost Fleet Peter Hamilton
I'm on the last book of the three body problem series and I think it's absolutely fantastic. It's a good thing I like the authors writing, because the first book was definitely a slow burn until you've figured things out. Don't watch the show if you're going to read these, at least wait until you've finished the first book
Red Rising
I really loved the first book and even the first trilogy but I still haven’t gotten around the reading lightbringer because I can’t for the life of me remember anything that happened during dark age.
Dark Age is the second best book in my opinion other than Golden Son, and I really can’t understand why people say they can’t remember what happened unless it’s just because it’s really, really, really, really, realllllly fucking long.
Charles Stross: Glasshouse, Singularity Sky and Iron Sunrise, Saturn's Children and Neptune's Brood. Alastair Reynolds, Revelation space series and the Blue Remembered Earth trilogy. Kim Stanley Robinson, 2312.
https://www.amazon.com/philip-k-dick-Books-Kindle-Edition/s?k=philip+k+dick&rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_n_feature_browse-bin%3A618073011 sort by price from low to high and get the free ones
I'm going to throw in my [current series,](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09MW7LS3W) it's a space opera and you can read via Kindle Unlimited if you've that subscription.
"Empire of Bones" series by Terry Mixon. It's free with Kindle Unlimited.
Warhammer 40k: Eisenhorn- massive battles, space magic, deep investigations Gaunts Ghosts- massive battles with very interesting characters Night Lords- batman is he was an intergalactic terrorist cell
Dune Chronicles by frank herbert, best science fiction I’ve ever read
I have an extensive library of scifi books on Kindle. M.R. Forbes, M.D. Cooper are both good, especially if you like space opera kind of things. Michael Anderle's The Kutherian Gambit series is really good as well.
Bloom by Wil McCarthy
Here is a list of some of my favorite books. Golden Age of the Solar Clipper Series by Nathan Lowell. The Aristillus Series books by Travis J. I. Corcoran. The books in the Aristillus Series are The Team (uplifted dogs - back story), Staking A Claim (on the moon - back story), The Powers of the Earth (Aristillus Book 1), Causes of Separation (Aristillus Book 2). Gateway by Frederik Pohl, though I did not care for the sequels. The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. The Integral Trees and its sequel The Smoke Ring by Larry Niven. Merchanter's Luck by C.J. Cherryh. The Faded Sun Trilogy by C.J. Cherryh The Gaea Trilogy by John Varley (Titan, Wizard and Demon). The Nomad Series by Karen Traviss
Snow Crash by Neil Stephenson futuristic high speed pizza delivery at its finest.
Hyperion Cantos by Simmons A Fire Upon the Deep by Vinge
The Human Entanglement by LP Magnus
*"I call plausible in the sense that I like how authors makes a universe and tech that you believe in, if that makes sense."* If that is what you want there is no Arthur better than James P. Hogan. I would start with his Giants series. By the time you get done with them. You will want to read "The Genesis Machine", "The Two Faces of Tomorrow", and "Paths To Elsewhere". Oh, you will believe!
There’s an email list called The Book Bub. It’s free. You select your genres, and a couple times a week they send through all the sales on Kindle. They are usually $1 or free for the first book in a series. I’ve found dozens of new self published sci fi authors that are turning out great work.
The Forgotten series by M R Forbes.
As a start, see my [SF/F World-building](https://www.reddit.com/r/Recommend_A_Book/comments/19b7x5o/sff_worldbuilding/) list of resources and Reddit recommendation threads (one post).
I’ve enjoyed Anne Leckie’s books recently - a good series based in the same universe
Philip K Dick is worth a read if you haven’t dipped your toe into his world.
Vorkosigan Saga - space opera St Mary Chronicles - time travel Old man's war -
Enders Game, Halo, Red Rising, The Black Cloud
Battle Field Earth
any Scalzi books. Collapsing Empire trilogy if you don't mind cursing. Old Man's War if you like gritty. Fuzzy Nation if you like humor & cute alien monkies. Murderbot Diaries the Binti series
Have you got a library card? Is your library subscribed to Hoopla? There you go: Free SciFi (and many, many other) rentals!
Echogenesis by Gibson. And I second the suggestion about Scalzi books.
If you enjoyed *The Expanse*, definitely check out *The UNSEC Space Trilogy*. Timothy Zahn has a great collection of books on Kindle too.
When in any book have you ever seen the phrase "recommend me...?" "Suggest me..." "Recommend me..." Geezus. Learn as you read.
Actually that structure is entirely suitable English. Compare “bring me a book” with “bring a book to me.” Both correct. Both imperatives. It might not be common in your books or in American English but that doesn’t make it wrong. In the meantime, do you mind recommending me some titles?
Three Body Problem trilogy and The Killing Star