Science Fiction Books | Series I'd like to read in 2025!

A look at some sci-fi book series I want to start, series I want to continue, a couple of series I want to finish, and even a couple I'd like to re-read. Can you recommend any others I might not have read?
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Books mentioned in this video:
Tom Toner - Amaranthine trilogy
Gary Gibson - Shoal trilogy
Ian McDonald - Chaga/Tendeleo's Story/Kirinya
Hannu Rajaniemi - The Quantum Thief/The Causal Angel/The Fractal Prince
Stephen Baxter - Xeelee sequence
Marina Lostetter - Neumenon trilogy
Christopher Ruocchio - Ashes of Man/Disquiet Gods
Lois McMaster Bujold - Barrayar
James SA Corey - Captives War trilogy
Brian Stableford - Hooded Swan
Gregory Benford - Galactic Center
James Smythe - the Anomaly Quartet
Elizabeth Moon - Vatta's War
Pierce Brown - Golden Son
Ken MacLeod - Lightspeed trilogy
Ken MacLeod - Fall Revolution (Sky Road)
Brian Aldiss - Helliconia trilogy
Peter F Hamilton - Greg Mandel trilogy

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[christinefisher]

I’m currently reading Adrian tchaikovskys architect series and it’s surprisingly engaging. Really enjoyed book one and just started 2. Love your videos btw.

[ericholt]

My plan is to try to read the Xeelee Sequence, Revelation Space series, and The Polity books next year. Probably with singleton novels and short story collections in between each series. I've tried parallel reading but prefer to stay in-universe until I finish a series.

[Deosis]

Helliconia is on my TBR, though I'm not sure I'll get to it next year.
I definitely want to start the Expanse series I got this year and also read the Earthsea series by LeGuin. And a bunch of standalones in between.
Also I'm going to re-read God Emperor of Dune. It's been a while since I've read it.

[User_Un_Friendly]

I'm thinking of finally tackling the Galactic Center saga by Benford. Reread some Heinleins to get in shape, then just go for it, after a reread of some fantasy books...(seasoning, you understand. 😋😋)

Plus, I need to catch up on some books that have caught my interest...not necessarily SF, but I've got a backlog of fantasy to read too.🙄🙄😉

For your rereading, I'm going to remind you of how keen you were when I mentioned I just finished rereading the Belgariad. 🐶😛 I'm going to recommend that. 😉

[Montie-Adkins]

I have ordered the 6 Emortality books by Stableford. I intend to read them next.

[SlowDazzle]

Off the top of my head, projected series for next year: the Revelation Space series- only read his stand-alones; the Annihilation trilogy; Helliconia; possibly the Culture, though that might be too much; the Three Body Problem trilogy, if I like the first book!

[alanpinks]

I have just this evening finished Halfway Human, the first of Carolyn Ives Gliman's Twenty Planets books. I went into it totally blind and not expecting much, but it's really quite excellent and I recommend it highly. I'm not sure how much the Twenty Planets count as a series by your definition, mind. Two of the four books are, putting it generously, novellas, and I believe that the four are connected by setting rather than plot. I have the other three, so I expect I'll read them over the course of next year.

Some other series I hope to continue:
Le Guin's Hainish books, once I get around to buying City of Illusions.
Helliconia, where I've just got Winter to go.
I re-read Hyperion earlier this year and it's as good as I remembered, so I'll probably get onto The Fall... and then see if I can be bothered with the other two.

There may also be others that don't start with H, and I've got a load of books in series that I haven't started yet: Benford's Galactic Centre; Wolfe's Book of the New Sun; Scalzi's Old Man's War; Niven's Ringworld; Reynolds's Revelation Space (although I have actually read Revelation Space about 20 years ago, but I remember almost nothing about it).

I can never keep track of these things with all the booktubers I watch, but have you read Chris Beckett's Dark Eden trilogy? If not, you really, really should. Spectacularly good "proper" SF.

[mikejcross]

That's an ambitious list :)

Cherryh: I wouldn't recommend starting the Alliance/Union books with Downbelow Station, even though it won a Hugo. I read her books as they came out in DAW mmpb, DS was the 12th one. I'd loved almost the preceding ones, but found DS rather slow, & dull - things I would say about v few of her books. The A/U books do jump all over the timeline, but there are short sub-series that need to be read in order. I would suggest starting with some of the definitely standalone, and shorter books: Cuckoo's Egg, Serpent's Reach, Merchanter's Luck, Rimrunners.

Her Foreigner series is a bit longer than 9, it's now up to #21!

For a shorter series of hers, I would v strongly recommend the 5-book Chanur series, which starts with The Pride of Chanur; it's set in a part of the universe with lots of alien species but humans are unknown... until a single slightly battered & confused specimen turns up.

[DaBIONICLEFan]

So that's what you’ll read in 1 month, what about the rest of the year? 😆

I must confess I'm not really one for series, at least in SF, but one I do plan to read through next year is Gibson's Sprawl trilogy. I have them all now (including Burning Chrome) and plus it gives me a reason to read Neuromancer again, which is a masterpiece.

[morrisjensen]

Another great list, and some good recommendations in the comments, so thanks to everyone.
Would it be possible to have the books, even just one if its's series, placed on a stand as you chat. Stephen, over at Outlaw Book Seller does this and it's really useful to give us old buggers time to jot down the names and tiles.

I'll look through my audiobook list and post my favourites series soon. Off to watch your Tolkien's Heir? Lord Valentine's Castle by Robert Silverberg video - looking forward to it.

[TuftyMcTavish]

🦆 Laughing along at the bird tangent halfway through! 😆

I think that I’ve tried Cherryh’s “Downbelow Station” a few times, but I cannot recall ever finishing it 🤷‍♂️ It sounds excellent, I now have quite a few in the series - Downbelow Station, Alliance Space, Tripoint and Finity’s End, all of which I acquired spread over a time span from 2004 to 2018 according to my records - but I only seem to have read “Tripoint” and can remember nothing at all.

I also remember those early Baxters as being quite challenging reads when I had far fewer orbits of the sun to my name. But golly gosh I adored “Ring” in particular.

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[mikejcross]

Bujold: Barrayar is much better than Shards of Hono(u)r. If you've sat at home while your other half goes shopping, wondering what they might bring back, there's a scene in Barrayar which will blow your socks off :)

[garymoraco]

I often watch this and other YouTube programs. ? Do the thumbs up count on the TV?

[sambell]

I really enjoyed the Noumenon series, even buying a copy of the first book for a friend. I will say though that the first two books are more engaging than the third book imo.

[callmeal]

I've read and thoroughly enjoyed Tom Tomer's books. I understand that he planned to write more.

[MarkCheverton]

Downbelow station is definitely the right place to start - awesome novel. Hannu is also a genius, I'd compare him with M John Harrison - difficult reading but I feel Hannu does it much better - wish he'd write more. I didn't get on with noumenon - sacked it off after the first. On my series list is a mix of new and reread including Gary Gibson if I can haul stealing light (have the second two), helliconia, Eden trilogy, suneater, uplift, children of time, 3 body problem. Probably way too optimistic.

[kufujitsu]

I'm reading The Wraeththu Trilogy by a relatively forgotten writer named Storm Contantine. Exotic name, & her books read like that. Descriptive slow burn, great stuff.

[inocanandrei]

Wonderful series. You are right The Red Saga books get better. You will continue the re-read The Revelation Space ? And one more question What do you think of Brian Herbert's books in the Dune universe ?

[BobbyHall-euxv]

A Requiem For Homosapiens Cycle by David ZIndell, first book is Neverness.

[Scottlp]

Think it is time to re-read Simmons Endymion (all 4 volumes)