Ask HN: What is the best sci-fi you read this year?

Peter Watts' Blindsight and Echopraxia are both excellent explorations of the human mind and consciousness.

If you like Stephenson, read this, but if you've never read one of his books before, I would not recommend this as a first.

Seveneves by Neil Stephenson

Definitely The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe.

I'm going through the Hyperion Cantos right now, and I can't recommend it enough.

I've been reading the "Expanse" series. I liked the earlier books a bit more.

The Culture Series by Iain Banks. Love his style, love the setting, and love the stories.

It can be fairly slow at times but it's such an inspiring read.

n-thing ancillary mercy (and the whole series) - best sci-fi I've read in a long while.

Peter Watts' Blindsight and Echopraxia are both excellent explorations of the human mind and consciousness.

I picked up William Gibson's "Pattern Recognition." I wasn't sure what I thought of it, at first, but it became increasingly interesting and I finished it.

Dark Matter was a good read if you like parallel universes.

It was a fun technothriller, but focused too much on one particular weird model that I thought wasn't too realistic.