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Looking for recommendations for good Sci-Fi mystery novels (startrek.website)

submitted 2 days ago by showmeyourkizinti@startrek.website to c/books@lemmy.ml

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Hey Lemmings,
I’ve just finished up the second of John Scalzi’s Lock-In novels and I’m looking for some recommendations for some new books in the same vein. I’ve enjoyed a bunch of sci-fi mysteries like The Murderbot series, the I Robot novels, even Niven’s ARM stories. So throw me some more like that if you can.

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[–] overworkedandundersane@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Altered Carbon (by Richard Kadrey?).
A billionaire, in a fresh new body but missing a couple of days worth of memories, hires a special ops/detective to solve his own murder.

It's a great book, but unfortunately the series isn't as consistently good as that first one.

[–] showmeyourkizinti@startrek.website 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’ll definitely pop Altered Carbon on my list. I haven’t watch the series but didn’t they also have an issue with quality consistency? I often find 3rd or 4th books in series have drop in quality and the it pulls back up (The Expanse) or completely nose dove into the dirt (The Magic of Xanth).

[–] overworkedandundersane@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

The Netflix series was good but, as always, the book was better. :) The TV series deviated from some of the important plot points in the book but the gist was there.

I think the third book is really good but 2 and 4 were kind of meh.