PApaulcarroty·Jan 9, 2020Submission
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awesome-scifi
Learning & Reference2015–2020
sindresorhus / awesome-scifi
awesome-scifi
Sci-Fi worth consuming
4Distinct people
7Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
5.2KGitHub stars
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Sci-Fi worth consuming
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Observed mentions: 2015-01-22 09:04:25 UTC to 2020-01-09 17:08:05 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
7 sources> The most important part of book recommendations is a vetting of a few resources that are guaranteed to be enlightening.
That's a difficult thing to make since you have to be subjective when suggesting a resource.
For example, in awesome-scifi's novels section[0], we as the maintainers try to tackle this project by requesting from the PR submitter to add a subjective description on why the submitter thinks that the novel in question is awesome (backed up by the name of the submitter so you know exactly who wrote that description), to add a Goodreads rating at the time of submitting a PR, and an emoji if it contains more than 100k ratings on Goodreads (indicating that it's a popular one).
Now, I'm obviously being subjective when talking about a list I'm one of the maintainers of, but when I'm searching for a book, I get to see if it has a
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good rating, if it got a lot of ratings, and a subjective description of why the person who submitted it thinks it's awesome. It works rather well in my case.
[0] https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome-scifi#novels
I maintain a community created list of Sci-Fi novels worth reading:
https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome-scifi#novels
In What are your favourite sci-fi books?