Try looking through the Hugo or Nebula best novel awards. Most of them are not didactic like MoR is which makes comparing MoR to them a little unfair since you lose out on the ‘I want to base my life on this’ effect, and MoR is length-wise at… a trilogy? now, so comparing them to MoR is unfair, and it definitely helps to have read multiple times the heavy influences on MoR like Godel, Escher, Bach or Ender’s Game, but I am doing it anyway! Looking through the list, here are ones I’ve read (~1/3) and would rank as either not much inferior, equal or better than MoR:
The City & The City
Rainbows End
A Fire Upon the Deep
Hyperion
Ender’s Game
Claw of the Conciliator (I’m really judging the whole New Sun quartet here)
Ringworld
Lord of Light
Dune
A Canticle for Leibowitz
The Demolished Man
And this is far from a complete list; for example, Blindsight is fantastic but was only nominated for a Hugo in 2006 (losing to Spin which I have not read).
I liked Spin a lot—it’s a perfect balance between a mainstreamish novel of character and big ideas science fiction. Gur rnegu vf chg va na nyvra rairybcr juvpu znxrf gvzr cnff zhpu snfgre—nyy bs gur fhqqra, gur fha orpbzvat n erq tvnag vf n frevbhf ceboyrz.
I know I’m not an average voter, but HPMOR is literally the best book I have ever heard of. Are there some other books I have missed out on?
Try looking through the Hugo or Nebula best novel awards. Most of them are not didactic like MoR is which makes comparing MoR to them a little unfair since you lose out on the ‘I want to base my life on this’ effect, and MoR is length-wise at… a trilogy? now, so comparing them to MoR is unfair, and it definitely helps to have read multiple times the heavy influences on MoR like Godel, Escher, Bach or Ender’s Game, but I am doing it anyway! Looking through the list, here are ones I’ve read (~1/3) and would rank as either not much inferior, equal or better than MoR:
The City & The City
Rainbows End
A Fire Upon the Deep
Hyperion
Ender’s Game
Claw of the Conciliator (I’m really judging the whole New Sun quartet here)
Ringworld
Lord of Light
Dune
A Canticle for Leibowitz
The Demolished Man
And this is far from a complete list; for example, Blindsight is fantastic but was only nominated for a Hugo in 2006 (losing to Spin which I have not read).
I liked Spin a lot—it’s a perfect balance between a mainstreamish novel of character and big ideas science fiction. Gur rnegu vf chg va na nyvra rairybcr juvpu znxrf gvzr cnff zhpu snfgre—nyy bs gur fhqqra, gur fha orpbzvat n erq tvnag vf n frevbhf ceboyrz.