SciFi and Fantasy Book Club discussion

Full disclosure- I stole this question from a Quora user, Jeremy Wyngaard: https://www.quora.com/What-3-unrelate...

I am not that creative- but I know you all are! So I thought it might make a fun new game:

What 3 unrelated books would make a weird but workable trilogy?

HMM!

Well there's the obvious The Name of the Wind, The Farthest Shore, The Hobbit

Assassin wizards and hobbits. Nice! I could get behind that trilogy.

A Natural History of Dragons - dragons exist and are explored by naturalists
His Majesty's Dragon - dragons are quickly exploited for transportation and war
Dragonhaven - in the modern era dragons only exist in special wildlife preserves because they are deemed too dangerous

The Island of Dr. Moreau - in the late 1800s, Moreau experiments with giving animals humanlike intelligence, hidden on his private island in the Pacific. When a shipwrecked visitor falls in love with Moreau’s uplifted jaguar woman, it ends in disaster.
Flowers for Algernon - in the 1950s Moreau’s files are rediscovered and the US government continues his experiments, beginning with mice; then they test it out on a human subject named Charly
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH - a children’s book based loosely on the mice experiments; hidden among the allegory are some truths about the proliferation of animals with boosted intelligence
Forests of the Night - the Moreau experiments have been perfected, with humanity using uplifted humanoid animals as soldiers and slaves
Chimera - humans and animals are genetically engineered, the two coming closer together as we splice the DNA of both, essentially creating hybrids of Algernon and Charly. They unknowingly recreate Moreau’s beautiful jaguar woman.
Chasing the Phoenix - civilization has collapsed and we have reverted back to 1800s-era technology; uplifted animals are still feared and loathed, but the enhanced human Darger teamsup with the uplifted Surplus for adventures in what was formerly Asia. We have come full circle.

Trike you’re killing this game. I would totally read that uplifted animals series. What else ya got?

I feel like Annihilation and Leviathan Wakes potentially go together, although I don't know what the third book would be.

Be Nice to Spiders
Charlotte's Web
Children of Time

Ha!

Shanna wrote: "Be Nice to Spiders
Charlotte's Web
Children of Time"

::: runs shrieking from the thread :::

Shanna wrote: "Be Nice to Spiders
Charlotte's Web
Children of Time"

Nice one!

Alright I got one:

The Three-Body Problem - Woman who has lost faith in humanity contacts aliens and invites them to Earth.
Tomorrow's Kin - Aliens arrive to earth and they refuse to reveal themselves for ten months. Nobody knows what they want, panic and chaos ensue.
Terminal Alliance - Eventually, a plague wipes out most humans, turning others into zombies, and the aliens flee. It’s up to the Janitors of the Post Apocalypse to save the world.

Sarah, that sounds like a wild ride.

Trike wrote: "The Island of Dr. Moreau - in the late 1800s, Moreau experiments with giving animals humanlike intelligence, hidden on his private island in the Pacific. When a shipwrecked visitor fal..."

Well, now I've got a reading project. . .

Lol how about

CHILDREN OF TIME by Andrei Tchaikovsky
CHILDREN OF DUNE by Frank Herbert
(The) CHILDREN OF THE SKY by Vernon Vinge

They are all interesting space operas based in curiously complex societies with intricate plots and philosophies.

Trike wrote: "The Island of Dr. Moreau - in the late 1800s, Moreau experiments with giving animals humanlike intelligence, hidden on his private island in the Pacific. When a shipwrecked visitor fal..."
Gilligan's Island of Dr. Moreau - The Professor goes nuts and uses Ginger and ManyAnne as vessels to clone tiny versions of himself. The Skipper, Gilligan, Mr.and Mrs Howell are fighting for survival. Just as it looks like they're about to be overrun, Wrongway makes his way back and rescues them.

Abandoned alien transport systems where you don't know where you are going.

1) Shakespeare's Planet by Clifford D. Simak - 1976 -People using abandoned alien transport system in a small way.

2) Gateway by Frederik Pohl – 1977 - People using abandoned alien transport system in a big way.

Haven't found a third one yet or forget that I already encountered it, and it is lost again.

@Robert wouldn’t it be CONTACT by Carl Sagan fit into your “trilogy” of alien transport systems?

MadProfessah wrote: "@Robert wouldn’t it be CONTACT by Carl Sagan fit into your “trilogy” of alien transport systems?"

Or a Mass Effect novel.

One Small Step
Murder on the Moon
The Dark Side

The Murder Bot Diaries

I Robot

And one I can't remember. Premise: generation ship that is controlled by a Human (noid) cyborg, plots to kill the humans on the ship.