Sci-Fi Recommendations.

[Judah]

Hello, I just started to really branch out into Sci-Fi. I had a few bad encounters with some terrible books, and was put off. But lately I stumbled onto Dark Run by Mike Brooks and I am really loving it. So much so, that I have started to look around for other Sci-fi books.
I am as new to the genre as they come, so....any recommendations?
Or even thoughts on Sci-fi as a Genre?

[Ryan]

What sci-fi books did you feel were terrible? My personal favorite sci-fi author is Orson Scott Card, his Ender series is excellent. In the past year I've read Pierce Brown's Red Rising, and Becky Chambers's Wayfarer's series, which are also excellent.

[Judah]

I really can't remember it was way back when I was getting into reading seriously and trying to do d what genre I enkoyed the most. What turned me off to the genre was what apeared to be more of a focus on the space tech and not as much focus on the characters and plot. A similar problem with if someone were to pick a fantasy book off the shelf blind and find one of the troped up "Quentinqueleth the Dragon speaker and Ork slayer.
I am reading Dark Run at the moment and I am loving it.
thanks for the leads ill have to look into those.