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In the backwoods of Wisconsin, there lives a hermit named Enoch Wallace. Though Enoch is 124 years old, he doesn’t look a day over 30—that’s because Enoch is a caretaker, and for over a century, he’s been running a rest stop for intergalactic travelers inside his rickety Civil War-era farmhouse. Enoch’s neighbors look the other way, but when the government catches wind of a strange man who never ages living in a house that no human can enter, their investigators come knocking, with disastrous consequences. Clifford D. Simak was a fine practitioner of what’s now called “pastoral science fiction”—think of it as classic sci-fi set in the countryside, inflected with that familiar Bradbury-esque Midwestern sentimentalism. The subgenre has fallen into disuse, but if you ever find yourself longing to be transported to a cornfield at dusk, looking up at the stars and wondering what’s out there, let Simak be your guide. Warm, wise, and bittersweet, Way Station is his masterpiece.
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Consider Phlebas, by Iain Banks (1987)

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Back in 1987, after four acclaimed fiction novels, Iain Banks published his first sci-fi book, Consider Phlebas, a true space opera and his first book of many to feature the Culture, an interstellar utopian society of humanoids, aliens and sentient machines ostensibly run by hyper-intelligent AI "Minds". A war rages across the galaxy with one side fighting for faith, the other a moral right to exist. Banks melds this conflict with something approaching a traditional fantasy quest: the search for a rogue Mind that has hidden itself on a forbidden world in an attempt to evade destruction.

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Hyperion, by Dan Simmons (1989)

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Winner of the 1990 Hugo Award for Best Novel and part of a two-book series, Hyperion is a richly woven sci-fi epic told in the style of The Canterbury Tales. In the world of Hyperion, humanity has spread to thousands of worlds, none more intriguing or dangerous as Hyperion. It's home to the Time Tombs, ageless structures which are mysteriously travelling backward through time, and guarding them is the terrifying creature known as the Shrike. It kills anyone who dares encroach on the Time Tombs and has inspired a fanatical religious group who control pilgrimages to the tombs. On the eve of an invasion, a group of travellers convene what's likely to be the last Shrike pilgrimage and share their tales of what brought them there.

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Jurassic Park, by Michael Crichton (1990)

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Before it mutated into the mega media franchise “Jurassic World”, Jurassic Park was a smart, thoughtful and gripping sci-fi classic written by Michael Crichton, author of the equally brilliant Andromeda Strain. Crichton's tale remains a great parable about the dangers of genetic engineering, (as well as a slightly heady exploration of chaos theory). His descriptions of dinosaurs are also brilliant, like the T-Rex: "Tim felt a chill, but then, as he looked down the animal's body, moving down from the massive head and jaws, he saw the smaller, muscular forelimb. It waved in the air and then it gripped the fence."
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Some of these are classic tales you will surely know, but others are excellent works of science fiction that may have been flying under the radar. So, dear readers, as you make your way down the list, congratulate yourselves on the books you’ve read and add the unfamiliar ones to your TBR list.
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1984
by       George Orwell
Our favorite science fiction tends to use the future to illuminate and discuss issues in our present. 1984 is a prime example of this, a dystopian novel where our culture has become the victim of government surveillance and public manipulation. An important read for any age.
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1Q84
by       Haruki Murakami
The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo. A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. 1Q84 is a love story, a mystery, a fantasy, a novel of self-discovery, and a dystopia to rival George Orwell’s.
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Altered Carbon
by       Richard K. Morgan
Set in a future where interstellar travel is done by “sleeving” one’s consciousness into new bodies, the story follows a private investigator whose past collides with his present as he attempts to solve a rich man’s murder. A dark and gritty cyberpunk experience. Now a Netflix series!
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Amatka
by       Karin Tidbeck
Vanja is an information assistant in a world where language literally controls reality. After being sent to the ice colony Amatka to gather intelligence for her government, she falls in love with her housemate and decides to extend her mission. She begins to realize, though, that there is something deeply amiss in this colony.
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Ammonite
by       Nicola Griffith
Ammonite, Griffith’s first novel, won the Lambda Award and the James Tiptree Jr Award. A human expedition to the planet Jeep is nearly wiped out by a virus that kills all the men and most of the women. Some centuries later, an anthropologist, Marghe, is sent to test a vaccine on the descendents of the original expedition, themselves all women. As she lives and moves among them, Marghe finds herself changed in profound and unexpected ways.
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The Best of All Possible Worlds
by       Karen Lord
After their homeworld is destroyed, the surviving members of the Sadiri must find a way for their people to continue, despite the fact that most of the survivors are male. To do so, they make their way across the colony planet of Cygnus Beta under the guidance of a woman from the planet’s Central Government, encountering all kinds of people and cultures in their mission to save their vanishing race.
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The Big Book of Science Fiction
edited by Jeff VanderMeer and Ann Vandermeer
Anthologies rarely make “Best Of” lists, but this one belongs on here — because it contains stories by many of the great science fiction writers we are discussing in our list. Le Guin, Asimov, Doctorow, Liu, Wells, Clarke, Butler, Vonnegut, and the list goes on and on! A wonderful primer for science fiction readers.
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Binti: The Complete Trilogy
by       Nnedi Okorafor
Collected for the first time in a trade paperback omnibus edition, the Hugo- and Nebula-award-winning Binti trilogy, the story of one extraordinary girl’s journey from her home to distant Oomza University.
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The Blazing World and Other Writings
by       Margaret Cavendish
An early work of feminist Utopian fiction and proto-science fiction, The Blazing World tells the story of a woman from our earth who travels to another world via a portal at the North Pole, where she becomes empress of a society made up of fantastical half-animal half-human species. The book, published in 1666, reflects Enlightenment-era theoretical science, with Cavendish imagining submarines, boats with engines, and a universe without end.
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A Canticle for Leibowitz
by       Walter Miller
Nuclear war razed the Earth, plunging its survivors into a new dark age in which science is reviled and books are destroyed on sight. A small order of Catholic monks dedicated to a legendary miracle worker hold back the wave of ignorance as best that it can as barbarism swells at its gates. A Canticle for Leibowitz is a bittersweet tale that might make you worry about our future as a species.
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- Author: Octavia E. Butler

- Date published: 1993

One of the most legendary science fiction writers of all time, Octavia E. Butler made The New York Times Best Seller list for the first time in September 2020, with her 1993 book "Parable of the Sower." Many readers liken the events in the story, which take place in 2025 on an Earth that has been ravaged by war, disease, a lack of clean water, and drugs, to our current circumstances. The young, orphaned protagonist, Lauren Oya Olamina, struggles with a condition called hyperempathy but comes to find that this sensitivity may be the key to saving humanity.
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The War of the Worlds
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Dune (Dune, #1)
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Fahrenheit 451
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Journey to the Center of the Earth
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)
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Frankenstein
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A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)
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Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)
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Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
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Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
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Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
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Dorsai! (Childe Cycle, #1)
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This Changes Everything (The Spanners, #1)
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The Invisible Man
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A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
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The Island of Dr. Moreau
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Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
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I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)
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The Martian Chronicles
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The Puppet Masters
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Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
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Foundation (Foundation, #1)
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Stranger in a Strange Land
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Starship Troopers
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The 100 best books of the science fiction genre as listed in Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels and selected by one hundred well-known speculative fiction authors.See also https://www.worldswithoutend.com/list... for the actual list to verify that no one added any books to this list. Apparently this list only contains books from 1949 and 1984 - so that might make it easier to spot additions.See Also:Science Fiction The 101 Best Novels 1985 2010Please do not add books to this list! Only books listed in Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels should be listed below!
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Dune (Dune, #1)
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Frank Herbert
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1984
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George Orwell
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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Philip K. Dick
4.09 avg rating — 471,242 ratings
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Flowers for Algernon
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Daniel Keyes
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score: 2,114,
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Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
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William Gibson
3.89 avg rating — 339,145 ratings
score: 2,079,
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Childhood’s End
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Arthur C. Clarke
4.12 avg rating — 164,530 ratings
score: 1,914,
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A Clockwork Orange
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Anthony Burgess
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The Left Hand of Darkness
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Ursula K. Le Guin
4.10 avg rating — 194,418 ratings
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Fahrenheit 451
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Ray Bradbury
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The Martian Chronicles
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Ray Bradbury
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score: 1,637,
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The Day of the Triffids
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John Wyndham
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score: 1,592,
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The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
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Ursula K. Le Guin
4.25 avg rating — 132,765 ratings
score: 1,410,
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A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
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Walter M. Miller Jr.
3.98 avg rating — 112,880 ratings
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More Than Human
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Theodore Sturgeon
3.94 avg rating — 18,745 ratings
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The Demolished Man
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Alfred Bester
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The Stars My Destination
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Alfred Bester
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The Man in the High Castle
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Philip K. Dick
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Cat’s Cradle
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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The Puppet Masters
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Robert A. Heinlein
3.89 avg rating — 33,385 ratings
score: 937,
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Way Station
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Clifford D. Simak
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Alas, Babylon
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Pat Frank
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The Midwich Cuckoos
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John Wyndham
3.91 avg rating — 26,875 ratings
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The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
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Philip K. Dick
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The End of Eternity
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Isaac Asimov
4.24 avg rating — 58,345 ratings
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Mission of Gravity (Mesklin #1)
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Hal Clement
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The Sirens of Titan
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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Stand on Zanzibar
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John Brunner
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Norstrilia
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Cordwainer Smith
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The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun, #1)
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Gene Wolfe
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The Door Into Summer
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Robert A. Heinlein
4.02 avg rating — 27,400 ratings
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Have Space Suit—Will Travel
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Robert A. Heinlein
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Título: The Greatest Science Fiction Books of All Time
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URL: https://www.shortform.com/best-books/genre/best-classic-sci-fi-books-of-all-time
Título: 100 Best Classic Sci-Fi Books of All Time - Shortform
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If you own only one anthology of classic science fiction, it should be. Selected by a vote of the membership of the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA), these 26 reprints represent the best, most important, and most influential stories and authors in the field. The contributors are a Who's Who of classic SF, with every Golden Age giant included: Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, John W. Campbell, Robert A. Heinlein, Fritz Leiber, Cordwainer Smith, Theodore Sturgeon, and Roger Zelazny. Other contributors are less well known outside the core SF readership. Three of the contributors are famous for one story--but what stories!--Tom Godwin's pivotal hard-SF tale, "The Cold Equations"; Jerome Bixby's "It's aLife" (made only more infamous by the chillingadaptation); and Daniel Keyes's "Flowers for Algernon" (brought to mainstream fame by the movie adaptation,).

The collection has some minor but frustrating flaws. There are no contributor biographies, which is bad enough when the author is a giant; but it's especially sad for contributors who have become unjustly obscure. Each story's original publication date is in small print at the bottom of the first page. And neither this fine print nor the copyright page identifies the magazines in which the stories first appeared.

Prefaced by editor Robert Silverberg's introduction, which describes SFWA and details the selection process, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume One, 1929-1964 is a wonderful book for the budding SF fan. Experienced SF readers should compare the table of contents to their library before making a purchase decision. Fans who contemplate giving this book to non-SF readers should bear in mind that, while several of the collected stories can measure up to classic mainstream literary stories, the less literarily-acceptable stories are weighted toward the front of the collection; adult mainstream-literature fans may not get very far into The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume One, 1929-1964. --Cynthia Ward





Â· Introduction Â· Robert Silverberg Â· in

Â· A Martian Odyssey [Tweel] Â· Stanley G. Weinbaum Â· nv Wonder Stories Jul â34

Â· Twilight [as by Don A. Stuart; Dying Earth] Â· John W. Campbell, Jr. Â· ss Astounding Nov â34

Â· Helen OâLoy Â· Lester del Rey Â· ss Astounding Dec â38

Â· The Roads Must Roll Â· Robert A. Heinlein Â· nv Astounding Jun â40

Â· Microcosmic God Â· Theodore Sturgeon Â· nv Astounding Apr â41

Â· Nightfall Â· Isaac Asimov Â· nv Astounding Sep â41

Â· The Weapon Shop [Isher] Â· A. E. van Vogt Â· nv Astounding Dec â42

Â· Mimsy Were the Borogoves Â· Lewis Padgett Â· nv Astounding Feb â43

Â· Huddling Place [City (Websters)] Â· Clifford D. Simak Â· ss Astounding Jul â44

Â· Arena Â· Fredric Brown Â· nv Astounding Jun â44

Â· First Contact Â· Murray Leinster Â· nv Astounding May â45

Â· That Only a Mother Â· Judith Merril Â· ss Astounding Jun â48

Â· Scanners Live in Vain Â· Cordwainer Smith Â· nv Fantasy Book #6 â50

Â· Mars Is Heaven! Â· Ray Bradbury Â· ss Planet Stories Fll â48

Â· The Little Black Bag Â· C. M. Kornbluth Â· nv Astounding Jul â50

Â· Born of Man and Woman Â· Richard Matheson Â· vi F&SF Sum â50

Â· Coming Attraction Â· Fritz Leiber Â· ss Galaxy Nov â50

Â· The Quest for Saint Aquin Â· Anthony Boucher Â· ss New Tales of Space and Time, ed. Raymond J. Healy, Holt, 1951; F&SF Jan â59

Â· Surface Tension [Lavon] Â· James Blish Â· nv Galaxy Aug â52

Â· The Nine Billion Names of God Â· Arthur C. Clarke Â· ss Star Science Fiction Stories #1, ed. Frederik Pohl, Ballantine, 1953

Â· Itâs a Good Life Â· Jerome Bixby Â· ss Star Science Fiction Stories #2, ed. Frederik Pohl, Ballantine, 1953

Â· The Cold Equations Â· Tom Godwin Â· nv Astounding Aug â54

Â· Fondly Fahrenheit Â· Alfred Bester Â· nv F&SF Aug â54

Â· The Country of the Kind Â· Damon Knight Â· ss F&SF Feb â56

Â· Flowers for Algernon Â· Daniel Keyes Â· nv F&SF Apr â59

Â· A Rose for Ecclesiastes Â· Roger Zelazny Â· nv F&SF Nov â63
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Título: 50 Best Sci-Fi Books to Read in 2024 | Best Science Fiction Books
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URL: https://www.npr.org/2021/08/18/1027159166/best-books-science-fiction-fantasy-past-decade
Título: The 50 best science fiction and fantasy books of the past decade - NPR
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We asked, you answered: Your 50 favorite sci-fi and fantasy books of the past decade

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The question at the heart of science fiction and fantasy is "what if?" What if gods were real, but you could kill them? What if humans finally made it out among the stars — only to discover we're the shabby newcomers in a grand galactic alliance? What if an asteroid destroyed the East Coast in 1952 and jump-started the space race years early?

This year's summer reader poll was also shaped by a series of "what ifs" — most importantly, what if, instead of looking at the entire history of the field the way we did in our 2011 poll, we focused only on what has happened in the decade since? These past 10 years have brought seismic change to science fiction and fantasy (sometimes literally, in the case of N.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth series), and we wanted to celebrate the world-shaking rush of new voices, new perspectives, new styles and new stories. And though we limited ourselves to 50 books this time around, the result is a list that's truly stellar — as poll judge Tochi Onyebuchi put it, "Alive."

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As always, a pretty extensive decision-making process went into the list, involving our fabulous panel of expert judges — but we know you eager readers want to get right to the books. So if you're inclined, follow these links to find out how we built the list (and what, sadly, didn't make it this year). Otherwise, scroll on for the list!

We've broken it up into categories to help you find the reading experience you're looking for, and you can click on these links to go directly to each category:

Worlds To Get Lost In · Words To Get Lost In · Will Take You On A Journey · Will Mess With Your Head · Will Mess With Your Heart · Will Make You Feel Good

Worlds To Get Lost In Are you (like me) a world-building fanatic? These authors have built worlds so real you can almost smell them. The Imperial Radch Trilogy Orbit Books Breq is a human now — but once she was a starship. Once she was an AI with a vast and ancient metal body and troops of ancillaries, barely animate bodies that all carried her consciousness. Poll judge Ann Leckie has created a massive yet intricate interstellar empire where twisty galactic intrigues and multiple clashing cultures form a brilliant backdrop for the story of a starship learning to be a human being. Your humble editor got a copy of Ancillary Justice when it came out and promptly forced her entire family to read it. Purchase BookAncillary Justice (Imperial Radch Book 1) by Ann Leckie close overlay Buy Featured Book Your purchase helps support NPR programming. How? The Dead Djinn Universe (series) Tordotcom What a wonderful world P. Djélì Clarke has created here — an Arab world never colonized, where magic-powered trams glide through a cosmopolitan Cairo and where djinns make mischief among humans. Clarke's novella Ring Shout also showed up on our semifinalists list, and it was hard to decide between them, but ultimately our judges felt the Dead Djinn Universe offered more to explore. But you should still read Ring Shout, a wild ride of a read where gun-toting demon-hunters go up against Ku Klux Klan members who are actual, pointy-headed white demons. Go on, go get a copy! We'll wait. Purchase BookA Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe Book 1) by P. Djélì Clarke close overlay Buy Featured Book Your purchase helps support NPR programming. How? The Age of Madness Trilogy Orbit One of my pet peeves with fantasy novels is they sometimes don't allow for the progression of time and technology — but in Joe Abercrombie's Age of Madness series, the follow-up to his debut First Law trilogy, industrialization has come to the world of The Union, and it's brought no good in its wake. More than that — machines may be rising, but magic will not give way, and all over the world, those at the bottom of the heap are beginning to get really, really angry. This series works as a standalone — but you should also read the excellent First Law series (even though it's old enough to fall outside the scope of this list). Purchase BookA Little Hatred (Age of Madness Book 1) by Joe Abercrombie close overlay Buy Featured Book Your purchase helps support NPR programming. How? The Green Bone Saga Orbit This sprawling saga of family, honor, blood and magical jade will suck you in from the very first page. Poll judge Fonda Lee's story works on every conceivable level, from minute but meaningful character beats to solid, elegantly conveyed world-building to political intrigue to big, overarching themes of clan, loyalty and identity. Plus, wow, the jade-powered martial arts sequences are as fine as anything the Shaw Brothers ever put on screen. "Reviewing books is my actual job," says fellow judge Amal El-Mohtar, "but I still have to fight my husband for the advance copies of Fonda's books, and we're both THIS CLOSE to learning actual martial arts to assist us in our dueling for dibs." Purchase BookJade City (Green Bone Saga Book 1) by Fonda Lee close overlay Buy Featured Book Your purchase helps support NPR programming. How? The Expanse (series) Orbit Yes, sure, you've seen the TV show (you HAVE, right? Right?) about the ragtag crew of spacers caught up in a three-way power struggle between Earth, Mars and the society that's developed on far-off asteroid belts. But there's much, much more to explore in the books — other planets, other characters, storylines and concepts that didn't make it to the screen. Often, when a book gets adapted for film or TV, there's a clear argument about which version is better. With The Expanse, we can confidently say you should watch and read. The only downside? Book-Avasarala doesn't show up until a few volumes in. Purchase BookLeviathan Wakes (The Expanse Book 1) by James S.A. Corey close overlay Buy Featured Book Your purchase helps support NPR programming. How? The Daevabad Trilogy Harper Voyager Nahri is a con woman (with a mysteriously real healing talent) scraping a living in the alleys of 18th century Cairo — until she accidentally summons some true magic and discovers her fate is bound to a legendary city named Daevabad, far from human civilization, home of djinns and bloody intrigues. Author S.A. Chakraborty converted to Islam as a teenager and after college began writing what she describes as "historical fanfiction" about medieval Islam; then characters appeared, inspired by people she met at her mosque. "A sly heroine capable of saving herself, a dashing hero who'd break for the noon prayer," she told an interviewer. "I wanted to write a story for us, about us, with the grandeur and magic of a summer blockbuster." Purchase BookThe City of Brass (Daevabad Book 1) by S.A. Chakraborty close overlay Buy Featured Book Your purchase helps support NPR programming. How? Teixcalaan (series) Tor Books The Aztecs meet the Byzantines in outer space in this intricately imagined story of diplomatic intrigue and fashionable poetic forms. Mahit Dzmare is an ambassador from a small space station clinging desperately to its independence in the face of the massive Teixcalaanli empire. But when she arrives in its glittering capital, her predecessor's dead, and she soon discovers she's been sabotaged herself. Luckily, it turns out she's incredibly good at her job, even without her guiding neural implant. "I'm a sucker for elegant worldbuilding that portrays all the finer nuances of society and culture in addition to the grandness of empire and the complexity of politics," says judge Fonda Lee. "Arkady Martine delivers all that in droves." Purchase BookA Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan Book 1) by Arkady Martine close overlay Buy Featured Book Your purchase helps support NPR programming. How? The Thessaly Trilogy Tor Books Apollo, spurned by Daphne, is trying to understand free will and consent by living as a mortal. Athena is trying to create a utopia by plucking men and women from all across history and dropping them on an island to live according to Plato's Republic. Will it all go according to plan? Not likely. "Brilliant, compelling, and frankly unputdownable," wrote poll judge Amal El-Mohtar, "this will do what your Intro to Philosophy courses probably couldn't: make you want to read The Republic." Purchase BookThe Just City (Thessaly Volume 1) by Jo Walton close overlay Buy Featured Book Your purchase helps support NPR programming. How? Shades of Magic Trilogy Tor Books V.E. Schwab has created a world with four Londons lying atop one another: our own dull Grey, warm magic-suffused Red, tyrannical White, and dead, terrifying Black. Once, movement among them was easy, but now only a few have the ability — including our hero, Kell. So naturally, he's a smuggler, and the action kicks off when Grey London thief Lila steals a dangerous artifact from him, a stone that could upset the balance among the Londons. Rich world building, complex characters and really scary bad guys make Schwab's London a city — or cities — well worth spending time in. Purchase BookA Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic Book 1) by V.E. Schwab close overlay Buy Featured Book Your purchase helps support NPR programming. How? The Divine Cities Trilogy Crown Books On the Continent, you must not, you cannot, talk about the gods — the gods are dead. Or are they? Robert Jackson Bennett's Divine Cities trilogy builds a fully, gloriously realized world where gods are the source of power, miracles and oppression, and gods can also be killed. But what happens next, when the gods are gone and the work of running the world is left to regular human men and women? What happens in that unsettled moment when divinity gives way to technology? This series spans a long timeline; the heroes of the first volume are old by the end. "And as ancient powers clash among gleaming, modern skyscrapers, those who have survived from the first page to these last have a heaviness about them," writes rev
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URL: https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/1874-the-100-most-popular-sci-fi-books-on-goodreads
Título: The 100 Most Popular Sci-Fi Books on Goodreads
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Dystopias, alien invasions, regenerated dinosaurs, space operas, multiverses, and more, the realm of science fiction takes readers out of this world to tackle all-too-real issues, including oppression, bigotry, censorship, and the horrors of war. To celebrate the most inventive of genres, we’re exploring readers’ 100 most popular science fiction novels of all time on Goodreads.As all good sci-fi readers know, the science behind the story is half the fun. To create our list, we ran the data to reveal the most reviewed books on our site. Additionally, each title needed at least a 3.5-star rating from your fellow readers to join this list. And, since science fiction is known for its continuing voyages, in the case of multiple titles from the same series, we chose the one with the most reviews.Here are the top science fiction novels on Goodreads, listed from 1 to 100. We hope you discover a book or two you’ll want to read in this lineup, whether it’s a classic of the genre or one of the newer entries to sci-fi.
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URL: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/19341.Best_Science_Fiction
Título: Best Science Fiction (3560 books) - Goodreads
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Please do not include fantasy, alternate h*story (unless you find a clear science fiction exception. The asterisk is here so that Goodreads doesn't misclassify this list), or other speculative fiction genres. They will be removed. If you're unsure, use this list From Wikipedia:"Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible (or at least non-supernatural) content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities. [...] It is similar to, but differs from fantasy in that, within the context of the story, its imaginary elements are largely possible within scientifically established or scientifically postulated laws of nature (though some elements in a story might still be pure imaginative speculation)."Other SF Lists of Note:Some subgenres:Award winners:Locus Recommended Science Fiction:Sci Fi Award NomineesScience Fiction By Decade:New Speculative Writers by Decade:Science Fiction By Ratings:
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URL: https://www.space.com/best-sci-fi-books
Título: Best sci-fi books: modern masterpieces & all-time classics
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Explore the unknown from the comfort of your home, with the best sci-fi books of all time.

As we drift ever further into a fresh new year, it’s only natural for curious minds to hunger for something far-out and exotic and science fiction literature is the answer. It’s the perfect accompaniment to the occasion, whether it’s finding the perfect transportive book or discovering a rare gem to cozy up with during these cold, dark days.

Sci-fi comes in a wealth of varieties and flavors, and that’s what makes the genre so enticing for readers of all persuasions, from gung-ho military sci-fi, dire dystopian sagas, and revealing concept art editions, to old-fashioned space operas and terrifying extraterrestrial encounters.

If you're interested in checking out more of the science that inspires some of these amazing sci-fi tales, then check out our best space and astronomy books guide.

To cover more ground, we've split our guide into three categories: newly released sci-fi books (within the last year), modern sci-fi books, and classic sci-fi books. Now, sit back and enjoy our collection of the best sci-fi books out there.

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1. The Simulated Multiverse

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Author: Rizwan Virk

Rizwan Virk Publisher: Bayview Books (2021)

MIT computer scientist, Silicon Valley video game guru, and bestselling author Rizwan Virk (“The Simulation Hypothesis”) explores the wild notion of a complex multiverse that has generated legions of believers over the past decade.

Here Virk offers up mind-scrambling dissections of provocative topics like parallel universes, infinite timelines, quantum computing, alternate simulated realities, contorted definitions of space and time, and the Mandela Effect (a phenomenon in which the minority of the population recalls memories of past events different from the consensus). Think “The Man in the High Castle” high on both the blue and red pill from “The Matrix.” It’s a fascinating explanation of our world that might shake the foundations of your digital reality, but does so in a totally digestible style.

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2. The Art of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge

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Author: Amy Ratcliffe

Amy Ratcliffe Publisher: Abrams (2021)

This isn’t nearly as exciting as an actual trip to Disneyland Resort or Walt Disney World, but it costs far less and offers a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the theme parks’ newest Star Wars lands. Written by pop culture expert and theme park aficionado, Amy Ratcliffe, this deluxe 256-page coffee table book displays the incredible portfolio of pre-visualization art that inspired the creation of the fictional world of Galaxy’s Edge and its bustling Black Spire Outpost on the Outer Rim planet of Batuu.

“We looked back on work that happened over five years ago in some cases, but everyone recalled their thought processes and their excitement about working in the Star Wars galaxy,” Ratcliffe told Space.com. “I think readers will not only get an idea of the immense amount of work that went into developing such an ambitious land, but they’ll also see how much care and thoughtfulness went into it.”

Walt Disney Imagineering’s trademark creative method comes alive using a constellation of vivid concept artworks, sketches, attraction blueprints, photos, and exclusive interviews with the talented team of Imagineers who helped construct the illusion of a life-size Star Wars trading destination.

3. Providence

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Author: Max Berry

Max Berry Publisher: G. P. Putnam’s Sons (2020)

Quietly released during the height of the global pandemic panic, Max Barry’s (“Lexicon”) novel deserves a spot on our list as it’s one of the best sci-fi novels of the decade. It spins a compelling yarn about a weird race of hive-like, amorphous aliens that spit miniature black holes as defensive weapons and the AI-driven battleship called the Providence Five and its small four-person crew sent to deep space to annihilate them.

Seven years after a tragic first contact event that left several astronauts dead, this hyper-aware spaceship gradually travels inside enemy territory where it becomes paranoid ala HAL-9000 in “2001: A Space Odyssey,” resulting in some frightening encounters transmitted back to Earth to a captivated global audience. Fans of The Expanse will devour this book before another plasma round explodes!

4. Leviathan Falls

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Author: James S. A. Corey

James S. A. Corey Publisher: Orbit (2021)

As wise minds once said, all good things must end, and so it is with the best-selling series of military sci-fi novels “The Expanse”. On Nov. 30, the ninth and final book of Ty Franck and Daniel Abraham’s (writing as James S. A. Corey) immensely popular saga landed on Earth. The book dropped just before the sixth and last season of Amazon Prime’s “The Expanse” TV series began airing in December (psst... if you like this TV show, you might like some other of the best sci-fi TV shows based on books). Following 2019’s “Tiamat’s Wrath,” this climactic volume picks up after the Laconian Empire falls and 1,300 systems are free of the tyrannical rule of Winston Duarte.

In this intense grand finale, Elvi Okoye commands a last-ditch quest to the Adro system to learn more about the enigmatic alien presence known as the gate builders and what long-lost nemesis ended their cosmic construction projects. Back aboard the Rocinante, Captain James Holden and his intrepid colleagues attempt to peaceably reunite Mankind out of the innumerable calamities that have come before.

“We’re going to pay off the promises we’ve been making in the first eight books and complete the story,” Abraham told Space.com. “That’s all we can really promise. And it is the last one. We’re not leaving it open for sequels and prequels and side stories. We wanted to tell one complete story and have a satisfying finish and hopefully that’s what we’re delivering.”

5. Shards of Earth

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Author: Adrian Tchaikovsky

Adrian Tchaikovsky Publisher: Orbit (2021)

Adrian Tchaikovsky is the Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of “Children of Time” and if you’ve never read his tight, rhythmic prose, you’re in for a real treat.

The storyline is set in the aftermath of an 80-year war against angry aliens called the Architects. Idris Telemmier is a genetically-modified soldier once used as a telepathic weapon in the decades-long battle. With the inability to grow older or sleep since the conflict ceased, Idris now exists aboard a salvage spaceship named Vulture God. Humans created these intimidating soldiers who could connect mentally with the enemy when the Earth died.

A half-century later, Idris and his team have happened upon some discarded object that’s clearly of the Architects’ design. Does this signal the aggressive race’s resurgence in this part of the galaxy? Chased by criminals, fanatics, and politicians while custodians of a rare alien item, Idris zooms through the heavens trying to evade his pursuers while seeking the ultimate truth.

6. At the Mountains of Madness: Volumes 1 and 2

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Author: H. P. Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft Illustrator: François Baranger

François Baranger Publisher: Design Studio Press (2020/21)

Fans of H. P. Lovecraft’s unforgettable sci-fi horror novella will savor this impressive oversized hardback adaptation showcasing the absorbing art of French illustrator François Baranger. The recounting of a doomed Miskatonic University expedition to sub-zero Antarctica where specimens of an ancient alien species are discovered in a crumbling stone city is now accompanied by frozen landscapes of otherworldly dread.

Baranger is well known for his work as an internationally-recognized concept designer for popular movies and video games, and here he’s achieved the difficult task of reimagining one of Lovecraft’s most terrifying tales into pure nightmare material. Volume 2 was just released on December 22 to complete the set!

7. Frank Herbert’s Dune: The Graphic Novel, Book 1

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Author: Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert Adapted by: Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson

Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson Illustrators: Bill Sienkiewicz (cover), Raúl Allén, and Patricia Martín

Bill Sienkiewicz (cover), Raúl Allén, and Patricia Martín Publisher: Harry N. Abrams (2020)

With the success of director Denis Villeneuve’s epic rendition of the seminal 1965 sci-fi novel last year, you might want to check out this stunning graphic novel rendition adapted by Herbert’s son, Brian Herbert, and collaborator Kevin J. Anderson. This pair of writers has vastly expanded the scale and scope of the original “Dune” with over a dozen prequel and sequel novels over the last 22 years. This is the first time the masterwork has been offered in a premium illustrated format (the debut release of a trilogy), now richly adorned with artwork by artists Raúl Allén and Patricia Martín, and an epic cover by Eisner Award-winning illustrator Bill Sienkiewicz.

“His vast library did not include very many comics or graphic novels, but in his newspaper career he was not only a feature writer but also a professional photographer,” Herbert told Space.com , speaking about his father’s cinematic eye. “He used to tell me that he wrote scenes in his novels – and especially in “Dune” – with a camera in mind, as if he were looking at each scene through the lens of a camera.”

8. The Empire Strikes Back: From a Certain Point of View

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Título: The Best Science Fiction of 2022: The Clarke Award Shortlist - Five Books
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Every year, the judges for the Arthur C. Clarke Award select the best of the latest batch of new scifi books. In 2022, the science fiction award's shortlist includes new work from Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro, a novel-in-verse from the Scottish writer Harry Josephine Giles, and a new title in Arkady Martine's beloved Teixcalaan series. Andrew M. Butler , academic and chair of the judges, talks us through the finalists.

Thank you for joining us to discuss the shortlist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award for the best science fiction books of 2022. We find the books highlighted by the Clarke Award are always very popular with our readers. To start us off, for anyone who has missed our previous years’ coverage, could you tell me a bit about the prize and how the judging process works?

The prize was set up in the mid-1980s with a donation from Arthur C. Clarke, who wanted to put money back into British sci fi. I’ve heard stories that he wanted to start a science fiction magazine—there was one named for his rival Isaac Asimov—but instead an award was suggested, with an annual prize of £1000. This was later raised to £2001 and has gone up a pound each year. When it was obvious that Arthur’s UK holding company, Rocket Publications, could no longer fund the award, a group of us set up the Serendip Foundation to save the award.

Initially, two judges each were supplied every year by the British Science Fiction Association, the Science Fiction Foundation, and the International Science Policy Foundation—which no longer exists. Later we hooked up with Sci-Fi London for a fifth—an odd number makes a deadlock less likely. The first award, in 1987, went to Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, and caused a bit of a kerfuffle because she said she didn’t write science fiction. The award has often gone to a left field title—most notoriously when Marge Piercy’s Body of Glass won out over Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars. On the other hand, some commentators are unhappy that more experimental books have been overlooked in favour of more ‘core’ science fiction. It comes down to the tastes of those five judges in the room.

“The history of genre science fiction is dominated by straight white men”

The judges—this year Phoenix Alexander, Kris Black, Nicole Devarenne, Stark Holborn and Nick Hubble—get sent all the books, which they are expected to read and assess, and we have various meetings to whittle these down to a shortlist of six. Then we have a last meeting to decide the winner. Most years the judges plead for seven books, but we keep it fixed at a half dozen.

How many books were considered for the 2022 science fiction prize?

More or less one hundred books, maybe a couple more, which is a bit down on previous years but higher than a decade ago. I’m not sure whether this was a side effect of the pandemic or whether publishers were more careful about sending books which are firmly science fiction. There were a couple of books I’m sorry we didn’t see. Read 1 Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel by Harry Josephine Giles Read

Let’s talk about Deep Wheel Orcadia by the Scottish writer Harry Josephine Giles. It’s a novel-in-verse, which takes a very interesting literary approach. Can you tell us more?

Novels-in-two-verses, you might argue. One in Orcadian, one in English. Orcadian is a dialect of Scots—as opposed to Gaelic—and there’s a history of Scots feeding into science fiction and horror, especially Gothic horror. In 1919, someone came up with the idea of the Caledonian antisyzygy—the Scots think in one language, but feel in another, say. There’s a sort of divided consciousness at the centre of Scottish books, poetry and art—and we can trace this division in authors such as Robert Louis Stevenson, Iain M. Banks and many others.

I think I can relate to that.

The action of Deep Wheel Orcadia is mostly set on or close to an isolated space station, at a crisis point in the solar system, and focuses on the working and private lives of the characters on board. You could decide to read the Orcadian version and then the English, or vice versa, or just one—but you’d miss so much if you only read half. I think you can pick up the Orcadian, as you might the Riddleyspeak in Russell Hoban’s Riddley Walker.

Mind you, the English isn’t straightforward. Look at this on the first page:

She watched the Deep Wheel approach, grey-green, its Central Station still turntwistwhirlspinning againstaboutbefore the yellow gas giant.

That first coinage is a translation, well, four translations, of ‘tirlan,’ which I assume could be translated as any of them. Translators usually just pick one equivalent, which can shift the meaning of the original. As the text is their own translation, Giles could adjudicate between them, but allows all four. And sometimes what you might see as ‘Received Pronunciation’ dialogue breaks into the Orcadian.

Use of the Orcadian dialect gestures towards Giles’s Orkney Islands heritage. But here it’s applied in a futuristic setting. Does that jar?

There’s a long tradition of science fiction looking to the past or to other cultures as inspiration. I was at a maritime museum in Bergen, Norway, a couple of years ago and a map there located Orkney as almost being central to the Viking interests—the North Sea as a sort of internal sea as the Mediterranean was for the Romans. You can read the Norse sagas and some of the Old English poetry of the pre-eleventh century and there’s a science fictional, certainly a fantastical, feel. There’s an account of discovering America, say, which might be real history or might be an imagined history.

Choosing it is pushing the boundaries of the award, as we did with Simon Stålenhag’s illustrated The Electric State a couple of years ago. We don’t see verse novels often in science fiction. Giles’s poetry makes us see the world in a new way—doubly so in an outer space setting. I’ll definitely be pushing the judges over whether it is indeed a novel. But I think it’s the sort of book the prize exists to draw attention to for die-hard scifi readers, and to make non-scifi readers question their assumptions about the genre. Thinking about it, there’s a couple of science fiction novels in Welsh, and I’d love for translations of those to be submitted. Read 2 Klara and the Sun: A Novel by Kazuo Ishiguro Read

I’ll look forward to hearing about them. Let’s talk about Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro next. Why have the judges highlighted it as one of the best science fiction books of 2022?

I can’t be too specific about their opinions, but we spent a long time arguing over its inclusion—Never Let Me Go was shortlisted a few years ago and The Buried Giant was submitted, but that probably too fantasy. Some of the judges had very emotional reactions to the novel, especially about the central narrating character, Klara, who is an ‘Artificial Friend’ and somewhat… pliant. But in fact, most of the female characters in the novel are passive or altruistic, accepting of their fate. The novel was on the Booker long-list, and he’s won a Nobel Prize—pretty rare for scifi writers—but that won’t necessarily count in his favour or indeed against him.

Ishiguro’s novels are often speculative but find a mainstream audience; do you think the diehard scifi fan will enjoy this book too?

I don’t see why not—arguably it’s a traditional science fiction novel, told from a first-person point of view. Ishiguro was on the original Granta list of the best young British novelists back in 1983, with Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan and Clarke-winner Christopher Priest. Several of them have written science fiction or something close to it.

Ishiguro’s literary trick is that the world Klara knows is limited by what she can see or what she is told about. As readers, we might have a better idea of some of the things she doesn’t realise—what she has got herself into, say—but the narrative might not go where we expect or perhaps hope. We’re assembling Klara’s world alongside Ishiguro. And the idea of the Sun as potentially a God is fascinating; in science fiction it could, of course, be a superior being. Read 3 A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine Read

Another previous Clarke Award shortlistee Arkady Martine returns with her new space opera, A Desolation Called Peace. Tell us about it, and why this work of science fiction made your 2022 shortlist.

I guess this is space opera, about interplanetary conflict and first contact, not necessarily in that order. The Teixcalaanli Empire encounters a superior alien threat and Three Seagrass, the protagonist from the previous book, is brought in to try and communicate with them. She insists on getting the help of her friend, Ambassador Mahit Dzmare, hoping to stop a war. But there are factions within the empire who would like war or would find it quite useful for their careers, so there are a lot of conflicting and murky motives on display.

Does it work as a standalone novel, or should readers start with the first book in her Teixcalaan sequence, A Memory Called Empire, before moving onto this title?

I don’t think you need to read Empire to enjoy Peace; in fact, not all of the judges had, since it was different group of readers. I’d read it, but that’s a few years ago now and I’ll try and read them back-to-back before the final meeting. You need to know that Mahit’s predecessor as ambassador died in mysterious circumstances and that she has an incomplete back up of him in her mind. The Teixcalaanli emperor, Six Direction, was also under attack and now Nineteen Adze has taken over the position. But there’s an eleven-year-old partial clone of Six who is taking an interest in imperial events and make possibly end up making it worse.

It’s a rich brew of characters and conspiracy, but there is a useful glossary at the back, which I confess I did use as I’m rubbish with names. It’ll be up to the judges whether they feel it stands alone or is the second half of a single novel. We’ll see! Re
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Título: Hugo Award for Best Novel - Wikipedia
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Annual award for science fiction or fantasy

Hugo Award for Best Novel Awarded for Best science fiction or fantasy story of 40,000 words or more published in the prior calendar year Presented by World Science Fiction Society First awarded 1953 Most recent winner Emily Tesh (Some Desperate Glory) Website thehugoawards .org

The Hugo Award for Best Novel is one of the Hugo Awards given each year for science fiction or fantasy stories published in, or translated to, English during the previous calendar year. The novel award is available for works of fiction of 40,000 words or more; awards are also given out in the short story, novelette, and novella categories. The Hugo Awards have been described as "a fine showcase for speculative fiction", and "the best known literary award for science fiction writing".[1][2]

The Hugo Award for Best Novel has been awarded annually by the World Science Fiction Society since 1953, except in 1954 and 1957. In addition, beginning in 1996, Retrospective Hugo Awards or "Retro-Hugos" have been available for works published 50, 75, or 100 years prior. Retro-Hugos may only be awarded for years after 1939 in which no awards were originally given.[3] Retro-Hugo awards have been given for novels for 1939, 1941, 1943–1946, 1951, and 1954.[4]

Hugo Award nominees and winners are chosen by supporting or attending members of the annual World Science Fiction Convention, or Worldcon, and the presentation evening constitutes its central event. The final selection process is defined in the World Science Fiction Society Constitution as instant-runoff voting with six nominees, except in the case of a tie. The novels on the ballot are the six most-nominated by members that year, with no limit on the number of stories that can be nominated. The 1953, 1955, and 1958 awards did not include a recognition of runner-up novels, but since 1959 all final candidates have been recorded.[3] Initial nominations are made by members from January through March, while voting on the ballot of six nominations is performed roughly from April through July, subject to change depending on when that year's Worldcon is held.[5] Prior to 2017, the final ballot was five works; it was changed that year to six, with each initial nominator limited to five nominations.[6] Worldcons are generally held in August or early September, and are held in a different city around the world each year.[7][8]

During the 78 nomination years, 169 authors have had works nominated and 54 have won (including co-authors, ties, and Retro-Hugos). Two translators have been noted along with the author of a novel written in a language other than English: Ken Liu, in 2015 and 2017, for translations of two works from Chinese; and Rita Barisse, in 2019, who was retroactively noted as the translator of a 1963 French novel. Robert A. Heinlein has won the most Hugos for Best Novel, and also received the most nominations; he has six wins (four Hugos and two Retro-Hugos) on twelve nominations. Lois McMaster Bujold has received four Hugos on ten nominations. Five authors have won three times: Isaac Asimov and Fritz Leiber (with two Hugos and one Retro-Hugo each), N. K. Jemisin, Connie Willis, and Vernor Vinge. Nine other authors have won the award twice. The next-most nominations by a winning author are held by Robert J. Sawyer and Larry Niven, who have been nominated nine and eight times, respectively, and have each only won once. With nine nominations, Robert Silverberg has the greatest number of nominations without winning any. Three authors have won the award in consecutive years: Orson Scott Card (1986 and 1987), Lois McMaster Bujold (1991 and 1992), and N. K. Jemisin (2016, 2017, and 2018).

Winners and nominees [ edit ]

In the following table, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony, rather than when the novel was first published. Each year links to the corresponding "year in literature". Entries with a yellow background have won the award; those with a grey background are the nominees on the short-list.

* Winners and joint winners

Beginning with the 1996 Worldcon, the World Science Fiction Society created the concept of "Retro-Hugos", in which the Hugo award could be retroactively awarded for 50, 75, or 100 years prior. Retro-Hugos may only be awarded for years after 1939 (the year of the first Worldcon) in which no Hugos were originally awarded.[3] Retro-Hugos have been awarded eight times, for 1939, 1941, 1943–46, 1951, and 1954.

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Título: 24 Books That Won Both the Hugo and Nebula Awards - Mental Floss
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In narrative science fiction, there is no higher honor than earning a Hugo Award or Nebula Awardâunless, of course, you win both.

The Hugo, named after sci-fi editor Hugo Gernsback and first presented in 1953, is voted on by members of the World Science Fiction Society; the Nebula has been handed out by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America to honor the work of their peers since 1965.

While each is highly prestigious, only some titles have earned both in a single year. In anticipation of the 2022 Hugo Awards on Sunday, September 4, here are 24 books that earned two of the biggest acknowledgements in science fiction, and which could be great to grab if youâre looking for gift ideas for a sci-fi lover.

1. Dune (1965) // Frank Herbert

'Dune' by Frank Herbert / Amazon

Frank Herbertâs classic tale of warring societies who seek the valuable spice of Arrakis inspired decades of sci-fi to come, including Star Wars. Some of the novelâs earliest readers had to have some patience: It was originally published in serial format, with eight parts printed in Analog magazine between 1963 and 1965. Dune was the winner of the first Nebula Award, and shared the Hugo with Roger Zelaznyâs â¦And Call Me Conrad.



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2. The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) // Ursula K. Le Guin

'The Left Hand of Darkness' by Ursula K. Le Guin / Amazon

Le Guinâs tale of a planet named Gethen that knows no defined genderâexcept for one period each month in which they conform to male and female identitiesânow seems startlingly prescient. It took top honors at the Nebulas, beating out Kurt Vonnegutâs Slaughterhouse-Five; the 1969 Hugos were also notable for awarding their Best Dramatic Presentation award to television coverage of the Apollo 11 moon mission.



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3. Ringworld (1970) // Larry Niven

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Larry Nivenâs Ringworld envisioned a future in which an alien civilization constructs a ring with a 93-million mile radius that surrounds the sun and is 3 million times the area of Earth. The book was a favorite among MIT students, who debated the scientific accuracy of the construct and led Niven to address some of their criticisms in the 1980 sequel, The Ringworld Engineers. The book hit a trifecta of sorts, winning the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards, which is named after the science-fiction magazine. Surprisingly, Ringworld has never been adapted for film or television, but Amazon announced plans for a series back in 2018.



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4. Rendezvous With Rama (1973) // Arthur C. Clarke

'Rendezvous With Rama' by Arthur C. Clarke / Amazon

Arthur C. Clarke penned this Hugo- and Nebula-Award-winning tale about a group of humans who are tasked with greeting an alien ship heading toward Earth. When they board, they discover the vessel isnât occupiedâbut thatâs only the beginning. Denis Villeneuve (Dune) is slated to direct a feature adaptation.



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5. The Dispossessed (1974) // Ursula K. Le Guin

'The Dispossessed' by Ursula K. Le Guin / Amazon

Le Guin scored another double with this exploration of how a society can function without laws or government. Protagonist Shevek experiences both a structured world and one in which anarchy reigns, leading to questions of which dystopia is which. Le Guin has said the work started as âa very bad short story,â which evolved into something more.



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6. The Forever War (1975) // Joe Haldeman

'The Forever War' by Joe Haldeman / Amazon

Vietnam veteran Haldeman examined the human cost of warfare with this outer-space allegory about a soldier named William Mandella drafted into a galactic conflict with aliens known as Taurans. When he periodically returns home, he finds hundreds of years have passed, leading to a discombobulation that mirrored the experiences of real veterans. Early editions of the book were abridged; it wasnât until 1997 that Haldemanâs full and preferred version appeared.



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7. Gateway (1977) // Frederik Pohl

'Gateway' by Frederik Pohl / Amazon

A prolific writer, Frederik Pohl was also a literary agent, and his Heechee sagaâwhich grew to include several novelsâstarts here. On an asteroid, a network of tunnels and technology left over by an advanced society attracts all sorts of opportunists.



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8. Dreamsnake (1978) // Vonda McIntyre

'Dreamsnake' by Vonda McIntyre / Amazon

McIntyre essentially won the Nebula twice over for Dreamsnake, which started as a short story titled âOf Mist, and Grass, and Sandâ that took the honor for Best Novelette in 1973. To expand it into a novel, McIntyre dove deeper into the story of a healer named Snake, who uses snake venom to care for ailing patients. After Snake loses her most valuable (and psychotropic) snake, she seeks a replacement in a post-apocalyptic future. Dreamsnake initially courted some controversy for its mentions of sexânot that common among sci-fi novels of the eraâand stands as one of the few dual Nebula and Hugo winners to feature a woman protagonist.



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9. The Fountains of Paradise (1979) // Arthur C. Clarke

'The Fountains of Paradise' by Arthur C. Clarke / Amazon

Clarke returned to the podium for this novel about a very determined man who decides to build a space elevator originating in Sri Lanka, a premise that echoes the current entrepreneurs in privatized space travel. Not long after, Clarke hosted a television series, Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World, about strange phenomena. (But no space elevators.)



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10. Startide Rising (1983) // David Brin

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Brinâs novel drops readers in on a future in which species are âuplifted,â or given sentience by patron species. Startide Rising is the second in a series that began with 1980âs Sundiver; in Startide, humans and uplifted dolphins (and one chimpanzee) are on board a space vessel when it comes across a fleet of alien ships that seem to belong to the Progenitors. But the knowledge kept by the Progenitors canât be obtained without a fight. Brin has a Ph.D. in physics and an undergrad degree in astrophysics; the third in the trilogy, The Uplift War, was nominated for the Nebula and won the Hugo.



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11. Neuromancer (1984) // William Gibson

'Neuromancer' by William Gibson / Amazon

William Gibson has said he didnât know anything about computers at the time he wrote Neuromancer, the pioneering novel that launched the âcyberpunkâ genre and which seemed to anticipate the rise of an artificially-intelligent future and the hackers who exploit it. (He wrote it on a manual typewriter.) The bookâs depiction of cyberspace and the blending and blurring of reality and virtual reality continues to exert its influence to this day.



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12. Enderâs Game (1985) // Orson Scott Card

'Ender's Game' by Orson Scott Card / Amazon

Card examines the moral cost of recruiting gifted kids to prepare for an interstellar battle against the Formics, an insect-like alien race. Young Andrew âEnderâ Wiggin is one of many child geniuses trained for a coming war via simulations. The book was later adapted into a 2013 film starring Harrison Ford.



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13. Speaker for the Dead (1986) // Orson Scott Card

'Speaker for the Dead' by Orson Scott Card / Amazon

Card pulled off the unlikely feat of consecutive double Hugo and Nebula wins with this sequel-of-sorts to Enderâs Game that picks up Enderâs story 25 years later. The âspeakerâ of the title refers to those who try to represent the deceased by relaying both the good and bad of their lives.



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14. Doomsday Book (1992) // Connie Willis

'Doomsday Book' by Connie Willis / Amazon

Along with Vernor Vingeâs A Fire Upon the Deep, Willis was a co-winner of the Hugo and a winner of the Nebula for this novel about pandemics in the 1300s and 2054 and how each societyâone primitive, one advancedâresponds to the threat. Willis even predicted a toilet paper shortage.



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15. American Gods (2001) // Neil Gaiman

'American Gods' by Neil Gaiman / Amazon

Neil Gaiman puts deities in conflict with one another as mythic gods clash with 21st century titans of commerce and technology, with protagonist Shadow Moonâan ambassador of old guard Mr. Wednesdayâfinding himself caught in the middle. A television adaptation aired on Starz for three seasons.



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16. Paladin of Souls (2003) // Lois McMaster Bujold

'Paladin of Souls' by Lois McMaster Bujold / Amazon

Bujoldâs tale of a middle-aged widow who goes on a soul-searching mission in a sword-and-sorcery landscape earned the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards. Bujold has said her love of science fiction was partially the result of picking up her fatherâs discarded sci-fi magazines.



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17. The Yiddish Policemenâs Union (2007) // Michael Chabon

'The Yiddish Policemenâs Union' by Michael Chabon / Amazon

In The Yiddish Policemenâs Union, Pulitzer winner Michael Chabon created a revisionist history mystery: Post-World War II, a Jewish refugee settlement in Alaska is the site of a murder, and itâs up to detective Meyer Landsman to solve the case. Gangster rabbis abound in this fantasy tale, which features alternate-reality atomic bomb drops and a new kind of noir. Chabon has said he wrote a 600-page first draft with a different plot that he wound up discarding; the published version, according to the author, is somewhat of a sequel to that unseen draft.



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18. The Windup Girl (2009) // Paolo Bacigalupi

'The Windup Girl' by Paolo Bacigalupi / Amazon

Bacigalupi explores a world in which the global warming has reduced the agricultural industry to gene-hacked seeds and crop companies are the new big tech. The title character is an artificial human that protagonist Anderson Lake falls for while scouting for Thailandâs remaining supply of
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Título: Cosmic Greatness: 21 of the Best Award-Winning Sci-Fi Books - BOOK RIOT
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The son of a librarian, Chris M. Arnone's love of books was as inevitable as gravity. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Missouri - Kansas City. His novel, The Hermes Protocol, was published by Castle Bridge Media in 2023 and the next book in that series is due out in winter 2024. His work can also be found in Adelaide Literary Magazine and FEED Lit Mag. You can find him writing more books, poetry, and acting in Kansas City. You can also follow him on social media (Facebook, Goodreads, Instagram, Twitter, website).

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Título: Readers' Favorite Science Fiction 2020 — Goodreads Choice Awards
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2020 Rules & Eligibility

The 2020 Goodreads Choice Awards have three rounds of voting open to all registered Goodreads members. Winners will be announced December 08, 2020.

Opening Round: Oct 27 - Nov 08

Voting opens to 15 official nominees, and write-in votes can be placed for any eligible book (see eligibility below).

Semifinal Round: Nov 10 - 15

The top five write-in votes in each of the categories become official nominees. Additional write-ins no longer accepted.

Final Round: Nov 17 - 30

The field narrows to the top 10 books in each category, and members have one last chance to vote!

2020 Eligibility

Books published in the United States in English, including works in translation and other significant rereleases, between November 16, 2019, and November 17, 2020, are eligible for the 2020 Goodreads Choice Awards. Books published between November 18, 2020, and November 17, 2021, will be eligible for the 2021 awards.

We analyze statistics from the millions of books added, rated, and reviewed on Goodreads to nominate 15 books in each category. Opening round official nominees must have an average rating of 3.50 or higher at the time of launch. Write-in votes may be cast for eligible books with any average rating, and write-in votes will be weighted by the book's Goodreads statistics to determine the top five books to be added as official nominees in the Semifinal Round. A book may be nominated in no more than one genre category, but can also be nominated in the Debut Novel category. Only one book in a series may be nominated per category. An author may receive multiple nominations within a single category if he or she has more than one eligible series or more than one eligible stand-alone book. Learn more
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