Our [New Scientist] writers pick their favourite science fiction books of all time (www.newscientist.com)

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This is an interesting list. It's missing some of the true great classics, like Frankenstein, and it has a number of unusual, less well known titles, but there's a lot to like on it. There's certainly a lot for people to disagree about, but it may well have your less often cited favorites, too. What do you think?

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[-] [email protected] 44 points 3 months ago

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
The City & the City by China Miéville
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
The Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
Chelsea Whyte God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert
17776 by Jon Bois
War With the Newts by Karel Čapek
Flatland: A romance of many dimensions by A Square (Edwin Abbott Abbott)
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams
The Culture series by Iain M. Banks

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Thanks for posting the list like this!

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