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It was an extraordinary year for science fiction, with so many books challenging for our attention that any of half a dozen titles could have made the top spot, and...

Which science fiction novels defined 2025? This list ranks the year's books by how many independent signals back them: the Hugo, Nebula and Arthur C. Clarke awards, and the Goodreads...

Which science fiction novels defined 2024? This list ranks the year's books by how many independent signals back them: the Hugo, Nebula and Arthur C. Clarke awards, and the Goodreads...

Which science fiction novels defined 2023? This list ranks the year's books by how many independent signals back them: the Hugo, Nebula and Arthur C. Clarke awards, and the Goodreads...

Which science fiction novels defined 2022? This list ranks the year's books by how many independent signals back them: the Hugo, Nebula and Arthur C. Clarke awards, and the Goodreads...

Which science fiction novels defined 2021? This list ranks the year's books by how many independent signals back them: the Hugo, Nebula and Arthur C. Clarke awards, and the Goodreads...

Which science fiction novels defined 2020? This list ranks the year's books by how many independent signals back them: the Hugo, Nebula and Arthur C. Clarke awards, and the Goodreads...

Which science fiction novels defined 2019? This list ranks the year's books by how many independent signals back them: the Hugo, Nebula and Arthur C. Clarke awards, and the Goodreads...

Which science fiction novels defined 2018? This list ranks the year's books by how many independent signals back them: the Hugo, Nebula and Arthur C. Clarke awards, and the Goodreads...

Which science fiction novels defined 2017? This list ranks the year's books by how many independent signals back them: the Hugo, Nebula and Arthur C. Clarke awards, and the Goodreads...

Which science fiction novels defined 2016? This list ranks the year's books by how many independent signals back them: the Hugo, Nebula and Arthur C. Clarke awards, and the Goodreads...

Which science fiction novels defined 2015? This list ranks the year's books by how many independent signals back them: the Hugo, Nebula and Arthur C. Clarke awards, and the Goodreads...

Big ships, big battles,and many characters are some of the key elements behind space opera. The Space Opera is one of the most popular science fiction sub genres because it's...

The May 1964 issue of the venerable British science fiction magazine New Worlds had a new editor: Michael Moorcock. Moorcock, still in his early 20s, had already made a name...

Young adult science fiction is some of the most action packed fiction that exists. Almost every single on this list is a wild ride through a new and interesting world,...

Science fiction opens up a world of possibilities for children from aliens and space travel to robots and time travel and even machines that can do your homework for you....

Science Fiction and Dystopias go together like Lindsay Lohan and court appearances, but the terms don’t necessarily have to co-exist. Both genres exist independently and are popular on their own. ...

This is the Alternative Top 25 Best Science Fiction list (AKA the OLD Top 25 Science Fiction List before we created a brand new one and released it in January...

We've completely updated this list with 25 new entries, updated the old ones and generally filled this list out substantially.Space Opera is one of those genres of science fiction that...

This list is a direct continuation to the Top 25 Best Science Fiction list...started from the 26th book.It's always a tricky proposition to suggest the best of anything. My best,...

Sandy and Dennys have always been the normal, run-of-the-mill ones in the extraodinary Murry family. They garden, make an occasional A in school, and play baseball. Nothing especially interesting has...

Many of those in the Transhumanist camp believe that sooner or later, in a twisted take on the 'reincarnation' mythos, we'll be able to effectively separate minds from bodies and...

Many claim that Joss Whedon's Firefly is the greatest science fiction television show of all-time. Cancelled even before a full season aired, a massive fanbase was clamoring for a feature...

Not many science fiction writers have won the Nobel Prize for Literature, but Kipling was the first member of this exclusive club. His finest science fiction is a pair of...

Not many science fiction writers have won the Nobel Prize for Literature, but Kipling was the first member of this exclusive club. His finest science fiction is a pair of...

If many of the stories we've included on this list treat the Moon as a threat, there are equally those, like The Moon is a Harsh Mistress or Steel Beach,...

When many folks think of Transformers: The Movie (the 1986 film, not the 2007 abomination and the even-worse follow-ons) it's because it was the last film made by the legendary...

In many ways, mecha are the bread and butter of anime. They define a lot of the best, most popular anime from the 1980s on. The initial series of Full...

There aren't that many sf novels that give their name to an entire subgenre, but Jack Vance's The Dying Earth did just that.The original volume is a collection of loosely...

Feathers come in many colours, and each colour a different thing. There's. Black - painful, gentle; and Pink - for porno, your every eroticism fulfilled. Blues are legal, for dreaming...

There aren't that many funny novels about Mars, but this is one of them. A satire on contemporary America and particularly on Hollywood, a spoof of many old fashioned sf...

Star Trek inspired many of the science fiction writers of the late 20th century, and it was Forbidden Planet that inspired Star Trek. A gloriously full-color space opera retelling of...

London succeeds in doing what many men have tried to do over the course of history, and almost every man has failed in doing: understanding how women think. Unlike most...

Doctor Who has led to so many spin-offs and associated programs, but almost all of them are designed to be children's shows. With Torchwood, they went with something designed for...

The Hulk has changed so many ways over the last 50+ years. He's one of the greatest of all Marvel's heroes, and he's the perfect example of a Silver Age...

Throughout its history, many of the finest and most important works of science fiction have been short stories. Magazines and anthologies have been the lifeblood of the genre for at...

There was an explosion in the late 1990s that led to many top-notch anime series debuting. It's the late 21st century and Earth is pretty much uninhabitable. That leads Earth...

What is a warrior? Many would tell you, quite truthfully, that the total focus of a warrior is to win - hopefully surviving in the process. This book clearly explains...

Odile Ozanne lives in a valley that is one of many identical, repeating ones. The neighbouring valley is twenty years in the future and the other twenty years in the...

In a near-future Europe that has broken into many small states, two stories unfold: Jim, an English intelligence officer drawn in by a stabbing on a London bus into preparations...