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Best Artificial Intelligence Science Fiction (cover not available)

Best Artificial Intelligence Science Fiction

Which sub-genre of sci-fi can claim both the literary greats, the grandmasters of science fiction, like Isaac Asimov, Orson Scott Card, and the recently departed Iain M. Banks and the...

Top 25 Military SciFi Books (cover not available)

Top 25 Military SciFi Books

Military Science Fiction is a subgenre that has always been around. Maybe it’s the fact that getting all those rockets, robots, and blasters would obviously require immense amounts of governmental...

Best Non-English Science Fiction Books (cover not available)

Best Non-English Science Fiction Books

For the last century or so, at least since Hugo Gernsback gave the genre a name and a pulpy reputation, the default assumption of most people who write about sf...

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Www: Wake

Www: Wake

The delicious irony (or coincidence? I never know which one is appropriate and I blame Alanis Morrisette and that terrible song entirely for this confusion) about this novel is that...

Robert J. Sawyer Buy on Amazon
Red Planet Blues

Red Planet Blues

Set on Mars, the book tells of a futuristic society set in New Klondike, a domed city on the Red Planet. Just like its namesake, the town was built to...

Robert J. Sawyer Buy on Amazon
Flashforward (cover not available)

Flashforward

Based on the novel by Robert J. Sawyer, Flashforward tells a complicated story about what happens the world goes dark for 137 seconds and then survives to have to deal...

Brannon Braga And David S. Goyer Buy on Amazon
Spin

Spin

One night, when he is 12 years old, Tyler Dupree and two friends witness all the stars in the sky suddenly disappearing. It turns out that a membrane has been...

Robert Charles Wilson Buy on Amazon
Axis

Axis

We are taken to the mysterious planet Equatoria, a world apparently engineered for humanity by the inscrutable machine intelligences known as the Hypotheticals. Turk Findley, a man with a criminal...

Robert Charles Wilson Buy on Amazon
Vortex

Vortex

Turk and his young friend Isaac Dvali are taken up by a community of fanatics who use them to enable a passage to the dying Earth, where they believe a...

Robert Charles Wilson Buy on Amazon
A Time Of Changes

A Time Of Changes

In a world ruled by the Covenant, the denial of self is the absolute law. Which means that it is forbidden to use the word "I". Following the accession of...

Robert Silverberg Buy on Amazon
The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress

The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress

Heinlein kept returning to the Moon several times throughout his career, in stories like "The Man Who Sold the Moon", "The Black Pits of Luna" and "The Menace from Earth"....

Robert A. Heinlein Buy on Amazon
The Strange Case Of Dr Jeckyll And Mr Hyde

The Strange Case Of Dr Jeckyll And Mr Hyde

What we learned from Jeckyll and Hyde is that Frankenstein's monster is in all of us. Taking elements from the real-life case of Deacon Brodie, a respectable cabinet maker who...

Robert Louis Stevenson Buy on Amazon
Life And Adventures Of Peter Wilkins

Life And Adventures Of Peter Wilkins

A reviewer at the time described this novel as "the illegitimate offspring" of Gulliver's Travels and Robinson Crusoe, which is a reasonable if not exactly precise description of the book,...

Robert Paltock Buy on Amazon
Stranger In A Strange Land

Stranger In A Strange Land

An expedition to Mars is lost. Twenty five years later, a second expedition finds there is one survivor of the first expedition, Valentine Michael Smith, who was raised by Martians....

Robert A. Heinlein Buy on Amazon
Majipoor Series

Majipoor Series

At the core of all the best science fiction series is good story telling in one form or the other. I mean, who wants to read only about novel ideas...

Robert Silverberg Buy on Amazon
Lord Valentine's Castle

Lord Valentine's Castle

First novel in the 'Majipoor' series, comprising a total of 11 novels and novellas. Majipoor is, one might argue, direct offspring of Vance's Big Planet (#3 in this list); a...

Robert Silverberg Buy on Amazon
Immortality Inc

Immortality Inc

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...

Robert Sheckley Buy on Amazon
Space Cadet

Space Cadet

A young man reports for the final tests for appointment as a cadet in the Interplanetary Patrol, survives the tests, studies in the school ship, and goes on a regular...

Robert A. Heinlein Buy on Amazon

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