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Best Alternate History Books (cover not available)

Best Alternate History Books

The nature of this list will polarize and divide nerds everywhere. Alternate history (or alternative history, for the grammar geeks reading this), is a genre of stories where history has...

Top 25 Science Fiction Books (cover not available)

Top 25 Science Fiction Books

Love Science Fiction? Hate wasting time reading the trash? Then read this definitive guide to the Top 25 Science Fiction Books in the genre. It's been a long time in...

Best Cyberpunk Books (cover not available)

Best Cyberpunk Books

So here we have a sub-genre of science fiction that has a cool name, because of which its authors dress in leather jackets and wear mirror shades - at least...

Best Dystopian Science Fiction Books (cover not available)

Best Dystopian Science Fiction Books

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. ...

Best Science Fiction Books for Young Adults (cover not available)

Best Science Fiction Books for Young Adults

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,...

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...

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Across The Universe

Across The Universe

Stand up; hold one hand to your chest and the other raised. Repeat after me: "I acknowledge it is not a crime to categorize young adult fiction as dystopian science-fiction,...

Beth Revis Buy on Amazon
The Running Man

The Running Man

Believe it or not, Stephen King didn't only write hokey horror novels that weren't particularly scary, with completely convoluted "why the fuck did the clown turn into an alien-spider" plots....

Richard Bachman/stephen King Buy on Amazon
Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451

Everyone loves the idea of the thinking man's fireman (particularly middle aged women who read Fifty Shades of Grey), but that's not why Fahrenheit 451 made it to second on...

Ray Bradbury Buy on Amazon
Atlas Shrugged

Atlas Shrugged

Personally, I think Ayn Rand's novels always deserve a top 25 listing because of their progressive thinking and liberally sexual attitudes. Don't agree with me? Have fun with your Sunday...

Ayn Rand Buy on Amazon
Takeshi Kovacs Novels

Takeshi Kovacs Novels

Do you like your science fiction with overtones of Humphrey Bogart? That's noir, baby. No-one does it better than Morgan. He writes noir-style cyberpunk with the terse clarity edged in...

Richard K. Morgan Buy on Amazon
Battle Royale (cover not available)

Battle Royale

Japan has been making wonderful science fiction films since before the Second World War. Sadly, those early films were pretty much destroyed in the War, but through the 50s with...

Kinji Fukasaku Buy on Amazon
Transmetropolitan

Transmetropolitan

Helix was a science fiction imprint of DC comics which barely lasted eighteen months. It produced two incredible titles, one of which was picked up by Vertigo and continued for...

Warren Ellis Buy on Amazon
Unwind

Unwind

Unwind, the first novel in the Unwind dystology is a truly disturbing YA blend of science fiction and horror. Set in a dystopian society after a series of civil wars...

Neal Shusterman Buy on Amazon
Revelation Space

Revelation Space

Throughout its history, one of the strongest and most interesting aspects of science fiction has been its use in satire. And this is just about the most stunning of contemporary...

Alastair Reynolds Buy on Amazon
The Handmaid's Tale

The Handmaid's Tale

Throughout its history, one of the strongest and most interesting aspects of science fiction has been its use in satire. And this is just about the most stunning of contemporary...

Margaret Atwood Buy on Amazon
The Difference Engine

The Difference Engine

In our top 25 dystopian list, we called him the King of Cyberpunk. In this delicious alternate history, steam punk offering, Gibson teams up with Bruce Sterling to serve up...

William Gibson Buy on Amazon
Transition

Transition

I wonder if inserting an M in between my first name and surname will magically turn me into a top science-fiction writer like Iain Banks. (Really, he writes non science...

Iain M. Banks Buy on Amazon
Snow Crash

Snow Crash

A novel of startling ideas that influenced a generation of writers and pop culture. Some of the best cyberpunk science fiction out there. Fans of dystopian fiction and cyberpunk will...

Neal Stephenson Buy on Amazon
Queen Of Angels

Queen Of Angels

Crime, guilt, punishment. Does this sound like science-fiction to you or current world America? I'm starting to get scared by how realistic dystopian sci-fi that deals with futuristic concepts like...

Greg Bear Buy on Amazon
City Of Ember

City Of Ember

The first in the Books of Ember series, The City of Ember was adapted into a movie in 2008. This book is a great intro to the dystopian genre that...

Jeanne Duprau Buy on Amazon
The Bees

The Bees

Throughout the history of the genre, authors have written dystopian views of highly regimented societies where everyone is assigned a place from birth and must stick to that role. Well...

Laline Paull Buy on Amazon
The First Men In The Moon

The First Men In The Moon

First Men in the Moon was the last of the great run of genre-defining scientific romances that Wells wrote in the first years of his career, it is also the...

H. G. Wells Buy on Amazon
Sandkings

Sandkings

George RR Martin, the guy in the Greek fisherman's cap who brought you Game of Thrones, got  his start writing comic books. Well, writing to comic books, as his first...

George R. R. Martin Buy on Amazon
Cloud Atlas: A Novel

Cloud Atlas: A Novel

Inevitably, there is a continuity between past and future. The present is not a cut-off point between one and the other, but simply a sliding scale in the process of...

David Mitchell Buy on Amazon
Mockingbird

Mockingbird

I'll give you the bad news up front: this novel has been classified as Young Adult. I know, I know - I can hear the groans already, and I don't...

Walter Tevis Buy on Amazon

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