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Best Robot Science Fiction (cover not available)

Best Robot Science Fiction

I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords! I may have been waiting for a very long time to pull that old chestnut out. But this H.G. Wells quote that...

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...

Best Science Fiction Books for Children (cover not available)

Best Science Fiction Books for Children

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....

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,...

Top 25 Post Human Science Fiction Books (cover not available)

Top 25 Post Human Science Fiction Books

In 1859, prompted by the similar ideas being developed by Alfred Russell Wallace, Charles Darwin finally published On the Origin of Species, perhaps the most revolutionary book in the history...

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...

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I, Robot: To Protect

I, Robot: To Protect

Reichert's novel is amongst a trilogy of novels inspired by Asimov's I, Robot. A tough gig, I'll admit, given the hordes of hungry sci-fi, robot nerds ready to devour poor,...

Mickey Zucker Reichert Buy on Amazon
How To Survive A Robot Uprising

How To Survive A Robot Uprising

Between Romero, Max Brooks, The Walking Dead, and every second American being a "prepper", you probably know all there is about a zombie apocalypse. But are you prepared for the...

Daniel H. Wilson Buy on Amazon
I, Robot

I, Robot

Asimov is the God Father of all things science fiction and robotic, and no self-respecting top robot novel list would be worth reading without this book in prime position. You...

Isaac Asimov Buy on Amazon
The Robot Stories

The Robot Stories

A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings,...

Isaac Asimov Buy on Amazon
The Caves Of Steel

The Caves Of Steel

Earth is overpopulated a thousand years from now. Planets outside of our solar system have been colonized and development of robots through the âpositronic brain.â In this new society, only...

Isaac Asimov Buy on Amazon
City

City

One persistent aspect of posthuman science fiction is that the future may not belong to humanity. It might be our creations, robots, that inherit the Earth; or it may be...

Clifford D. Simak Buy on Amazon
Code Of The Life Maker (cover not available)

Code Of The Life Maker

Hogan's 1983 science fiction novel used NASA's Advanced Automation for Space Missions as its inspiration for Earth astronauts meeting the Taloids, robots who have colonized Saturn's moon Titan. Around 1,000,000...

James P. Hogan Buy on Amazon
Forbidden Planet (cover not available)

Forbidden Planet

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...

Fred M. Wilcox Buy on Amazon
The Automatic Detective

The Automatic Detective

This novel is one of the most unique robot stories in existence, covering not just robots and science fiction, but stirring in the perfect dosage of detective, noir style. If...

A. Lee Martinez Buy on Amazon
Keeping It Real

Keeping It Real

What do you get when you cross fantasy, hard science fiction and robot fiction? You get Justina Robson, proving that sci-fi doesn't need to be male written, or full of...

Justina Robson Buy on Amazon
Ex Machina

Ex Machina

The rise of robot sentience has long been the fodder of sci-fi cinema, but none so chillingly portrayed as in Alex Garland's brilliant psychological thriller, EX MACHINA.Ex Machina is a...

Alex Garland Buy on Amazon
The Best Of

The Best Of

We often tend to slip into the notion that before the advent of writers like Ursula Le Guin and Joanna Russ, science fiction was an exclusively masculine domain. But that...

C. L. Moore Buy on Amazon
Metropolis

Metropolis

This is the novelisation of the film that Thea von Harbou wrote with her husband, Fritz Lang. It was the first feature-length science fiction film, the most expensive film made...

Thea Von Harbou Buy on Amazon
The Humanoids

The Humanoids

Why does Jack Williamson's The Humanoids take fourth place on our list? Only because he was named a Grand Master of Science Fiction by the Science Fiction Writers of America...

Jack Williamson Buy on Amazon
Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers

Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers

The English may have the reputation as a pack of whining poms, but they sure blast that stereotype to smithereens with the comedic abilities of their science fiction writers. If...

Grant Naylor 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
R.u.r.

R.u.r.

Czech is hardly a widely spoken language, and in the years immediately after the First World War Czechoslovakia had barely gained its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire which had largely...

Karel Capek Buy on Amazon
Cinder

Cinder

A popular trope in fantasy is the revival of fairytales, with a twist. You only have to go to the cinema and watching Red Riding Hood, Snow White and the...

Marissa Meyer Buy on Amazon
Silent And Very Fast

Silent And Very Fast

Okay, I admit to doing a Lance Armstrong here. I've put a novella on the list. But this novella by Catherynne M. Valente is so beautifully, poetically written, with such...

Catherynne M. Valente Buy on Amazon
The Alchemy Of Stone

The Alchemy Of Stone

Two women in a row on this list! This list could pretty much be recognized as an equal opportunity brand. (For the slower ones in the class, I feel I...

Ekaterina Sedia Buy on Amazon

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