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Best Science Fiction Comic Books (cover not available)

Best Science Fiction Comic Books

Comics have been around for a long, long time. More than a hundred years in some forms. Initially devised as a way to collect the daily strips into a single,...

Best Sci-Fi Movies of the 21st Century (cover not available)

Best Sci-Fi Movies of the 21st Century

The 21st Century was the focus of so  much 20th century Science Fiction. From Blade Runner to Robocop, it was visions of the 2000s that flourished in the scifi that...

Best Sci-Fi TV Shows of All Time (cover not available)

Best Sci-Fi TV Shows of All Time

The post-war era was a big one for science fiction. We had a lot of evidence that the world was going to blow itself to smithereens via the atom bomb,...

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 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 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 Hard Science Fiction Books (cover not available)

Best Hard Science Fiction Books

Are you the type of person that likes your science fiction heavy on the science? Get annoyed by the hand-waving attempts to allow for faster-than-light travel or inter-species breeding? We've...

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 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 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...

Books

Soma (2015) (cover not available)

Soma (2015)

This sci-fi survival horror title comes from Frictional Games, an expert on the genre thanks to its work on Amnesia. Like that revolutionary title, you start with very little information,...

Frictional Games Buy on Amazon
Whales On Stilts

Whales On Stilts

Whales on Stilts does for pulp-sci-fi what A Series of Unfortunate Events does for gothic drama. It's a fun spoof that kids will love. Shy Lily is overshadowed by her...

M.t. Anderson Buy on Amazon
Attack Of The Fluffy Bunnies

Attack Of The Fluffy Bunnies

What do you get when you cross alien invasion sci-fi, with B-rated horror references, and the witty wordplay of A Series of Unfortunate Events? It's Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies....

Andrea Beaty Buy on Amazon
Show By Rock!! (cover not available)

Show By Rock!!

There is no greater hive of scum and villainy than the recording industry, which makes the wonderful scifi/horror/fantasy series Show by Rock all the more impressive. Coming from the good...

David Weigel Buy on Amazon
The Wonderful Flight To The Mushroom Planet

The Wonderful Flight To The Mushroom Planet

Sci-fi is a genre with very few :classics:, particularly for children, but The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet by Eleanor Cameron would definitely be one of them. Cameron is...

Eleanor Cameron Buy on Amazon
Automatic Noodle

Automatic Noodle

"From sci-fi visionary and acclaimed author Annalee Newitz comes Automatic Noodle, a cozy near-future novella about a crew of abandoned food service bots opening their very own restaurant.While San Francisco...

Annalee Newitz Buy on Amazon
Have Space Suit Will Travel

Have Space Suit Will Travel

Robert Heinlein is a staple of sci-fi literature, and he actually created several books specifically for young adults. Have Space Suit, Will Travel is one of the last of these....

Robert A. Heinlein Buy on Amazon
City Of Golden Shadow

City Of Golden Shadow

Were you one of those hardboiled sci-fi nerds who lamented the travesty that was the Matrix trilogy? If so, you will be mightily pleased that we have placed City of...

Tad Williams Buy on Amazon
The Knife Of Never Letting Go

The Knife Of Never Letting Go

The Knife of Never Letting Go is a dystopian sci-fi thriller that will knock your socks off. Shortlisted for the Carnegie medal, the novel is the story of Todd Hewitt,...

Patrick Ness 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
Deus Ex (2000) (cover not available)

Deus Ex (2000)

This game is not just one of the greatest sci-fi games of all time, but one of the best games, period. You're thrown into the cyberpunk world under protagonist JC...

Eidos Montréal Buy on Amazon
Fallout 2 (1998) (cover not available)

Fallout 2 (1998)

On the surface, Fallout isn't a hard sci-fi series. The post-apocalyptic wasteland holds mostly traditional weapons, from pump-action shotguns to baseball bats. It's quickly apparent, however, that the inhabitants of...

Black Isle Studios Buy on Amazon
Aliens For Breakfast

Aliens For Breakfast

Adapted into a TV movie, Aliens for Breakfast is a whimsical sci-fi introduction for beginning readers, and it's exactly as silly as the title implies. It all starts when Richard's...

Stephanie Spinner And Jonathan Etra Buy on Amazon
Ilium

Ilium

Do you like original, intelligent fiction, with a hard sci-fi slant? No? Well, clearly there's something wrong with you. Google your symptoms, and get to a doctor! Personally, our prescription...

Dan Simmons Buy on Amazon
The Gap Into Conflict

The Gap Into Conflict

I admit to making like a U.S. baseball player and cheating again on this one - The Gap Into Conflict is actually a novella, but it's such a freaking amazingly...

Stephen R. Donaldson Buy on Amazon
House Of The Scorpion

House Of The Scorpion

Winner of the 2002 National book award as well as a Printz and Newbery Honor book in 2003, House of the Scorpion has a lot of literary acclaim for a...

Nancy Farmer Buy on Amazon
The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games

The dystopia that started them all... well, not exactly, but Collin's Golden Duck award-winning, wildly popular trilogy did spark a renewed interest in the dystopian subgenre of sci-fi, particularly among...

Suzanne Collins Buy on Amazon
The White Mountains

The White Mountains

Published in 1965, The White Mountains, first in the Tripods trilogy, is widely acknowledged to be a fundamental read for any sci-fi fan. It's been reprinted several times over, and...

John Christopher Buy on Amazon
Among The Hidden

Among The Hidden

Among the Hidden is the first of the Shadow Children series, and it's a great introduction to dystopian sci-fi literature which is a very popular trend in YA literature with...

Margaret Peterson Haddix Buy on Amazon
We’re Off To Look For Aliens

We’re Off To Look For Aliens

We're Off to Look for Aliens offers children a story within a story. The 2009 Golden Duck Award winner kicks off when the mailman delivers sci-fi writer dad's new book,...

Colin Mcnaughton Buy on Amazon

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