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Top 25 Underrated Science Fiction Books (cover not available)

Top 25 Underrated Science Fiction Books

Making up a list of 'underrated' books is even iffier than making up others; like 'best ever' suchlike. What to include and how books are ranked becomes more subjective than...

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. ...

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Zone Of Thought

Zone Of Thought

Ever bought some electronic thing and two days later discovered it was already obsolete? Sucks. This whole idea about broken things is defined by the concept of The Singularity --...

Vernor Vinge Buy on Amazon
Gattaca (cover not available)

Gattaca

There are few science fiction films as flawlessly stylish as Gattaca. A young man, born naturally of loving parents wants nothing more than to go into space. The problem is...

Andrew Niccol Buy on Amazon
Zoo City

Zoo City

One of the most exciting things about science fiction in the new century is that the traditional white, male, Anglo-American voice is being displaced. Wonderful new work is starting to...

Lauren Beukes Buy on Amazon
Ninefox Gambit

Ninefox Gambit

Yoon Ha Lee is a name that science fiction fans will want to keep in mind for decades to come. Lee’s debut novel, Ninefox Gambit, is exactly the kind of...

Yoon Ha Lee Buy on Amazon
Neuromancer

Neuromancer

If you want to know the most influential science fiction novel of the last thirty-odd years, look no further than William Gibson's Neuromancer. The novel didn't invent cyberpunk; two films...

William Gibson Buy on Amazon
Crosstalk (cover not available)

Crosstalk

Science fiction icon Connie Willis brilliantly mixes a speculative plot, the wit of Nora Ephron, and the comedic flair of P. G. Wodehouse in Crosstalk-- a genre-bending novel that pushes...

Connie Willis Buy on Amazon
The Time Machine

The Time Machine

And if Diaspora is one of the most developed works of posthumanity, this is probably the first. Wells brings ideas of Darwinian evolution squarely into science fiction, and uses it...

H. G. Wells 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
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
Herland

Herland

Towards the end of the 19th century a big movement for women's suffrage started up on both sides of the Atlantic. Accompanying the political campaign, there were many stories that...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman Buy on Amazon
The Three-body Problem

The Three-body Problem

China has a very distinctive literary tradition that can often seem strange to Western readers, and the political situation in the country makes it inward looking, turning its back on...

Cixin Liu Buy on Amazon
And Chaos Died (cover not available)

And Chaos Died

Inner space is about the ways that the mind encompasses the world, shapes the world and is shaped by it. The protagonist of Joanna Russ's second novel, And Chaos Died,...

Joanna Russ 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
Space Dandy (cover not available)

Space Dandy

The idea for Space Dandy is one of the silliest, and most impressive, of any recent anime series. An affable alien hunter, Dandy, and the crew of his ship, the...

Masafumi Harada Buy on Amazon
The Iron Heel

The Iron Heel

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...

Jack London Buy on Amazon
The Coming Of The Quantum Cats

The Coming Of The Quantum Cats

Imagine Stargate if it was set in the 80s sans MacGyver Richard Dean Anderson, and you've got The Coming of the Quantum Cats. Originally an Analog Sccience Fiction magazine series,...

Frederik Pohl Buy on Amazon
The Diamond Age

The Diamond Age

By the 1990s, the world was changing more rapidly than ever. The digital age foreseen by the cyberpunks was already becoming more complex as writers began pushing the ideas forward...

Neal Stephenson Buy on Amazon
Maul

Maul

What is the most characteristic thing in our contemporary urban lives. It is not the computer or the mobile phone or any of the other digital devices that surround us,...

Tricia Sullivan 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
The Years Of Rice And Salt

The Years Of Rice And Salt

Ever wondered what the world would have been like if the Black Death killed 99% of Europe's population instead of a third? No? Really? Okay. I must admit I hadn't...

Kim Stanley Robinson Buy on Amazon

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