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Our [New Scientist] writers pick their favourite science fiction books of all time (www.newscientist.com)
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This is an interesting list. It's missing some of the true great classics, like Frankenstein, and it has a number of unusual, less well known titles, but there's a lot to like on it. There's certainly a lot for people to disagree about, but it may well have your less often cited favorites, too. What do you think?

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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 44 points 5 months ago (17 children)
  • We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
  • Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
  • The City & the City by China Miéville
  • An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
  • The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
  • The Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold
  • The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
  • Chelsea Whyte God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert
  • 17776 by Jon Bois
  • War With the Newts by Karel Čapek
  • Flatland: A romance of many dimensions by A Square (Edwin Abbott Abbott)
  • Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
  • Neuromancer by William Gibson
  • Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
  • The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
  • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams
  • The Culture series by Iain M. Banks
[–] taaz@biglemmowski.win 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Long Earth was good, lots of classics here as well

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

I got it because I love Sir Perry's Discworld books, and was blown away by how much I liked it!

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I've read quite a number of the books on the list, but hadn't read that one, so I put it on my list.

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