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Sci-Fi I Recommend Public
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4 stars
Two months since the stars fell...
Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched around the Earth like a luminous …
hexarchate says: An interesting look at consciousness, reality, and the way an alien's mind may function on a level unfathomable to humanity. The main character is rather hilariously terrible, but it's deliberate. Also: space vampire.
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Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1) by Octavia E. Butler
4 stars
Lilith Iyapo has just lost her husband and son when atomic fire consumes Earth—the last stage of the planet’s final …
hexarchate says: The world ends, Earth is destroyed, but humanity is saved, and they must figure out how to navigate in this new world, and whether they are building humanity's future or betraying it. A powerful allegory for colonization and slavery. Recommend the whole trilogy.
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hexarchate says: An interesting take on the way a sentient plant might function compared to animals and in contrast with humans.
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A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
4 stars
Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous …
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Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (Imperial Radch, #1)
4 stars
On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest.
Breq is both …
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hexarchate says: A living, biological spaceship, not created but inhabited, and all that entails.
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Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee (The Machineries of Empire, #1)
4 stars
Captain Kel Cheris of the hexarchate is disgraced for using unconventional methods in a battle against heretics. Kel Command gives …
hexarchate says: Love the worldbuilding and the plotlines. Features some characters who are delightfully abhorrent. Cool magic (?) system
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All Systems Red by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
5 stars
A murderous android discovers itself in All Systems Red, a tense science fiction adventure by Martha Wells that interrogates …
hexarchate says: This series is a light, easy read, but they're quick and fun. I really quickly fell in love with Murderbot, a robot who hacks itself and uses its newfound autonomy to...watch soap operas. mostly. Great characters and dynamics.
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Three-Body Problem Series by Joel Martinsen, Cixin Liu, Ken Liu
4 stars
This trilogy follows a broad cast of characters through the centuries as earth enters a crisis following the Chinese cultural …
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Provenance by Ann Leckie (Imperial Radch)
4 stars
Following her record-breaking debut trilogy, Ann Leckie, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, Arthur C. Clarke and Locus Awards, returns with …
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The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson (The Space Between Worlds, #1)
4 stars
Eccentric genius Adam Bosch has cracked the multiverse and discovered a way to travel to parallel Earths. There's just one …
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The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (Hainish Cycle)
4 stars
**50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION—WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY DAVID MITCHELL AND A NEW AFTERWORD BY CHARLIE JANE ANDERS
Ursula K. Le …
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4 stars
In a ruined, nameless city of the future, a woman named Rachel, who makes her living as a scavenger, finds …
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Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers (Wayfarers, #3)
4 stars
Centuries after the last humans left Earth, the Exodus Fleet is a living relic, a place many are from but …
