Esquire's 75 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time Public

Created and curated by Andy

  1. Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus by 

    4 stars

    Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of …

  2. Dune by  (Dune (1))

    4 stars

    Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family …

  3. The Fifth Season by  (The Broken Earth, #1)

    4 stars

    A SEASON OF ENDINGS HAS BEGUN.

    IT STARTS WITH THE GREAT RED RIFT across the heart of the world's sole …

  4. Kindred by  (Black women writers series)

    4 stars

    The first science fiction written by a black woman, Kindred has become a cornerstone of black American literature. This combination …

  5. The Left Hand of Darkness by  (Hainish Cycle)

    4 stars

    On the planet Winter, there is no gender. The Gethenians can become male or female during each mating cycle, and …

  6. Never Let Me Go by 

    4 stars

    Kathy, a clone about to donate all her organs and die, reflects on her past about her school and the …

  7. Exhalation by 

    4 stars

    Tackling some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine, these stories will change the way …

  8. Station Eleven by 

    4 stars

    Dans un monde où la civilisation s’est effondrée suite à une pandémie foudroyante, une troupe d’acteurs et de musiciens nomadise …

  9. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by  (Blade Runner)

    4 stars

    It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there, …

  10. The Three-Body Problem by , , (The Three-Body Triology, #1)

    4 stars

    Within the context of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, a military project sends messages to alien worlds. A nearby alien society …

  11. 1984: a novel by  (Signet Classics)

    4 stars

    The year 1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic, nightmarish vision in 1949 of the world we were …

  12. The Employees by 

    4 stars

    Funny and doom-drenched, The Employees chronicles the fate of the Six-Thousand Ship. The human and humanoid crew members alike complain …

  13. Brave New World by 

    4 stars

    Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future …

  14. How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by 

    3 stars

    How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe is a 2010 novel by American writer Charles Yu. The novel …

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