Esquire's 75 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time Public
Created and curated by Andy
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Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley
4 stars
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of …
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Dune by Frank Herbert (Dune (1))
4 stars
Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family …
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The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin (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 …
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Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (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 …
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The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (Hainish Cycle)
4 stars
On the planet Winter, there is no gender. The Gethenians can become male or female during each mating cycle, and …
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Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
4 stars
Kathy, a clone about to donate all her organs and die, reflects on her past about her school and the …
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Tackling some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine, these stories will change the way …
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Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
4 stars
Dans un monde où la civilisation s’est effondrée suite à une pandémie foudroyante, une troupe d’acteurs et de musiciens nomadise …
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick (Blade Runner)
4 stars
It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there, …
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The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu, Cixin Liu, Ken Liu (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 …
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1984: a novel by George Orwell (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 …
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Funny and doom-drenched, The Employees chronicles the fate of the Six-Thousand Ship. The human and humanoid crew members alike complain …
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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
4 stars
Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future …
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How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
3 stars
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe is a 2010 novel by American writer Charles Yu. The novel …