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

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  1. The Stand by 

    4 stars

    Stephen King’s apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by virus and tangled in an elemental struggle between good and evil …

  2. Ancillary Justice by  (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 …

  3. A Memory Called Empire by 

    4 stars

    A Memory Called Empire is a 2019 science fiction novel, the debut novel by Arkady Martine. It follows Mahit Dzmare, …

  4. The City & the City by 

    4 stars

    When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to …

  5. Radiance by ,

    4 stars

    "Severin Unck's father is a famous director of Gothic romances in an alternate 1986 in which talking movies are still …

  6. The Children of Men by 

    3 stars

    The year is 2021, and the human race is - quite literally - coming to an end. Since 1995 no …

  7. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by  (Wayfarers, #1)

    4 stars

    When Rosemary Harper joins the crew of the Wayfarer, she isn't expecting much. The Wayfarer, a patched-up ship that's seen …

  8. Project Hail Mary by 

    4 stars

    Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission--and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will …

  9. A Canticle for Leibowitz by 

    4 stars

    Highly unusual After the Holocaust novel. In the far future, 20th century texts are preserved in a monastery, as "sacred …

  10. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy : Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Book 1 by 

    4 stars

    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is the first of six books in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy …

  11. The Sparrow by  (The Sparrow, #1)

    4 stars

    In 2019, humanity finally finds proof of extraterrestrial life when a listening post in Puerto Rico picks up exquisite singing …

  12. The Stars My Destination by 

    4 stars

    A science fiction retelling of the Count of Monte Cristo.

  13. Neuromancer by  (Sprawl Trilogy, #1)

    4 stars

    The Matrix is a world within the world, a global consensus- hallucination, the representation of every byte of data in …

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