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

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  1. The Mountain in the Sea by 

    There are creatures in the water of Con Dao. To the locals, they're monsters. To the corporate owners of the …

  2. An Unkindness of Ghosts by 

    "Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She's used …

  3. The Body Scout by ,

    Kobo has some problems. His cybernetics are a decade out of date, he’s got a pair of twin sister loan …

  4. The Time Machine : The Original Time Travel Story by ,

    The Time Traveller, a dreamer obsessed with traveling through time, builds himself a time machine and, much to his surprise, …

  5. The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by 

    A one-armed computer technician, a radical blonde bombshell, an aging academic, and a sentient all-knowing computer lead the lunar population …

  6. A Clockwork Orange by 

    A newly revised text for A Clockwork Orange’s 50th anniversary brings the work closest to its author’s intentions.

    A Clockwork …

  7. Solaris by ,

    A classic work of science fiction by renowned Polish novelist and satirist Stanislaw Lem.

    When Kris Kelvin arrives at the …

  8. Children of Time by  (Children of Time, #1)

    The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home. Following their ancestor's …

  9. Rosewater by 

    "Rosewater is a town on the edge. A community formed around the edges of a mysterious biodome, its residents comprise …

  10. The Resisters by 

  11. This Is How You Lose the Time War by ,

    Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in …

  12. Lord of Light by 

    Earth is long since dead. One a colony planet, a band of men has gained control of technology, made themselves …

  13. Excession by  (Culture, #5)

    Two and a half millennia ago, the artifact appeared in a remote corner of space, beside a trillion-year-old dying sun …

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