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Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)
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3.84 avg rating — 103,776 ratings
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Glasshouse
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3.88 avg rating — 11,811 ratings
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The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
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4.28 avg rating — 83,714 ratings
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The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
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4.16 avg rating — 94,065 ratings
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Accelerando
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3.87 avg rating — 22,774 ratings
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Use of Weapons (Culture, #3)
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4.16 avg rating — 54,268 ratings
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Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
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3.56 avg rating — 14,393 ratings
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Permutation City
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4.04 avg rating — 13,850 ratings
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Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
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4.03 avg rating — 117,919 ratings
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Revelation Space (The Inhibitor Sequence, #1)
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3.99 avg rating — 63,819 ratings
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Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
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3.85 avg rating — 90,644 ratings
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Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2)
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3.96 avg rating — 41,701 ratings
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Iron Sunrise (Eschaton, #2)
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3.98 avg rating — 9,485 ratings
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Halting State (Halting State, #1)
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3.80 avg rating — 12,562 ratings
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Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 58,579 ratings
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Perilous Waif (Alice Long #1)
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4.40 avg rating — 4,491 ratings
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A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
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4.13 avg rating — 68,423 ratings
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Aristoi
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3.99 avg rating — 1,358 ratings
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Look to Windward (Culture, #7)
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4.23 avg rating — 30,110 ratings
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Inversions (Culture, #6)
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3.96 avg rating — 20,792 ratings
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Excession (Culture, #5)
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4.20 avg rating — 35,553 ratings
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Matter (Culture, #8)
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4.11 avg rating — 30,568 ratings
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The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom?
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3.94 avg rating — 553 ratings
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Diaspora
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4.10 avg rating — 11,917 ratings
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Slant (Queen of Angels, #4)
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3.64 avg rating — 2,451 ratings
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Crooked Little Vein
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3.81 avg rating — 9,850 ratings
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Pandora's Star (Commonwealth Saga, #1)
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4.22 avg rating — 55,005 ratings
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The Star Fraction (The Fall Revolution #1)
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3.70 avg rating — 2,976 ratings
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The Stone Canal (The Fall Revolution #2)
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3.90 avg rating — 1,600 ratings
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Chasm City
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4.13 avg rating — 28,322 ratings
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Pushing Ice
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4.07 avg rating — 23,600 ratings
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Redemption Ark (The Inhibitor Sequence, #2)
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4.16 avg rating — 33,373 ratings
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Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy, #3)
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3.95 avg rating — 33,794 ratings
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Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
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4.28 avg rating — 316,752 ratings
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Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)
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4.05 avg rating — 48,322 ratings
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Crystal Express
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3.92 avg rating — 959 ratings
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Absolution Gap (The Inhibitor Sequence, #3)
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4.02 avg rating — 26,030 ratings
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The Prefect (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 22,308 ratings
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Singularity Sky (Eschaton, #1)
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3.84 avg rating — 16,302 ratings
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Across Realtime
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4.16 avg rating — 2,455 ratings
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A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)
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4.32 avg rating — 35,704 ratings
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The Risen Empire (Succession, #1)
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3.90 avg rating — 3,056 ratings
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The Broken God (A Requiem for Homo Sapiens, #1)
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4.23 avg rating — 932 ratings
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The Killing of Worlds (Succession, #2)
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4.08 avg rating — 2,100 ratings
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Neverness (A Requiem for Homo Sapiens, #0)
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4.03 avg rating — 1,827 ratings
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War in Heaven (A Requiem for Homo Sapiens, #3)
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4.32 avg rating — 584 ratings
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Starfish (Rifters, #1)
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3.95 avg rating — 10,883 ratings
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The Wild (A Requiem For Homo Sapiens, #2)
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4.32 avg rating — 632 ratings
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House of Suns
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4.24 avg rating — 34,271 ratings
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The Golden Age (Golden Age, #1)
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4.08 avg rating — 3,378 ratings
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Maelstrom (Rifters, #2)
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3.85 avg rating — 4,678 ratings
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The State of the Art (Culture, #4)
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3.82 avg rating — 20,494 ratings
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Behemoth: β-Max (Rifters, #3A)
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3.79 avg rating — 2,641 ratings
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Moving Mars (Queen of Angels, #3)
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3.85 avg rating — 7,959 ratings
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Queen of Angels (Queen of Angels, #1)
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3.59 avg rating — 3,156 ratings
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Earth
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3.93 avg rating — 8,417 ratings
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Startide Rising (The Uplift Saga, #2)
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4.04 avg rating — 33,749 ratings
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Planetes, Volume 1 (Planetes, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 3,355 ratings
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The Uplift War (The Uplift Saga, #3)
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4.07 avg rating — 27,620 ratings
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Sundiver (The Uplift Saga, #1)
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3.69 avg rating — 28,019 ratings
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Ribofunk
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3.96 avg rating — 655 ratings
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Eastern Standard Tribe
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3.47 avg rating — 3,868 ratings
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Axiomatic
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4.25 avg rating — 6,809 ratings
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Distress
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3.85 avg rating — 2,890 ratings
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Quarantine
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3.92 avg rating — 6,578 ratings
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Queen City Jazz (Nanotech, #1)
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3.48 avg rating — 771 ratings
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Mississippi Blues (Nanotech, #2)
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3.92 avg rating — 146 ratings
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Crescent City Rhapsody (Nanotech, #3)
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3.65 avg rating — 262 ratings
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Light Music (Nanotech, #4)
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3.64 avg rating — 172 ratings
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Judas Unchained (Commonwealth Saga #2)
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4.30 avg rating — 41,312 ratings
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Mindstar Rising (Greg Mandel, #1)
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3.93 avg rating — 8,496 ratings
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A Quantum Murder (Greg Mandel, #2)
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3.99 avg rating — 5,801 ratings
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The Nano Flower (Greg Mandel, #3)
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4.05 avg rating — 5,915 ratings
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Voyage from Yesteryear
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3.93 avg rating — 1,144 ratings
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The Cassini Division (The Fall Revolution #3)
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3.91 avg rating — 2,283 ratings
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The Sky Road (The Fall Revolution, #4)
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3.88 avg rating — 1,404 ratings
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Newton's Wake
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3.57 avg rating — 2,726 ratings
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Broken Angels (Takeshi Kovacs, #2)
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3.92 avg rating — 39,847 ratings
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Woken Furies (Takeshi Kovacs, #3)
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4.01 avg rating — 32,936 ratings
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Thirteen
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3.91 avg rating — 13,068 ratings
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The Bohr Maker (The Nanotech Succession #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 1,808 ratings
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Deception Well (The Nanotech Succession #2)
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3.81 avg rating — 858 ratings
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Limit of Vision
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3.77 avg rating — 527 ratings
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Tech-Heaven
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3.69 avg rating — 445 ratings
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Vast
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3.97 avg rating — 888 ratings
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The Martians (Mars Trilogy, #3.5)
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3.60 avg rating — 2,365 ratings
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Ventus
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3.94 avg rating — 1,243 ratings
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Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3)
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4.19 avg rating — 73,929 ratings
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The Rise of Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #4)
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4.16 avg rating — 67,794 ratings
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The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2)
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4.25 avg rating — 156,423 ratings
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Ilium (Ilium, #1)
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4.04 avg rating — 33,222 ratings
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Olympos (Ilium, #2)
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3.96 avg rating — 21,149 ratings
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The Caryatids
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3.32 avg rating — 879 ratings
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Holy Fire
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3.73 avg rating — 2,709 ratings
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Schismatrix Plus
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3.93 avg rating — 5,184 ratings
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Toast, and Other Stories
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3.79 avg rating — 1,034 ratings
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City of Pearl (Wess'har Wars, #1)
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3.92 avg rating — 2,331 ratings
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Rainbows End
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3.77 avg rating — 19,178 ratings
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True Names... and Other Dangers
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3.99 avg rating — 1,212 ratings
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Slow Engines of Time
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Shall this list be solely works which were cited in the EP bibliographies; or, can we cite works, not appearing in EP bibliography, which nevertheless seem like good EP inspiration?
Ian wrote: "Shall this list be solely works which were cited in the EP bibliographies; or, can we cite works, not appearing in EP bibliography, which nevertheless seem like good EP inspiration?"
It's spooky how much the top of that list is my read/to-read list.
Great list! 26 of my favourite books.
