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Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)
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3.84 avg rating — 104,509 ratings
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Glasshouse
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3.88 avg rating — 11,857 ratings
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The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
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4.28 avg rating — 84,487 ratings
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The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
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4.16 avg rating — 94,298 ratings
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Accelerando
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3.87 avg rating — 22,891 ratings
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Use of Weapons (Culture, #3)
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4.16 avg rating — 54,626 ratings
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Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
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3.56 avg rating — 14,457 ratings
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Permutation City
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4.04 avg rating — 14,063 ratings
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Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
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4.03 avg rating — 118,546 ratings
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Revelation Space (The Inhibitor Sequence, #1)
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3.99 avg rating — 64,273 ratings
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Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
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3.85 avg rating — 91,110 ratings
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Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2)
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3.96 avg rating — 41,881 ratings
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Iron Sunrise (Eschaton, #2)
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3.98 avg rating — 9,508 ratings
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Halting State (Halting State, #1)
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3.80 avg rating — 12,607 ratings
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Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 59,735 ratings
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Perilous Waif (Alice Long #1)
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4.40 avg rating — 4,492 ratings
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A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
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4.13 avg rating — 68,827 ratings
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Aristoi
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3.99 avg rating — 1,361 ratings
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Look to Windward (Culture, #7)
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4.23 avg rating — 30,280 ratings
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Inversions (Culture, #6)
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3.96 avg rating — 20,919 ratings
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Excession (Culture, #5)
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4.19 avg rating — 35,855 ratings
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Matter (Culture, #8)
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4.11 avg rating — 30,715 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 — 12,092 ratings
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Slant (Queen of Angels, #4)
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3.64 avg rating — 2,457 ratings
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Crooked Little Vein
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3.81 avg rating — 9,869 ratings
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Pandora's Star (Commonwealth Saga, #1)
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4.22 avg rating — 55,266 ratings
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The Star Fraction (The Fall Revolution #1)
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3.69 avg rating — 2,978 ratings
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The Stone Canal (The Fall Revolution #2)
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3.90 avg rating — 1,602 ratings
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Chasm City
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4.13 avg rating — 28,493 ratings
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Pushing Ice
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4.07 avg rating — 23,866 ratings
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Redemption Ark (The Inhibitor Sequence, #2)
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4.16 avg rating — 33,546 ratings
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Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy, #3)
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3.95 avg rating — 33,924 ratings
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Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
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4.28 avg rating — 321,228 ratings
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Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)
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4.05 avg rating — 48,515 ratings
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Crystal Express
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3.92 avg rating — 960 ratings
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Absolution Gap (The Inhibitor Sequence, #3)
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4.02 avg rating — 26,178 ratings
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The Prefect (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 22,436 ratings
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Singularity Sky (Eschaton, #1)
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3.84 avg rating — 16,356 ratings
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Across Realtime
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4.16 avg rating — 2,457 ratings
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A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)
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4.32 avg rating — 35,847 ratings
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The Risen Empire (Succession, #1)
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3.90 avg rating — 3,069 ratings
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The Broken God (A Requiem for Homo Sapiens, #1)
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4.23 avg rating — 936 ratings
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The Killing of Worlds (Succession, #2)
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4.08 avg rating — 2,102 ratings
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Neverness (A Requiem for Homo Sapiens, #0)
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4.03 avg rating — 1,843 ratings
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War in Heaven (A Requiem for Homo Sapiens, #3)
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4.32 avg rating — 588 ratings
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Starfish (Rifters, #1)
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3.95 avg rating — 11,010 ratings
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The Wild (A Requiem For Homo Sapiens, #2)
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4.32 avg rating — 634 ratings
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House of Suns
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4.24 avg rating — 34,728 ratings
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The Golden Age (Golden Age, #1)
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4.08 avg rating — 3,385 ratings
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Maelstrom (Rifters, #2)
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3.85 avg rating — 4,711 ratings
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The State of the Art (Culture, #4)
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3.82 avg rating — 20,637 ratings
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Behemoth: β-Max (Rifters, #3A)
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3.79 avg rating — 2,657 ratings
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Moving Mars (Queen of Angels, #3)
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3.85 avg rating — 7,993 ratings
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Queen of Angels (Queen of Angels, #1)
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3.59 avg rating — 3,166 ratings
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Earth
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3.93 avg rating — 8,478 ratings
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Startide Rising (The Uplift Saga, #2)
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4.04 avg rating — 33,839 ratings
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Planetes, Volume 1 (Planetes, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 3,375 ratings
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The Uplift War (The Uplift Saga, #3)
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4.07 avg rating — 27,665 ratings
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Sundiver (The Uplift Saga, #1)
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3.69 avg rating — 28,102 ratings
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Ribofunk
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3.96 avg rating — 656 ratings
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Eastern Standard Tribe
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3.47 avg rating — 3,872 ratings
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Axiomatic
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4.25 avg rating — 6,903 ratings
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Distress
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3.85 avg rating — 2,901 ratings
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Quarantine
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3.92 avg rating — 6,636 ratings
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Queen City Jazz (Nanotech, #1)
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3.48 avg rating — 772 ratings
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Mississippi Blues (Nanotech, #2)
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3.92 avg rating — 147 ratings
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Crescent City Rhapsody (Nanotech, #3)
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3.65 avg rating — 263 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 — 41,496 ratings
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Mindstar Rising (Greg Mandel, #1)
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3.93 avg rating — 8,513 ratings
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A Quantum Murder (Greg Mandel, #2)
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3.99 avg rating — 5,816 ratings
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The Nano Flower (Greg Mandel, #3)
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4.05 avg rating — 5,939 ratings
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Voyage from Yesteryear
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3.93 avg rating — 1,154 ratings
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The Cassini Division (The Fall Revolution #3)
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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 — 2,728 ratings
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Broken Angels (Takeshi Kovacs, #2)
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3.92 avg rating — 40,013 ratings
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Woken Furies (Takeshi Kovacs, #3)
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4.01 avg rating — 33,053 ratings
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Thirteen
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3.91 avg rating — 13,117 ratings
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The Bohr Maker (The Nanotech Succession #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 1,814 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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3.68 avg rating — 446 ratings
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Vast
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3.97 avg rating — 889 ratings
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The Martians (Mars Trilogy, #3.5)
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3.60 avg rating — 2,375 ratings
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Ventus
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3.93 avg rating — 1,252 ratings
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Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3)
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4.19 avg rating — 74,743 ratings
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The Rise of Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #4)
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4.16 avg rating — 68,492 ratings
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The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2)
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4.25 avg rating — 158,572 ratings
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Ilium (Ilium, #1)
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4.04 avg rating — 33,419 ratings
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Olympos (Ilium, #2)
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3.96 avg rating — 21,263 ratings
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The Caryatids
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3.32 avg rating — 880 ratings
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Holy Fire
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3.73 avg rating — 2,714 ratings
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Schismatrix Plus
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3.93 avg rating — 5,200 ratings
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Toast, and Other Stories
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3.79 avg rating — 1,035 ratings
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City of Pearl (Wess'har Wars, #1)
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3.92 avg rating — 2,333 ratings
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Rainbows End
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3.77 avg rating — 19,235 ratings
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True Names... and Other Dangers
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3.99 avg rating — 1,217 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.
