3.89 avg rating — 55,821 ratings

"Classic Ellison"

4.03 avg rating — 397,093 ratings

"A true wonder of imagination"

4.05 avg rating — 9,017 ratings

"Some of the best short tales ever
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3.69 avg rating — 27,776 ratings

"A rollicking side step from the Uplift Universe, just to hint at the happenings in the rest of this complex universe
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3.86 avg rating — 8,927 ratings

"Heinlein at his best - When JWC shhok him and tol d him " You can do it better" every time.
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3.67 avg rating — 12,630 ratings

"Some groundbreaking stuff by a writer still at his prime.
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3.78 avg rating — 10,293 ratings

"An ideal example of SF old school, with some intriguing modern thinking in it.
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3.66 avg rating — 16,985 ratings

"Probably his best work to that date, with a stunning idea well realised.
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3.94 avg rating — 9,525 ratings

"It's so 70s and yet so perfectly old school SF adventure all in one package.
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3.78 avg rating — 14,560 ratings

"Dick's perhaps most coherent yet most well realised novel
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4.17 avg rating — 15,087 ratings

"A tour de force examination of what reality might become.
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3.84 avg rating — 8,163 ratings

"The stunning climax to Jorj X McKies adventures and a riveting idea of future evolution of a multispecies federation.
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3.86 avg rating — 7,733 ratings

"Big stompy starships.
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3.87 avg rating — 11,326 ratings

"Farmer's cryptic and adventurous masterpiece.
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3.88 avg rating — 34,001 ratings

"the coda to the greatest "Big Dumb Object" tale ever "

4.03 avg rating — 11,127 ratings

"Military SF by a man not entirely happy with the military mindset.
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3.91 avg rating — 17,190 ratings

"The Master at his peak"

3.80 avg rating — 9,110 ratings

"The best meld of the New Wave and traditional Space Opera. "

3.90 avg rating — 27,644 ratings

"All the philosophy of "Foundation" with less sitting around tables talking.
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3.82 avg rating — 7,595 ratings

"A truly stunning idea about loss of a sense and it's effects on the persons sanity"

3.72 avg rating — 11,632 ratings

"Adventure, excitement and advanced physics."

3.83 avg rating — 11,326 ratings

"The BEST "Early SF writers bitching abut working in advertising" story in this length.
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3.90 avg rating — 7,673 ratings

"Classic Hard SF and some fascinatingly plausible aliens."

3.47 avg rating — 20,877 ratings

"A standot in prose, despite being a typical British Apocalypse novel of the time."

4.05 avg rating — 10,731 ratings

"Bradbury. The poet of SF."

4.21 avg rating — 3,064 ratings

"A fascinating "sorta sequel" to War Of The Worlds, with a philosophical note about revolt against benign control. "

4.09 avg rating — 22,631 ratings

"One of teh best novelization ever of an SF motion picture - Dean fills gaps in seamlessly.
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3.72 avg rating — 3,521 ratings

""Smoke Ring" tidies up the slower first book, and tie s them into a magnificent tale of human adaptation and the strangest yet sytill plausible environment sine Russel's Placet ( Which "Is a crazy place" )
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4.12 avg rating — 5,773 ratings

"Bradbury. The poet of SF. And as a boy who loves the rockets, I'm always touched. "

3.79 avg rating — 14,627 ratings

"Heinlein smashed down the walls between fantasy and SF and cross-fertilized both for darama, and despite making a hash in the later novel on the same lines, does the multiverse well here.
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3.80 avg rating — 13,995 ratings

"Amazing idea and well enough realised, though the female human scientist turned gosh-wowing 40's heroine irks me immensely, its a thoughtful book. "

3.83 avg rating — 17,231 ratings

"The first serious consideration of Einstienian Relativity and Cosmology in a space opera format. "

3.91 avg rating — 11,034 ratings

"The first book to show the defiance of many races to the Uplift system and how this changes everything in the saga."

3.69 avg rating — 5,957 ratings

"Classic study of alienation of emergent superhumans.
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3.86 avg rating — 9,478 ratings

"My first SF novel read. But in the first page it predicts tendon repair surgery, and that someoen else will hear your cellphone ring before you do . . . in 1949. "

3.97 avg rating — 2,923 ratings

"Arguably the best novel of the Instrumentality stories."

4.02 avg rating — 1,491,686 ratings

"THE English language classic Vampire tale.
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4.16 avg rating — 2,906 ratings

"Schmitz draws female characters well, and the Witches are no exception. "

3.90 avg rating — 29,564 ratings

"The most personal close to home alien invasion possible. "

3.87 avg rating — 5,897 ratings

"A "juvenile" that has important things to say about tolerance even today.
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3.96 avg rating — 5,036 ratings

"The second novel to discuss the downside of Virtual Reality technology. "

3.89 avg rating — 9,243 ratings

"Almost a naval adventure, it's a very real felling story of a young man put to test in his chosen field."

3.87 avg rating — 17,008 ratings

"A marvel of writing, while hard to read, about extraordinary events in looping time. "

4.20 avg rating — 308,266 ratings

"Under-read and under-appreciated story that deserves a place with Alice
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3.95 avg rating — 3,032 ratings

"Cats. And strange alien worlds. "

3.82 avg rating — 8,106 ratings

"Amsuing and realistic depiction of life in a garnd Space Opera style universe - from the view of peopel who live ordinary lives in it, and those who try to keep it running day to day.
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3.63 avg rating — 13,456 ratings

"A valiant try at a multiversal story that is a magnificent failure, with a strong prediction of Steampunk SF."

3.87 avg rating — 8,608 ratings

"The story that named a real-world technicla device and made a case for disabled people in space, with the short tale based on Clarkes Law. "

3.90 avg rating — 8,105 ratings

"A tour de force of human adaptation and specialization, hinting at a universe of unimaginable advancement, and an adventure yarn that rivals Stevenson's "Kidnapped"
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3.60 avg rating — 7,430 ratings

"A serious tale of theology and alien contact. "

4.15 avg rating — 16,758 ratings

"Asimov's best short tales outside of the Robot series. "

3.99 avg rating — 609 ratings

"The two books that NO SF reader can ignore, that span eons of time with a real sense of evolutionary change and strangeness, and well-realized alien cultures and biologies, tied to a philosophical discourse that still applies today.
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3.92 avg rating — 3,314 ratings

"Fun little shaggy lab rat stories. "

4.17 avg rating — 185,830 ratings

"the chrysalis of a truly amazing movie, the book is a deep examination of human intervention in animal evolution veneered with a simple 'talking animal' adventure along "Wind In The Willows" tracks."

4.19 avg rating — 7,520 ratings

"The man who hunted a dinosaur and stepped on a butterfly. Enough said.
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4.07 avg rating — 12,972 ratings

"One of McCaffreys best stories."

4.06 avg rating — 4,026 ratings

"Zelazny farewells the fanatsy Solar System in these stories - Wet Venus in "Doors", dying habitable Mars in "A Rose", while embracing the newer technology stories of the late 1960s."

3.90 avg rating — 10,705 ratings

"How a space program with commercial backign may have gone in the 1950s and how it just might in this century.
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3.74 avg rating — 7,184 ratings

"A hopeful view of a future Solar System with a unified human government."

3.83 avg rating — 10,362 ratings

"Archaeology, Space Opera and a grand sweep of cosmology that still feels like an adventure.
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3.68 avg rating — 17,942 ratings

"Thoughtful, sweet coming-of-age tale after the apocalypse, with a very unusual heroine."

3.69 avg rating — 3,889 ratings

"Insects. Vast conspiracy and science used to further a madman's plans. "

4.12 avg rating — 3,927 ratings

"Big Stompy tanks. With hearts. "

3.76 avg rating — 9,531 ratings

"A fascinating idea in planetary mechanics, originally desinged to fulfill the pulp magazine trope of bikinis in space; Takes "The Smoke Ring" and fully realizes it."

4.05 avg rating — 154,650 ratings

"The classic "human as monster" story. "

3.80 avg rating — 7,023 ratings

"Best stand-alone novel of the Known World stories apart from the Ringworld books."

3.75 avg rating — 6,917 ratings

"Paranoia meets parallel worlds and it's all uncomfortable but incredibly well done."

3.76 avg rating — 3,735 ratings

"Realistic SETI style First Contact, and a between the lines alien invasion story coupled with the effects on human relationships of advanced anti-aging medicine. Sawyer's masterpiece so far IMHO.
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4.16 avg rating — 12,633 ratings

"Literacy is the hero's major weapons in a decayed, dystopian society.
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3.75 avg rating — 8,772 ratings

"The best cyborg novel of teh 1970s with some stunningly prophetic notes about feminism, AI technology and how many probes we lose on Mars. "

3.70 avg rating — 3,639 ratings

"An elegant Alternate History tale, that melds our ytimeline with one that has had tiem not to rush into some hasty technological advances, yet is not so much wiser than us. "

4.04 avg rating — 27,530 ratings

"Serenity. Enough said. "

3.67 avg rating — 3,958 ratings

"Alien races, BDSM on a cosmic scale. and jorj X McKie of the Bureau Of Sabotage in action to halt a galaxy-killing plan.
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4.10 avg rating — 976 ratings

"the opening of the Mars sage, the ambitious story of humans making their own world. "

4.50 avg rating — 36,692 ratings

"Explain why I like this? I might as well lower haystacks off the deck of the Lusitania!"

3.76 avg rating — 2,272 ratings

"SF adventure and well-researched history combined with logical Alternate history - Anderson set the bar for years for this kind of tale.
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3.65 avg rating — 18,736 ratings

"The classic. All Wells' tropes are here in finely honed form."

3.80 avg rating — 3,516 ratings

"Action on a cosmic scale, with the last(?) of a race racing to take control of Earth and possibly the Galaxy."

3.73 avg rating — 4,041 ratings

"A realistic portrayal of politics and science clashing on the Moon of the future, with a small nod to E E Smith.
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3.89 avg rating — 11,747 ratings

"A high-stakes davneture on the strangest passenger ferry ever, and the slowest disaster ever- and it came before "The Poseidon Adventure" as well!"

4.11 avg rating — 1,592 ratings

"Because it is The Instrumentality of Mankind's odder stories ( Apart from "Himself in Anachron" not included here ), plus some humorous unrelated stories.
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