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Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 144 times as nebula)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,721,532 ratings — published 1965
The Left Hand of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as nebula)
avg rating 4.09 — 240,001 ratings — published 1969
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 139 times as nebula)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,508,206 ratings — published 1985
Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)
by (shelved 130 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.99 — 124,094 ratings — published 2013
Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
by (shelved 128 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.89 — 382,650 ratings — published 1984
American Gods (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 125 times as nebula)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,007,463 ratings — published 2001
The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
by (shelved 119 times as nebula)
avg rating 4.14 — 186,042 ratings — published 1974
Among Others (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.72 — 26,351 ratings — published 2011
Ringworld (Ringworld #1)
by (shelved 113 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.93 — 131,565 ratings — published 1970
The Windup Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.75 — 79,445 ratings — published 2009
Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)
by (shelved 112 times as nebula)
avg rating 4.03 — 67,284 ratings — published 1992
The Dispossessed (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as nebula)
avg rating 4.26 — 164,983 ratings — published 1974
Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
by (shelved 110 times as nebula)
avg rating 4.12 — 191,518 ratings — published 1973
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as nebula)
avg rating 4.25 — 851,901 ratings — published 1966
The Yiddish Policemen's Union (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.72 — 82,102 ratings — published 2007
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 102 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.80 — 337,643 ratings — published 2014
Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)
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avg rating 4.12 — 278,731 ratings — published 1986
Uprooted (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 275,025 ratings — published 2015
Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 99 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.85 — 91,195 ratings — published 1992
Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)
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avg rating 4.05 — 48,550 ratings — published 1977
Dreamsnake (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.88 — 11,677 ratings — published 1978
The Fountains of Paradise (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.95 — 32,485 ratings — published 1979
The Gods Themselves (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 71,013 ratings — published 1972
Blackout (Oxford Time Travel, #3)
by (shelved 86 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.86 — 28,126 ratings — published 2010
The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3)
by (shelved 84 times as nebula)
avg rating 4.32 — 177,786 ratings — published 2017
Paladin of Souls (World of the Five Gods, #2)
by (shelved 84 times as nebula)
avg rating 4.19 — 28,245 ratings — published 2003
Forever Peace (The Forever War, #3)
by (shelved 83 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.75 — 23,239 ratings — published 1997
All the Birds in the Sky (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.59 — 49,545 ratings — published 2016
The Speed of Dark (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.99 — 12,039 ratings — published 2002
Babel-17 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.72 — 20,972 ratings — published 1966
Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)
by (shelved 81 times as nebula)
avg rating 4.32 — 94,740 ratings — published 1998
The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut Universe, #1)
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avg rating 3.95 — 39,505 ratings — published 2018
Tehanu (Earthsea Cycle, #4)
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avg rating 4.07 — 63,104 ratings — published 1990
Startide Rising (The Uplift Saga, #2)
by (shelved 76 times as nebula)
avg rating 4.04 — 33,864 ratings — published 1983
Falling Free (Vorkosigan Saga, #4)
by (shelved 74 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.84 — 23,582 ratings — published 1988
A Time of Changes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.68 — 3,837 ratings — published 1971
The Einstein Intersection (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.55 — 6,517 ratings — published 1967
Powers (Annals of the Western Shore, #3)
by (shelved 68 times as nebula)
avg rating 4.09 — 5,653 ratings — published 2007
Camouflage (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.66 — 6,528 ratings — published 2004
Darwin's Radio (Darwin's Radio, #1)
by (shelved 68 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.73 — 17,027 ratings — published 1999
Slow River (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.86 — 4,309 ratings — published 1995
Timescape (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.73 — 11,798 ratings — published 1980
Man Plus (Man Plus #1)
by (shelved 67 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.75 — 8,951 ratings — published 1976
The Terminal Experiment (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.74 — 4,597 ratings — published 1995
Seeker (Alex Benedict, #3)
by (shelved 66 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.93 — 8,275 ratings — published 2005
The Claw of the Conciliator (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as nebula)
avg rating 4.00 — 19,557 ratings — published 1981
The Falling Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.62 — 1,950 ratings — published 1986
No Enemy But Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.48 — 1,739 ratings — published 1982
Rite of Passage (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.81 — 3,828 ratings — published 1968
“What caused me to undertake the catalog was the nebula I discovered above the southern horn of Taurus on September 12, 1758, while observing the comet of that year. ... This nebula had such a resemblance to a comet in its form and brightness that I endeavored to find others, so that astronomers would not confuse these same nebulae with comets just beginning to shine. I observed further with suitable refractors for the discovery of comets, and this is the purpose I had in mind in compiling the catalog.
After me, the celebrated Herschel published a catalog of 2000 which he has observed. This unveiling the sky, made with instruments of great aperture, does not help in the perusal of the sky for faint comets. Thus my object is different from his, and I need only nebulae visible in a telescope of two feet [focal length].”
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After me, the celebrated Herschel published a catalog of 2000 which he has observed. This unveiling the sky, made with instruments of great aperture, does not help in the perusal of the sky for faint comets. Thus my object is different from his, and I need only nebulae visible in a telescope of two feet [focal length].”
―
“The dark sky.
A hundred million stars.
More stars than I’ve ever seen before. My eyes let me see farther, but they don’t show me the one thing I want to see. I would trade all the stars in the universe if I could just have him back again.
Wind whistles through the trees nearby. Birdsong weaves in and out of the sound.
The hybrids emerge from the communication building, heads tilted to the sky.
And then we see the end.
Godspeed’s engine was nuclear; who knows what fueled the biological weapons. But they explode together. In space, they don’t make the familiar mushroom cloud. They don’t make the boom! of an exploding bomb.
There is, against the dark sky, a brief flash of light. It is filled with colors, like a nebula or the aurora borealis, bursting like a popped bubble.
Nothing else—no sound of an explosion, no tremors in the earth, no smell of smoke. Not here, on the surface of the planet.
Nothing else to signify Elder’s death.
Just light.
And then it’s gone.
And then he’s gone.”
― Shades of Earth
A hundred million stars.
More stars than I’ve ever seen before. My eyes let me see farther, but they don’t show me the one thing I want to see. I would trade all the stars in the universe if I could just have him back again.
Wind whistles through the trees nearby. Birdsong weaves in and out of the sound.
The hybrids emerge from the communication building, heads tilted to the sky.
And then we see the end.
Godspeed’s engine was nuclear; who knows what fueled the biological weapons. But they explode together. In space, they don’t make the familiar mushroom cloud. They don’t make the boom! of an exploding bomb.
There is, against the dark sky, a brief flash of light. It is filled with colors, like a nebula or the aurora borealis, bursting like a popped bubble.
Nothing else—no sound of an explosion, no tremors in the earth, no smell of smoke. Not here, on the surface of the planet.
Nothing else to signify Elder’s death.
Just light.
And then it’s gone.
And then he’s gone.”
― Shades of Earth
