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Science Fiction Books
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Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 21631 times as science-fiction)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,643,785 ratings — published 1965
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 18316 times as science-fiction)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,029,523 ratings — published 1979
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 18211 times as science-fiction)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,480,498 ratings — published 1985
The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16444 times as science-fiction)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,304,064 ratings — published 2011
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13879 times as science-fiction)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,872,697 ratings — published 1953
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 13627 times as science-fiction)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,534,579 ratings — published 1948
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
by (shelved 13511 times as science-fiction)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,310,655 ratings — published 2011
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 12870 times as science-fiction)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,998,291 ratings — published 2008
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12675 times as science-fiction)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,253,867 ratings — published 2021
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 12247 times as science-fiction)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,094,829 ratings — published 1932
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
by (shelved 11916 times as science-fiction)
avg rating 4.17 — 600,811 ratings — published 1951
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (ebook)
by (shelved 10721 times as science-fiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 517,756 ratings — published 1968
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by (shelved 10493 times as science-fiction)
avg rating 4.08 — 503,380 ratings — published 2006
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
by (shelved 10178 times as science-fiction)
avg rating 4.11 — 378,580 ratings — published 2017
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 10058 times as science-fiction)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,197,680 ratings — published 2009
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 9452 times as science-fiction)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,756,789 ratings — published 2010
Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
by (shelved 8984 times as science-fiction)
avg rating 3.89 — 367,418 ratings — published 1984
Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
by (shelved 8855 times as science-fiction)
avg rating 4.31 — 323,387 ratings — published 2011
The Time Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 8826 times as science-fiction)
avg rating 3.89 — 568,904 ratings — published 1895
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 8541 times as science-fiction)
avg rating 4.27 — 818,707 ratings — published 2014
I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)
by (shelved 8280 times as science-fiction)
avg rating 4.21 — 381,628 ratings — published 1950
Dark Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8228 times as science-fiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 741,931 ratings — published 2016
The Left Hand of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 7710 times as science-fiction)
avg rating 4.10 — 224,534 ratings — published 1969
Dune Messiah (Dune #2)
by (shelved 7696 times as science-fiction)
avg rating 3.89 — 410,576 ratings — published 1969
Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)
by (shelved 7696 times as science-fiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,069,311 ratings — published 1990
Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
by (shelved 7648 times as science-fiction)
avg rating 4.28 — 302,944 ratings — published 1989
The War of the Worlds (Paperback)
by (shelved 7341 times as science-fiction)
avg rating 3.83 — 352,229 ratings — published 1898
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 7315 times as science-fiction)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,920,555 ratings — published 1818
2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
by (shelved 7267 times as science-fiction)
avg rating 4.18 — 337,941 ratings — published 1968
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7057 times as science-fiction)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,456,636 ratings — published 1985
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
by (shelved 7030 times as science-fiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,405,227 ratings — published 2011
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2)
by (shelved 6842 times as science-fiction)
avg rating 4.20 — 318,240 ratings — published 1980
Stranger in a Strange Land (Paperback)
by (shelved 6802 times as science-fiction)
avg rating 3.92 — 327,313 ratings — published 1961
The Martian Chronicles (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6772 times as science-fiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 287,672 ratings — published 1950
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 6693 times as science-fiction)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,493,007 ratings — published 1969
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
by (shelved 6625 times as science-fiction)
avg rating 4.17 — 187,767 ratings — published 2014
Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 6541 times as science-fiction)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,017,195 ratings — published 2012
Snow Crash (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6496 times as science-fiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 299,132 ratings — published 1992
Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)
by (shelved 6486 times as science-fiction)
avg rating 4.23 — 226,754 ratings — published 2005
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 6336 times as science-fiction)
avg rating 3.80 — 309,637 ratings — published 2014
Foundation and Empire (Foundation, #2)
by (shelved 6218 times as science-fiction)
avg rating 4.22 — 228,210 ratings — published 1952
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 6198 times as science-fiction)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,829,976 ratings — published 1993
Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)
by (shelved 6185 times as science-fiction)
avg rating 4.11 — 272,226 ratings — published 1986
This Is How You Lose the Time War (ebook)
by (shelved 6169 times as science-fiction)
avg rating 3.83 — 345,826 ratings — published 2019
Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)
by (shelved 6068 times as science-fiction)
avg rating 4.25 — 219,124 ratings — published 2018
Artemis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5892 times as science-fiction)
avg rating 3.68 — 332,523 ratings — published 2017
A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1)
by (shelved 5778 times as science-fiction)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,292,614 ratings — published 1962
Second Foundation (Foundation, #3)
by (shelved 5677 times as science-fiction)
avg rating 4.28 — 204,296 ratings — published 1953
Children of Dune (Dune #3)
by (shelved 5674 times as science-fiction)
avg rating 3.95 — 254,293 ratings — published 1976
Starship Troopers (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5529 times as science-fiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 247,730 ratings — published 1959
“People say, 'I'm going to sleep now,' as if it were nothing. But it's really a bizarre activity. 'For the next several hours, while the sun is gone, I'm going to become unconscious, temporarily losing command over everything I know and understand. When the sun returns, I will resume my life.'
If you didn't know what sleep was, and you had only seen it in a science fiction movie, you would think it was weird and tell all your friends about the movie you'd seen.
They had these people, you know? And they would walk around all day and be OK? And then, once a day, usually after dark, they would lie down on these special platforms and become unconscious. They would stop functioning almost completely, except deep in their minds they would have adventures and experiences that were completely impossible in real life. As they lay there, completely vulnerable to their enemies, their only movements were to occasionally shift from one position to another; or, if one of the 'mind adventures' got too real, they would sit up and scream and be glad they weren't unconscious anymore. Then they would drink a lot of coffee.'
So, next time you see someone sleeping, make believe you're in a science fiction movie. And whisper, 'The creature is regenerating itself.”
― Brain Droppings
If you didn't know what sleep was, and you had only seen it in a science fiction movie, you would think it was weird and tell all your friends about the movie you'd seen.
They had these people, you know? And they would walk around all day and be OK? And then, once a day, usually after dark, they would lie down on these special platforms and become unconscious. They would stop functioning almost completely, except deep in their minds they would have adventures and experiences that were completely impossible in real life. As they lay there, completely vulnerable to their enemies, their only movements were to occasionally shift from one position to another; or, if one of the 'mind adventures' got too real, they would sit up and scream and be glad they weren't unconscious anymore. Then they would drink a lot of coffee.'
So, next time you see someone sleeping, make believe you're in a science fiction movie. And whisper, 'The creature is regenerating itself.”
― Brain Droppings
“Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.”
― Mostly Harmless
― Mostly Harmless
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