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Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 1014 times as sf)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,507,253 ratings — published 1985
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
by (shelved 999 times as sf)
avg rating 4.17 — 617,963 ratings — published 1951
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 979 times as sf)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,083,562 ratings — published 1979
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by (shelved 892 times as sf)
avg rating 4.08 — 541,989 ratings — published 2006
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 880 times as sf)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,007,798 ratings — published 1963
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (ebook)
by (shelved 843 times as sf)
avg rating 4.09 — 537,435 ratings — published 1968
Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
by (shelved 829 times as sf)
avg rating 3.89 — 382,077 ratings — published 1984
Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
by (shelved 733 times as sf)
avg rating 4.28 — 321,282 ratings — published 1989
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 728 times as sf)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,162,609 ratings — published 1932
The Left Hand of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 716 times as sf)
avg rating 4.09 — 239,494 ratings — published 1969
The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 706 times as sf)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,388,796 ratings — published 2011
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
by (shelved 680 times as sf)
avg rating 4.10 — 414,382 ratings — published 2017
Leviathan Wakes (Paperback)
by (shelved 671 times as sf)
avg rating 4.31 — 340,992 ratings — published 2011
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 661 times as sf)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,907,509 ratings — published 2021
I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)
by (shelved 632 times as sf)
avg rating 4.21 — 391,747 ratings — published 1950
Dune Messiah (Dune, #2)
by (shelved 623 times as sf)
avg rating 3.90 — 449,819 ratings — published 1969
Snow Crash (Hardcover)
by (shelved 595 times as sf)
avg rating 4.01 — 304,246 ratings — published 1992
Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)
by (shelved 575 times as sf)
avg rating 4.23 — 235,345 ratings — published 2005
Foundation and Empire (Foundation, #2)
by (shelved 572 times as sf)
avg rating 4.22 — 234,793 ratings — published 1952
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
by (shelved 571 times as sf)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,349,844 ratings — published 2011
The Dispossessed (Paperback)
by (shelved 559 times as sf)
avg rating 4.26 — 164,556 ratings — published 1974
2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
by (shelved 557 times as sf)
avg rating 4.18 — 344,962 ratings — published 1968
The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
by (shelved 556 times as sf)
avg rating 4.14 — 185,880 ratings — published 1974
Second Foundation (Foundation, #3)
by (shelved 541 times as sf)
avg rating 4.28 — 209,804 ratings — published 1953
The Man in the High Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 527 times as sf)
avg rating 3.58 — 245,694 ratings — published 1962
Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)
by (shelved 521 times as sf)
avg rating 3.99 — 123,940 ratings — published 2013
Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
by (shelved 518 times as sf)
avg rating 4.12 — 191,382 ratings — published 1973
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 516 times as sf)
avg rating 4.36 — 10,319,001 ratings — published 2008
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
by (shelved 513 times as sf)
avg rating 4.16 — 198,949 ratings — published 2014
Stranger in a Strange Land (Paperback)
by (shelved 512 times as sf)
avg rating 3.92 — 331,321 ratings — published 1961
Childhood’s End (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 492 times as sf)
avg rating 4.12 — 179,333 ratings — published 1953
Children of Dune (Dune, #3)
by (shelved 485 times as sf)
avg rating 3.95 — 272,675 ratings — published 1976
The Martian Chronicles (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 484 times as sf)
avg rating 4.16 — 294,780 ratings — published 1950
The Time Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 470 times as sf)
avg rating 3.89 — 582,959 ratings — published 1895
Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)
by (shelved 469 times as sf)
avg rating 3.84 — 104,523 ratings — published 1987
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
by (shelved 458 times as sf)
avg rating 4.30 — 199,262 ratings — published 2015
Starship Troopers (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 444 times as sf)
avg rating 4.00 — 252,684 ratings — published 1959
Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)
by (shelved 429 times as sf)
avg rating 4.12 — 278,530 ratings — published 1986
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (Paperback)
by (shelved 429 times as sf)
avg rating 4.15 — 142,068 ratings — published 1966
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 427 times as sf)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,575,623 ratings — published 1985
Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)
by (shelved 414 times as sf)
avg rating 4.24 — 238,512 ratings — published 2018
A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
by (shelved 412 times as sf)
avg rating 3.99 — 124,498 ratings — published 1959
The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)
by (shelved 411 times as sf)
avg rating 4.19 — 116,453 ratings — published 1953
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 410 times as sf)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,004,684 ratings — published 2014
The War of the Worlds (Paperback)
by (shelved 406 times as sf)
avg rating 3.83 — 363,391 ratings — published 1898
Stories of Your Life and Others (ebook)
by (shelved 400 times as sf)
avg rating 4.25 — 133,584 ratings — published 2002
“I wish you well, explorer, but I wonder: Does the same fate that befell me await you? I can only imagine that it must, that the tendency toward equilibrium is not a trait peculiar to our universe but inherent in all universes. Perhaps that is just a limitation of my thinking, and your people have discovered a source of pressure that is truly eternal. But my speculations are fanciful enough already. I will assume that one day your thoughts too will cease, although I cannot fathom how far in the future that might be. Your lives will end just as ours did, just as everyone’s must. No matter how long it takes, eventually equilibrium will be reached. I hope you are not saddened by that awareness. I hope that your expedition was more than a search for other universes to use as reservoirs. I hope that you were motivated by a desire for knowledge, a yearning to see what can arise from a universe’s exhalation. Because even if a universe’s life span is calculable, the variety of life that is generated within it is not. The buildings we have erected, the art and music and verse we have composed, the very lives we’ve led: none of them could have been predicted, because none of them was inevitable. Our universe might have slid into equilibrium emitting nothing more than a quiet hiss. The fact that it spawned such plenitude is a miracle, one that is matched only by your universe giving rise to you.”
― Exhalation
― Exhalation
“He turns off the techno-shit in his goggles. All it does is confuse him; he stands there reading statistics about his own death even as it's happening to him. Very post-modern.”
― Snow Crash
― Snow Crash
