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This magazine is aimed at fans and creators of sci-fi and related media of all kinds. It includes all content related to the sci-fi genre and only content related to the sci-fi genre. The goal is to build a community for everyone who enjoys science fiction and related topics. This includes the obvious books, movies, and TV shows, but also original writing, the discussion of writing SF, futuristic art and designs, and the science and technologies that inspire the sci-fi genre. **Team Top 20**

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Share you favourite Sci-Fi books and what you loved about them (kbin.social)

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I've been getting through more and more sci-fi books and would love recommendations on the books you've all enjoyed.

For myself I thought the Xeelee series was brilliant. Taking us from the dawn of time through to the end of the universe and around again. Fighting aliens from other dimensions and the creators of the universe themselves.

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[–] gobsmacked@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Big question...

Kim Stanley Robinson - Mars Trilogy, Science in the Capital series, Antarctica
Neal Stephenson - Anathem, Snow Crash, The Diamond Age
Ken MacLeod - Fall Revolution series, Execution Channel
Robert Heinlein - Podkayne of Mars, Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Starship Troopers
Sean McMullen - Greatwinter series
Joe Haldeman - The Forever War
Connie Willis - Doomsday Book
Ursula K. LeGuin - The Dispossessed and The Left Hand of Darkness
William Gibson - Neuromancer, The Bridge Trilogy, and the Blue Ant books
Iain Banks - Consider Phlebas
Samuel Delany - Dhalgren
Maureen McHugh - China Mountain Zhang
Nicola Griffith - Ammonite
Pat Murphy - The City, Not Long After
Frank Herbert - Dune
Arthur C. Clarke - Childhood's End, Rendezvous with Rama
David Brin and Gregory Benford - Heart of the Comet
David Brin - Startide Rising
Walter M. Miller, Jr. - A Canticle for Leibowitz
N. K. Jemisin - The Fifth Season
Charles Stross - Halting State
C.J. Cherryh - Downbelow Station
Larry Niven - Ringworld, Protector
Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle - The Mote in God's Eye

There are some books I'm not sure I fully consider science fiction and so hesitate to recommend in this context - like Connie Willis' "To Say Nothing of the Dog" (even "Doomsday" felt a bit of a stretch) or "Hitchhikers Guide to Galaxy" or China Mieville's "The City & The City." And there's a couple books that would have been on here, but their authors' views on some social and political matters make them impossible to recommend.