Alphabetically on author. Reviewed books are hyperlinked. Non-reviewed books will get a reread & review somewhere in the future. I’ll limit this list to 25, so if I’ll add a book later on, I’ll bump another title out.
Isaac Asimov
Foundation 1-5 (1951, ’52, ’53, ’82, ’86)
Iain M. Banks
Excession (1996)
John Brunner
Stand On Zanzibar (1968)
Frank Herbert
Dune (1965)
God Emperor Of Dune (1981)
Heretics Of Dune (1984)
Chapterhouse-Dune (1985)
Ann Leckie
Ancillary Mercy (2015)
Ursula K. Le Guin
The Left Hand Of Darkness (1969)
Cixin Liu
The Three-Body Problem (2007)
Ian McDonald
Luna: New Moon (2015)
Alistar Reynolds
Redemption Ark (2002)
Absolution Gap (2003)
House Of Suns (2008)
Kim Stanley Robinson
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818)
Neal Stephenson
Snow Crash (1992)
Anathem (2008)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)
Gene Wolfe
The Book Of The New Sun
The Shadow Of The Torturer (1980)
The Claw Of The Conciliator (1981)
The Sword Of The Lictor (1982)
The Citadel Of The Autarch (1983)
Will be interesting to see how your list changes over time! I’ve only read 6 of these.
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I’ve been trying to start “Excession” for a few months now, but I know I will need more concentration than I can afford right now to enjoy it. But I see that many of my own favorite books are in your list 🙂
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I like Excession so much because the protagonists are all Ships. I would have liked another few Culture novels that focussed on Ships, since they are so awesom & funny at the same time, but sadly Banks died.
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Btw, I think it’s a pretty standard, fairly classic SF favorite list, featuring the usual suspects like Dune & Foundation, so I guess (a big) overlap with other people’s lists is to be expected. Not that that’s a problem…
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