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Top 50 Science Fiction Books on Goodreads
-Ray Bradbury
Don't pack up your dinosaurs, fellow sci-fi readers. You're among friends here.
When we set out to uncover the top science fiction books on Goodreads, our journey—searching through hundreds of books and thousands of ratings and reviews—was a spacewalk down memory lane, from revisiting the sci-fi heroes we grew up with, like young brainiac Ender and hapless (and homeless) Arthur Dent, to returning to beloved worlds created by Ursula K. Le Guin, Isaac Asimov, Octavia Butler, and many more.
The bar needed to be high. Every book on our list has at least a 4.0 average rating from Goodreads members. Unfortunately, this means that dinosaur king himself Michael Crichton failed to make the cut, along with other big names in the genre like Kim Stanley Robinson, William Gibson, and H.G. Wells. But while some classics may be missing, recent favorites from Emily St. John Mandel, Nnedi Okorafor, and Pierce Brown round out the list.
Without further ado, let's boldly go where many readers have gone before. Tell us how many of the top 50 sci-fi books you've read in the comments!
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What's your favorite science fiction book? Share it with us in the comments!
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Oct 19, 2020 03:42AM
Robert Charles Wilson has written many winners. Can't imagine how/why he is not better known.
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Phil wrote: "I've read 30. I've given 12 of them 5 stars and 3 of them 2 stars. It's funny that Speaker for the Dead but not Ender's Game is on the list. The same goes for [book:Ancil..."
Ender's Game is on here now.
I’ve read 20. Have a lot of these on my want to read list
What about the books Grass and Raising the Stones by Sheri Tepper? They are among the best I've ever read. Grass was also nominated for the Hugo.And, if we're counting 'space dramas' how about The Copper Crown and The Throne of Scone by Patricia Kennealy-Morrison?
Also extremely surprised to see some of the great SciFi authors of the 80s and 90s missing, like David Brin and Kim Stanley Robinson.
Also, have to be frank when I say that I am disappointed to see some of the more recent novels like Wool, The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, and Station Eleven. I read all of these and while I enjoyed them, I didn't think they were as profound or deep as some other science fiction I've read.
