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Note: the current top book on the list, Even the Stars Shall Rejoice by Rikki de la Vega, appears to have been voted there by the author using a bunch of fake accounts. Unfortunately there's nothing I can do about this.
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Even the Stars Shall Rejoice
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Rikki de la Vega (Goodreads Author)
4.52 avg rating — 25 ratings
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All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
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Martha Wells (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 348,985 ratings
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The Left Hand of Darkness
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4.10 avg rating — 213,714 ratings
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Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1)
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Rebecca Roanhorse (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 52,621 ratings
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Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
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3.81 avg rating — 3,124 ratings
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The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 1: The Faust Act
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Kieron Gillen (Writer)
3.82 avg rating — 59,678 ratings
score: 191,
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The Sword of Summer (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, #1)
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Rick Riordan (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 236,908 ratings
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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4.25 avg rating — 815,517 ratings
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Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)
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Ann Leckie (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 116,760 ratings
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Temper
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Nicky Drayden (Goodreads Author)
3.54 avg rating — 735 ratings
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A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2)
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Becky Chambers (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 86,130 ratings
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Aye, and Gomorrah
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3.98 avg rating — 1,054 ratings
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Distress
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Ammonite
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Nicola Griffith (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 7,070 ratings
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The Warrior's Apprentice (Vorkosigan Saga, #2)
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Lois McMaster Bujold (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 30,021 ratings
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A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)
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Becky Chambers (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 173,785 ratings
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Venus Plus X
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Runaways, Vol. 1: Pride & Joy
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Brian K. Vaughan (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 27,462 ratings
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The Lives of Dax
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Marco Palmieri (Editor)
4.08 avg rating — 1,156 ratings
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A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)
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Becky Chambers (Goodreads Author)
4.38 avg rating — 80,763 ratings
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Chaining the Lady (Cluster, #2)
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3.65 avg rating — 1,142 ratings
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Loki: Agent of Asgard, Vol. 1: Trust Me
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4.10 avg rating — 6,517 ratings
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The Deep
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Rivers Solomon (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 39,214 ratings
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Cluster (Cluster, #1)
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Doctor Who: The Good Doctor
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Juno Dawson (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 1,085 ratings
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An Unkindness of Ghosts
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Rivers Solomon (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 21,364 ratings
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Orlando
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3.87 avg rating — 111,718 ratings
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In the Vanishers’ Palace
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Aliette de Bodard (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 2,690 ratings
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Shadow Man
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Melissa Scott (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 352 ratings
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The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 272,428 ratings
score: 95,
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When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)
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Nghi Vo (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 18,114 ratings
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Lilith's Brood (Xenogenesis, #1-3)
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4.37 avg rating — 21,677 ratings
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Neon Genesis Evangelion, Vol. 1
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4.20 avg rating — 10,611 ratings
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The Merro Tree
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The Cage of Zeus
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3.21 avg rating — 160 ratings
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Men at Arms (Discworld, #15; City Watch, #2)
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4.41 avg rating — 110,913 ratings
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The Birthday of the World and Other Stories (Hainish Cycle, #9)
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4.32 avg rating — 6,095 ratings
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Doom Patrol, Vol. 1: Crawling from the Wreckage
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4.10 avg rating — 7,018 ratings
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River of Gods (India 2047, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 6,123 ratings
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The Worth of a Shell
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M.C.A. Hogarth (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 119 ratings
score: 90,
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2312
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3.52 avg rating — 21,590 ratings
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Steven Universe Vol. 1 (Steven Universe, 1)
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4.02 avg rating — 1,926 ratings
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Young Justice: Outsiders #1 (Young Justice: Outsiders, #1)
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3.25 avg rating — 36 ratings
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A Marriage of Insects: a novel of the World Tree
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3.31 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Diaspora
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4.10 avg rating — 10,884 ratings
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The Penumbra Podcast
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4.70 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Halfway Human
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Stargate SG-1 (Stargate SG-1, #1)
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3.83 avg rating — 402 ratings
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Tiger & Bunny, Vol. 1
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3.77 avg rating — 574 ratings
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Three Worlds to Conquer
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3.07 avg rating — 130 ratings
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Dragon Ball Z, Vol. 1: The World's Greatest Team (Dragon Ball Z, #1)
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4.50 avg rating — 8,630 ratings
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The Gods Themselves
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4.09 avg rating — 67,866 ratings
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Cowboy Bebop, Vol. 1
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4.12 avg rating — 4,230 ratings
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The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
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4.28 avg rating — 79,168 ratings
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The Mandalorian
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Adam Christopher (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Star Maker
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3.91 avg rating — 9,232 ratings
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Monkey: The Journey to the West
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Nebula Maker
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3.66 avg rating — 59 ratings
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X-Men Blue: Origins (2023) #1
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4.36 avg rating — 177 ratings
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Flying Cups and Saucers: Gender Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy
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Debbie Notkin (Editor)
3.95 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Alien In a Small Town
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Jim Cleaveland (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Double Shadow
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Thief of Songs (Twin Kingdoms, #1)
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M.C.A. Hogarth (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 121 ratings
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Dark Water's Embrace (Mictlan, #1)
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3.69 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Into Plutonian Depths
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Cardassia and Andor (Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, #1)
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3.83 avg rating — 905 ratings
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Their Majesties' Bucketeers (North American Confederacy #3)
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3.61 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Last and First Men
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3.79 avg rating — 6,825 ratings
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The Flames: A Fantasy
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3.36 avg rating — 88 ratings
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A Voyage to Arcturus
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Isaac Asimov's Utopias
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Gardner Dozois (Editor)
3.70 avg rating — 60 ratings
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The Seven Sexes
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Lightspeed Magazine, August 2012
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Commitment Hour (League of Peoples, #2)
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James Alan Gardner (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 653 ratings
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Nebula Awards Showcase 2005
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3.38 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Hunted (League of Peoples, #4)
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James Alan Gardner (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 707 ratings
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The Einstein Intersection
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Mars Evacuees (Mars Evacuees, #1)
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Sophia McDougall (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 703 ratings
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Enemy Mine
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World Tree: A Role Playing Game of Species and Civilization
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The True Meaning of Smekday
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Adam Rex (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 9,918 ratings
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Schild's Ladder
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The Time Ships
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E Pluribus Unicorn
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Playboy Magazine September 1978
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made
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Eric James Stone (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 206 ratings
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Memoirs of a Spacewoman
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Necessary Ill
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3.18 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Fish Tails (Plague of Angels, #3)
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3.56 avg rating — 363 ratings
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Over a Torrent Sea (Star Trek: Titan, #5)
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Christopher L. Bennett (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 1,031 ratings
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Transpecial
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Jennifer R. Povey (Goodreads Author)
2.93 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Mirror Empire (Worldbreaker Saga, #1)
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Kameron Hurley (Goodreads Author)
3.49 avg rating — 5,008 ratings
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Capricious: The Gender Diverse Pronouns Issue
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Andi C. Buchanan (Editor)
4.33 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Provenance
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Ann Leckie (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 21,049 ratings
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Warren Peace (Warren Peace, #2)
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Down in the Black Gang
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The Black Tides of Heaven (Tensorate, #1)
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The Improbable Choice
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Wollheim's World's Best SF: Series Nine
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Donald A. Wollheim (Editor)
3.98 avg rating — 94 ratings
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A Good Old-Fashioned Future
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Parmacendar
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William
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Reader453
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Stephani
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55 friends
Molly
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0 friends
0 friends
Michelle
201 books
0 friends
0 friends
Amy
54 books
23 friends
23 friends
Colette
39 books
15 friends
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