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Most Interesting Science Fiction Reads
Not just the best science fiction, but the ones that present truly interesting, inspiring ideas, the sort of book you'd describe as having blown your mind.
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Dune (Dune #1)
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4.29 avg rating — 1,586,383 ratings
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Goose Island
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Lucinda Davis (Goodreads Author)
4.49 avg rating — 154 ratings
score: 500,
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Unju - The Jump
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Gleneley Stander (Goodreads Author)
4.71 avg rating — 21 ratings
score: 400,
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4 people voted
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Uglies (Uglies, #1)
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Scott Westerfeld (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 703,267 ratings
score: 396,
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Planet Ignis
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Cassio Ferreira (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 17 ratings
score: 300,
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3 people voted
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Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
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4.31 avg rating — 1,456,492 ratings
score: 293,
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The Light Years
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R.W.W. Greene (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 573 ratings
score: 200,
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2 people voted
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The Sparrow (The Sparrow, #1)
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Mary Doria Russell (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 80,738 ratings
score: 199,
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Snow Crash
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 294,698 ratings
score: 197,
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2 people voted
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Stranger in a Strange Land
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3.92 avg rating — 324,293 ratings
score: 196,
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Fahrenheit 451
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3.97 avg rating — 2,749,762 ratings
score: 196,
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A Wrinkle in Time (A Wrinkle in Time Quintet, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 1,268,103 ratings
score: 191,
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The Fresco
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3.95 avg rating — 2,151 ratings
score: 100,
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Sword (Allie's War, #3)
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J.C. Andrijeski (Goodreads Author)
4.46 avg rating — 218 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Empire of the Gods
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David Stag (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 31 ratings
score: 100,
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A Strange Encounter
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Steve Fellick (Goodreads Author)
3.18 avg rating — 22 ratings
score: 100,
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Chocolate Lenin
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Graham Diamond (Goodreads Author)
3.53 avg rating — 51 ratings
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The Earth Gate
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Chris Comish (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Greetings Earthlings, My name is Appleton and I come from the Planet Reginta
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J. Jack Bergeron (Goodreads Author)
3.48 avg rating — 23 ratings
score: 100,
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This Changes Everything (The Spanners, #1)
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Sally Ember (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 142 ratings
score: 100,
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Rogue Genesis (Shimmer in the Dark, #1)
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Ceri London (Goodreads Author)
4.44 avg rating — 162 ratings
score: 100,
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Ann Marie's Asylum (Master and Apprentice, #1)
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Christopher Rankin (Goodreads Author)
3.48 avg rating — 135 ratings
score: 100,
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Five minutes to Doomsday (Acoustic Funambulist #2)
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Jean-Yves Crozier (Goodreads Author)
4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
score: 100,
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A Soldier Forgiven
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3.93 avg rating — 61 ratings
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1 person voted
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The Unadjusteds (The Unadjusteds, #1)
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Marisa Noelle (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 263 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Free S**t
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3.29 avg rating — 299 ratings
score: 100,
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Steel Beach
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3.97 avg rating — 3,347 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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Shield (Allie's War, #2)
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J.C. Andrijeski (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 312 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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50,000 A.D. The Awakening
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J. Jack Bergeron (Goodreads Author)
3.43 avg rating — 77 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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Creating Monsters
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Christopher Rankin (Goodreads Author)
3.59 avg rating — 187 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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This Changes My Family and My Life Forever (The Spanners, #2)
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Sally Ember (Goodreads Author)
4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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The Rise of the Altereds (The Unadjusteds, #2)
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Marisa Noelle (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 76 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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The Best American Comics 2009
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Charles Burns (Editor)
3.54 avg rating — 442 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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The Ophiuchi Hotline
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3.89 avg rating — 3,872 ratings
score: 98,
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1 person voted
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Rook (Allie's War, #1)
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J.C. Andrijeski (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 902 ratings
score: 98,
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1 person voted
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Last Shuttle Flight, First Alien Contact Part 1
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J. Jack Bergeron (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 20 ratings
score: 98,
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1 person voted
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The Reckoning (The Unadjusteds #3)
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Marisa Noelle (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 66 ratings
score: 98,
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Last Look
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4.08 avg rating — 1,509 ratings
score: 98,
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1 person voted
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The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 92,593 ratings
score: 97,
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1 person voted
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Last Shuttle Flight, First Alien Contact Part 2
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J. Jack Bergeron (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
score: 97,
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Grey
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Jon Armstrong (Goodreads Author)
3.30 avg rating — 317 ratings
score: 97,
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1 person voted
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Skin Deep
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4.09 avg rating — 985 ratings
score: 97,
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Last Shuttle Flight, First Alien Contact Part 3
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J. Jack Bergeron (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
score: 96,
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The Inverted World
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3.95 avg rating — 10,583 ratings
score: 96,
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El Borbah
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3.95 avg rating — 1,104 ratings
score: 96,
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Solaris
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3.99 avg rating — 126,098 ratings
score: 95,
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1 person voted
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NSA Wormhole Project
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J. Jack Bergeron (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
score: 95,
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1 person voted
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Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
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3.84 avg rating — 10,902 ratings
score: 95,
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Sugar Skull
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3.95 avg rating — 2,465 ratings
score: 95,
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Ghost Country (Travis Chase, #2)
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Patrick Lee (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 6,592 ratings
score: 94,
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The Hive
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4,120 ratings
score: 94,
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A Dream of Wessex
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3.73 avg rating — 597 ratings
score: 93,
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The Mark of Cain (The Cain Chronicles #1)
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A.D. Seeley (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 130 ratings
score: 93,
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1 person voted
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Blood Music
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3.84 avg rating — 16,678 ratings
score: 92,
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1 person voted
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Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
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4.04 avg rating — 113,394 ratings
score: 92,
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Skagboys (Mark Renton, #1)
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4.06 avg rating — 17,568 ratings
score: 92,
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We
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3.88 avg rating — 109,162 ratings
score: 91,
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Amatka
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Karin Tidbeck (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 4,291 ratings
score: 91,
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Lunar Park
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3.65 avg rating — 30,474 ratings
score: 91,
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Sundiver (The Uplift Saga, #1)
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David Brin (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 27,455 ratings
score: 90,
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The Time Machine
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3.89 avg rating — 556,160 ratings
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American Psycho
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3.80 avg rating — 352,471 ratings
score: 90,
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Harrison Bergeron
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4.14 avg rating — 22,142 ratings
score: 89,
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Fight Club
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Chuck Palahniuk (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 632,771 ratings
score: 89,
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The Girl Who Was Plugged In
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3.55 avg rating — 2,333 ratings
score: 88,
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The Gone World
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3.92 avg rating — 26,318 ratings
score: 87,
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The Hot-Wired Dodo (Wonderland Gambit, #3)
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3.79 avg rating — 270 ratings
score: 86,
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Down to a Sunless Sea
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3.90 avg rating — 969 ratings
score: 85,
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The Screwfly Solution
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Raccoona Sheldon (Pseudonym)
4.08 avg rating — 641 ratings
score: 84,
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The Cybernetic Walrus (The Wonderland Gambit, #1)
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3.77 avg rating — 371 ratings
score: 83,
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Daughters of a Coral Dawn (The Coral Dawn Trilogy, 1)
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3.82 avg rating — 866 ratings
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Simulacron Three
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4.05 avg rating — 1,179 ratings
score: 81,
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Reality Crash
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Lou Grantt (Goodreads Author)
3.68 avg rating — 22 ratings
score: 80,
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The Starlight Crystal
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3.86 avg rating — 2,329 ratings
score: 79,
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Tomorrow and Tomorrow
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3.84 avg rating — 734 ratings
score: 78,
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Worlds Enough...and Time
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Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings
score: 77,
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Reboot (Reboot, #1)
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Amy Tintera (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 34,654 ratings
score: 76,
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A Very Private Life
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3.51 avg rating — 258 ratings
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The Joy Makers
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3.83 avg rating — 198 ratings
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Mockingbird
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4.16 avg rating — 11,872 ratings
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Driven (Northern Waste, #1)
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3.74 avg rating — 2,185 ratings
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Manalone
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4.06 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Drowned Worlds
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3.51 avg rating — 307 ratings
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Technogenesis
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3.91 avg rating — 168 ratings
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Broken Symmetry
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3.86 avg rating — 1,147 ratings
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Here, There, and Everywhere
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Chris Roberson (Goodreads Author)
3.59 avg rating — 140 ratings
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Dark Matter
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Blake Crouch (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 679,795 ratings
score: 66,
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House of Suns
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4.24 avg rating — 31,757 ratings
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The Heritage of Hastur
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4.04 avg rating — 3,328 ratings
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Sabella
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3.85 avg rating — 785 ratings
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City of Sorcery (Darkover, #14)
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3.76 avg rating — 2,015 ratings
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The Bombs Fall (The Dawn, #1)
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Michelle Muckley (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 335 ratings
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Millennium
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3.78 avg rating — 2,937 ratings
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The Registry (The Registry, #1)
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Shannon Stoker (Goodreads Author)
3.24 avg rating — 2,277 ratings
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Level 7
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3.95 avg rating — 1,940 ratings
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Foundation and Earth (Foundation #5)
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4.07 avg rating — 78,712 ratings
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The Other Side of Time (Imperium, #2)
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3.65 avg rating — 128 ratings
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Biting the Sun (Four-BEE, #1-2)
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Vurt
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XVI (XVI, #1)
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Julia Karr (Goodreads Author)
3.45 avg rating — 7,707 ratings
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Mar 18, 2012 09:23AM
Funny, how different taste is. I would only pick a few of the books on your top 200 on my top 200. On the top of my list I would pick: Modesty Blaise, Prince Valiant, Blake & Mortimer, Carl Barks, Blueberry, Calvin & Hobbes, Tintin, EC Library, Tintin, Asterix, Spirou, Gaston Lagaffe, Bernard Prince, Flash Gordon, Rip Kirby, X9 Agent Corrigan, Garth, Phantom, Michel Vaillant, Tarzan by Manning, Bruno Brazil, Lucky Luke, Valerian. I would consider Don Rosa, Kamandi, Watchmen and the Incal.
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True, about the taste. But that is why we need such a diverse creative community! Kind of like when everybody bought Emily Strange, but some opted for Bone or Preacher or even Batman. Really, I just love comics and great graphic novels don't just appear every Wednesday - sometimes they take years!
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