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Embassytown
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China Miéville (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 34,113 ratings
score: 199,
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Stories of Your Life and Others
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4.25 avg rating — 121,438 ratings
score: 195,
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Drunk on All Your Strange New Words
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3.90 avg rating — 3,396 ratings
score: 99,
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Axiom's End (Noumena, #1)
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Lindsay Ellis (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 27,625 ratings
score: 98,
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A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)
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Arkady Martine (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 69,154 ratings
score: 97,
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The Sparrow (The Sparrow, #1)
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Mary Doria Russell (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 80,683 ratings
score: 96,
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