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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
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Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)
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Dune (Dune #1)
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Flowers for Algernon
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Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1)
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China Miéville (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 74,563 ratings
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American Gods
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 983,091 ratings
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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Redshift Rendezvous
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John E. Stith (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 290 ratings
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Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
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All Flesh is Grass
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To Say Nothing of the Dog (Oxford Time Travel, #2)
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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
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Thorns
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The Void Captain's Tale
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3.61 avg rating — 523 ratings
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Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
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3.89 avg rating — 357,766 ratings
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A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
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The Einstein Intersection
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3.55 avg rating — 6,159 ratings
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The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun, #1)
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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And Chaos Died
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The Claw of the Conciliator (The Book of the New Sun, #2)
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The Remaking of Sigmund Freud
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Fourth Mansions
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3.98 avg rating — 391 ratings
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Past Master
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Picnic on Paradise
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3.39 avg rating — 640 ratings
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Blood Music
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3.84 avg rating — 16,728 ratings
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Isle of the Dead
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3.80 avg rating — 2,059 ratings
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The Falling Woman
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Pat Murphy (Goodreads Author)
3.61 avg rating — 1,898 ratings
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Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
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4.31 avg rating — 1,458,104 ratings
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Paladin of Souls (World of the Five Gods, #2)
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Lois McMaster Bujold (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 26,817 ratings
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The Other Wind (Earthsea Cycle, #6)
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Cloud Atlas
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Dying Inside
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3.82 avg rating — 7,366 ratings
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Seeker (Alex Benedict, #3)
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3.93 avg rating — 8,009 ratings
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Gravity’s Rainbow
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Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)
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4.02 avg rating — 58,789 ratings
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Time Enough for Love
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3.97 avg rating — 36,831 ratings
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The Lathe of Heaven
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4.13 avg rating — 85,712 ratings
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Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
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3.91 avg rating — 45,086 ratings
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The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2)
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4.24 avg rating — 144,169 ratings
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The Privilege of the Sword (Riverside, #2)
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Ellen Kushner (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 5,433 ratings
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The Gods Themselves
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4.09 avg rating — 67,832 ratings
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The Windup Girl
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Paolo Bacigalupi (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 77,644 ratings
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Doorways in the Sand
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3.95 avg rating — 4,345 ratings
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Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)
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4.02 avg rating — 47,725 ratings
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The Female Man
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3.47 avg rating — 8,842 ratings
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The City & the City
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China Miéville (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 77,102 ratings
score: 126,
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The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
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4.26 avg rating — 145,920 ratings
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Embassytown
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China Miéville (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 34,194 ratings
score: 122,
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Tehanu (Earthsea Cycle, #4)
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4.06 avg rating — 57,801 ratings
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Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia
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Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
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3.84 avg rating — 10,916 ratings
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The Fountains of Paradise
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3.95 avg rating — 31,419 ratings
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Dreamsnake
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3.87 avg rating — 11,123 ratings
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All Clear (Oxford Time Travel, 4)
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4.08 avg rating — 21,776 ratings
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The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1)
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Helene Wecker (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 130,164 ratings
score: 103,
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Timescape
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3.72 avg rating — 11,464 ratings
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Chthon
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3.31 avg rating — 1,811 ratings
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City on Fire (Metropolitan #2)
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Walter Jon Williams (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 853 ratings
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A Song for a New Day
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Sarah Pinsker (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 4,821 ratings
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Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (Heechee Saga, #2)
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3.95 avg rating — 13,800 ratings
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Forever Peace (The Forever War, #3)
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The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut Universe, #1)
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Mary Robinette Kowal (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 37,295 ratings
score: 99,
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The Clone
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3.43 avg rating — 119 ratings
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The Eskimo Invasion
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2.52 avg rating — 23 ratings
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The Orphan
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The Last Hawk (Saga of the Skolian Empire, #3)
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Catherine Asaro (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 1,462 ratings
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Spinning Silver
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Naomi Novik (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 147,730 ratings
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Dr. Bloodmoney
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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 — 92,652 ratings
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Moonfall
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Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1)
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Rebecca Roanhorse (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 52,575 ratings
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The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
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N.K. Jemisin (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 323,439 ratings
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The Escape Orbit
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3.60 avg rating — 128 ratings
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Lord of Light
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Juniper Time
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The Snow Queen (The Snow Queen Cycle, #1)
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How Few Remain (Timeline-191, #1)
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A Sorceress Comes to Call
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The Genocides
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The Death of the Necromancer (Ile-Rien #2)
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Martha Wells (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 4,676 ratings
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Autonomous
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Annalee Newitz (Goodreads Author)
3.58 avg rating — 17,954 ratings
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Nova Express (The Nova Trilogy, #2)
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On Wings of Song
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3.75 avg rating — 1,060 ratings
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Little, Big
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The Elephants' Graveyard (Barsk, #1)
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Lawrence M. Schoen (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 1,801 ratings
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A Plague of Demons
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The Many-Colored Land
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Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)
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Six Wakes
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Mur Lafferty (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 20,162 ratings
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The Ship That Sailed the Time Stream
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Radix (Radix, #1)
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The Cassini Division (The Fall Revolution #3)
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Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
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R.F. Kuang (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 423,340 ratings
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The Star Fox
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Riddley Walker
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Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2)
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Ann Leckie (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 59,592 ratings
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The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
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The Vampire Tapestry
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