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Listopia > Roddy Williams's votes on the list 100+ Science Fiction Novels Everyone Should Read (20 Books)
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1984
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"A vitally important book about power and political control."
Roddy
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Dune (Dune #1)
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"It was a groundbreaking novel back in the Sictoes, and has not dated at all. This one book alone is an epic, and spawned several sequels and posthumous sequels."
Roddy
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Neuromancer (Sprawl #1)
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"Another groundbreaking novel which arguably launched the cyberpunk genre. "
Roddy
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The War of the Worlds
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"Possibly Wells' finest novel. It has been very ill-served by cinema adaptations, but the original text is magical. Wells addresses issues of class, religion and evolution which oddly, appear to be still hot topics over a century later."
Roddy
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Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
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"Simmons' widescreen semi-gothic resetting of the Canterbury Tales in a complex galactic society is a masterpiece. "
Roddy
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Solaris
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"One of the top ten Science novels of all time, Solaris is deceptive in its apparent simplicity, but there's far more going on than one may susect from a first reading. In a sense, Lem attacks all of our conceits in considering that we may be able to communicate with a really alien intelligence when we have enough trouble communicating with each other. "
Roddy
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The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
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"Philip K Dick messes with your head royally in his novel of drugs, reality, mind control, religion and life on Mars. Sublime."
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Slan (Slan, #1)
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"A technicolor rollercoaster of a beast from Golden Age SF supremo van Vogt in which tendril-headed telepathic superhumans are fighting to avoid genocide in a human world which wishes to wipe them out. "
Roddy
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Last and First Men
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Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
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Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)
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The Stars My Destination
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A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)
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The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
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The Day of the Triffids
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Ringworld (Ringworld #1)
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A Clockwork Orange
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Childhood’s End
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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The Time Machine
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