The Word for World Is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin
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336 books — 252 voters
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Best of Cyberpunk
381 books — 1,194 voters

Blindsight by Peter Watts
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9 books — 4 voters
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245 books — 249 voters

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Big Dumb Objects
68 books — 77 voters
Blindsight by Peter Watts
First Contact
282 books — 385 voters

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Time Dilation
10 books — 5 voters
Diaspora by Greg EganBlindsight by Peter Watts
Best Intelligent Sci-Fi
283 books — 296 voters

Diaspora by Greg EganBlindsight by Peter WattsAccelerando by Charles Stross
Transhuman Science Fiction
152 books — 188 voters
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Best History Books
3,875 books — 3,921 voters

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Books with Non-Linear Time
83 books — 27 voters
The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
The Worst Books of All Time
8,097 books — 19,880 voters

1984 by George OrwellDiaspora by Greg EganBlindsight by Peter WattsA Storm of Swords by George R.R. MartinSapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
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77,697 books — 290,031 voters
Raft by Stephen Baxter
Excellent Space Opera
1,096 books — 3,835 voters

1984 by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1,318 books — 5,865 voters
Diaspora by Greg EganBlindsight by Peter WattsRing by Stephen BaxterTimelike Infinity by Stephen BaxterSeveneves by Neal Stephenson
best hard science fiction
438 books — 921 voters

Blindsight by Peter WattsSeveneves by Neal StephensonAccelerando by Charles Stross
Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century
1,332 books — 9,272 voters

1984 by George OrwellDiaspora by Greg EganBlindsight by Peter WattsBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyRing by Stephen Baxter
Best Science Fiction
3,795 books — 7,396 voters
War and Peace by Leo TolstoyTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
I Should Probably Read This Sometime...
12,017 books — 10,806 voters

1984 by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,911 books — 26,230 voters