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Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 140 times as nebula)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,688,321 ratings — published 1965
The Left Hand of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as nebula)
avg rating 4.09 — 233,395 ratings — published 1969
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 138 times as nebula)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,496,873 ratings — published 1985
Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)
by (shelved 129 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.99 — 122,271 ratings — published 2013
Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
by (shelved 126 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.89 — 374,738 ratings — published 1984
American Gods (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 125 times as nebula)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,001,516 ratings — published 2001
The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
by (shelved 117 times as nebula)
avg rating 4.14 — 184,206 ratings — published 1974
Among Others (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.71 — 26,147 ratings — published 2011
The Windup Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.75 — 78,996 ratings — published 2009
Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)
by (shelved 111 times as nebula)
avg rating 4.03 — 66,449 ratings — published 1992
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as nebula)
avg rating 4.25 — 831,220 ratings — published 1966
The Dispossessed (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as nebula)
avg rating 4.26 — 159,859 ratings — published 1974
Ringworld (Ringworld #1)
by (shelved 109 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.93 — 130,621 ratings — published 1970
Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
by (shelved 109 times as nebula)
avg rating 4.12 — 189,173 ratings — published 1973
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 102 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.80 — 326,339 ratings — published 2014
The Yiddish Policemen's Union (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.72 — 81,551 ratings — published 2007
Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)
by (shelved 101 times as nebula)
avg rating 4.11 — 276,564 ratings — published 1986
Uprooted (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as nebula)
avg rating 4.02 — 271,566 ratings — published 2015
Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 98 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.85 — 90,322 ratings — published 1992
Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)
by (shelved 93 times as nebula)
avg rating 4.05 — 48,187 ratings — published 1977
Dreamsnake (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.88 — 11,544 ratings — published 1978
The Fountains of Paradise (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.95 — 32,232 ratings — published 1979
Blackout (Oxford Time Travel, #3)
by (shelved 86 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.86 — 27,865 ratings — published 2010
The Gods Themselves (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as nebula)
avg rating 4.08 — 70,225 ratings — published 1972
Paladin of Souls (World of the Five Gods, #2)
by (shelved 84 times as nebula)
avg rating 4.19 — 27,787 ratings — published 2003
Forever Peace (The Forever War, #3)
by (shelved 83 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.75 — 23,088 ratings — published 1997
The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3)
by (shelved 82 times as nebula)
avg rating 4.33 — 174,357 ratings — published 2017
The Speed of Dark (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.99 — 11,901 ratings — published 2002
Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)
by (shelved 81 times as nebula)
avg rating 4.32 — 91,367 ratings — published 1998
All the Birds in the Sky (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.59 — 49,308 ratings — published 2016
Babel-17 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.72 — 20,663 ratings — published 1966
Tehanu (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as nebula)
avg rating 4.07 — 61,863 ratings — published 1990
Startide Rising (The Uplift Saga, #2)
by (shelved 75 times as nebula)
avg rating 4.04 — 33,705 ratings — published 1983
The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut Universe, #1)
by (shelved 73 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.95 — 38,984 ratings — published 2018
Falling Free (Vorkosigan Saga, #4)
by (shelved 72 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.84 — 23,405 ratings — published 1988
Powers (Annals of the Western Shore, #3)
by (shelved 68 times as nebula)
avg rating 4.09 — 5,598 ratings — published 2007
Camouflage (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.66 — 6,498 ratings — published 2004
Darwin's Radio (Darwin's Radio, #1)
by (shelved 67 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.73 — 16,899 ratings — published 1999
The Einstein Intersection (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.55 — 6,446 ratings — published 1967
A Time of Changes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.68 — 3,791 ratings — published 1971
Slow River (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.86 — 4,266 ratings — published 1995
Seeker (Alex Benedict, #3)
by (shelved 66 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.93 — 8,196 ratings — published 2005
Man Plus (Man Plus #1)
by (shelved 65 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.75 — 8,873 ratings — published 1976
The Terminal Experiment (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.74 — 4,570 ratings — published 1995
Timescape (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.72 — 11,722 ratings — published 1980
The Quantum Rose (Saga of the Skolian Empire, #6)
by (shelved 62 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.57 — 2,168 ratings — published 2000
The Falling Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.62 — 1,941 ratings — published 1986
The Claw of the Conciliator (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as nebula)
avg rating 4.00 — 18,912 ratings — published 1981
Rite of Passage (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.81 — 3,821 ratings — published 1968
“What caused me to undertake the catalog was the nebula I discovered above the southern horn of Taurus on September 12, 1758, while observing the comet of that year. ... This nebula had such a resemblance to a comet in its form and brightness that I endeavored to find others, so that astronomers would not confuse these same nebulae with comets just beginning to shine. I observed further with suitable refractors for the discovery of comets, and this is the purpose I had in mind in compiling the catalog.
After me, the celebrated Herschel published a catalog of 2000 which he has observed. This unveiling the sky, made with instruments of great aperture, does not help in the perusal of the sky for faint comets. Thus my object is different from his, and I need only nebulae visible in a telescope of two feet [focal length].”
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After me, the celebrated Herschel published a catalog of 2000 which he has observed. This unveiling the sky, made with instruments of great aperture, does not help in the perusal of the sky for faint comets. Thus my object is different from his, and I need only nebulae visible in a telescope of two feet [focal length].”
―
“The dark sky.
A hundred million stars.
More stars than I’ve ever seen before. My eyes let me see farther, but they don’t show me the one thing I want to see. I would trade all the stars in the universe if I could just have him back again.
Wind whistles through the trees nearby. Birdsong weaves in and out of the sound.
The hybrids emerge from the communication building, heads tilted to the sky.
And then we see the end.
Godspeed’s engine was nuclear; who knows what fueled the biological weapons. But they explode together. In space, they don’t make the familiar mushroom cloud. They don’t make the boom! of an exploding bomb.
There is, against the dark sky, a brief flash of light. It is filled with colors, like a nebula or the aurora borealis, bursting like a popped bubble.
Nothing else—no sound of an explosion, no tremors in the earth, no smell of smoke. Not here, on the surface of the planet.
Nothing else to signify Elder’s death.
Just light.
And then it’s gone.
And then he’s gone.”
― Shades of Earth
A hundred million stars.
More stars than I’ve ever seen before. My eyes let me see farther, but they don’t show me the one thing I want to see. I would trade all the stars in the universe if I could just have him back again.
Wind whistles through the trees nearby. Birdsong weaves in and out of the sound.
The hybrids emerge from the communication building, heads tilted to the sky.
And then we see the end.
Godspeed’s engine was nuclear; who knows what fueled the biological weapons. But they explode together. In space, they don’t make the familiar mushroom cloud. They don’t make the boom! of an exploding bomb.
There is, against the dark sky, a brief flash of light. It is filled with colors, like a nebula or the aurora borealis, bursting like a popped bubble.
Nothing else—no sound of an explosion, no tremors in the earth, no smell of smoke. Not here, on the surface of the planet.
Nothing else to signify Elder’s death.
Just light.
And then it’s gone.
And then he’s gone.”
― Shades of Earth
