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Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 139 times as nebula)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,644,112 ratings — published 1965
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 137 times as nebula)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,480,628 ratings — published 1985
The Left Hand of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as nebula)
avg rating 4.10 — 224,631 ratings — published 1969
Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)
by (shelved 127 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.99 — 119,890 ratings — published 2013
Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
by (shelved 124 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.89 — 367,492 ratings — published 1984
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 123 times as nebula)
avg rating 4.10 — 994,028 ratings — published 2001
The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
by (shelved 116 times as nebula)
avg rating 4.14 — 181,539 ratings — published 1974
Among Others (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.71 — 25,929 ratings — published 2011
The Windup Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.75 — 78,426 ratings — published 2009
Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)
by (shelved 109 times as nebula)
avg rating 4.03 — 65,178 ratings — published 1992
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as nebula)
avg rating 4.24 — 805,744 ratings — published 1966
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as nebula)
avg rating 4.26 — 153,444 ratings — published 1974
Ringworld (Ringworld #1)
by (shelved 107 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.94 — 129,438 ratings — published 1970
Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
by (shelved 107 times as nebula)
avg rating 4.12 — 185,631 ratings — published 1973
Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)
by (shelved 100 times as nebula)
avg rating 4.11 — 272,261 ratings — published 1986
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 99 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.80 — 309,800 ratings — published 2014
The Yiddish Policemen's Union (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.72 — 80,739 ratings — published 2007
Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 97 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.86 — 89,129 ratings — published 1992
Uprooted (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as nebula)
avg rating 4.02 — 266,280 ratings — published 2015
Dreamsnake (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.88 — 11,346 ratings — published 1978
Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)
by (shelved 91 times as nebula)
avg rating 4.05 — 47,735 ratings — published 1977
The Fountains of Paradise (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.95 — 31,895 ratings — published 1979
Blackout (Oxford Time Travel, #3)
by (shelved 85 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.86 — 27,562 ratings — published 2010
Paladin of Souls (World of the Five Gods, #2)
by (shelved 83 times as nebula)
avg rating 4.19 — 27,352 ratings — published 2003
The Gods Themselves (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as nebula)
avg rating 4.08 — 69,221 ratings — published 1972
Forever Peace (The Forever War, #3)
by (shelved 82 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.75 — 22,892 ratings — published 1997
The Speed of Dark (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.99 — 11,769 ratings — published 2002
The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3)
by (shelved 79 times as nebula)
avg rating 4.33 — 169,113 ratings — published 2017
All the Birds in the Sky (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.59 — 48,958 ratings — published 2016
Babel-17 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.72 — 20,237 ratings — published 1966
Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)
by (shelved 79 times as nebula)
avg rating 4.32 — 86,478 ratings — published 1998
Tehanu (Earthsea Cycle, #4)
by (shelved 74 times as nebula)
avg rating 4.06 — 60,098 ratings — published 1990
Startide Rising (The Uplift Saga, #2)
by (shelved 74 times as nebula)
avg rating 4.04 — 33,482 ratings — published 1983
The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut Universe, #1)
by (shelved 71 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.95 — 38,184 ratings — published 2018
Falling Free (Vorkosigan Saga, #4)
by (shelved 70 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.84 — 23,177 ratings — published 1988
Powers (Annals of the Western Shore, #3)
by (shelved 68 times as nebula)
avg rating 4.09 — 5,506 ratings — published 2007
Camouflage (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.66 — 6,455 ratings — published 2004
Darwin's Radio (Darwin's Radio, #1)
by (shelved 66 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.73 — 16,719 ratings — published 1999
The Einstein Intersection (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.55 — 6,338 ratings — published 1967
Seeker (Alex Benedict, #3)
by (shelved 66 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.93 — 8,114 ratings — published 2005
A Time of Changes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.69 — 3,725 ratings — published 1971
Slow River (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.86 — 4,224 ratings — published 1995
Man Plus (Man Plus #1)
by (shelved 64 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.75 — 8,778 ratings — published 1976
Timescape (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.72 — 11,634 ratings — published 1980
The Terminal Experiment (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.74 — 4,538 ratings — published 1995
The Quantum Rose (Saga of the Skolian Empire, #6)
by (shelved 61 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.57 — 2,143 ratings — published 2000
The Falling Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.61 — 1,926 ratings — published 1986
The Claw of the Conciliator (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as nebula)
avg rating 4.01 — 18,154 ratings — published 1981
Rite of Passage (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as nebula)
avg rating 3.81 — 3,792 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
