Top 3 sci-fi books I read in 2021

[Søren]

The space between worlds
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...


Centenal Cycle (technically a trilogy)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...


The Windup Girl
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

[Zivan]

The Library at Mount Char

The Vanished Birds

Semiosis

[Gregg]

Best 3 read in 2021:

The City We Became

The Space Between Worlds
Piranesi

Notable:

The Saints of Salvation

Great North Road

Pacific Edge

A Desolation Called Peace

[Lindsay]

My Best 3 SF books for 2021:

The Space Between Worlds

The Echo Wife

Shards of Earth

If the category was broader for other speculative fiction genres I'd probably replace two of those with:

Piranesi (Fantasy). I like murderbot as much as the next person, but IMO this is the true best novel of the year.

Sorrowland (Horror but with SF and Fantasy elements)

Light from Uncommon Stars (Fantasy and SF, brilliant book)

Honorable mention:

The Prefect / Aurora Rising - I'm really late to this one, but it was superb

[Isabel (kittiwake)]

Here are mine, in the order I read them:

Spares

Recursion

And if I’m allowed to choose a book that was at least 3/4 historical and contemporary fiction, with only a small part of the book set in the future on a generation ship:

Cloud Cuckoo Land

[Jenny (Reading Envy)]

Mine are:

The Actual Star by Monica Byrne

Bewilderment by Richard Powers

Exhalation by Ted Chiang

[Stephen]

If we restrict to "confirmed" sf books...

The Quantum Magician

Starship Troopers

The Stars Are Legion

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If we stretch to sf and fantasy then Piranesi would probably replace Starship Troopers, with honorable mention to the audiobook of Stephen King's The Gunslinger.

[Peter]

The three books I gave 5 stars in 2021.
Guards Guards

The light brigade

Rendezvous with Rama

[Alexander]

The Best of R. A. Lafferty

All the Myriad Ways

Getting to Know You

Honorable Mentions:

Robot Artists and Black Swans : The Italian Fantascienza Stories

BodyWorld

Meet Me in the Future: Stories

Dossier: A Collection of Short Stories

Virtual Unrealities: The Short Fiction of Alfred Bester

[Kai]

Mine are (in no particular order):
The Stand
Ammonite
The Inverted World

[Lee]

Christopher Paolini, To Sleep in a Sea of Stars (would make a good manga/anime; I'd like to hear Luke review it)

David Brin, The Postman (which I read thanks to Luke's review, after having read the inferior After Sundown, also about maintaining civil society in the rural U.S. after a global disaster)

Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow