Of the sci-fi books released in the last decade, 10 in particular rank as the best of the best. Some of these stories have already been adapted for film or television, while others can still only be enjoyed on the printed page. Either way, these sci-fi novels are compelling reads worth recommending ...
Adrian Tchaikovsky has quite a ... read his novellas Elder Rage and Ogres. Both were fantastic. Tamsyn Muir's Locked Tomb series. It's definitely a bit different though. I've read all that I mention here besides Semiosis, and can happily recommend them all. Here's a list NPR put out in 2021 for the preceding decade that might also be of interest. Most will of course be outside your time range, but it's bordering on it: https://www.npr.org/2021/08/18/1027159166/best-books-science-fiction-fantasy-p...
So, not a bad list at all · I suspect the broadest popularity among HN readers would be:
Powell's booksellers have chosen 25 essential sci-fi and fantasy novels that we think everyone should read.
Three-Body was the first Asian book to win the Hugo for Best Novel and its massive success in China led to a whole new wave of Chinese science fiction that is completely reshaping that country’s publishing industry and reading habits. Words Are My Matter by Ursula K. le Guin (Small Beer Press, 2016) Le Guin’s decades...
The greatest scifi stories are often the ones that leave an impact. From The Hunger Games to The Windup Girl to NK Jemisin’s work and The Martian, this list explores the best sci-fi books of the last 15 years in an effort to add to the canon of science fiction’s greatest of all time list.
People tend to look to decades past for examples of great science fiction—the works Philip K. Dick, Isaac Asimov, and Arthur C. Clarke. But the 21st century is living in its own golden age of sci-fi. Along with film and TV adaptations, novels like Cloud Atlas, The Road, The Martian, and Never ...
563 books based on 757 votes: The Martian by Andy Weir, Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey, Ancillary Justice by Ann L...
3,851 books based on 7789 votes: Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, Dune by Frank Herbert, 1984 by ...