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.
In The Fifth Season, the first book in Broken Earth and the best book of this decade, the main character has to make a horrific, unbearably human choice. One struggles to imagine a man writing it. Le Guin could have, but she didn’t. There, Jemisin is talking to another one of her literary heroes, Toni Morrison, and her novel Beloved. Morrison, who never exactly wrote science ...
I just finished “Dark Matter” by Blake Crouch, which was a really interesting concept though the writing and character development was mediocre. I’m…
The 2010s have given us plenty of landmark sci-fi and fantasy novels, from Ernest Cline's Ready Player One to Marlon James' Black Leopard, Red Wolf. The decade brought us N.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth Trilogy, which, after making Jemisin the first black woman to win a Hugo Award for Best Novel, ...
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Frank Herbert’s classic masterpiece—a triumph of the imagination and one of the bestselling science fiction novels of all time. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of Paul Atreides—who would become known as Muad'Dib—and of a great family's ambition to bring to fruition ...
The best sci fi books, recommended by those who know: from timeless classics of science fiction to the best new novels, taking in cli-fi, space colonies, time travel and more.
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In contrast, consider this list ... great novels on it and even goes all the way back to Frankenstein (1818). Yet, by the end, nearly half of the “most influential sci-fi books of all time” were written in just the past 5 years. Or, take the Goodreads ratings for Fahrenheit 451, a bona fide classic by Ray Bradbury. While a 3.98 is respectable, all of these reviews came decades after the ...
Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of ... His Final Architecture trilogy is a lot less science-based but is just as entertaining so far, as I am halfway though the newly released book 2 of 3. Warhammer 40K has released hundred of novels in the past two decades, and while a ...