Category: Sci-Fi Snippets
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SF Classics – Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut is a novel about World War II experiences and journeys through time, narrated in a non-linear order by a soldier…
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SF Classics – Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon
Last and First Men (1930) is a SF novel about the future history of mankind over the next billion year or so written by…
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XXI CENTURY SCI-FI – Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds
Chasm City (2001) by Alastair Reynolds is a hard SF novel set in the universe of Revelation Space series. It portrays what remains of…
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XXI CENTURY SCI-FI – Parasite by Mira Grant
Parasite (2013) by Mira Grant/ Seanan McGuire is an interesting blend of techno-thriller, horror and SF. It features a near-future humanity made virtually disease-free…
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SF Classics – The Uplift War by David Brin
The Uplift War (1987) is a SF novel by David Brin and part of the Uplift Universe. It portraits a fictional future universe where…
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XXI CENTURY SCI-FI – Neptune’s Brood by Charles Stross
Neptune’s Brood (2013) is a SF novel by Charles Stross. The story is set in the same universe of Saturn’s Children, but 5000 years…
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SF Classics – Blood Music by Greg Bear
Blood Music (1985) by Greg Bear, originally published as a novelette in the SF magazine Analog, portrays the frightening experiment of a biotechnologist who creates…
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SF Classics –The Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick
The Man in the High Castle (1962) by Philip K Dick is one of the most famous books of alternate history. In this dystopian…
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XXI CENTURY SCI-FI – The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
The Windup Girl (2009) by Paolo Bacigalupi is a SF dystopian / biopunk novel. It’s set in Thailand in the 23rd-century, where powerful biotech…
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SF Classics – Rendezvous with Rama
Rendezvous with Rama (1973) is a novel by Arthur C. Clarke, set in the 2130s in the Solar System. Rama, initially mistaken for an…
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XXI CENTURY SCI-FI – 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson
2312 (2012) by Kim Stanley Robinson is a SF novel about a (relatively) near future of interplanetary colonisation. Humanity has spread across the whole Solar…
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SF Classics – The Drowned World by J. G. Ballard
The Drowned World (1962) is a SF novel by J. G. Ballard, an author that has written in other literary genres and became especially famous…
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SF Classics – The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe
The Shadow of the Torturer (1980) is a fantasy novel by Gene Wolfe. It is the first of four volumes in The Book of…
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SF Classics – The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
The Forever War (1974) by Joe Haldeman is a military science fiction novel, telling the story of William Mandella, a soldier of the United…
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SF Classics – Steel Beach by John Varley
Steel Beach (1993) by John Varley, is a sci-fi novel where humans now live on the Moon after an alien invasion. Steel Beach, this…
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SF Classics – Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) by George Orwell is a novel that needs no introduction. Difficult to imagine a dark, dystopian book that had a stronger…
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SF Classics – Ringworld by Larry Niven
Ringworld (1970) by Larry Niven, is the first of a series of stories – including prequels and sequels – set in a version of…
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SF Classics – The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
The Player of Games (1988) by Iain M. Banks is a SF novel belonging to the Culture series. It features the most skilful and…
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SF Classics – Helliconia Summer by Brian W. Aldiss
Helliconia Summer (1983) by Brian W. Aldiss is the second instalment of the Helliconia Trilogy, set on the Earth-like Helliconia. The planet, orbiting a…
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XXI CENTURY SCI-FI – Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
Spin (2005) by Robert Charles Wilson, describes a future Earth that a race of powerful aliens, the Hypotheticals, have put in protective cocoon –…
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SF Classics – Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) is a novel by Philip K. Dick, a dystopia set in a post-apocalyptic Earth, where nuclear radiations…
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SF Classics – Shikasta by Doris Lessing
Shikasta (1979) by Doris Lessing is a speculative fiction novel. The book is the first of the series Canopus in Argos, and portraits the final days…
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XXI CENTURY SCI-FI – The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate by Ted Chiang
The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate (2007) by Ted Chiang, follows a fabric merchant of the ancient city of Baghdad that one day discovers…
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SF Classics – The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1966) is one of Robert A. Heinlein’s most famous novels. Narrating a lunar colony’s revolt against Earth’s rule…