Category: Sci-Fi Snippets
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SF Classics – Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Ender’s Game (1985) by Orson Scott Card is a military SF novel, and one of the most famous books of this genre, with sequels,…
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SF Classics – Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
Lord of Light (1967) is a science fiction/fantasy novel by Roger Zelazny. It obtained a Hugo Award in 1968 and was also nominated for…
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SF Classics – I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
I Am Legend (1954) by Richard Matheson is one of the most influential books written in speculative fiction. It is a SF/horror novel, featuring…
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SF Classics – Raft. The Xeelee Sequence, by Stephen Baxter
Raft (1993) by Stephen Baxter, tells the story of a few thousand humans in an increasing hostile environment, located in an alternate, high-gravity universe. They…
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SF Classics – The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
The Day of the Triffids (1951) by John Wyndham is a post-apocalyptic, sci-fi horror novel where mankind, with the exception of the protagonist, Bill…
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XXI CENTURY SCI-FI – Equoid by Charles Stross
A visionary and ironic melange of comedy and SF, Equoid (2013) is a brilliant example of Charles Stross’ prose and a stand-alone novella in…
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SF Classics – Dune by Frank Herbert
Dune (1965) by Frank Herbert, is the world’s best-selling SF novel and possibly the most famous and popular ever. Paul Atreides, the planet Arrakis…
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SF Classics – Neuromancer by William Gibson
Neuromancer is a 1984 novel by William Gibson, and the first in the cyberpunk genre. Also the first book to win the…
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SF Classics – The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) by Ursula K. Le Guin, is the first, famous example of feminist science fiction. Also well-known for the…
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SF Classics – The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
The Stars My Destination, by Alfred Bester, originally published as a serial on a magazine in 1956, is considered by many The Count of…
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XXI CENTURY SCI-FI – Descent by Ken MacLeod
Descent (2014) is the latest novel of the Scottish writer Ken MacLeod. Set up in a near future, it follows a young man’s life…
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SF Classics -The Reality Dysfunction by Peter F. Hamilton
The Reality Dysfunction (1996), by Peter F. Hamilton, it’s the first book in The Night’s Dawn Trilogy, one of the best known in…
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SF Classics – The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
” The Martian Chronicles” by Ray Bradbury is a 1950 science fiction short story collection that follows a future history structure and tells the…
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XXI CENTURY SCI-FI – Countdown by Mira Grant
Countdown (2011) by Mira Grant / Seanan McGuire is a novella part of the Newsflesh trilogy and the prequel of the famous novel Feed,…
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SF Classics – Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert A. Heinlein
Written in 1961, it narrates the story of Valentine Michael Smith, a human born on Mars, raised among Martians and shipped back to…
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XXI CENTURY SCI-FI – The Skinner by Neal Asher
The Skinner (2012) is one of the Neal Asher’s most famous books, and the first of the Spatterjay series. It narrates the history of…
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SF Classics – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a not just a book, but a multi-media phenomenon started by the British comedian Douglas Adams…
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XXI Century Sci-Fi – Altered Carbon, by Richard Morgan
Altered Carbon (2002) is a novel by Richard Morgan. Set in a future four hundred years from now, on a few exoplanets in a…
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SF Classics – Hyperion, by Dan Simmons
Hyperion (1989) is a Hugo-Award winning novel by Dan Simmons. Otherwise known as “the Canterbury Tales of SF” for its narrative structure. You will…
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XXI Century Sci-Fi – Prey by Michael Crichton
Prey (2002) is a novel by Michael Crichton, and, as others of the same author, presents unintended consequences of newly discovered technologies and scientific…
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SF Classics – Childhood’s end, by Arthur C. Clarke
“Childhood’s End” is a 1953 science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke, and one of the most famous SF books ever. Originally a short…
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The (otherwise amazing) Night Dawn’s Trilogy conclusion…
(Warning: Spoilers Ahead!) I do wonder why Joshua Calvert ends up with the least attractive of all the girls he puts his hands on…