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Best Hard Core Science Fiction
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items No fantasy here. These are the best high technology Sci-Fi books I've read in the last 50 yeaars
This century's best Sci-Fi writer's first Culture novel
Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1) by Iain M. Banks
Dhalgren (1975), by Samuel R. Delany, follows a young drifter known as the Kid into Bellona, an American city shattered by an unexplained catastrophe. Among its remaining inhabitants, he becomes a poet, lover & reluctant public figure. The novel ...
Dhalgren eBook by Samuel R. Delany & William Gibson
Isaac Asimov’s Foundation 3-Book Bundle collects Foundation, Foundation and Empire & Second Foundation. As the Galactic Empire collapses, mathematician Hari Seldon uses psychohistory to predict civilization’s decline & establish a plan to sho...PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
The Foundation Trilogy - Isaac Asimov: Books
Children of Time (2015), by Adrian Tchaikovsky, follows humanity’s survivors searching for a new home, while an abandoned evolutionary experiment produces a civilization of intelligent spiders. Across millennia, their societies develop toward an enco...
Children of Time: Tchaikovsky, Adrian
With this extraordinary first volume in an epoch-making masterpiece, Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrypting with dazzling virtuosity the forces that shaped this century.
Cryptonomicon: Cracking Nazi Enigma Codes WWII
Iain M. Banks’s Culture series explores a vast interstellar civilization where humans & powerful artificial intelligences called Minds live with extraordinary freedom & material abundance. Its largely standalone novels follow the Culture’s en...
Iain M Banks Culture Series
William Gibson Neuromancer Collection 4 Books Bundle (Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Burning Chrome)
William Gibson Neuromancer 4-Book Bundle
James S. A. Corey’s The Expanse follows James Holden & the crew of the Rocinante through a future divided by tensions between Earth, Mars & the asteroid Belt. The discovery of alien technology transforms those struggles into a threat to human...
The Expanse Series Collection 9 Books Set By James S A Corey (Leviathan Wakes, Calibans War, Abaddons Gate, Cibola Burn, Nemesis Games, Babylons Ashes, Persepolis Rising & More)
Altered Carbon (2002), by Richard K. Morgan, is a cyberpunk murder mystery set in a future where consciousness can be stored digitally & transferred between bodies. Former elite soldier Takeshi Kovacs is hired by a wealthy man to investigate his ...
Altered Carbon - Takeshi Kovacs
The Mote in God’s Eye (1974), by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle, follows humanity’s first contact with the Moties, an ancient alien civilization confined to one star system. Their apparent friendliness conceals a dangerous secret, forcing human ex...
The Mote in God's Eye (Moties, #1) by Larry Niven
The book that launched the Bobiverse
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse Book 1)
Who hasn't seen the movie or read the book? Amazing take on the real value of Science.
The Martian (2015)
Peter Watts’s Blindsight turns first contact into a ferociously intelligent examination of consciousness, asking whether our most prized human quality might be an evolutionary liability. Its alien intelligence feels terrifyingly alien, & its idea...
Blindsight (Firefall, 1) by Peter Watts
Austin Grossman’s Soon I Will Be Invincible is the funniest science fiction novel I’ve ever read. Doctor Impossible approaches world domination with the wounded pride of a genius whose résumé consists almost entirely of defeats, & Grossman makes ...
Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman
Brandon Sanderson’s Steelheart makes the fight against superpowered tyrants feel like a dangerous puzzle, with ordinary people staking their lives on getting the answer right. Its ingenuity & sharp reversals make it a thoroughly satisfying advent...
Steelheart (The Reckoners #1) by Brandon Sanderson