Our writers pick their favourite science fiction books of all time
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We asked New Scientist staff to pick their favourite science fiction books. Here are the results, ranging from 19th-century classics to modern day offerings, and from Octavia E. Butler to Iain M. Banks

This is an interesting list. It’s missing some of the true great classics, like Frankenstein, and it has a number of unusual, less well known titles, but there’s a lot to like on it. There’s certainly a lot for people to disagree about, but it may well have your less often cited favorites, too. What do you think?

  • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    30 days ago
    • We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
    • The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
    • Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
    • Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
    • The City & the City by China Miéville
    • An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
    • The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
    • The Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold
    • The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
    • Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
    • Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
    • Chelsea Whyte God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert
    • 17776 by Jon Bois
    • War With the Newts by Karel Čapek
    • Flatland: A romance of many dimensions by A Square (Edwin Abbott Abbott)
    • Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
    • Neuromancer by William Gibson
    • Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
    • The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
    • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams
    • The Culture series by Iain M. Banks
    • JackGreenEarth@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      29 days ago

      The Mars trilogy is good, although Blue Mars is my favourite, Hitchhiker’s is good but is more of a comedy, Flatland is ok but is more of a satire of Victorian society. The Planiverse by AK Dewdney is a better 2d world book.

      • Rolando@lemmy.world
        2·
        29 days ago

        Hitchhiker’s is good but is more of a comedy

        You say that like that’s a bad thing…

        • JackGreenEarth@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          29 days ago

          Oh no, it’s not a bad thing at all. It just means it doesn’t really belong in a list of sci fi books.