Eclectic Really Good Science Fiction
Explore an eclectic collection of really good science fiction books! Discover diverse and captivating reads that span unique subgenres, themes, and authors in this curated list of must-read sci-fi fiction.
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Cyteen
by C.J. Cherryh
The Hugo Award-winning SF saga is now available in one complete trade paperback edition, containing Cyteen: The Betrayal, The Rebirth and The Vindication. "A psychological …
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Borgel
by Daniel Manus Pinkwater
Melvin recounts his extraordinary adventures in time and space with his 111-year-old sort of great-Uncle Borgel.
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Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls
by Jane Lindskold
The Magic That Doesn't Go Away Cutbacks have forced Sarah out of the asylum in which she was raised--and into a strange new place where …
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A Tale of Time City
by Diana Wynne Jones
In 1939 an eleven-year-old London girl is kidnapped to Time City, a place existing outside the stream of time and manipulating the history of humanity, …
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The Ordinary
by Jim Grimsley
The Ordinary is a powerful and entrancing tale of magic, science, and the mysterious truth that binds them together. Jim Grimsley's novels and short stories …
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Catalyst
by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
While running from a bully, Kaslin leaps into a cave, slides down a slippery slope, and enters a world ruled by an alien intelligence.
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Major Ingredients
by Eric Frank Russell
Cordelia Naismith, Betan Survey Captain, was expecting the unexpected: hexapods, floating creatures, odd parasites ... She was not, however, expecting to find hostile humans on …
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Butterfly and Hellflower
by Eluki Bes Shahar
A librarian and an illegal artificial intelligence struggle against the evil "cataloging bureaucracy".
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Hellspark
by Janet Kagan
Tocohl, a Hellspark trader, goes to the new planet of Lassti, where she is embroiled in the intrigue and mysteries surrounding the death of a …
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Rats, Bats & Vats
by Eric Flint
Chip Connolly was a conscripted grunt in trouble: stuck behind enemy lines with a bunch of cyber-uplifted rats and bats. Rats with human speech, but …
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City of Diamond
by Jane Emerson
The newly appointed Protector of an intergalactic city-ship, Adrian Mercati is urged by his predecessor to strengthen his position by locating the Sawyer Crown, an …
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Xenogenesis
by Octavia E. Butler
In the aftermath of Earth's final war, Lilith awakens to see a shadowy figure -- Jdahya, one of the Oankali, a race that has decided …
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The City, Not Long After
by Pat Murphy
An army of power-hungry men are descending on San Francisco. Jax and danny-boy must lead the fight for freedom using the only weapons they have-art, …
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Bone Dance
by Emma Bull
Fifty years after nuclear Armageddon, Sparrow, a trader of pre-war CDs and videotapes, unwittingly possesses the secret to the Earth's destruction, and he is soon …
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Dreamspy
by Jacqueline Lichtenberg
Kyllikki must end a deep space war between the Teleod and the Metaji, two divergent factions whose disagreements threaten the time-space continuum
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The Princess of Neptune
by Quentin Dodd
Middle-schooler Theora Theremin and her brother Verbert find themselves whisked from the shores of hometown Lake Philodendron to an intergalactic beauty contest on Neptune.
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The Demolished Man
by Alfred Bester
In 2301, a psychopathic business magnate comes up with the ultimate plan to eliminate his competition and destroy the order of society.
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
by Douglas Adams
Detective Gently whizzes about the world, the universe, and time itself as a group of eccentric characters help him find an eccentric cat, solve a …
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Escape From Kathmandu
by Kim Stanley Robinson
Kim Stanley Robinson's Escape From Kathmandu is a light-hearted fantasy tribute to the world of extreme mountain climbing follows the adventures of two American expatriates …
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Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages
by Diane Duane
THE HISTORIC SAGA BEGINS Born in the twilight years of Vulcan's violent and passionate past, those who declared themselves Rihannsu chose to reign free in …
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Uhura's Song
by Janet Kagan
ADF syndrome, a deadly plague, threatens the planet Eeiauo, and an oath to a friend prevents Uhura from revealing a forbidden song which may contain …
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The Star Trek: The Original Series: The Final Reflection
by John M. Ford
Klingon Captain Krenn fights a covert plan to shatter the Federation at the risk of his own life.
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Dark Genesis
by J. Gregory Keyes
Long before the Babylon 5 space station brought Humans face-to-facewith alien races, they discovered an extraordinary breed among their very own . . . The …
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Broken Time
by Maggy Thomas
In this debut book, which author Michael Stackpole calls "a stunner of a novel, " two dangerous inmates take a twisted interest in a janitor …