Overrated Sci-Fi and Fantasy
Discover the most overrated sci-fi and fantasy books that don't live up to the hype. See which popular titles made our list of overrated reads and why they fall short.
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Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
Guy Montag is a fireman, his job is to burn books, which are forbidden.
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Ender's Game
by Orson Scott Card
Child hero Ender Wiggin must fight a desperate battle against a deadly alien race if mankind is to survive.
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The Wheel of Time, Boxed Set I, Books 1-3
by Robert Jordan
The Eye of the World/The Great Hunt/The Dragon Rebornnclude "The Dragon Reborn, The Great Hunt" and "The Eye of the World"
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His Dark Materials
by Nicholas Wright
With sales of three-quarters of a million copies last year alone, Philip Pullman's trilogy His Dark Materials is already acknowledged as a classic. A cunning …
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Revelation Space
by Alastair Reynolds
Nine hundred thousand years ago, something wiped out the Amarantin. For the human colonists now settling the Amarantin homeworld Resurgam, it's of little more than …
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The Name of the Wind
by Patrick Rothfuss
In these pages you will come to know Kvothe the notorious magician, the accomplished thief, the masterful musician, the dragon-slayer, the legend-hunter, the lover, the …