SF novels that earned my affection
Discover the best SF novels that won my heart! Explore this curated list of beloved sci-fi books that captivated my imagination and earned my affection.
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Last and First Men
by Olaf Stapledon
One of the most extraordinary, imaginative and ambitious novels of the century: a history of the evolution of humankind over the next 2 billion years. …
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The Stars My Destination
by Alfred Bester
Such is the official verdict on Gully Foyle, unskilled space crewman. But Gully has managed to survive for 170 days in the airless purgatory of …
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Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
by Samuel R. Delany
The story of a truly galactic civilization with over 6,000 inhabited worlds.
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Babel-17
by Samuel R. Delany
In the far future, after human civilization has spread through the galaxy, communications begin to arrive in an apparently alien language. They appear to threaten …
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Solaris
by Stanisław Lem
The first of Lem’s novels to be published in americanca and still the best known. A scientist examining the ocean that covers the surface of …
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The Cyberiad
by Stanisław Lem
Trurl and Klaupacius are constructor robots who try to out-invent each other. They travel to the far corners of the cosmos to take on freelance …
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The Futurological Congress (from the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy)
by Stanisław Lem
Bringing his twin gifts of scientific speculation and scathing satire to bear on that hapless planet, Earth, Lem sends his unlucky cosmonaut, Ijon Tichy, to …
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Imaginary Magnitude
by Stanisław Lem
These wickedly authentic introductions to twenty-first-century books preface tomes on teaching English to bacteria, using animated X-rays to create "pornograms," and analyzing computer-generated literature through …
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The Fifth Head of Cerberus
by Gene Wolfe
First published in 1972, this SF masterpiece has been out of print for most of a decade. Now, this "subtle, ingenious, and poetic book" (Ursula …
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There Are Doors
by Gene Wolfe
There Are Doors is the story of a man who falls in love with a goddess from an alternate universe. She flees him, but he …
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Emphyrio
by Jack Vance
Halma. Where humans were ruled by a race of effete and arrogant Lords... where a feudalistic system banned all work by machines... where a benevolent …
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The Hyperion Omnibus
by Dan Simmons
The Hyperion books are credited with single-handedly reinventing and reinvigorating SF in the 1990s. A broad canvased, hugely imaginative and exciting SF epic, the books …
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