Science-Fiction
Books like Diaspora by Greg Egan
Schild's Ladder by Greg Egan is a hard science fiction novel set 20,000 years in the future, exploring themes of quantum mechanics, transhumanism, and the manipulation of matter at a quantum level.
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Read article →Neuromancer | Gollancz
The first novel to win the Hugo, Nebula and Philip K. Dick Awards, Neuromancer has become a seminal part of SF history, coining the term 'cyberspace' and lighting a fuse on the Cyberpunk movement.
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Read article →Cyberpunk - Wikipedia
Comics exploring cyberpunk themes ... anthology 2000 AD. Released in 1984, William Gibson's influential debut novel Neuromancer helped solidify cyberpunk as a genre, drawing influence from punk subculture and early hacker culture....
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Read article →Neuromancer - Wikipedia
Neuromancer expanded and popularised ... by humans—and "jacking in", a bio-mechanical method of interfacing with computers. Neuromancer is a foundational work of early cyberpunk, although critics differ on whether the novel ignited the genre or if it was lifted by its inevitable ...
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Read article →The Dispossessed - Wikipedia
The Dispossessed (subtitled An Ambiguous Utopia) is a 1974 anarchist utopian science fiction novel by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin, one of her seven Hainish Cycle novels. It is one of a small number of books to win all three awards—Hugo, Locus, and Nebula—for best science fiction or ...
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Read article →Iain M. Banks Culture Series Reading Order | Science Fiction Book Review Podcast
What order to read the Iain M. Banks Culture series? The obvious order is publication order, which is also almost identical to the internal chronological order. But the problem with this order is that Consider Phlebas, the first novel, is by far the weakest book, and isn’t a good representation of t…
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Read article →Blindsight (Watts novel) - Wikipedia
The exploration of consciousness is the central thematic element of Blindsight. The title of the novel refers to the condition blindsight, in which vision is non-functional in the conscious brain but remains useful to non-conscious action. Other conditions, such as Cotard delusion and ...
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Read article →Parable of the Sower: Octavia Butler’s Prophetic California
Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower foresaw climate disaster, racial unrest, and resilience. William Deverell unpacks how it mirrors California today.
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Read article →Kim Stanley Robinson - Wikipedia
In his 2017 novel New York 2140, Robinson explores the themes of climate change and global warming; the novel is set in the year 2140, when the New York City that he imagines is overwhelmed by a 50-foot (15 m) sea level rise that submerges half of the city. Climate change is also the focus ...
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Read article →The Three-Body Problem (novel) - Wikipedia
The Three-Body Problem (Chinese: 三体; pinyin: Sān tǐ; lit. 'three body') is a 2008 novel by the Chinese hard science fiction author Liu Cixin. It is the first novel in the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy. The series portrays a fictional past, present, and fut…
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Read article →Five of the best science fiction books of 2025 | Science fiction books | The Guardian
When There Are Wolves Again EJ Swift (Arcadia) There are few more pressing issues with which fiction can engage than the climate crisis, and SF, with its capacity to extrapolate into possible futures and dramatise the realities, is particularly ...
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Read article →Feeling Solarpunk: On Becky Chambers’s Monk and Robot Series | Los Angeles Review of Books
Chambers’s Monk and Robot duology, the first half of which won a Hugo Award, popularizes solarpunk, a genre that, according to Stacey Balkan, “[advances] a liberatory politics that marshals solar power” and whose characters “inhabit convivial spaces where historically marginalized communitie…
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Read article →Exhalation: Stories - Wikipedia
This is Ted Chiang's second collection of short works, after the 2002 book Stories of Your Life and Others. Exhalation: Stories contains nine stories exploring such issues as humankind's place in the universe, the nature of humanity, bioethics, virtual reality, free will and determ…
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Read article →N. K. Jemisin - Wikipedia
The novel was inspired in part from a dream Jemisin had and the protests in Ferguson, Missouri about the death of Michael Brown. The Fifth Season won the Hugo Award for Best Novel, making Jemisin the first African-American writer to win a Hugo award in that category.
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Read article →Hugo Award Winners and Nominees, 2025 — a community-created list from AnneTG | Chicago Public Library | BiblioCommons
First of the "Between Earth and Sky" series, the WINNER of the 2025 Hugo Award for Best Series. Eligibility for nomination was established by the publication of 2024's "Mirrored Heavens".
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Read article →The Left Hand of Darkness - Wikipedia
In the afterword of the 25th anniversary edition of the novel, she stated that "The Left Hand of Darkness is haunted and bedeviled by the gender of its pronouns", and that she no longer believed that the masculine pronoun in English is generic, as she had when she wrote th…
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Read article →Worldbuilding Deep Dive: Dune by Frank Herbert
Another admirable aspect of Herbert’s worldbuilding is that his world is extremely complex. In the book, he builds a detailed history of how his world got to be the way it is, with politics, warring factions, economics, and different religions all incorporated into the story.
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Read article →Snow Crash - Wikipedia
Stephenson wrote, "When the computer ... set—a 'snow crash'". Stephenson has also mentioned that Julian Jaynes' book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind was one of the main influences on Snow Crash....
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