The best science fiction books are listed below: old and new, popular and obscure, straightforward and super-weird, optimistic and We’re All Doomed! Review: Zoey Is Too Drunk for This Dystopia by Jason Pargin Review: The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler Review: Lock In by John Scalzi The Best Silkpunk Books Review: Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman The Best Dark Science Fiction Books The Best Science Fiction Books with Gas Giants Review: Heaven’s River by Dennis E. Taylor The Arthur C. Clarke Award Winners of the 21st Century The Best Parallel Worlds Science Fiction Books The Best Philosophical Science Fiction Books The Best Fantasy Books of 2023 The Best Science Fiction Books of 2023 Review: The Road to Roswell by Connie Willis Review: Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway The Best Modern Military Science Fiction Books Review: Truth of the Divine by Lindsay Ellis Review: More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon Review: Gravity by Tess Gerritsen The Best Hard Science Fiction Books by Women Review: Daemon by Daniel Suarez Summer 2023 Science Fiction Reading List The Best Lesser-known Golden Age Science Fiction Books The Best Modern Artificial Intelligence Science Fiction Books The Best Optimistic Science Fiction Books Review: The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch The Readers Speak! This Blog’s Readers’ Favorite Science Fiction Series Review: Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel The Readers Speak! This Blog’s Readers’ Favorite Science Fiction Books Review: Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree The Best Science Fiction Books for Beginners Review: Dr. No by Percival Everett The Best Science Fiction Books Written by Scientists The Best Science Fiction Books with Alien Languages The Best John Scalzi Books Review: Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart The Best Science Fiction Thrillers Best Post-apocalyptic Book Series Review: Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky The Best Mad Scientist Science Fiction Books Review: The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier The 2022 Hugo Award Winners Review: The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi The Best Science Fiction Books with Cats in Them The Best Fantasy Books of 2022 Review: 11/22/63 by Stephen King The Best Science Fiction Books of 2022 Review: Doomsday Book by Connie Willis Review: A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. Review: Upgrade by Blake Crouch Review: Drunk on All Your Strange New Words by Eddie Robson Review: Axiom’s End by Lindsay Ellis Review: Wanderers by Chuck Wendig Review: The Sky is Yours by Chandler Klang Smith Review: Battle of the Linguist Mages by Scotto Moore Review: Rabbits by Terry Miles 12 Best Mathematical Science Fiction Books The 21 Best Ecofiction Books The 23 Best New Wave Science Fiction Books Review: Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood The 26 Best Middle Grade Science Fiction Books The Best Postcyberpunk Books The Bestselling Science Fiction Books of All Time The Best Science Fiction Books of 2021 Review: Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky Best Science Fiction Heist Books Best Science Fiction Books Published Since This Blog Started Review: Borne by Jeff VanderMeer Best Modern Science Fiction Authors Review: Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor Review: The Last Policeman by Ben H. 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Livingston & Dan Livingston Review: Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick by David Wong 11 Best Retrofuturism Books The Best Modern Classic Science Fiction Books The Best Fantasy Books of 2020 21 Best Computer Science Fiction Books Review: Revenger by Alastair Reynolds The Best Science Fiction Books of 2020 15 Best Science Fiction Anthologies 28 Best Science Fiction Detective Books 19 Best Zombie Books 15 Best Science Fiction Romance Books 23 Best Climate Change Science Fiction Books 21 Groundbreaking Science Fiction Novels 10 Great Science Fiction Authors That Used Pen Names 15 Best Sports and Games Science Fiction Books Review: Honor Among Thieves by Rachel Caine and Ann Aguirre 19 Best Slipstream Books 7 Best Science Fiction Books with Exotic Ecosystems Review: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers 6 Best Science Fiction Books Based on Video Games 25 Best Science Fiction Book Debuts 25 Best Science Fiction Books with Female Protagonists Review: Kindred by Octavia E. 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Clarke 19 Best Star Wars Books 16 Best Solarpunk Books 23 Best Modern Post-apocalyptic Books 11 Amazing Science Fiction Books by Black Authors 22 Great Science Fiction Books That Almost Won the Hugo Award Review: The Risen Empire by Scott Westerfeld Review: Dark Matter by Blake Crouch Review: The Humans by Matt Haig Review: The Genius Plague by David Walton 21 Best Science Fiction Books of 2019 Review: The Grand Dark by Richard Kadrey 19 Best Generation Ship Books Review: The Lost Fleet: Dauntless by Jack Campbell Review: Bad Hair Day by Jim Benton Review: Semiosis by Sue Burke 21 Best Political Science Fiction Books Review: Dragon’s Egg by Robert L. Forward Review: House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds Summer 2019 Science Fiction Reading List Review: The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland Review: The Breach by Patrick Lee Review: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 11 One-hit Wonder Science Fiction Books Review: Girl in Landscape by Jonathan Lethem Review: Strata by Terry Pratchett 19 Best Dieselpunk Books 17 Best Science Fiction Books About the Moon 19 Best Robot Uprising Books 16 Best Space Exploration Science Fiction Books 17 Best Galactic Empire Science Fiction Books Review: The Half-Made World by Felix Gilman Review: Red Moon by Kim Stanley Robinson 25 Best Science Fiction Books of 2018 19 Best LGBTQ Science Fiction Books Review: Bimbos of the Death Sun by Sharyn McCrumb 19 Best Genetic Engineering Science Fiction Books Review: Ubik by Philip K. Dick 13 Best Science Fiction Audiobooks Review: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel 17 Best Colonization Science Fiction Books Review: Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky 23 Best Science Fiction Adventure Books Review: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline 15 Best Mysterious Alien Megastructure Books Review: The Mote in God’s Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle 19 Best Young Adult Science Fiction Books Review: Artemis by Andy Weir 2018 Science Fiction Summer Reading List Review: The Freeze-Frame Revolution by Peter Watts 19 Best Science Fiction Horror Books 21 Best Science Fiction Graphic Novels Review: All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai Review: Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer 23 Best Science Fiction Books of 2017 27 Best Alien World Science Fiction Books 19 Best Utopian Science Fiction Books 19 Best Science Fiction Books About Clones Review: Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits by David Wong 25 Best Deep Space Science Fiction Books Review: The Girl With All the Gifts by M. R. Carey 17 Best Underrated Science Fiction Books Review: Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban Review: To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis 13 Best Chinese Science Fiction Books Review: Abaddon’s Gate by James S. A. Corey 19 Best Science Fiction Books of 2016 Review: Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie 23 Best Spunky Heroine Science Fiction Books Review: Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds 29 Best Transhuman Science Fiction Books Review: Mooncop by Tom Gauld 31 Best Literary Science Fiction Books Review: A Darkling Sea by James L. Cambias Review: Echopraxia by Peter Watts 23 Best Alternate History Books Review: Accelerando by Charles Stross Science Fiction Summer Reading List (2016) Review: The Maiden Voyage of the Destiny Unknown by Nicholas Ponticello 27 Best First Contact Books Review: Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes Review: The Fall of the Towers by Samuel R. Delany 19 Funniest Science Fiction Books 21 Best Mars Science Fiction Books 31 Best Soft Science Fiction Books 17 Best Pulp Science Fiction Books Review: Memoirs Found in a Bathtub by Stanislaw Lem 21 Best Alien Science Fiction Books Review: Panda Ray by Michael Kandel 19 Best Nanotechnology Science Fiction Books Review: The City & The City by China Miéville 17 Best Weird Science Fiction Books Review: The Drowned World by J. G. Ballard Review: Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds Review: The Algebraist by Iain M. Banks Review: Do Not Resuscitate by Nicholas Ponticello Review: His Master’s Voice by Stanislaw Lem 15 Best Science Fiction Western Books 21 Best Immortality Science Fiction Books 25 Best Science Fiction Books for Kids Review: Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino 19 Best Biopunk Books Review: The Ware Tetralogy by Rudy Rucker Review: Gun, with Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem 23 Best Science Fiction Mystery Books 23 Best Cyberpunk Books Review: Spin State by Chris Moriarty 23 Best Military Science Fiction Books 23 Best Hard Science Fiction Books 23 Best Steampunk Books 23 Best Time Travel Science Fiction Books The Martian by Andy Weir is Awesome 23 Best Robot Science Fiction Books 23 Best Science Fiction Book Series 25 Best Far Future Science Fiction Books 23 Best Non-English Science Fiction Books The 23 Best Science Fiction Books by Female Authors The 21 Best Space Opera Books 29 Best Alien Invasion Science Fiction Books 21 Best Post-apocalyptic Science Fiction Books The Top 10 Underwater Science Fiction Books Reddit’s Favorite Stand-alone Science Fiction Novels The 23 Best Science Fiction Books of All Time