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Science Fiction

Description: Your favorite books that explore space and time.

Rank Title Author Added

1

by George Orwell

82,450 members

1,276 reviews

4.2

3 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963, Andrew_Orange

2

by Ray Bradbury

54,247 members

1,006 reviews

4

3 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963, Andrew_Orange

3

by Connie Willis

7,997 members

376 reviews

4.1

3 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963, Andrew_Orange

4

20,000 Leagues under the Sea

18,551 members

255 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963, ArcadiaLynn

5

Science Fiction Stories Beyond Normal

by Roland Fielding

2 members

5

2 Members: DorothySKT, Readatron

6

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

17,232 members

318 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963, Andrew_Orange

7

by Mary Shelley

42,948 members

714 reviews

3.8

3 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963, ArcadiaLynn

8

A Canticle for Leibowitz

by Walter M. Miller Jr.

11,801 members

309 reviews

3.9

3 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963, Andrew_Orange

9

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

54,174 members

774 reviews

3.9

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

10

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

44,202 members

709 reviews

4.1

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

11

The Time Machine

17,816 members

341 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

12

by Isaac Asimov

20,686 members

391 reviews

4

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

13

The War of the Worlds

18,509 members

310 reviews

3.8

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

14

by John Wyndham

4,779 members

122 reviews

3.9

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

15

The Day of the Triffids

by John Wyndham

7,509 members

207 reviews

4

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

16

Flowers for Algernon

by Daniel Keyes

15,905 members

383 reviews

4.1

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

17

18,314 members

1,252 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

18

A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

25,992 members

389 reviews

4

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963,Andrew_Orange

19

Journey to the Centre of the Earth

14,963 members

230 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

20

by Orson Scott Card

41,370 members

1,051 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ahef1963

21

by Stephen King

13,728 members

769 reviews

4.2

Member: ahef1963

22

The Martian Chronicles

by Ray Bradbury

16,725 members

325 reviews

4

Member: gypsysmom

23

The Stars My Destination

by Alfred Bester

6,314 members

175 reviews

4

Member: gypsysmom

24

The Left Hand of Darkness

by Ursula K. Le Guin

16,041 members

385 reviews

4

Member: gypsysmom

25

by Frank Herbert

42,914 members

695 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: gypsysmom

26

The Dispossessed

by Ursula K. Le Guin

10,777 members

268 reviews

4.1

Member: gypsysmom

27

9,998 members

187 reviews

3.8

Member: gypsysmom

28

Heart of the Comet

by Gregory Benford

1,199 members

7 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: gypsysmom

29

Childhood's End

by Arthur C. Clarke

10,240 members

232 reviews

3.9

Member: gypsysmom

30

The Windup Girl

by Paolo Bacigalupi

6,249 members

304 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: gypsysmom

31

Starship Troopers

by Robert A. Heinlein

12,253 members

223 reviews

3.8

Member: gypsysmom

32

by William Gibson

23,146 members

380 reviews

3.9

Member: gypsysmom

33

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

by Philip K. Dick

19,420 members

476 reviews

4

Member: gypsysmom

34

by Frederik Pohl

4,673 members

101 reviews

3.9

Member: gypsysmom

35

The Man in the High Castle

by Philip K. Dick

13,899 members

359 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: gypsysmom

36

The Forever War

by Joe Haldeman

9,448 members

253 reviews

4

Member: gypsysmom

37

2,199 members

57 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: gypsysmom

38

by Emily St. John Mandel

11,833 members

785 reviews

4.1

Member: gypsysmom

39

Ancillary Sword

3,004 members

177 reviews

4

Member: gypsysmom

40

The Heart Goes Last

by Margaret Atwood

2,610 members

151 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: gypsysmom

41

The Water Knife

by Paolo Bacigalupi

1,824 members

95 reviews

3.8

Member: gypsysmom

42

Stranger in a Strange Land

by Robert A. Heinlein

11,007 members

158 reviews

3.9

Member: gypsysmom,Andrew_Orange

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Started: sturlington
December 2013
Type: Numbered and unnumbered

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