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Fiction, science fiction, general

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Gravity's Rainbow

Thomas Pynchon

1973 ★ 4.0

Starship Troopers

Robert A. Heinlein

1963 ★ 3.8

Lord of Light

Roger Zelazny

1969 ★ 3.7

The Snow Queen

Joan D. Vinge

1980 ★ 4.5

Darwin's radio

Greg Bear

1999 ★ 3.6

Rosewater

Raúl García Campos, Tade Thompson

2018 ★ 3.9

Spin

Robert Charles Wilson

2005 ★ 4.1

Babel-17

Samuel R. Delany

1966 ★ 3.5

Parable of the Talents

Octavia E. Butler

1998 ★ 4.1

Cyteen

C. J. Cherryh

1989 ★ 3.7

The Bone Clocks

David Mitchell

2014 ★ 3.9

Way station

Clifford D. Simak

1976 ★ 3.8

Independence day

Richard Ford

1995

三体

刘慈欣, Gwennaël Gaffric, Vincent Schmitt et al.

2008 ★ 3.9

The Big Time

Fritz Leiber

1961 ★ 2.5

Red Mars

Kim Stanley Robinson

1993 ★ 3.6

Flowers for Algernon

Daniel Keyes

1968 ★ 4.3

The Dispossessed

Ursula K. Le Guin

1974 ★ 4.4

The Demolished Man

Alfred Bester

1953 ★ 3.8

He, She and It

Marge Piercy

1991

The Uplift War

David Brin

1987 ★ 3.9

Doomsday book

Connie Willis

1992 ★ 3.6

Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro

2005 ★ 3.8

The Fountains of Paradise

Arthur C. Clarke

1980 ★ 4.0

Dreamsnake

Vonda N. McIntyre

1978 ★ 3.4

Ancillary Justice

Ann Leckie

2013 ★ 3.9

Tunnel in the sky

Robert A. Heinlein

1977 ★ 4.2

The Road

Cormac McCarthy

2006 ★ 3.9

Hyperion

Dan Simmons

1990 ★ 4.2

Gateway

Frederik Pohl

1977 ★ 3.5

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