Most of these editions are the ones I read, so some of them are in english and some in german. There is no ranking.
Essential science fiction reading Public
Created by Paranoid Fish
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Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
4 stars
In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey toward a better future.
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Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from …
Paranoid Fish says: This is about time travelling, so it's also historical fiction. More important though, it's also about racism and feminism.
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4 stars
Ubik ( YOO-bik) is a 1969 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. The story is set in …
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Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
4 stars
From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat …
Paranoid Fish says: I wouldn't think of Ishiguro as a science fiction writer, but this dystopian novel has some of the themes which good science fiction is made of.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
5 stars
Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often referred to as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by the English novelist …
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Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #3)
3 stars
Use of Weapons is a science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks, first published in 1990. It is …
Paranoid Fish says: This is told forwards and backwards, in two layers.
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Dune (Penguin Galaxy) by Frank Herbert
5 stars
Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family …
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Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
3 stars
"A deluxe hardcover edition of the most famous science-fiction novel of all time--part of Penguin Galaxy, a collectible series of …
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2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
4 stars
A novel that proposes an idea about how the human race might have begun and where it might be headed...given …
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Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov
4 stars
Led by its founding father, the great psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and taking advantage of its superior science and technology, the …
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Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
4 stars
From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behavior of those …
Paranoid Fish says: Ishiguro's take on AI, seen from a robots perspective. Not a typical science fiction novel, but an important one.
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Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
4 stars
Written in 1973, a massive 50 kilometre long alien cylinder begins to pass through the solar system provoking a hurried …
