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Top 10 Best Sci-Fi Books of All-Time
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Whether it's because they've altered the course of science fiction writing, or simply provide a genuinely alien perspective on ordinary life, these are novels that will rearrange how you think. Check out the list below.
| 1. | Frankenstein (1818), by Mary Shelley |
| 2. | The Time Machine (1895), by H.G. Wells |
| 3. | At the Mountains of Madness (1931), by H.P. Lovecraft |
| 4. | I, Robot (1955), by Isaac Asimov |
| 5. | The Dispossessed (1974), by Ursula LeGuin |
| 6. | Kindred (1979), by Octavia Butler |
| 7. | Wizard (1979), by John Varley |
| 8. | Consider Phlebas (1987), by Iain M. Banks |
| 9. | He, She, and It (1991), by Marge Piercy |
| 10. | Sarah Canary (1991), by Karen Joy Fowler |
| 11. | A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), by Vernor Vinge |
| 12. | The Bohr Maker (1995), by Linda Nagata |
| 13. | The Sparrow (1996), by Mary Doria Russell |
| 14. | Cryptonomicon (2000), by Neal Stephenson |
| 15. | The Mount (2002), by Carol Emschwiller |
| 16. | Perdido Street Station (2002), by China Mieville |
| 17. | Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (2003), by Cory Doctorow |
| 18. | Pattern Recognition (2003), by William Gibson |
| 19. | Newton's Wake (2004), by Ken MacLeod |
| 20. | Glasshouse (2006), by Charles Stross |
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