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• Dune

  Herbert, Frank,

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  If you like your science fiction classic and adapted, check out the book series by Frank Herbert and its recent acclaimed adaptations. Paul Atreides is an heir to a fallen family who move from their homeworld to a desert planet, where both survival…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Three-body Problem

  Liu, Cixin,

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  If you like your science fiction filled with lots of ideas and occurring over wide-ranging space and time, try Cixin Liu's The Three-body Problem and its sequels. When Earth and the Trisolaris civilization make contact, it begins a long-lasting…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Kindred

  Butler, Octavia E.

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  If you like your science fiction with a large dose of social commentary, historical events, and time travel, try Octavia Butler's Kindred. A contemporary Black woman involuntarily time travels to an Antebellum plantation, and figuring out why and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Old Man's War

  Scalzi, John, 1969-

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  If you like your science fiction with military battles with a side of humor, check out John Scalzi's Old Man's War. Senior citizens on Earth are recruited to fight battles in space, lured in by the promise of renewed youth and vigor.

• Exhalation

  Chiang, Ted,

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  If you like your science fiction in thought-provoking short story form, you need to read Chiang. Chiang's "The Story of Your Life" is the basis for the movie Arrival, and his latest collection is filled with equally introspective and emotional…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The peripheral

  Gibson, William, 1948-

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  If you like cyberpunk, William Gibson is the grandfather of the subgenre. His latest takes place in both a near-future and a far-future timeline, with someone witnessing something they shouldn't during a game that connects the two timelines.

• The Deep Sky

  Kitasei, Yume,

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  If you like your science fiction with a side of mystery, try The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei. 80 recent graduates of an elite school are humanity's last hope, launched on a generation ship. When a bomb explodes and kills three people, Asuka is a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Blighted Stars

  O'Keefe, Megan E., 1985-

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  If you like your science fiction to be character-driven and thought-provoking, try The Devoured Worlds series. The son of a powerful family that controls most of humanity's space exploration and resources and a woman who wants to bring them down are…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Calculating Stars

  Kowal, Mary Robinette, 1969-

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  If you like alternate history, try Kowal's Lady Astronaut series. When an asteroid strikes in the 1950s, it sets off catastrophic climate changes that will soon cause the earth to be inhabitable. The budding space program realizes that they will…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Mimicking of Known Successes

  Older, Malka, 1977-

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  If you like science fiction, steampunk, and Sherlock Holmes, try The Mimicking of Known Successes. Humanity has fled to Jupiter, as an investigator teams up with an ex to find out what happened to a missing scholar, with humanity's plans to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ancillary Justice

  Leckie, Ann,

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  If you like your science fiction to explore social issues, try Ann Leckie. An AI captaining a sentient ship is relegated to a human body while searching the universe for a legendary weapon--and revenge.

• All Systems Red

  Wells, Martha,

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  If you like your science fiction short and with a side of snark, meet Murderbot. Murderbot is a security unit that has hacked its security module so it can watch its downloaded media in peace. But the pesky humans its supposed to protect keep…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Future of Another Timeline

  Newitz, Annalee, 1969-

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  If you like alternate history, time travel, and science fiction that explores social issues, try The Future of Another Timeline. A time travel edit war ensues between a group that wants to restore women's rights and another determined to push them…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Project Hail Mary

  Weir, Andy,

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  If you like loner characters with a sense of humor and survival skills, try Andy Weir. Ryland Grace wakes up alone on a spaceship with no idea why or how we got there. He better figure out soon, as it turns out he's humanity's last hope.

• The Space Between Worlds

  Johnson, Micaiah,

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  If you like multiverse stories, Try The Space Between Worlds. Parallel universes exist, but you're not allowed to visit universes where your doppelganger is still alive. Cara's alt-selves die off soon (perhaps because she is a queer, Black woman…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Recursion

  Crouch, Blake,

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  If you like science fiction thriller, Blake Crouch is a must-read. In Recursion, people are having vivid memories of things that haven't happened to them. Or have they? A NYPD officer investigates this outbreak of False Memory Syndrome, which leads…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Psalm for the Wild-built

  Chambers, Becky,

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  If you like your science fiction cozy, hopeful, and introspective, read Becky Chambers. The first in the Monk and Robot series follows an encounter between a tea monk questioning his purpose and a robot looking to understand humans, in the first…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport

  Basu, Samit,

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• Gideon the Ninth

  Muir, Tamsyn

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• Light From Uncommon Stars

  Aoki, Ryka,

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