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Topic: Books
If you were to make a list of the top 5-10 sci-fi books ever, what would be on it? Standalones or full series are fine. But keep single book entries to 1 per series. Sci-fi with some romance is fine. But no romance sci-fi.
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Julz In no particular order I would choose Renegades by Marissa Meyer, Red Rising by Pierce Brown, Skyward by Brandon Sanderson, The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer, Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray, The Light at the Bottom of the World by London Shah, and Daughter of the Deep by Rick Riordan. These are the best ones I’ve read and if you haven’t read any of them I highly suggest you do.
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Abbie Gilfilen Three Body Problem would be on there for me.
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Road Master That one was translated from Chinese, wasn't it?
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Road Master Ooooohh... Ya lost me at math.
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David Rachau The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Dune, Project Hail Mary, Skyward, Old Man's War, the Jacques McKeown series, The Expanse, The Martian, Altered Carbon, and we'll say Federation Chronicles, because I can't think of other completed series. I'm actually having a harder time with this, than your fantasy discussion. Most of my favorite series are still ongoing, like; Expeditionary Force, Bobiverse, Quantum Earth, Backyard Starship, Omega Force, The Last Horizon, and a few others. Or, they fell off a cliff after a great start, like; Galaxy's Edge, Ruins of the Earth, Ruins of the Galaxy, Wayward Galaxy, The Messenger, Deadmen's War, Chaos of the Covenant, and several more.
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Road Master Have you read Fire With Fire by Charles E. Gannon?
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Road Master According to Google, book 7, Protected Species, is the final book.
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Jessica H They might be kids books, but my first favorite sci-fi series was the Animorphs books. They're surprisingly mature considering their intended audience. Ender's Game obviously belongs on the list. The Illuminae Files, Murderbot Diaries, The Darkness Outside Us (that last one you might argue is too much romance, I will counter that it's more about human connection and isolation).
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Road Master I read 1, MAYBE 2 of the Animorphs books, several years ago. It was right when I was getting into the Xanth novels. They seemed pretty good. But Xanth won out for me.
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Jessica H Kind of, but really far in. Basically he gets the ability to morph again, but his base form is now a bird. He has the opportunity to trap himself in a human form again, but he doesn't and if i remember correctly at the end he just wants to be a hermit and live in the woods alone as a bird.
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Brian strong ASOIAF-Martin, Red Rising series-Brown, Realm of the Elderlings series-Hobb, Best Served Cold-Abercrombie, Red Seas Under Red Skies-Lynch, The Shadow Rising-Jordan, Empire of the Vampire-Kristoff, Red Sister-Lawrence, Court of Silver Flames-Maas and Chronicles of the Unhewn Throne series-Stavely.
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Road Master Looks like a mix of sci-fi and fantasy. I honestly don't think I've read any of them.
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Brian strong Red Rising could be considered science fiction although I view it more as fantasy in outer space.
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