Best Sci-Fi Books in The World
A list of the 8 best sci-fi books, including Dune. The order here is where we started — no votes have been cast yet, so voting decides it from here.
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Dune
booksci-fiFrank Herbert's 1965 desert-planet epic of politics, ecology, and prophecy.
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Foundation
booksci-fiIsaac Asimov's saga of a galactic empire's fall, foreseen by psychohistory.
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Neuromancer
booksci-fiWilliam Gibson's 1984 novel that coined "cyberspace" and defined cyberpunk.
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Ursula K. Le Guin's novel of a genderless society on an ice planet.
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Fahrenheit 451
booksci-fiRay Bradbury's novel of a future where firemen burn books.
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1984
booksci-fiGeorge Orwell's dystopia of surveillance, propaganda, and Big Brother.
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Brave New World
booksci-fiAldous Huxley's dystopia of engineered happiness and social control.
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Ender's Game
booksci-fiOrson Scott Card's novel of a child trained to command Earth's fleet.
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