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Science Fiction book recommendations

I read a lot of Science Fiction, amongst other things. Here is my idiosyncratic recommendations of the SF Books I like. I guarantee that you will like these books if you like the same books that I do! I have rated all these as 1 and 2, with some 3s.

(I also have some summaries of these, and the rest of the SF I read, but it's definitely not all "recommended"!)

'Sf's no good,' they bellow till we're deaf.
'But this looks good.'--- 'Well then, it's not sf.'

Robert Conquest, Spectrum 2, 1962




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SF Books, recently read

My most recently read SF and the ones I recommend (although these are not always recently published; I'm adding new books to my unread book pile faster than I'm reading them).

Books will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no books

-- SF trad. variant on Gilbert Shelton




'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

-- Mark Twain


SF is the only literature judged by its worst examples

-- Bob Shaw

[ And The Eye of Argon is surely one of the very worst... ]



SF classics
I have read all of these (but there are some of them that I don't necessarily want to read again ...) They are all rated as 1 or 2.




[Consider Phlebas]

[A Civil Campaign]

[Diaspora]

[Mindstar Rising]

[To Hold Infinity]

[Red Thunder]





hard SF



[Sewer, Gas, Electric]
Comedy

(remember -- humour is a very personal taste)



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[The Blue Sword]
Softer SF / Fantasy

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Juvenile and YA




Criticizing Asimov because his characters aren't as good as Jane Austen 's strikes me as being like criticizing Pride and Prejudice because it doesn't have any robots.

-- Pete McCutchen




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We're not into science fiction because it's good literature, we're into it because it's weird.

Bruce Sterling




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