Awesome Sci-Fi Awesome

Sci-Fi worth consuming

I asked on Twitter for recommendations as I want to get into reading Sci-Fi novels. The below is the result. Thanks everyone for recommending your favorites! :)

For fantasy books, see awesome-fantasy.

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Novels

🌟 means that it's a classic.

🔥 means that it has more than 100 000 ratings on Goodreads.

The [number] at the end is the rounded version of the rating on Goodreads.

Science Fiction

Accelerando (2005) by Charles Stross [3.9]

Accelerando is an excellent exploration of Posthumanism. It's my go to recommendation for people wanting to read about that stuff. - @erbridge

It's also worth mentioning that the ebook is available for free in a variety of formats on Stross's website. - @AlexKeyes

Description > The Singularity. It is the era of the posthuman. Artificial intelligences have surpassed the limits of human intellect. Biotechnological beings have rendered people all but extinct. Molecular nanotechnology runs rampant, replicating and reprogramming at will. Contact with extraterrestrial life grows more imminent with each new day. > > Struggling to survive and thrive in this accelerated world are three generations of the Macx clan: Manfred, an entrepreneur dealing in intelligence amplification technology whose mind is divided between his physical environment and the Internet; his daughter, Amber, on the run from her domineering mother, seeking her fortune in the outer system as an indentured astronaut; and Sirhan, Amber's son, who finds his destiny linked to the fate of all of humanity. > > For something is systemically dismantling the nine planets of the solar system. Something beyond human comprehension. Something that has no use for biological life in any form.

Babel-17 (1966) by Samuel R. Delany [3.8]

This intense linguistic thriller will change the way you think about language. - @helderroem

Description > Babel-17 is all about the power of language. Humanity, which has spread throughout the universe, is involved in a war with the Invaders, who have been covertly assassinating officials and sabotaging spaceships. The only clues humanity has to go on are strange alien messages that have been intercepted in space. Poet and linguist Rydra Wong is determined to understand the language and stop the alien threat.

Barsoom series (1912-1927) by Edgar Rice Burroughs [3.8] 🌟

Now more than a century old, has that unique writing style you can only find in adventure classics. - @uraimo

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