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Storylace Guild Book Club Wishlist - Sci-Fi

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🤖🛸 SCI-FI BOOKS ONLY Dop your suggestions for candidate books you'd like to see in the polls! Every month we'll grab a small subset from the books on this list to create the monthly polls. Please ensure the books you add meet these criteria: ✅ Adult books only (not YA). ✅ Only first books of series and standalones. ✅ Strong & imaginative worldbuilding, intricate plots and thought-provoking themes. ✅ Ideally under 600 pages, but it's ok to add longer ones. ✅ Widely popular. This includes works that have won major literary awards or been adapted (or being adapted) into films or TV shows or books that More...

38 Books in this list.

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A Deepness in the Sky

by Vernor Vinge

Zones of Thought #2
Alternate HistorySpace OperaFantasy

1 mention

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Alien Clay

by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Hard Sci-Fi
89

2 mentions

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All Systems Red

by Martha Wells

The Murderbot Diaries #1
Science FictionFantasy
78

1 mention

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A Memory Called Empire

by Arkady Martine

Teixcalaan #1
MysterySpace OperaFantasy
76

5 mentions

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Children of Time

by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Children of Time #1
ApocalypticPost-ApocalypticSpace Opera
87

1 mention

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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

by Douglas Adams

Dirk Gently #1
Science FictionInvestigatorComedic Fiction
77

2 mentions

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Dune

by Frank Herbert

Dune #1
Space OperaAdventureFantasy
83

1 mention

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Elder Race

by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Alternate HistorySpace OperaFantasy
86

2 mentions

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Excession

by Iain M. Banks

The Culture #5
Alternate HistorySpace OperaFantasy
100

2 mentions

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Gideon the Ninth

by Tamsyn Muir

The Locked Tomb #1
Science FictionFantasyHorror
80

1 mention

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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

by Haruki Murakami

Magical RealismLiterary FictionSoft Sci-Fi
80

3 mentions

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Hyperion

by Dan Simmons

Hyperion Cantos #1
Space OperaFantasy
87

1 mention

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Leviathan Wakes

by James S.A. Corey

The Expanse #1
MysterySpace OperaFantasy
86

2 mentions

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Neuromancer

by William Gibson

Sprawl #1
Alternate HistoryDystopiaCyberpunk
63

2 mentions

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Ninefox Gambit

by Yoon Ha Lee

The Machineries of Empire #1
Military FictionSpace OperaFantasy
97

1 mention

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Ocean's Godori

by Elaine U. Cho

Space OperaRomance
93

3 mentions

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Project Hail Mary

by Andy Weir

Science FictionAdventureFantasy
87

1 mention

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Ready Player One

by Ernest Cline

Ready Player One #1
DystopiaAdventureCyberpunk
79

2 mentions

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Recursion

by Blake Crouch

MysteryScience FictionThriller
82

1 mention

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Red Rising

by Pierce Brown

Red Rising Saga #1
DystopiaAdventureFantasy
80

1 mention

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Redshirts

by John Scalzi

Space OperaFantasyComedic Fiction
77

1 mention

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Semiosis

by Sue Burke

Semiosis Duology #1
Hard Sci-Fi
95

1 mention

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Seveneves

by Neal Stephenson

ApocalypticPost-ApocalypticDystopia
79

1 mention

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Shroud

by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Science Fiction
93

2 mentions

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Spin

by Robert Charles Wilson

Spin #1
Alternate HistoryDystopiaApocalyptic
93

1 mention

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The Atrocity Archives

by Charles Stross

Laundry Files #1
Urban FantasyParanormalComedic Fiction
86

2 mentions

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The Dispossessed

by Ursula K. Le Guin

Hainish Cycle
Alternate HistoryDystopiaPolitics
90

2 mentions

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The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

by Becky Chambers

Wayfarers #1
Space OperaSoft Sci-Fi
79

2 mentions

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The Martian

by Andy Weir

The Martian #1
SurvivalAdventureComedic Fiction
90

2 mentions

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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

by Robert A. Heinlein

Alternate HistoryPoliticsFantasy
60

2 mentions

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The Mountain in the Sea

by Ray Nayler

Science Fiction
90

2 mentions

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The Steerswoman

by Rosemary Kirstein

The Steerswoman #1
High/Epic FantasyAdventureHard Sci-Fi
89

2 mentions

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The Subtle Art of Folding Space

by John Chu

Science Fiction
90

2 mentions

2 mentions

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The Vanished Birds

by Simon Jimenez

Space OperaFantasy
100

1 mention

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We Are Legion (We Are Bob)

by Dennis E. Taylor

Bobiverse #1
Space OperaAdventureComedic Fiction
88

1 mention

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Wild Massive

by Scotto Moore

65