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The Scale of the Universe 2. PopOver. ForbiddenPlanet.com. The Best Science Fiction Books (According to Reddit) Recently, someone asked Reddit for a list of the best science fiction books of all time. Being a fan of sci-fi, and wanting to expand my own reading list, I thought it would be helpful to tally the results and preserve them here for future reference. I've also included selected quotes from the comments, as well as my own notes on the books I've already read. PS: All book images in this post are copyright Amazon, and were retrieved using my Big Book Search Engine. So, without further ado, here are the Greatest Sci-Fi Books of All Time, ordered by upvote count: Dune Frank Herbert - 1965 "There's a reason it's the global top selling science fiction book of all time. " - NibblyPig If you have a chance, track down the excellent full cast audiobook (unabridged!)

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams - 1979 "I really love the cool combination of humor, philosophy, and sheer nuttiness of the entire series. " - Scarbrow Ender's Game Orson Scott Card - 1985 Foundation Trilogy Isaac Asimov - 1942. Book-e-book.com. 12 Greatest Science Fiction War Stories. The conventional wisdom is, as Charlie noted, that BSG took themes of political darkness that Ron Moore had played with on DS9 and cranked them up to eleven. Having been watching some of both lately, I think I've come around to the opinion that I first read from Abigail Nussbaum- that while BSG is more unrelentingly grim, and the lights are lower and the characters drink and screw and wallow more (all of which makes for terrific television, don't get me wrong) DS9 's political fiction surrounding war was much more fully realized, less dependent on jamming headline news into contexts where it didn't necessarily belong, and was on the whole, much graver.

BSG also was cheated a bit by being an "after the fall" tale, which is always something of trade between the immediate uptick in stakes you gain from Fighting for the Species(tm) versus the whole category of "on the raggedy edge" stories that can't be told because the die has already been cast. ActuSF.

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