Adult SFF by diverse authors, pre-2010 #DiverseClassics

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The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance, #1)
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance, #1) 3.89 avg rating β€” 80,314 ratings
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Kindred
Kindred 4.31 avg rating β€” 258,318 ratings
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Swordspoint (Riverside, #1)
Swordspoint (Riverside, #1) 3.80 avg rating β€” 10,930 ratings
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Wild Seed (Patternist, #1)
Wild Seed (Patternist, #1) 4.21 avg rating β€” 38,337 ratings
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Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1) 4.15 avg rating β€” 60,534 ratings
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The Gilda Stories
The Gilda Stories 3.95 avg rating β€” 4,243 ratings
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The Shadow Speaker (The Desert Magician's Duology, #1)
The Shadow Speaker (The Desert Magician's Duology, #1) 3.95 avg rating β€” 2,755 ratings
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Dhalgren
Dhalgren 3.78 avg rating β€” 12,077 ratings
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Kushiel's Dart (Phèdre's Trilogy, #1)
Kushiel's Dart (Phèdre's Trilogy, #1) 4.02 avg rating — 83,235 ratings
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Who Fears Death
Who Fears Death 3.93 avg rating β€” 27,810 ratings
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Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora
Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora 4.16 avg rating β€” 1,434 ratings
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The Broken Kingdoms (Inheritance, #2)
The Broken Kingdoms (Inheritance, #2) 4.14 avg rating β€” 38,518 ratings
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Bloodchild and Other Stories
Bloodchild and Other Stories 4.35 avg rating β€” 26,126 ratings
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Brown Girl in the Ring
Brown Girl in the Ring 3.85 avg rating β€” 7,277 ratings
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Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1) 4.20 avg rating β€” 238,933 ratings
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Magic's Promise (The Last Herald-Mage #2)
Magic's Promise (The Last Herald-Mage #2) 4.22 avg rating β€” 22,148 ratings
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The Fortunate Fall
The Fortunate Fall 3.95 avg rating β€” 619 ratings
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So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy
So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 824 ratings
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My Soul to Keep (African Immortals, #1)
My Soul to Keep (African Immortals, #1) 4.15 avg rating β€” 7,405 ratings
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Fledgling
Fledgling 3.80 avg rating β€” 37,689 ratings
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Unexpected Stories
Unexpected Stories 4.07 avg rating β€” 3,825 ratings
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Never Let Me Go
Never Let Me Go 3.85 avg rating β€” 813,221 ratings
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Ghost in the Shell (Ghost in the Shell, #1)
Ghost in the Shell (Ghost in the Shell, #1) 4.15 avg rating β€” 13,264 ratings
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Skin Folk
Skin Folk 3.97 avg rating β€” 1,924 ratings
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Fire Logic (Elemental Logic, #1)
Fire Logic (Elemental Logic, #1) 3.89 avg rating β€” 2,496 ratings
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Magic's Price (The Last Herald-Mage #3)
Magic's Price (The Last Herald-Mage #3) 4.26 avg rating β€” 22,603 ratings
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Midnight Robber
Midnight Robber 3.93 avg rating β€” 3,779 ratings
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Ammonite
Ammonite 3.90 avg rating β€” 6,980 ratings
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Magic's Pawn (The Last Herald-Mage, #1)
Magic's Pawn (The Last Herald-Mage, #1) 4.20 avg rating β€” 28,209 ratings
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All You Need Is Kill
All You Need Is Kill 4.03 avg rating β€” 23,175 ratings
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Dark Matter: Reading the Bones
Dark Matter: Reading the Bones 4.10 avg rating β€” 390 ratings
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Unquenchable Fire (Unquenchable Fire, #1)
Unquenchable Fire (Unquenchable Fire, #1) 3.67 avg rating β€” 509 ratings
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The Fire's Stone
The Fire's Stone really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 3,602 ratings
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Watchtower (Chronicles of Tornor, #1)
Watchtower (Chronicles of Tornor, #1) 3.57 avg rating β€” 1,032 ratings
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Redemption in Indigo
Redemption in Indigo 3.88 avg rating β€” 2,932 ratings
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Tales of Nevèrÿon (Return to Nevèrÿon, #1)
Tales of Nevèrÿon (Return to Nevèrÿon, #1) 3.94 avg rating — 1,673 ratings
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The Broken Crown (The Sun Sword, #1)
The Broken Crown (The Sun Sword, #1) 3.94 avg rating β€” 3,206 ratings
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The Ordinary (Irion/Hormling, #2)
The Ordinary (Irion/Hormling, #2) 3.51 avg rating β€” 220 ratings
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The Liminal People (Liminal People, #1)
The Liminal People (Liminal People, #1) 3.85 avg rating β€” 618 ratings
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Threshold (Chance Matthews #1)
Threshold (Chance Matthews #1) 3.74 avg rating β€” 1,590 ratings
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Slow River
Slow River 3.85 avg rating β€” 4,155 ratings
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The Lifecycle of Software Objects
The Lifecycle of Software Objects 3.92 avg rating β€” 7,202 ratings
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Filter House
Filter House 3.95 avg rating β€” 399 ratings
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Hunter's Oath (The Sacred Hunt, #1)
Hunter's Oath (The Sacred Hunt, #1) 3.86 avg rating β€” 1,627 ratings
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Babel-17
Babel-17 3.72 avg rating β€” 19,539 ratings
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Imaro (Imaro #1)
Imaro (Imaro #1) 3.92 avg rating β€” 895 ratings
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Bending the Landscape: Horror
Bending the Landscape: Horror 3.49 avg rating β€” 138 ratings
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Tomoe Gozen (Tomoe Gozen #1)
Tomoe Gozen (Tomoe Gozen #1) 3.77 avg rating β€” 457 ratings
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Through a Brazen Mirror
Through a Brazen Mirror 3.41 avg rating β€” 152 ratings
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Don't Explain: Short Fiction
Don't Explain: Short Fiction 3.90 avg rating β€” 60 ratings
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Sultana's Dream
Sultana's Dream 3.89 avg rating β€” 2,338 ratings
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Bending the Landscape: Fantasy
Bending the Landscape: Fantasy 3.64 avg rating β€” 200 ratings
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Indigo Springs (Astrid Lethewood, #1)
Indigo Springs (Astrid Lethewood, #1) 3.62 avg rating β€” 648 ratings
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The Female Man
The Female Man 3.47 avg rating β€” 8,757 ratings
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Outlander (Outlander, #1)
Outlander (Outlander, #1) 4.26 avg rating β€” 1,131,989 ratings
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Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction
Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction 3.83 avg rating β€” 224 ratings
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Kynship (The Way of Thorn and Thunder, #1)
Kynship (The Way of Thorn and Thunder, #1) 3.41 avg rating β€” 107 ratings
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Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)
Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2) 4.32 avg rating β€” 77,757 ratings
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Reservation Blues
Reservation Blues 3.98 avg rating β€” 14,114 ratings
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Nova
Nova 3.80 avg rating β€” 8,860 ratings
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The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet and Other Stories
The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet and Other Stories 3.93 avg rating β€” 279 ratings
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The Woman Who Loved the Moon & Other Stories
The Woman Who Loved the Moon & Other Stories 3.76 avg rating β€” 140 ratings
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Flight
Flight 3.89 avg rating β€” 17,981 ratings
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Third Class Superhero
Third Class Superhero 3.54 avg rating β€” 940 ratings
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Distances
Distances 3.97 avg rating β€” 59 ratings
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Zone One
Zone One 3.25 avg rating β€” 26,608 ratings
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Lion's Blood (Lion's Blood, #1)
Lion's Blood (Lion's Blood, #1) 3.97 avg rating β€” 913 ratings
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Burning Bright
Burning Bright 3.76 avg rating β€” 374 ratings
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The Calcutta Chromosome
The Calcutta Chromosome 3.49 avg rating β€” 7,006 ratings
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Naamah's Curse (Naamah Trilogy, #2)
Naamah's Curse (Naamah Trilogy, #2) 4.16 avg rating β€” 11,340 ratings
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Siege of Earth
Siege of Earth 3.74 avg rating β€” 38 ratings
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Trouble and Her Friends
Trouble and Her Friends 3.80 avg rating β€” 1,560 ratings
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Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin Sound: A Novel
Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin Sound: A Novel 4.14 avg rating β€” 126 ratings
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The Simoqin Prophecies (GameWorld Trilogy, #1)
The Simoqin Prophecies (GameWorld Trilogy, #1) 4.10 avg rating β€” 1,324 ratings
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Venous Hum
Venous Hum 3.48 avg rating β€” 67 ratings
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The Night Wanderer
The Night Wanderer 3.46 avg rating β€” 1,012 ratings
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The Salt Roads
The Salt Roads 3.84 avg rating β€” 2,491 ratings
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The Aphorisms of Kherishdar (Kherishdar, #1)
The Aphorisms of Kherishdar (Kherishdar, #1) 4.43 avg rating β€” 141 ratings
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The Diving Pool: Three Novellas
The Diving Pool: Three Novellas 3.67 avg rating β€” 8,538 ratings
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Akira, Vol. 1
Akira, Vol. 1 4.40 avg rating β€” 38,199 ratings
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The Route of Ice and Salt
The Route of Ice and Salt 3.58 avg rating β€” 1,658 ratings
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Empire of the Senseless
Empire of the Senseless 3.68 avg rating β€” 1,612 ratings
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Mojo: Conjure Stories
Mojo: Conjure Stories 4.12 avg rating β€” 206 ratings
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Solitaire
Solitaire 3.97 avg rating β€” 1,201 ratings
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Shadow Man
Shadow Man 3.73 avg rating β€” 353 ratings
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Nightmare (The Silent Empire, #2)
Nightmare (The Silent Empire, #2) 4.13 avg rating β€” 245 ratings
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Earth Logic (Elemental Logic, #2)
Earth Logic (Elemental Logic, #2) 4.19 avg rating β€” 1,173 ratings
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The Vampire Fred
The Vampire Fred 3.45 avg rating β€” 179 ratings
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Mus of Kerbridge
Mus of Kerbridge 0.00 avg rating β€” 0 ratings
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High Aztech
High Aztech 3.56 avg rating β€” 115 ratings
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Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand 3.81 avg rating β€” 3,105 ratings
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Nearly Roadkill
Nearly Roadkill 3.80 avg rating β€” 75 ratings
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Smoking Mirror Blues (Wordcraft Speculative Writers Series)
Smoking Mirror Blues (Wordcraft Speculative Writers Series) 3.73 avg rating β€” 33 ratings
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The Chosen (The Stone Dance of the Chameleon, #1)
The Chosen (The Stone Dance of the Chameleon, #1) 3.55 avg rating β€” 1,089 ratings
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Godmother Night
Godmother Night 3.87 avg rating β€” 312 ratings
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The Watcher's Mask
The Watcher's Mask 3.65 avg rating β€” 55 ratings
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Cortez On Jupiter
Cortez On Jupiter really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 32 ratings
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The Dream of Perpetual Motion
The Dream of Perpetual Motion 3.50 avg rating β€” 2,004 ratings
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Golden Vanity
Golden Vanity 3.77 avg rating β€” 31 ratings
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The Exile and the Sorcerer (Lyremouth Chronicles, #1)
The Exile and the Sorcerer (Lyremouth Chronicles, #1) 4.08 avg rating β€” 945 ratings
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