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Most Under-rated Science Fiction
1.
The Mercy of Gods (The Captive's War, #1)
by:
James S.A. Corey
4.17 avg rating โ 29,885 ratings
2.
Grass (Arbai, #1)
by:
Sheri S. Tepper
4.03 avg rating โ 13,135 ratings
3.
Salvager: A Military Science Fiction Adventure
by:
Scott Moon
4.18 avg rating โ 1,701 ratings
4.
The Rookie (Galactic Football League, #1)
by:
Scott Sigler
4.27 avg rating โ 3,782 ratings
5.
The Polymorph
by:
Max Nowaz
4.28 avg rating โ 15,176 ratings
6.
Blood Music
by:
Greg Bear
3.84 avg rating โ 16,525 ratings
7.
Inara (Godfrey Davis, #3)
by:
A.R. Merrydew
4.35 avg rating โ 6,313 ratings
8.
Eon (The Way, #1)
by:
Greg Bear
3.88 avg rating โ 29,924 ratings
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The Anubis Gates
by:
Tim Powers
3.90 avg rating โ 17,433 ratings
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Shift (Silo, #2)
by:
Hugh Howey
4.13 avg rating โ 143,502 ratings
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The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
by:
Becky Chambers
4.17 avg rating โ 175,386 ratings
12.
On Destiny
by:
Aileen Erin
4.20 avg rating โ 699 ratings
13.
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
by:
Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.30 avg rating โ 160,032 ratings
14.
The Adventures of the Stainless Steel Rat (Stainless Steel Rat, #4-6)
by:
Harry Harrison
4.12 avg rating โ 9,427 ratings
15.
Songs of Distant Earth
by:
Arthur C. Clarke
3.91 avg rating โ 16,773 ratings
16.
The Left Hand of Darkness
by:
Ursula K. Le Guin
4.10 avg rating โ 209,462 ratings
17.
Engines of Oblivion (The Memory War, #2)
by:
Karen Osborne
4.01 avg rating โ 950 ratings
18.
Crank Palace (The Maze Runner, #3.5)
by:
James Dashner
4.09 avg rating โ 16,180 ratings
19.
Light Bringer (Red Rising Saga, #6)
by:
Pierce Brown
4.76 avg rating โ 78,761 ratings
20.
Wraith (The Convergence War #1)
by:
M.R. Forbes
4.26 avg rating โ 3,197 ratings
21.
Livesuit (The Captive's War, #1.5)
by:
James S.A. Corey
4.33 avg rating โ 8,046 ratings
22.
Service Model
by:
Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.04 avg rating โ 13,973 ratings
23.
Starsight (Skyward, #2)
by:
Brandon Sanderson
4.35 avg rating โ 104,489 ratings
24.
Compulsory (The Murderbot Diaries, #0.5)
by:
Martha Wells
4.31 avg rating โ 12,516 ratings
25.
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earthโs Past, #1)
by:
Liu Cixin
4.08 avg rating โ 460,879 ratings
26.
Mickey7 (Mickey7 #1)
by:
Edward Ashton
3.79 avg rating โ 44,845 ratings
27.
Columbus Day (Expeditionary Force, #1)
by:
Craig Alanson
4.26 avg rating โ 31,275 ratings
28.
More Than Human
by:
Theodore Sturgeon
3.94 avg rating โ 19,215 ratings
29.
Antarctica Station
by:
A.G. Riddle
3.98 avg rating โ 12,494 ratings
30.
Risen (The Boy in the Iron Box, #4)
by:
Guillermo del Toro
4.01 avg rating โ 3,966 ratings
31.
Lilith's Brood (Xenogenesis, #1-3)
by:
Octavia E. Butler
4.37 avg rating โ 21,511 ratings
32.
Not Till We Are Lost (Bobiverse, #5)
by:
Dennis E. Taylor
4.31 avg rating โ 13,821 ratings
33.
Termination Shock
by:
Neal Stephenson
3.83 avg rating โ 19,998 ratings
34.
Descent (The Palladium Wars, #4)
by:
Marko Kloos
4.32 avg rating โ 3,235 ratings
35.
Starter Villain
by:
John Scalzi
4.13 avg rating โ 84,978 ratings
36.
The Artifact
by:
David Collins
4.25 avg rating โ 2,666 ratings
37.
Starship Troopers
by:
Robert A. Heinlein
4.01 avg rating โ 241,840 ratings
38.
Stand on Zanzibar
by:
John Brunner
3.94 avg rating โ 17,111 ratings
39.
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
by:
Dennis E. Taylor
4.27 avg rating โ 114,123 ratings
40.
Mind's Eye
by:
Douglas E. Richards
4.07 avg rating โ 12,244 ratings
41.
Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)
by:
James S.A. Corey
4.38 avg rating โ 82,578 ratings
42.
Babel-17
by:
Samuel R. Delany
3.72 avg rating โ 19,540 ratings
43.
A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
by:
Vernor Vinge
4.14 avg rating โ 65,236 ratings
44.
Beggars in Spain (Sleepless, #1)
by:
Nancy Kress
3.93 avg rating โ 8,818 ratings
45.
Rainbows End
by:
Vernor Vinge
3.77 avg rating โ 18,765 ratings
46.
Downbelow Station (The Company Wars, #1)
by:
C.J. Cherryh
3.90 avg rating โ 16,166 ratings
47.
Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6)
by:
John Scalzi
4.16 avg rating โ 12,722 ratings
48.
The Worst Ship in the Fleet (Dumb Luck and Dead Heroes, #1)
by:
Skyler Ramirez
4.02 avg rating โ 5,097 ratings
49.
The Gate to Women's Country
by:
Sheri S. Tepper
4.06 avg rating โ 13,951 ratings
50.
The Inverted World
by:
Christopher Priest
3.95 avg rating โ 10,475 ratings
51.
Eyes of the Void (The Final Architecture, #2)
by:
Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.19 avg rating โ 18,458 ratings
52.
Cyteen (Cyteen, #1-3)
by:
C.J. Cherryh
really liked it 4.00 avg rating โ 10,485 ratings
53.
Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (Callahan's, #1)
by:
Spider Robinson
4.17 avg rating โ 10,575 ratings
54.
The Death of Grass
by:
John Christopher
3.88 avg rating โ 10,706 ratings
55.
The Difference Engine
by:
William Gibson
3.47 avg rating โ 22,741 ratings
56.
When Gravity Fails (Marรฎd Audran, #1)
by:
George Alec Effinger
3.91 avg rating โ 7,989 ratings
57.
Whalefall
by:
Daniel Kraus
3.69 avg rating โ 27,214 ratings
58.
The Long Game (The Far Reaches, #4)
by:
Ann Leckie
3.62 avg rating โ 7,567 ratings
59.
Burden of Sisyphus (Brink of Distinction #1)
by:
Jon Messenger
3.64 avg rating โ 239 ratings
60.
China Mountain Zhang
by:
Maureen F. McHugh
3.96 avg rating โ 4,978 ratings
61.
The Golden Age (Golden Age, #1)
by:
John C. Wright
4.07 avg rating โ 3,340 ratings
62.
Killashandra (Crystal Singer, #2)
by:
Anne McCaffrey
4.08 avg rating โ 15,759 ratings
63.
Brightness Reef (Uplift Storm Trilogy, #1)
by:
David Brin
3.91 avg rating โ 10,878 ratings
64.
Logan's Run
by:
William F. Nolan
3.64 avg rating โ 12,697 ratings
65.
Fractal Noise (Fractalverse, #0)
by:
Christopher Paolini
3.44 avg rating โ 13,866 ratings
66.
The V Girl: A Coming of Age Story
by:
Mya Robarts
3.96 avg rating โ 16,713 ratings
67.
Claimed (Brides of the Kindred, #1)
by:
Evangeline Anderson
3.79 avg rating โ 20,894 ratings
68.
Games of Command
by:
Linnea Sinclair
4.04 avg rating โ 3,456 ratings
69.
Dark Voyage Matters of the Mind (The Children of the Gods #78)
by:
I.T. Lucas
4.57 avg rating โ 2,737 ratings
70.
The Speed of Dark
by:
Elizabeth Moon
3.99 avg rating โ 11,545 ratings
71.
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
by:
Kate Wilhelm
3.84 avg rating โ 10,835 ratings
72.
Gabriel's Ghost (Dock Five Universe, #1)
by:
Linnea Sinclair
3.74 avg rating โ 4,466 ratings
73.
Inferno (Inferno, #1)
by:
Larry Niven
3.83 avg rating โ 6,195 ratings
74.
The Cyberiad
by:
Stanisลaw Lem
4.14 avg rating โ 13,811 ratings
75.
An Accidental Goddess
by:
Linnea Sinclair
4.03 avg rating โ 3,937 ratings
76.
Dark Horse (Class 5, #1)
by:
Michelle Diener
4.09 avg rating โ 8,916 ratings
77.
Gun, With Occasional Music
by:
Jonathan Lethem
3.76 avg rating โ 11,508 ratings
78.
Ral's Woman (Zorn Warriors, #1)
by:
Laurann Dohner
3.82 avg rating โ 14,681 ratings
79.
A World Out of Time (The State, #1)
by:
Larry Niven
3.80 avg rating โ 6,753 ratings
80.
Polaris Rising (Consortium Rebellion, #1)
by:
Jessie Mihalik
3.92 avg rating โ 14,648 ratings
81.
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
by:
James Tiptree Jr.
4.18 avg rating โ 4,620 ratings
82.
Hominids (Neanderthal Parallax, #1)
by:
Robert J. Sawyer
3.80 avg rating โ 13,733 ratings
83.
Lies, Inc.
by:
Philip K. Dick
3.20 avg rating โ 3,500 ratings
84.
Hunt the Stars (Starlight's Shadow, #1)
by:
Jessie Mihalik
4.02 avg rating โ 11,309 ratings
85.
Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)
by:
Martha Wells
4.30 avg rating โ 93,276 ratings
86.
The Sheep Look Up
by:
John Brunner
3.91 avg rating โ 5,595 ratings
87.
Trials of Conviction (The Firebird Chronicles, #5)
by:
T.A. White
4.51 avg rating โ 4,615 ratings
88.
Blackout (Oxford Time Travel, #3)
by:
Connie Willis
3.85 avg rating โ 26,993 ratings
89.
The Space Between Worlds (The Space Between Worlds, #1)
by:
Micaiah Johnson
3.93 avg rating โ 43,366 ratings
89.
Ice Planet Barbarians (Ice Planet Barbarians, #1)
by:
Ruby Dixon
3.63 avg rating โ 187,392 ratings
91.
Wild Seed (Patternist, #1)
by:
Octavia E. Butler
4.21 avg rating โ 38,337 ratings
92.
Tuf Voyaging
by:
George R.R. Martin
4.11 avg rating โ 12,914 ratings
93.
Station Eternity (The Midsolar Murders, #1)
by:
Mur Lafferty
3.69 avg rating โ 7,609 ratings
94.
Roadside Picnic
by:
Arkady Strugatsky
4.13 avg rating โ 81,986 ratings
95.
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by:
Pierce Brown
4.27 avg rating โ 657,248 ratings
96.
The Martian Chronicles
by:
Ray Bradbury
4.16 avg rating โ 279,643 ratings
97.
Dreamsnake
by:
Vonda N. McIntyre
3.87 avg rating โ 11,065 ratings
98.
Infinite
by:
Brian Freeman
4.04 avg rating โ 12,785 ratings
99.
Treason
by:
Orson Scott Card
3.90 avg rating โ 8,012 ratings
100.
The Light of Other Days
by:
Arthur C. Clarke
3.98 avg rating โ 7,992 ratings
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