Reddit Underrated Sci Fi List

1.
The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
The Forever War (The Forever War, #1) 4.14 avg rating β€” 176,927 ratings
2.
Neuromancer (Sprawl #1)
Neuromancer (Sprawl #1) 3.89 avg rating β€” 354,052 ratings
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Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1) 4.27 avg rating β€” 285,927 ratings
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Childhood’s End
Childhood’s End 4.12 avg rating β€” 169,997 ratings
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Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1) 4.12 avg rating β€” 179,277 ratings
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Snow Crash
Snow Crash 4.01 avg rating β€” 293,458 ratings
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When Earthlings Weep
When Earthlings Weep 3.51 avg rating β€” 47 ratings
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Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1) 4.04 avg rating β€” 112,803 ratings
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A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1) 4.14 avg rating β€” 65,235 ratings
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Ringworld (Ringworld #1)
Ringworld (Ringworld #1) 3.94 avg rating β€” 127,127 ratings
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The Windup Girl
The Windup Girl 3.75 avg rating β€” 77,344 ratings
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Mars Trilogy
Mars Trilogy 4.35 avg rating β€” 819 ratings
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The Fountains of Paradise
The Fountains of Paradise 3.95 avg rating β€” 31,288 ratings
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Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)
Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1) 4.06 avg rating β€” 46,819 ratings
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Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1)
Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1) 3.99 avg rating β€” 60,092 ratings
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The Sparrow (The Sparrow, #1)
The Sparrow (The Sparrow, #1) 4.14 avg rating β€” 80,279 ratings
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Dragon's Egg (Cheela, #1)
Dragon's Egg (Cheela, #1) 4.12 avg rating β€” 9,558 ratings
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Hominids (Neanderthal Parallax, #1)
Hominids (Neanderthal Parallax, #1) 3.80 avg rating β€” 13,733 ratings
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Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)
Count Zero (Sprawl, #2) 4.02 avg rating β€” 58,281 ratings
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The Accidental Time Machine
The Accidental Time Machine 3.73 avg rating β€” 10,583 ratings
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Tau Zero
Tau Zero 3.83 avg rating β€” 16,138 ratings
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Accelerando
Accelerando 3.87 avg rating β€” 21,991 ratings
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A Fall of Moondust
A Fall of Moondust 3.89 avg rating β€” 11,377 ratings
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In the Balance (Worldwar, #1)
In the Balance (Worldwar, #1) 3.83 avg rating β€” 7,154 ratings
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Seeker (Alex Benedict, #3)
Seeker (Alex Benedict, #3) 3.93 avg rating β€” 7,999 ratings
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The Anubis Gates
The Anubis Gates 3.90 avg rating β€” 17,433 ratings
28.
Matter (Culture, #8)
Matter (Culture, #8) 4.11 avg rating β€” 29,298 ratings
29.
Mission of Gravity (Mesklin #1)
Mission of Gravity (Mesklin #1) 3.90 avg rating β€” 7,528 ratings
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A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)
A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2) 4.32 avg rating β€” 34,625 ratings
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Blackout (Oxford Time Travel, #3)
Blackout (Oxford Time Travel, #3) 3.85 avg rating β€” 26,992 ratings
32.
Camouflage
Camouflage 3.65 avg rating β€” 6,378 ratings
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Flood (Flood, #1)
Flood (Flood, #1) 3.63 avg rating β€” 5,644 ratings
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Weapons of Choice (Axis of Time, #1)
Weapons of Choice (Axis of Time, #1) 3.91 avg rating β€” 5,651 ratings
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Timescape
Timescape 3.72 avg rating β€” 11,410 ratings
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The Dreaming Void (Void #1)
The Dreaming Void (Void #1) 4.18 avg rating β€” 29,330 ratings
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Millennium
Millennium 3.78 avg rating β€” 2,895 ratings
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Lilith's Brood (Xenogenesis, #1-3)
Lilith's Brood (Xenogenesis, #1-3) 4.37 avg rating β€” 21,511 ratings
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The Black Cloud
The Black Cloud 3.90 avg rating β€” 5,132 ratings
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Ark (Flood, #2)
Ark (Flood, #2) 3.88 avg rating β€” 4,003 ratings
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First Contact (Aoleon The Martian Girl, #1)
First Contact (Aoleon The Martian Girl, #1) 4.08 avg rating β€” 172 ratings
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Precursor (Foreigner, #4)
Precursor (Foreigner, #4) 4.25 avg rating β€” 3,848 ratings
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Final Impact (Axis of Time, #3)
Final Impact (Axis of Time, #3) 4.06 avg rating β€” 3,557 ratings
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Designated Targets (Axis of Time, #2)
Designated Targets (Axis of Time, #2) 4.06 avg rating β€” 3,818 ratings
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Who Goes There? and Other Stories
Who Goes There? and Other Stories 3.79 avg rating β€” 1,252 ratings
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Starquake
Starquake 3.97 avg rating β€” 1,180 ratings
48.
Resurrection Day
Resurrection Day 3.93 avg rating β€” 1,332 ratings
49.
Return to Rocheworld (Rocheworld, #2)
Return to Rocheworld (Rocheworld, #2) 3.70 avg rating β€” 189 ratings
49.
Schild's Ladder
Schild's Ladder
by: Greg Egan
3.94 avg rating β€” 4,029 ratings
49.
Strata
Strata 3.53 avg rating β€” 11,444 ratings
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The Collapsium (The Queendom of Sol #1)
The Collapsium (The Queendom of Sol #1) 3.76 avg rating β€” 719 ratings
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The Wellstone (The Queendom of Sol #2)
The Wellstone (The Queendom of Sol #2) 3.81 avg rating β€” 278 ratings
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Prey
Prey 3.79 avg rating β€” 183,698 ratings
55.
Incandescence
Incandescence
by: Greg Egan
3.67 avg rating β€” 2,256 ratings
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Glasshouse
Glasshouse 3.88 avg rating β€” 11,565 ratings
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The Complete Hammer's Slammers Volume 1
The Complete Hammer's Slammers Volume 1 4.18 avg rating β€” 1,336 ratings
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Between the Strokes of Night
Between the Strokes of Night 3.73 avg rating β€” 477 ratings
60.
Lost Dorsai (Childe Cycle, #6)
Lost Dorsai (Childe Cycle, #6) 3.93 avg rating β€” 1,504 ratings
61.
The First Immortal: A Novel Of The Future
The First Immortal: A Novel Of The Future 3.87 avg rating β€” 542 ratings
61.
Road to Megara (Knife of Truth, #2)
Road to Megara (Knife of Truth, #2) 3.68 avg rating β€” 22 ratings
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Doomsday Diaries: The Complete Series
Doomsday Diaries: The Complete Series 3.69 avg rating β€” 13 ratings
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Jackboot Britain
Jackboot Britain 3.63 avg rating β€” 112 ratings
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The Immortality Game
The Immortality Game
by: Ted Cross
3.70 avg rating β€” 292 ratings
61.
Untrustworthy
Untrustworthy 4.26 avg rating β€” 23 ratings
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Inherit the Stars
Inherit the Stars 4.06 avg rating β€” 5,779 ratings
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Abject In the Dust
Abject In the Dust
by: Tir Cey
4.75 avg rating β€” 8 ratings
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Appleseed
Appleseed 3.32 avg rating β€” 192 ratings
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Rules of Redemption (The Firebird Chronicles, #1)
Rules of Redemption (The Firebird Chronicles, #1) 4.34 avg rating β€” 14,526 ratings
72.
A Matter of Honor (Knife of Truth, #1)
A Matter of Honor (Knife of Truth, #1) 4.18 avg rating β€” 28 ratings
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50,000 A.D. The Awakening
50,000 A.D. The Awakening 3.43 avg rating β€” 77 ratings
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The Two of Them
The Two of Them 3.58 avg rating β€” 252 ratings
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Iron Prince (Warformed: Stormweaver, #1)
Iron Prince (Warformed: Stormweaver, #1) 4.58 avg rating β€” 17,291 ratings
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Aftershocks (Colonization, #3)
Aftershocks (Colonization, #3) 3.75 avg rating β€” 2,508 ratings
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The Ballad of Beta 2
The Ballad of Beta 2 3.76 avg rating β€” 899 ratings
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Nabukko (The Nabukko Trilogy, #1)
Nabukko (The Nabukko Trilogy, #1) 4.39 avg rating β€” 69 ratings
80.
Second Contact (Colonization, #1)
Second Contact (Colonization, #1) 3.79 avg rating β€” 3,260 ratings
80.
Last Shuttle Flight, First Alien Contact Part 2
Last Shuttle Flight, First Alien Contact Part 2 really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 6 ratings
80.
Only Bad Options (Galactic Bonds, #1)
Only Bad Options (Galactic Bonds, #1) 4.15 avg rating β€” 6,303 ratings
83.
Down to Earth (Colonization, #2)
Down to Earth (Colonization, #2) 3.77 avg rating β€” 2,710 ratings
83.
All of an Instant
All of an Instant 3.90 avg rating β€” 106 ratings
86.
Upsetting the Balance (Worldwar, #3)
Upsetting the Balance (Worldwar, #3) 3.83 avg rating β€” 4,592 ratings
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NSA Wormhole Project
NSA Wormhole Project 3.71 avg rating β€” 7 ratings
88.
Tilting the Balance (Worldwar, #2)
Tilting the Balance (Worldwar, #2) 3.84 avg rating β€” 5,083 ratings
89.
Striking the Balance (Worldwar, #4)
Striking the Balance (Worldwar, #4) 3.84 avg rating β€” 4,615 ratings
90.
1942
1942 3.89 avg rating β€” 1,232 ratings
91.
Voyage (NASA Trilogy, #1)
Voyage (NASA Trilogy, #1) 3.83 avg rating β€” 2,169 ratings
92.
Nightflyers / True Names (Binary Star #5)
Nightflyers / True Names (Binary Star #5) 3.78 avg rating β€” 45 ratings
93.
Quarantine
Quarantine
by: Greg Egan
3.91 avg rating β€” 6,142 ratings