Best 21st Century SF

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Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1)
Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1) 3.98 avg rating — 74,055 ratings
2.
The City & the City
The City & the City 3.90 avg rating — 76,309 ratings
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Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
Blindsight (Firefall, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 50,907 ratings
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Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1) 4.04 avg rating — 112,817 ratings
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The Windup Girl
The Windup Girl 3.75 avg rating — 77,346 ratings
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Chasm City
Chasm City 4.13 avg rating — 26,993 ratings
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Matter (Culture, #8)
Matter (Culture, #8) 4.11 avg rating — 29,303 ratings
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Light (Kefahuchi Tract, #1)
Light (Kefahuchi Tract, #1) 3.60 avg rating — 6,528 ratings
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The Scar (New Crobuzon, #2)
The Scar (New Crobuzon, #2) 4.19 avg rating — 34,184 ratings
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The Dervish House
The Dervish House 3.86 avg rating — 4,639 ratings
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Spin (Spin, #1)
Spin (Spin, #1) 4.04 avg rating — 43,595 ratings
12.
The Algebraist
The Algebraist 4.04 avg rating — 23,922 ratings
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Rainbows End
Rainbows End 3.77 avg rating — 18,765 ratings
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Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1) 4.23 avg rating — 1,267,020 ratings
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Air
Air 3.58 avg rating — 2,497 ratings
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Little Brother (Little Brother, #1)
Little Brother (Little Brother, #1) 3.92 avg rating — 52,726 ratings
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Thirteen
Thirteen 3.91 avg rating — 12,715 ratings
18.
House of Suns
House of Suns 4.24 avg rating — 31,349 ratings
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union
The Yiddish Policemen's Union 3.72 avg rating — 79,306 ratings
20.
The Quiet War (The Quiet War, #1)
The Quiet War (The Quiet War, #1) 3.61 avg rating — 2,355 ratings
21.
The Brief History of the Dead
The Brief History of the Dead 3.67 avg rating — 12,562 ratings
22.
Carnival
Carnival 3.61 avg rating — 884 ratings
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Pandora's Star (Commonwealth Saga, #1)
Pandora's Star (Commonwealth Saga, #1) 4.23 avg rating — 52,788 ratings
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Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1)
Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1) 3.99 avg rating — 60,103 ratings
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Surface Detail (Culture, #9)
Surface Detail (Culture, #9) 4.26 avg rating — 29,672 ratings
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Look to Windward (Culture, #7)
Look to Windward (Culture, #7) 4.23 avg rating — 28,828 ratings
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Brasyl
Brasyl 3.67 avg rating — 3,080 ratings
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The Quantum Thief (Jean le Flambeur, #1)
The Quantum Thief (Jean le Flambeur, #1) 3.83 avg rating — 23,447 ratings
29.
Anathem
Anathem 4.17 avg rating — 74,561 ratings
29.
Planet Ignis
Planet Ignis 4.29 avg rating — 17 ratings
31.
Awake in the Night Land
Awake in the Night Land 4.35 avg rating — 481 ratings
32.
The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)
The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1) 3.98 avg rating — 202,152 ratings
33.
River of Gods (India 2047, #1)
River of Gods (India 2047, #1) 3.91 avg rating — 6,111 ratings
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2312
2312 3.52 avg rating — 21,486 ratings
35.
Palimpsest
Palimpsest 3.66 avg rating — 5,220 ratings
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Pattern Recognition (Blue Ant, #1)
Pattern Recognition (Blue Ant, #1) 3.88 avg rating — 52,119 ratings
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Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America
Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America 3.65 avg rating — 615 ratings
38.
Bad Monkeys
Bad Monkeys
by: Matt Ruff
3.61 avg rating — 11,112 ratings
39.
City of Saints and Madmen (Ambergris, #1)
City of Saints and Madmen (Ambergris, #1) 3.86 avg rating — 7,864 ratings
40.
The Golden Age (Golden Age, #1)
The Golden Age (Golden Age, #1) 4.07 avg rating — 3,340 ratings
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The Empress of Mars
The Empress of Mars 3.82 avg rating — 1,099 ratings
42.
The Chronoliths
The Chronoliths 3.68 avg rating — 5,605 ratings
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Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 281,968 ratings
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Lavinia
Lavinia 3.86 avg rating — 16,456 ratings
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Stories of Your Life and Others
Stories of Your Life and Others 4.25 avg rating — 120,137 ratings
46.
Yellow Blue Tibia
Yellow Blue Tibia 3.62 avg rating — 1,691 ratings
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Redemption Ark (Revelation Space, #2)
Redemption Ark (Revelation Space, #2) 4.16 avg rating — 31,770 ratings
48.
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe 3.44 avg rating — 19,836 ratings
48.
Absolution Gap (Revelation Space, #3)
Absolution Gap (Revelation Space, #3) 4.02 avg rating — 24,626 ratings
50.
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3) 3.95 avg rating — 333,096 ratings
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The Fractal Prince (Jean le Flambeur, 2)
The Fractal Prince (Jean le Flambeur, 2) 4.04 avg rating — 9,100 ratings
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The Prefect (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #1)
The Prefect (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 21,244 ratings
53.
End of the World Blues
End of the World Blues 3.71 avg rating — 650 ratings
54.
The Separation
The Separation 3.67 avg rating — 1,336 ratings
55.
Stitching Snow
Stitching Snow 3.87 avg rating — 8,421 ratings
56.
Spinning Starlight
Spinning Starlight 3.77 avg rating — 2,211 ratings
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Farthing (Small Change, #1)
Farthing (Small Change, #1)
by: Jo Walton
3.81 avg rating — 5,595 ratings
57.
Victory Conditions (Vatta's War, #5)
Victory Conditions (Vatta's War, #5) 4.10 avg rating — 9,302 ratings
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Twin-Bred (Twin-Bred #1)
Twin-Bred (Twin-Bred #1) 3.66 avg rating — 149 ratings
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Slow River
Slow River 3.85 avg rating — 4,155 ratings
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Wormhole to Hell or Wormhole to Heaven
Wormhole to Hell or Wormhole to Heaven 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
57.
Nexus (Nexus, #1)
Nexus (Nexus, #1) 4.04 avg rating — 20,822 ratings
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Cybernetics Within Us
Cybernetics Within Us really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
57.
Stormblood (The Common, #1)
Stormblood (The Common, #1) 3.73 avg rating — 618 ratings
65.
Gardens of the Sun (The Quiet War, #2)
Gardens of the Sun (The Quiet War, #2) 3.83 avg rating — 1,039 ratings
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Hannah's Stolen Men (The Men of Space Station One, #10)
Hannah's Stolen Men (The Men of Space Station One, #10) 4.23 avg rating — 105 ratings
65.
Imperfect Sword (The Lost Stars, #3)
Imperfect Sword (The Lost Stars, #3) 4.16 avg rating — 3,349 ratings
65.
Eifelheim
Eifelheim 3.78 avg rating — 4,500 ratings
65.
The Martian
The Martian
by: Andy Weir
4.42 avg rating — 1,239,065 ratings
65.
Blindspace (The Common, #2)
Blindspace (The Common, #2) 4.15 avg rating — 158 ratings
71.
Dust (Jacob's Ladder, #1)
Dust (Jacob's Ladder, #1) 3.66 avg rating — 2,515 ratings
71.
Reach (Twin-Bred, #2)
Reach (Twin-Bred, #2) 4.23 avg rating — 22 ratings
71.
Zita the Spacegirl (Zita the Spacegirl, #1)
Zita the Spacegirl (Zita the Spacegirl, #1)
by: Ben Hatke
4.10 avg rating — 18,856 ratings
71.
Fortune's Pawn (Paradox, #1)
Fortune's Pawn (Paradox, #1) 3.94 avg rating — 15,992 ratings
75.
Division
Division 4.46 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Megan’s Double Miracle (Men of Space Station One, #9)
Megan’s Double Miracle (Men of Space Station One, #9) 4.06 avg rating — 94 ratings
75.
Legends of Zita the Spacegirl (Zita the Spacegirl, #2)
Legends of Zita the Spacegirl (Zita the Spacegirl, #2)
by: Ben Hatke
4.25 avg rating — 10,442 ratings
75.
Honor's Knight (Paradox, #2)
Honor's Knight (Paradox, #2) 3.97 avg rating — 10,101 ratings
79.
Making Them Happy (The Men of Space Station One, #8)
Making Them Happy (The Men of Space Station One, #8) 4.02 avg rating — 95 ratings
79.
The Return of Zita the Spacegirl (Zita the Spacegirl, #3)
The Return of Zita the Spacegirl (Zita the Spacegirl, #3)
by: Ben Hatke
4.33 avg rating — 7,489 ratings
79.
Heaven's Queen (Paradox, #3)
Heaven's Queen (Paradox, #3) 3.97 avg rating — 8,124 ratings
82.
Two Men for Piper (The Men of Space Station One, #7)
Two Men for Piper (The Men of Space Station One, #7) 4.05 avg rating — 103 ratings
82.
This Shattered World (Starbound, #2)
This Shattered World (Starbound, #2) 3.94 avg rating — 22,063 ratings
82.
Gabriel's Ghost (Dock Five Universe, #1)
Gabriel's Ghost (Dock Five Universe, #1) 3.74 avg rating — 4,466 ratings
85.
Nova Swing (Kefahuchi Tract, #2)
Nova Swing (Kefahuchi Tract, #2) 3.63 avg rating — 2,278 ratings
85.
Existence
Existence 3.78 avg rating — 7,069 ratings
85.
Their Independent Bride (The Men of Space Station One, #6)
Their Independent Bride (The Men of Space Station One, #6) 3.97 avg rating — 103 ratings
85.
Romulus Buckle & the Engines of War (Chronicles of the Pneumatic Zeppelin, #2)
Romulus Buckle & the Engines of War (Chronicles of the Pneumatic Zeppelin, #2) 4.07 avg rating — 637 ratings
85.
Aurora
Aurora 3.78 avg rating — 27,125 ratings
85.
Finders Keepers
Finders Keepers 3.93 avg rating — 3,251 ratings
91.
Off Armageddon Reef (Safehold, #1)
Off Armageddon Reef (Safehold, #1) 4.14 avg rating — 12,633 ratings
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The Carpenters' Helper (The Men of Space Station One, #5)
The Carpenters' Helper (The Men of Space Station One, #5) 3.85 avg rating — 121 ratings
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Romulus Buckle & the City of the Founders (Chronicles of the Pneumatic Zeppelin, #1)
Romulus Buckle & the City of the Founders (Chronicles of the Pneumatic Zeppelin, #1) 3.64 avg rating — 1,232 ratings
91.
An Accidental Goddess
An Accidental Goddess 4.03 avg rating — 3,937 ratings
95.
The Love We Share Without Knowing
The Love We Share Without Knowing 3.94 avg rating — 577 ratings
95.
Love Between the Hired Hands (The Men of Space Station One, #4)
Love Between the Hired Hands (The Men of Space Station One, #4) 3.87 avg rating — 122 ratings
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Perilous Shield (The Lost Stars, #2)
Perilous Shield (The Lost Stars, #2) 4.09 avg rating — 4,220 ratings
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The Down Home Zombie Blues
The Down Home Zombie Blues 3.66 avg rating — 1,268 ratings
99.
The Hired Hands' Dilemma (The Men of Space Station One, #3)
The Hired Hands' Dilemma (The Men of Space Station One, #3) 3.85 avg rating — 143 ratings
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These Broken Stars (Starbound, #1)
These Broken Stars (Starbound, #1) 3.89 avg rating — 71,250 ratings
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