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6/ Farmer in the Sky, Heinlein. (juvenile). Little House on the Prairie, on Ganymede. Got me interested in farming / homesteading back when I was ~10 or so.
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7/ Little Heroes, Norman Spinrad. An overlooked cyberpunk treasure. I'd call it "dated", but if you're looking for cyberpunk, we can both agree to call it "retro" instead.
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8/ Millenium, by John Varley. Classic time travel caper.
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9/ Slow Apocalypse, by John Varley. Small scale apocalyptic / prepper-adjacent novel, from a great author, not a red tribe ghetto writer.
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10/ Revenger, by Alastair Reynolds. Robert Louis Stephenson pirate tail, set in the far future, using rigorous hard science, but with a perfectly nautical 18th century tone.
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11/ Mallworld, by Somtow Sucharitkul . A wacky lighthearted 1980s romp set in a giant space station mall.
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12/ When Gravity Fails, George Alec Effinger. Super imaginitive cyberpunk set in the high tech ghettoes of a 22nd century caliphate.
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13/ A Million Open Doors, by John Barnes. In a future when disconnected human colonies are reconnected, how do you balance cultural preservation with universal concepts of rights?
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14/ The Text of Festival, Mick Farren. A crazy suis generis post apocalyptic tale that prefigures Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, mashed up with Woodstock
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15/ Ridley Walker, by Russel Hoban yet another post apocalyptic tale, written by someone outside the scientific mainstream ; interesting look at cultural continuity and strange attractors
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16/ The Integral Trees, Niven. Small scale hard science fiction adventure in a very interesting world.
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17/ Mission of Gravity, by Hal Clement. The father of ultra hard SF talks about humans crash landing on a planet with gravity varies between 3g and 700g
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18/ Dragon's Egg by Robert Forward. Humans communicate with the strange creatures that live on a neutron star.
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19/ Delta V, Daniel Suarez. Recommended by Neal Stephenson when I asked him at a signing what he was reading. I quite enjoyed it. Hard near-current-day SF dealing with Elon Musk, Bezos, etc. like figures, plus asteroid mining.
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20/ Slow River by Nicola Griffith. An offbeat story following one woman in the near future.
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21/ The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury. Somewhat dated, but given that they're really about human nature, not rockets or Mars, still perfectly timely. Read them, as with all Bradbury, as if they're poetry.
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22/ The Alien Years, by Silverberg. Inscrutable aliens arrive, do things. Humans try to deal, and ... kind of do? Kind of don't. In the end, the aliens are revealed to be ... quite alien.
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23/ The Stainless Steel Rat by Harry Harrison. Light hearted fun.
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24/ The Steel Beach by John Varley. After the aliens kick us off Earth, the center of human civilization is the moon ...but with long life and near infinite wealth, how do we avoid boring ourselves to tears?
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25/ Lucifer's Hammer, by Niven and Pournelle - the single best apocalypse / prepper novel ever written, with massive doses of Heinlein Competent Man trope
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26/ The Last Centurion, by John Ringo. Another apocalypse / prepper novel, and it doesn't suffer from most of the
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27/ Snowcrash, by Neal Stephenson. A tiny tiny bit dated now, but still a great exploration of memes, burbs, post-Westphalian systems, phyles, and more.
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28/ Metropolitan, by Walter Jon Williams. Hard to say if it's really SF, or some sort of urban fantasy, but it's a political novel set in a dieselpunk city that spans a world. Weird, and very good.
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29/ Dune, by Herbert, of course. Galactic Empires had been done before, but he was the first to do it seriously, and make us take it seriously. Also a very early entry in "ecological SF". Laid down the universe and tone that WH40k expanded on.
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30/ The Draka series, by S.M. Stirling. Ripping mil SF if a cruel, imaginative alt history.
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31/ Kiteworld by Keith Roberts. Set either in a future of this world, or - I think - an alternate sister world to ours, it follows a priesthood of kite riders who defend the borders of their realm from demons that may be weird technological incursions.
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32/ Downbelow Station C. J. Cherryh, follows politics at a vast space station / border town as political provocations between two superpowers turn into open war.
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33/ Timescape, by Gregory Benford. A cross-time-communication thriller combined with ecothriller.
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34/ Starship Troopers, by Heinlein. The great granddaddy of mil SF, which has only been equaled once. Almost everything else that follows in its footsteps gives the adventure, without any of the introspection.
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