20/ Slow River by Nicola Griffith. An offbeat story following one woman in the near future.
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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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35/ The Forever War, by Joe Haldeman. A response and rebuttal to Starship Troopers, and the only mil SF novel to ever equal or perhaps even exceed it, on its own terms.
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36/ Dhalgren, by Samuel Delaney. I hated it, and I didn't finish it, but there's something going on there.
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37/ There are Doors, by Gene Wolfe. Perhaps the easiest onramp to the often challenging master. Multiple universes, doors between then, maybe a goddess.
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38/ The World Next Door, Brad Ferguson. Set in an alternate history where World War III happened in the late 1960s, the children and grandchildren of the survivors, living a relatively placid agrarian existence, start to have dreams, dreams with lyrics from our universe...
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39/ Pacific Edge by Kim Stanley Robinson. Part of a triptych of three novels, each set 30 years in the future in the same California town, but in three very different futures.
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40/ Hyperion, Dan Simmons. The Canterbury Tales, in the future, when three factions of AIs are plotting against humans, but we don't know it and are more concerned with a time travelling murder both protecting time tombs. ...but then it gets weird.
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ok, back to writing the homesteading book more later
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41/ A Canticle for Leibowitz, by Walter M. Miller Jr. A meditation on human nature, sin, the cyclical nature of history, all in the context of recovering lost science 1,000 years after a nuclear war.
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42/ Souls in the Great Machine, by Sean McMullen. very odd post apocalyptic novel where the exact nature of the apocalypse is unclear, but the remnant orbiting weapons can still be seen with the naked eye, and the mutated sea mammals still use their Call to lure humans to doom
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43/ Orion Shall Rise, by Poul Anderson. Again, set a thousand years after the nuclear war. There are several interestingly evolved future cultures, all vying for supremacy. I need to reread this.
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44/ Hardwired, by Walter Jon Williams. Great cyberpunk-ish smuggling tale.
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45/ Deep Drive by Alexander Jablokov. The solar system has been visited by dozens of aliens, but they won't sell humans the technology to travel to the stars. Intrigue happens.
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46/ Farewell Horizontal by K. W. Jeter. A very weird setting that haunts the entire tale: everything takes place on the outside of a very (infinitely ?) tall building.
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47/ Beggars in Spain, Nancy Kress. In a near future where a fraction of 1% of people produce 99% of the value, and everyone else lives off of welfare which they "earn" by voting, what responsibility does the 1% have for the others? Nancy answers the question incorrectly.
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48/ Red Mars, etc. trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. An epic tale of teraforming, politics, and ecoterrorism.
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Espedair Street, oh, wait, that's by Iain Banks, not Iain M Bankshttps://twitter.com/TheClarksTale/status/1331355477897166850 …
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49/ Against a Dark Background, by Iain M Banks. A stand alone novel, outside of his culture universe, set in a world that is far far far from any galaxies, and which therefore is trapped in tens or hundreds of thousands of years of rise-and-fall-and-rise history
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50/ and speaking of endless cycles The Mote in God's Eye by Niven and Pournelle. Best first contact novel ever, IMO. I s̶t̶e̶a̶l̶ pay homage to one particular scene in Aristillus 4.
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ok, need to write at 4,242 words today and would love to hit 5k
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51/ Absolution Gap, Alastair Reynoldshttps://twitter.com/hmmm_bot/status/1331448131624579073 …
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52/ Neuromancer, William Gibson I just re-read it a year ago, and it's an entirely different novel when read at 49 than at 13 or so. An absolute classic of cyberpunk / ennui / Beat
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53/ The World Inside, Robert Silverberg Yet another 1960s/70s overpopulation tale, an adult counterpart to the YA This Time of Darkness, but without the hope. A good view into a future culture entirely unlike our own.
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54/ Bug Jack Barron, Norman Spinrad 1969 media mogul Donald Trump's son Barron Trump, uncovers a future adenochrome conspiracy by the pedo elite. I...am only 20% joking.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug_Jack_Barron …
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55/ The Snow Queen, by Joan D Vinge (ex wife of fellow SF great Vernor Vinge). Two human cultures alternate ruling a single planet on a 300 year cycle, as the climate oscilates, one high tech, one low.
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56/ Soldiers of Paradise by Paul Park Another in the "cyclical history" subgenre. On a world where seasons last for decades or centuries, it seems that all of this has happened before.
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