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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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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Funny enough Heinlien loved the book.
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