Genre :: Science Fiction (43 books)

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  #290

  Fahrenheit 451

  by Ray Bradbury

  (23 Reviews)

  74 Points

  "It was a pleasure to burn."

  

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  #300

  Shadow of the Torturer

  by Gene Wolfe

  (4 Reviews)

  71 Points

  "It is possible I already had some presentiment of my future.To those who have preceded me in the study of the posthistoric world, and particularly to those collectors - too numerous to name here -..."

  

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  #327

  Dhalgren

  by Samuel R. Delany

  (3 Reviews)

  68 Points

  "To wound the autumnal city."

  

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  #339

  Neuromancer

  by William Gibson

  (5 Reviews)

  65 Points

  "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."

  

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  #344

  A Wizard of Earthsea

  by Ursula K. Le Guin

  (6 Reviews)

  64 Points

  "The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards."

  

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  #347

  Gormenghast

  by Mervyn Peake

  (2 Reviews)

  63 Points

  "Titus is seven. His confines, Gormenghast. Suckled on shadows; weaned, as it were, on webs of ritual: for his ears, echoes, for his eyes, a labyrinth of stone: and yet within his body something..."

  

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  #388

  2001: A Space Odyssey

  by Arthur C. Clarke

  (6 Reviews)

  53 Points

  "The drought had lasted now for ten million years, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended. Here on the Equator, in the continent which would one day be known as Africa, the..."

  

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  #400

  Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

  by Haruki Murakami

  (5 Reviews)

  50 Points

  "The elevator continued its impossibly slow ascent."

  

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  #418

  Watchmen

  by Alan Moore

  (10 Reviews)

  46 Points

  "Rorschach's Journal. October 12th, 1985: Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face."

  

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  #425

  Always Coming Home

  by Ursula K. Le Guin

  (2 Reviews)

  44 Points

  "Stone Telling is my last name."

  

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