Science Fiction Book Reviews
If you like science fiction books with quality writing, you've come to the right place. When you're in the mood for an excape from the real world, science fiction can be the perfect ticket. There's been a recent surge of quality science fiction for adults that far surpasses most of the older juvenile "sci-fi" novels. The following reviews are listed in order of their overall rating based on my highly biased rating criteria.
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Science Fiction Reviews by Rating:
- Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan
- River of Gods by Ian McDonald
- The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
- A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller
- The Martian by Andy Weir
- The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
- A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
- Blindsight by Peter Watts
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
- The Peripheral by William Gibson
- Brave New Word by Aldous Huxley
- Halting State by Charles Stross
- Virtual Light by William Gibson
- The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
- Darwinia by Robert Charles Wilson
- Saturn's Children by Charles Stross
- Lucifer’s Hammer by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
- Queen of Angels by Greg Bear
- The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
- Slant by Greg Bear
- The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula Le Guin
- redRobe by Jon Courtenay Grimwood
- A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
- Genesis by Bernard Beckett
- Transition by Iain M. Banks
- Starfish by Peter Watts
- Blind Lake by Robert Charles Wilson
- End of the World Blues by Jon Courtenay Grimwood
- Broken Angels by Richard Morgan
- Rule 34 by Charles Stross
- All Tomorrow's Parties by William Gibson
- Footfall by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
- The Jennifer Morgue by Charles Stross
- Singularity Sky by Charles Stross
- The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin
- Axis by Robert Charles Wilson
- Sacrifice of Fools by Ian Mcdonald
- Resistance by Samit Basu
- Coldbrook by Tim Lebbon
- Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
- Glasshouse by Charles Stross
- Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks
- Light by M. John Harrison
- The Mirage by Matt Ruff
- The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks
- The Children of the Sky by Vernor Vinge
- Moxyland by Lauren Beukes
- The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
- Shovel Ready by Adam Sternbergh
- Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway
- The Dervish House by Ian McDonald
- Julian Comstock by Robert Charles Wilson
- Seed by Rob Ziegler
- The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov
- Amnesia Moon by Jonathan Lethem
- Ecko Rising by Danie Ware
- The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes
- BIOS by Robert Charles Wilson
- The Hour of Lead by Kathleen De Grave
- When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger
- Dead Girls by Richard Calder
- Hull Zero Three by Greg Bear
- Blood Music by Greg Bear
- The Other Log of Phileas Fogg by Philip José Farmer
- Holy Fire by Bruce Sterling
- Brasyl by Ian McDonald
- Free Radicals by Zeke Teflon
- Harbinger by Jack Skillingstead
- Iron Sunrise by Charles Stross
- Embassytown by China Miéville
- Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks
- Plowing the Dark by Richard Powers
