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j4d3  ·  3116 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Let's create a list of essential scifi books

1. Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood

2. The Diamond Age, Neal Stephenson

3. The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury

4. The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood

5. Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson

6. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

7. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

8. Dune, Frank Herbert

9. The Time Machine, HG Wells

10. Neuromancer, William Gibson

I haven't read some very important books in this genre (Snow Crash, We, and potentially The Three Body Problem, for example), so the only ones I'd insist on are 1-5.