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• Must Read: The Twenty Science Fiction Novels that Will Change Your Life
• Whether it’s because they’ve altered the course of science fiction writing, or simply provide a genuinely alien perspective on ordinary life, these are novels that will rearrange how you think. Check out our list below.
  

  Not that I don’t loooove that book, (I would totally have China’s babies, with eggs dropped from the left ovary, of course), but it seems like io9 officially takes a stand against writing about other forms of fantastic fiction besides science fiction, yet includes ho…

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  A few good selections in here, for sure, but I’ve never heard of half or more of those books or even their authors. If you didn’t have that leading “The,” your post would be fine - I’d take those unfamiliar titles and authors as suggested reading. But with that leading “The” I must protest. I read hundreds of SF and fantasy books in junior high through college (not as many since, but some). No 2001? No Ringworld? You should definitely include Gibson, but his “Neuromancer” (ca. 1984) was the one that “altered the course of science fiction writing”, not his later work. “The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.” How about Hitchhiker’s? Fahrenheit 451? Blade Runner/Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

  Just change the title and get rid of “The” and we’ll all take it as your personal favorites list. Thanks for some new suggestions, though.

  Spring equinox will be here in just a few weeks, and there’s no better way to get ready for the seasonal change than to dig into some great science fiction books. io9 wants to help you get in the mood for transformation by offering this list of twenty sci

  une liste ? regarder

  maybe :p vacsina sfilmovana imho

  Good for picking books within the last 15 years (that I’ve never heard of…)

  The Twenty Science Fiction Novels that Will Change Your Life

  this list of twenty science fiction novels that could change the way you see the world, and maybe even change your life. Whether it’s because they’ve altered the course of science fiction writing, or simply provide a genuinely alien perspective on ordinar