In June 2004 I decided to start tracking all of the books I read. Sometime since then, I decided to make my way through the list of Hugo and Nebula award winning sci-fi books (I track my progress here). So it comes as no surpise (to me at least) that 69 of the 101 books I've read since June 2004 have been sci-fi. Tonight I was thinking back on all of the great books I've read, and I decided to come up with a top 5 list. So, here are my top 5 favorite sci-fi books, ordered by original publication date:
Dune by Frank Herbert
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
Honorable mention goes to Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. It's not traditional sci-fi, but an excellent fiction novel with an emphasis on science about the Allied codebreakers of WWII.
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