77+ of Your Favorite Science Fiction Books
This week’s Riot Recommendation is sponsored by Ninth City Burning by J. Patrick Black.
Entire cities disappeared in the blink of an eye, leaving nothing but dust and rubble. When an alien race came to make Earth theirs, they brought with them a weapon we had no way to fight. It seemed nothing could stop it—until we discovered we could wield the power too.
We asked and you answered the call. For those who love science fiction, we hope you find a new thing or two on this round-up of reader’s favorite works. For those of you who are new or eager to try out the genre, you can do no better than begin here. Enjoy more than 77 Riot reader favorite works of science fiction: Ascension by Jacqueline Koyanagi “Ancillary Justice” Series by Ann Leckie Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia Butler Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller Jr. Carnival by Elizabeth Bear Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh City by Clifford Simak Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell Contact by Carl Sagan Dawn by Octavia Butler “Declaration” Trilogy by Gemma Malley The Dervish House by Ian McDonald The Diamond Age; Or, a Young Ladies Illustrated Primer by Neal Stevenson The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis Dune by Frank Herbert Elysium by Jennifer Marie Brissett Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury “Fairyland” series by Catherynne Valente Feed by Mira Grant A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge Fortune’s Pawn by Rachel Bach “His Dark Materials” trilogy by Phillip Pullman Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy by Douglas Adams Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff John Carter of Mars by Edgar Rise Burroughs Light by M. John Harrison The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers “Lunar Chronicles” series by Marissa Meyer “Maddaddam” trilogy by Margaret Atwood “Mars” Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson The Martian by Andy Weir The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury Mirror Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold My Real Children by Jo Walton Neromancer by William Gibson Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Next by Michael Crichton Old Man’s War by John Scalzi A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs The Postman by David Brin The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi Ready Player One by Ernest Cline Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke “Saga” series by Brian K. Vaughn A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick Seveneves by Neal Stephenson “Shadow Children” Sequence by Margaret Peterson Haddix “Sirantha Jax” series from Ann Aguirre Software by Rudy Rucker The Sparrow by Maria Doria Russell The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel Stealing Light by Gary Gibson Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein “Tao” series by Wesley Chu These Broken Stars (Starbound Series) by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin Tin Soldier by Joan D. Vinge To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Wills The War of the Worlds by HG Wells Warchild by Karin Lowachee Watchers by Dean Koontz The Word for World is Forest by Ursula Le Guin Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle A Working Theory of Love by Scott Hutchins “Xenogenesis” trilogy by Octavia Butler Zazen by Vanessa Veselka Zeroboxer by Fonda Lee
Entire cities disappeared in the blink of an eye, leaving nothing but dust and rubble. When an alien race came to make Earth theirs, they brought with them a weapon we had no way to fight. It seemed nothing could stop it—until we discovered we could wield the power too.
Five hundred years later, the Earth is locked in a grinding war of attrition. Civilization revolves around supporting the Legion to take on the aliens. But the enemy’s tactics are shifting. As a terrible new onslaught threatens the end of our world, heroes will rise from unlikely quarters…and fight back.
We asked and you answered the call. For those who love science fiction, we hope you find a new thing or two on this round-up of reader’s favorite works. For those of you who are new or eager to try out the genre, you can do no better than begin here. Enjoy more than 77 Riot reader favorite works of science fiction: Ascension by Jacqueline Koyanagi “Ancillary Justice” Series by Ann Leckie Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia Butler Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller Jr. Carnival by Elizabeth Bear Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh City by Clifford Simak Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell Contact by Carl Sagan Dawn by Octavia Butler “Declaration” Trilogy by Gemma Malley The Dervish House by Ian McDonald The Diamond Age; Or, a Young Ladies Illustrated Primer by Neal Stevenson The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis Dune by Frank Herbert Elysium by Jennifer Marie Brissett Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury “Fairyland” series by Catherynne Valente Feed by Mira Grant A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge Fortune’s Pawn by Rachel Bach “His Dark Materials” trilogy by Phillip Pullman Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy by Douglas Adams Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff John Carter of Mars by Edgar Rise Burroughs Light by M. John Harrison The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers “Lunar Chronicles” series by Marissa Meyer “Maddaddam” trilogy by Margaret Atwood “Mars” Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson The Martian by Andy Weir The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury Mirror Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold My Real Children by Jo Walton Neromancer by William Gibson Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Next by Michael Crichton Old Man’s War by John Scalzi A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs The Postman by David Brin The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi Ready Player One by Ernest Cline Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke “Saga” series by Brian K. Vaughn A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick Seveneves by Neal Stephenson “Shadow Children” Sequence by Margaret Peterson Haddix “Sirantha Jax” series from Ann Aguirre Software by Rudy Rucker The Sparrow by Maria Doria Russell The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel Stealing Light by Gary Gibson Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein “Tao” series by Wesley Chu These Broken Stars (Starbound Series) by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin Tin Soldier by Joan D. Vinge To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Wills The War of the Worlds by HG Wells Warchild by Karin Lowachee Watchers by Dean Koontz The Word for World is Forest by Ursula Le Guin Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle A Working Theory of Love by Scott Hutchins “Xenogenesis” trilogy by Octavia Butler Zazen by Vanessa Veselka Zeroboxer by Fonda Lee
