Contemporary Speculative Fiction
23 books
Must-Read 2016
A Closed and Common Orbit
Becky Chambers
Must-Read 2021
A Desolation Called Peace
Arkady Martine
Must-Read 2019
A Memory Called Empire
Arkady Martine
Must-Read 2008
Anathem
Neal Stephenson
Must-Read 2013
Ancillary Justice
Ann Leckie
Must-Read 2015
Ancillary Mercy
Ann Leckie
Must-Read 2014
Ancillary Sword
Ann Leckie
Must-Read 2006
Blindsight
Peter Watts
Must-Read 2019
Children of Ruin
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Must-Read 2015
Children of Time
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Must-Read 1997
Diaspora
Greg Egan
Must-Read 2011
Embassytown
China Miéville
Must-Read 2019
Exhalation
Ted Chiang
Must-Read 2000
Perdido Street Station
China Miéville
Must-Read 1994
Permutation City
Greg Egan
Must-Read 2002
Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang
Must-Read 2009
The City & The City
China Miéville
Must-Read 2015
The Fifth Season
N. K. Jemisin
Must-Read 2014
The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet
Becky Chambers
Must-Read 2016
The Obelisk Gate
N. K. Jemisin
Must-Read 2002
The Scar
China Miéville
Must-Read 2017
The Stone Sky
N. K. Jemisin
Must-Read 2016
Too Like the Lightning
Ada Palmer