Speculative Fictions

A Listmania! list by Stephen "dschubba" (wirral, UK)
 
Last And First Men (S.F. MASTERWORKS)
1.  Last And First Men (S.F. MASTERWORKS) by Olaf Stapledon
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  "ethics explored through future history"
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Timescape (S.F. Masterworks)
2.  Timescape (S.F. Masterworks) by Greg Benford
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  "about time-travel, research environments, and global disaster"
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Black Easter, or Faust Aleph-Null (Penguin science fiction)
3.  Black Easter, or Faust Aleph-Null (Penguin science fiction) by James Blish
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  "allegory on the perils of forbidden knowledge"
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Memory
4.  Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold
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  "identity explored; both funny and moving"
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Cyteen
5.  Cyteen by C. J. Cherryh
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  "cloning, psychological manipulation and political wickedness in Cherryh's Merchanter Universe"
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The Man In The High Castle (S.F. Masterworks)
6.  The Man In The High Castle (S.F. Masterworks) by Philip K. Dick
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  "alternate history, and moral courage"
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Shikasta: Re-colonised Planet 5 (Canopus in Argos)
7.  Shikasta: Re-colonised Planet 5 (Canopus in Argos) by Doris May Lessing
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  "pastiche sf: the Bible (and other things) as space opera"
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Voyager Classics - That Hideous Strength
8.  Voyager Classics - That Hideous Strength by C. S. Lewis
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  "fictional reworking of Lewis's Abolition of Man; often prescient"
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Voyage to Arcturus (Fantastic fiction library)
9.  Voyage to Arcturus (Fantastic fiction library) by David Lindsay
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  "Manichaeanism seen through imaginary biologies"
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The Humanoids (Sphere science fiction)
10.  The Humanoids (Sphere science fiction) by Jack Williamson
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  "marvellously ambiguous study of an ideal society"
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The Final Encyclopedia (Sphere science fiction)
11.  The Final Encyclopedia (Sphere science fiction) by Gordon R. Dickson
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  "flawed but moving study of human possibilities and the need for everyone to be a god"
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Little, Big (Fantasy Masterworks)
12.  Little, Big (Fantasy Masterworks) by John Crowley
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  "rich exploration of obsession, fairyland and time"
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Pastwatch
13.  Pastwatch by Card Orson Scott
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  "how history should have been,and perhaps will (?) be"
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Past Master
14.  Past Master by R.A. Lafferty
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  "challenging Utopia"
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Lud-In-The-Mist
15.  Lud-In-The-Mist by Hope Mirrlees
The list author says:
  "truth, dreams and the nature of human law; see http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/introduces/mirrlees.htm"
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The Mote in God's Eye
16.  The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven
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  "ignore the misogyny and enjoy a complex first contact novel"
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Quarantine
17.  Quarantine by Greg Egan
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  "ideas more than character, as in every Egan"
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The Reality Dysfunction (Night's Dawn Trilogy)
18.  The Reality Dysfunction (Night's Dawn Trilogy) by Peter F. Hamilton
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  "the first part of a massive space opera, naturalizing folk-religion"
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Aegypt
19.  Aegypt by John Crowley
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  "first of a foursome, dealing with history, Bruno, John Dee, angels...."
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Across Realtime
20.  Across Realtime by Vernor Vinge
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  "introducing the Singularity: the moment beyond which we cannot extrapolate our future!"
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The Golden Age (Golden Age (Tor Paperback))
21.  The Golden Age (Golden Age (Tor Paperback)) by John C. Wright
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  "the first part of a highly intelligent and philosophically interesting space opera"
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The Probability Broach
22.  The Probability Broach by L.Neil Smith
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  "the first and best of his Libertarian alternate histories"
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