Ranking My Top 10 Sci-Fi Books of ALL TIME

I'm gonna say the trilogy Dune Doom Messiah Children of Dune these three are everything that science fiction can be it holds up a mirror to who we are

she also wrote a follow-up book to this called children of God I don't think it quite captures the lightning in the bottle that the sparrow does

it is a Russian nesting doll of interconnected stories that achieve the impossible almost it goes through our entire history of human beings and by the time you get to the far flung future and it reaches back to where you started it to her deep past there is an epiphany at this ending that will send a shock through your system

this book is Space Opera it is sci-fi fantasy it is a prescient warning about the fanaticism of religion it is a prescient warning about our dwindling resources and The Strife that will follow that is a prescient warning about climate change

I'm gonna say the trilogy Dune Doom Messiah Children of Dune these three are everything that science fiction can be it holds up a mirror to who we are

it is the perfect Crossroads of childhood lost and conquerors Triumph young Ender Wiggins is pulled up into battle school which is a militaristic satellite school and he is shows himself that he is the best military mind of his time

when she goes to tell a story of a man trying to transcend our own humanity and obtain godhood by breathing life into dead tissue never been done again to this level it's absolutely phenomenal

this book is phenomenal there are some follow-up books to this but I do not think they stand on the Pinnacle that this book stands on

this is a seminal work this is a work that should be studied and taught forever and ever and ever and if you have not read it throw it on your sci-fi list

this is such an amazing group of short stories it goes from the very beginnings of robot creation all the way up to Dr Susan Calvin who is a robotic psychologist trying to understand the workings of their mind

this book will make you laugh out loud and then make you look at our society in a totally different way

this is a first Contact story that has a different perspective than any other I've ever read and it's a great pick for this list because I don't think anywhere near enough people have read it

It is the ultimate post-apocalyptic good versus evil tale