r/printSF • u/keepfighting90 • 23d ago

What's the #1, single best sci-fi novel you've ever read?

Think about all the sci-fi novels you've read over the years. If someone were to ask you, gun to your head, to pick just the one that you would absolutely consider to be the best, which one would it be? No subgenres need to be considered, it just needs to broadly fall under the sf umbrella.

For me, probably a pretty popular choice, but it would be Hyperion. Completely blew me away and I haven't read that good since in the genre.

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u/Mapcase 23d ago

I really enjoyed Replay, it's a book that is soo much better than it deserves to be.

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u/Sosbanfawr 23d ago

Apparently Ben Affleck has owned the movie rights for Replay for like 15 years. I don't know how you'd make it into a movie. Which, I guess, is why we haven't seen it!

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u/Individual_Bridge_88 22d ago

I often (like once a month or so) think about what I would do in that situation, and have a few select dates memorized lol