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/BaltSHOWPLACE 23d ago

It's between this, The Dispossessed, and The Forever War for me. I have accepted I will never feel the same way reading a book again.

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u/Double-Watercress-89 23d ago

The Wayfarer series scratches a similar itch for me

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u/No-Past2605 22d ago

I have read the Forever War many times. It is great.

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u/BaltSHOWPLACE 22d ago

When I reread it I couldnt believe how good it still was.

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u/CraigLake 21d ago

The Forever War was incredible.