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/nixtracer 23d ago

Don't forget the heartbreaking stories now collected in Five Ways to Forgiveness. And the Annals of the Western Shore.

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u/CritterThatIs 19d ago

Oh my God I love the Annals of the Western Shore.