War is brewing in the system unless he can find out who left the ship and why.ĭetective Miller is looking for a girl. A secret that someone is willing to kill for – and kill on a scale unfathomable to Jim and his crew. When he and his crew stumble upon a derelict ship, The Scopuli, they find themselves in possession of a secret they never wanted.

Jim Holden is XO of an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the Belt. Humanity has colonized the solar system – Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond – but the stars are still out of our reach. The symbols don’t mean anything, but they class up the joint a little. The descriptions are from Amazon, because the ones from Wikipedia were boring. I’ve listed the top 85 books below, in no particular order.

Neal Stephenson: Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, Anathem, Cryptonomicon.Larry Niven (3 books co-authored with Jerry Pournelle): A World Out of Time, The Mote in God’s Eye, Fallen Angels, Footfall.John Scalzi: Agent to the Stars, Old Man’s War, Redshirts, The Android’s Dream.Banks: The Algebraist, Consider Phlebas, The Player of Games, Use of Weapons It’s a four-way tie with four books per author. I was thrilled to discover dozens of new titles and authors, and my reading list probably got longer by an entire year. Sudevsen ended up with over 2,000 answers. Reddit responded generously, including some titles that were older than 25 years (science fiction readers can be passionate, and if there’s a book you should read, by god they’re going to tell you, to hell with the rules).

On June 13, 2014, Reddit user sudevsen posed a question to the Books subreddit: What’s the best stand-alone science-fiction book of the last 25 years?

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