The Consul's first job after school was as a government liaison to corporations engaged in the development of oil drilling infrastructure based in the Central Administration Isle on Maui-Covenant. The Consul finished school on Tau Ceti Center while his father was a Senator for the Hegemony. The Consul was old enough to join the Mauian rebellion at age 20, but did not at Merin's insistance. The legendary Mauian Siri was his grandmother.Īt age 15, the Consul watched the Hegemony siege of Maui-Covenant from his family's ancestral isle, beginning his sympathy for the revolutionaries and aggression against the Hegemony. He is the youngest child of Maui-Covenant's first Home Rule Councilor Donel Aspic. Now, in ranked order, here are the best science fiction books of all time.The Consul was born on Maui-Covenant, approximately nine local years prior to the destruction of that planet's first orbital farcaster by his grandfather, the famed Mauian revolutionary Merin Aspic. We also emphasized books that brought something new and innovative to the genre to borrow a great sci-fi turn of phrase, books that “boldly go where no one has gone before.” Though we assessed single installments as representatives of their series, we limited the list to one book per author. As the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Doris Lessing said, "Science fiction is some of the best social fiction of our time.”Ĭhoosing the fifty best science fiction books of all time wasn’t easy, so to get the job done, we had to establish some guardrails.
Our favorite works in the genre make good on this promise, meditating on everything from identity to oppression to morality. Through the enduring themes of sci-fi, we can examine the zeitgeist’s cultural context and ethical questions. Sci-fi brings out the best in our imaginations and evokes a sense of wonder, but it also inspires a spirit of questioning. It’s also remarkably porous, allowing for some overlap with genres like fantasy and horror. Now, two centuries later, sci-fi is a sprawling and lucrative multimedia genre with countless sub-genres, such as dystopian fiction, post-apocalyptic fiction, and climate fiction, just to name a few.
Some scholars argue that science fiction as we now understand it was truly born in 1818, when Mary Shelley published Frankenstein, the first novel of its kind whose events are explained by science, not mysticism or miracles. Science fiction’s earliest inklings began in the mid-1600s, when Johannes Kepler and Francis Godwin wrote pioneering stories about voyages to the moon. Today, we call those dreams science fiction. And what remarkable dreams they are-dreams of distant worlds, unearthly creatures, parallel universes, artificial intelligence, and so much more. Since time immemorial, mankind has been looking up at the stars and dreaming, but it was only centuries ago that we started turning those dreams into fiction.
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