Sci-fi novels whose movies are just as good

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Science fiction books where the film kept the faith. Read it, watch it, and for once nobody gets to say the book was better.

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Drayfus

Stacked by Drayfus · Updated 9 hours ago

The 8 books on this stack

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  • Ted Chiang 2002 1 want to read

    Why it's on the stack

    You'll keep turning it over for days · one to read slowly

    It shares this with 4 more books on this stack

    Ted Chiang's first published story, "Tower of Babylon," won the Nebula Award in 1990.

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  • Frank Herbert 1965 1 want to read

    Why it's on the stack

    Full of big ideas · a world to get lost in

    It shares this with 2 more books on this stack

    Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family tasked with ruling an inhospitable world where the only thing of value is the "spice" melange, a…

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  • Michael Crichton 1990 1 want to read

    Why it's on the stack

    Nothing is quite what it seems · unsettling from the first page

    It shares this with 4 more books on this stack

    Jurassic Park is a 1990 science fiction novel written by Michael Crichton.

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  • Carl Sagan 1986 1 want to read

    Why it's on the stack

    Full of big ideas · alien contact

    It shares this with 2 more books on this stack

    In the year 1999 a multinational team of astronauts sets out to discover the secrets of the universe.

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  • Andy Weir 2011

    Why it's on the stack

    You'll keep turning it over for days · it makes you laugh

    It shares this with 4 more books on this stack

    "Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars.

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