Sci-fi with great women, where being a woman isn't the whole point
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Sharp, complicated heroines doing the actual work of the story — saving the ship, solving the puzzle, breaking the world. Sci-fi where the lead's gender doesn't decide what the book is about.
Hand-picked and sealed. Every book here was chosen on purpose — no votes, no algorithm.
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The 7 books on this stack
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Arkady Martine 2019 1 want to read
Why it's on the stack
You'll finish it in two nights · espionage
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Winner of the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Novel A Locus, and Nebula Award nominee for 2019 An NPR Favorite Book of 2019 An Esquire Best Sci-Fi Book of All Time A Guardian Best Science Fiction and…
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Becky Chambers 2014
Why it's on the stack
Odd and endearing · comforting, like coming home
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEY'S WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 'A quietly profound, humane tour de force' Guardian The beloved debut novel that will restore your faith in humanity #SmallAngryPlanet When…
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Nnedi Okorafor 2015
Why it's on the stack
You'll finish it in two nights · alien contact
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Nnedi Okorafor's Binti is the winner of the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for Best Novella!
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Ann Leckie 2013
Why it's on the stack
You'll keep turning it over for days · you end up rooting for the wrong people
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This special 10th anniversary edition of the record-breaking masterpiece that won the Hugo, Nebula and Arthur C. Clarke Awards follows a warship trapped in a human body on a quest for revenge.
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Adrian Tchaikovsky 2015 1 want to read
Why it's on the stack
One more chapter, then another · alien contact
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Humanity is overrated.Children of Time the tenth anniversary edition.
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Christopher Paolini 1905
Why it's on the stack
Unsettling from the first page · alien contact
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To Sleep in a Sea of Stars is a brand new epic novel from New York Times bestselling author Christopher Paolini.
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James S. A. Corey 2012
Why it's on the stack
One more chapter, then another · the truth comes out bit by bit
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The second novel in James S. A. Corey's SF New York Times bestselling Expanse series.