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David Brin: Dire Warnings And Self-Preventing Prophecies

Description: Adapted from the list of the same name here: http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2012/01/david-brins-list-of-greatest-science.html

Rank Title Author Added

1

by Octavia E. Butler

8,423 members

354 reviews

4.2

3 Members: hipdeep, artturnerjr, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations: artturnerjr: 1979

2

by George Orwell

82,144 members

1,274 reviews

4.2

2 Members: artturnerjr, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations: artturnerjr: 1949

3

Harrison Bergeron [short story]

by Kurt Vonnegut

258 members

18 reviews

4.2

2 Members: artturnerjr, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations: artturnerjr: 1961

4

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

54,011 members

773 reviews

3.9

2 Members: artturnerjr, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations: artturnerjr: 1932

5

A Canticle for Leibowitz

by Walter M. Miller Jr.

11,767 members

308 reviews

3.9

2 Members: artturnerjr, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations: artturnerjr: 1960

6

by Yevgeny Zamyatin

8,484 members

214 reviews

3.8

2 Members: artturnerjr, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations: artturnerjr: 1924

7

Her Smoke Rose Up Forever

by James Tiptree Jr.

1,246 members

38 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: artturnerjr, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations: artturnerjr: 1990

8

The Windup Girl

by Paolo Bacigalupi

6,235 members

304 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: artturnerjr, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations: artturnerjr: 2009

9

The Sheep Look Up

by John Brunner

1,657 members

38 reviews

3.9

2 Members: artturnerjr, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations: artturnerjr: 1972

10

4,898 members

177 reviews

3.9

Member: artturnerjr
Explanations: artturnerjr: 1957

11

4,163 members

90 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: artturnerjr
Explanations: artturnerjr: 1985

12

Beggars in Spain

1,809 members

59 reviews

3.9

Member: artturnerjr
Explanations: artturnerjr: 1993

13

Make Room! Make Room!

by Harry Harrison

1,590 members

48 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: artturnerjr
Explanations: artturnerjr: 1966

14

by Stephen Baxter

933 members

47 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: artturnerjr
Explanations: artturnerjr: 2008

15

The Unincorporated Man

611 members

18 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: artturnerjr
Explanations: artturnerjr: 2009

16

by Frederik Pohl

444 members

3 reviews

3.2

Member: artturnerjr
Explanations: artturnerjr: 1981

17

The Disappearance

by Philip Wylie

272 members

5 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: artturnerjr
Explanations: artturnerjr: 1951

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March 2015
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