Literary SF/F

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Genre fiction with an academic slant, incorporating sociology, psychology, or anthropology into their setting.
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The Left Hand of Darkness
by Ursula K. Le Guin
18,967 members
459 reviews
4.1
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Babel, or, The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
by R. F. Kuang
10,196 members
235 reviews
4
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This Is How You Lose the Time War
by Amal El-Mohtar
7,510 members
325 reviews
3.9
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Solaris
by Stanisław Lem
7,819 members
191 reviews
3.9
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The Fifth Season
by N. K. Jemisin
11,063 members
448 reviews
4.2
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Kindred
by Octavia E. Butler
10,755 members
410 reviews
4.2
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Gormenghast
by Mervyn Peake
2,989 members
51 reviews
½ 4.3
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Triton
by Samuel R. Delany
1,496 members
24 reviews
½ 3.5
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The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
48,517 members
1,238 reviews
4.1
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The Fifth Head of Cerberus: Three Novellas
by Gene Wolfe
1,974 members
33 reviews
3.9
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Annihilation
by Jeff VanderMeer
8,977 members
447 reviews
½ 3.7
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When We Cease to Understand the World
by Benjamín Labatut
1,993 members
78 reviews
4
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Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
49,295 members
780 reviews
4.1
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Gnomon
by Nick Harkaway
936 members
36 reviews
½ 3.7
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H(A)PPY
by Nicola Barker
155 members
5 reviews
½ 3.4
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The Future of Another Timeline
by Annalee Newitz
1,053 members
37 reviews
3.8
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Gardens of the Moon
by Steven Erikson
8,239 members
221 reviews
3.8
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Gideon the Ninth
by Tamsyn Muir
7,197 members
250 reviews
4.1
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