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
18,802 members
453 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
9,893 members
231 reviews
4
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This Is How You Lose the Time War
by Amal El-Mohtar
7,347 members
323 reviews
3.9
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Solaris
by Stanisław Lem
7,758 members
189 reviews
3.9
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The Fifth Season
by N. K. Jemisin
10,896 members
444 reviews
4.2
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Kindred
by Octavia E. Butler
10,615 members
405 reviews
4.2
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Gormenghast
by Mervyn Peake
2,967 members
51 reviews
½ 4.3
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Triton
by Samuel R. Delany
1,488 members
24 reviews
½ 3.5
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The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
48,152 members
1,232 reviews
4.1
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The Fifth Head of Cerberus: Three Novellas
by Gene Wolfe
1,962 members
31 reviews
3.9
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Annihilation
by Jeff VanderMeer
8,864 members
440 reviews
½ 3.7
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When We Cease to Understand the World
by Benjamín Labatut
1,922 members
78 reviews
4
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Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
49,119 members
774 reviews
4.1
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Gnomon
by Nick Harkaway
927 members
36 reviews
½ 3.7
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H(A)PPY
by Nicola Barker
154 members
5 reviews
½ 3.4
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The Future of Another Timeline
by Annalee Newitz
1,046 members
36 reviews
3.8
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Gardens of the Moon
by Steven Erikson
8,154 members
221 reviews
3.8
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Gideon the Ninth
by Tamsyn Muir
7,049 members
244 reviews
4.1
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