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What books do you consider must reads?
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The best science fiction has to offer:
Metro 2033
Sphere
Jurassic Park
Roadside Picnic
Metamorphosis
Add from Stephen King:
Night Shift
4 Minutes to Midnight
(Both are novellas/story collections)
And also:
The Call of Cthulhu and other weird tales
Your "best of sf" doesn't include many recognized classics. That's weird. No LeGuin, no Bester?
Only classics? Geez. OP, forget my recommendations.
Correct answer:
https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/g39358054/best-sci-fi-books/
https://thegreatestbooks.org/lists/359
I agree with more than one of these, but I would call out The Metamorphosis as one that everybody should read. You can appreciate it at any age (well, within reason--maybe not for the 8-year-olds), it's dramatic and captivating, and it's short.
I always try to recommend books of short stories to my friends who like to read but don't have much time for it.
Michael Crichton in a list of "best sci-fi"? Really? He just does mass market pulp. It can be entertaining, in the same way a Transformers movie can, but it hardly qualifies as "best".
I’ve read some of Crichton’s other books, not all but a few, and I get it. I wouldn’t rate them so high. But I don’t consider these two to be that kind of book.