Science Fiction that expanded the genre

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  • This novel is still fresh 46 years after it was written.
  • 100
  • Skin crawling and nightmare inducing creeepy
  • Ok, this book *was* the one that changed the genre.
  • 80
  • Try to describe it. You'll fail.
  • 80
  • Short stories. The title story and "A Rose for Ecclesiastes" are some of the best short fiction I've read.
  • No introduction required.
  • 100
  • 1975. Opinion markets, radical transparency, network worms and more.
  • 60
  • The most difficult science fiction novel I have ever read. Well worth it, but so surreal that the details fade from memory because your mind can't hold the structure in place.
  • 80
  • I sometimes think of this book as one of the bookends on a shelf of science fiction about language.
  • 80
  • Not at all what you think when you think of Piers Anthony.
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  • These books all changed what I thought Science Fiction was. They may not have been the books that changed the genre, but they were the books that changed it for me.

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