The best science fiction books - the choice of millions of readers

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

The popularity of such a literary genre as science fiction cannot be overestimated - the best science fiction books find their readers every day, and modern writers keep adding their works to the treasury of masterpieces. At the same time, the genre itself is so diverse that it can attract almost anyone with the widest range of interests - in this section you can find a work in the style of fantasy, space opera, cyberpunk, epic, detective or love fiction.

Any rating of the most famous literary works is opened by the best fantasy books - the Lord of the Rings trilogy by J. Tolkien, the A Song of Ice and Fire series by George Martin, as well as the newcomer Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling. These books are known all over the world and need no introduction. It's nice that in different ratings there are so many domestic authors currently writing in the fantasy genre, such as Alexei Glushanovsky with his series of books "The Way of the Demon", Alexander Rudazov with the cycle "Archimage", Olga Gromyko with the trilogy "Witch" and many others.

The best science fiction books in the style of space opera are, first of all, "Dune"Frank Herbert and Isaac Asimov's Foundation. Many talented authors wrote in the space opera genre, such as Ursula Le Guinn, Paul Anderson, Robert Heinlein, and this despite the fact that for a long time such books were considered primitive and miserable. Perhaps this took place during the birth of the space opera in the 40s of the last century, as a separate literary movement, but since then the genre has undergone drastic changes. As an example, we can cite the space opera Lord from Planet Earth by Sergei Lukyanenko - this book was written 15 years ago, and it is still considered the best work in this direction among Russian writers.

The best cyberpunk sci-fi books are Philip Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and I, Robot by Isaac Asimov. The first work was born long before the very concept of "cyberpunk" appeared, so it can be called the progenitor of the genre, and the second book became a textbook, and it was from this work that mankind first learned about the three laws of robotics.

The best science fiction books with detective elements are undoubtedly the Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher (the series has more than 10 books and is not finished yet) and the series about the adventures of private detective Harriet by Glen Cook. Our compatriots working in this genre do not please readers so much - they are mostly rather mediocre works. There are also pleasant exceptions, in the form of the same Sergei Lukyanenko with his "Patrols" and Andrei Belyanin with a series"The Secret Investigation of King Peas", but this is still not detective fiction in its purest form, but a mixture of different styles. An interesting fact is that many of the best science fiction books have been filmed, some more than once, but in the case of the Dresden Dossier cycle, there was clearly a blunder. The creators tried to make a popular series, something like the movie "Supernatural", but things did not go beyond a few episodes.

Fiction, as a literary genre, will remain popular for a long time, because it is these books that still allow people to believe in miracles. And in our daily life, sometimes we just need a spark of faith that what we want will certainly come true.