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10 Science Fiction Novels You Pretend to Have Read (And Why You Should Actually Read Them)

I’ve actually read (and enjoyed) numbers 1, 4 and 6 on this list from i09:

  1. _ Cryptonomicon _ by Neal Stephenson
  2. _ Dune _ by Frank Herbert
  3. _ Gravity’s Rainbow _ by Thomas Pynchon
  4. _ Foundation _ by Isaac Asimov
  5. _ Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell _ by Susanna Clarke
  6. _ 1984 _ by George Orwell
  7. _ First and Last Men and Starmaker _ by Olaf Stapledon
  8. _ The Long Tomorrow _ by Leigh Brackett
  9. _ Dhalgren _ by Samuel Delany
  10. _ Infinite Jest _ by David Foster Wallace