sci-fi stack rank

8 April, 2018

Here is my stack ranking of all the sci fi authors that I’ve read in the past ~7 years with best book and number of books I remember in parens. (hooray kindle tracking all my reading).

Dan Simmons - Hyperion (4)
Vernor Vinge - A deepness in the sky/a fire upon the deep. (4)
Neal Stephenson - The Diamond age/Snow Crash/Reamade / SevenEves. (6)
Robert A. Heinlein - The moon is a harsh mistress (5)
Cixin Liu - The Three Body Problem/Wandering Earth (3)
Alastair Reynolds - House of the suns / Blue Remembered Earth /Revalation Space (6)
Paolo Bacigalupi - The Windup girl. (2)
James S.A. Corey - Expanse Series (7)
Larry Niven/Jerry Pournelle - A mote in God’s Eye/ Lucifer’s Hammer/Ringworld. (6)
Charles Stross - Neptune’s brood / Saturns Children (2)
Hugh Howey - Wool (2)
Isaac Asimov - Foundation (4)
Andy Weir - The Martian/Artemis/Hail Mary
Olaf Stapledon - Last and First Men
Alfred Bester The Demolished Man / The Stars My destination.
Kim Stanley Robinson - Red Mars. (3) / Aurora
Adrian Tchikovsky - Chilren of Time/Shards of Earth (2)
William Gibson - Nueromancer. (2)
Arkady Martine - A Memory Called Empire/ A Desolation called Peace
Ernest Cline - Ready Player One
Joe Haldeman - The forever war
John Scalazi - Old Man’s War
Philip K. Dick - Do Androids dream of electric sleep
Max Barry - Machine Man
Arther C. Clark - Redevous with Rama / Fountains of Paradise
Paul Anderson - Call me Joe (2)
Ursula Guinn - Left Hand of Darkness
Matthew Mather - Atopia
Ramez Naam - Nexus
Christian Cantrell - Containment
Douglas E Richards - WIRED
Jeff Carlson - Frozen Sky
Stanislaw Lem - Solaris

I am not including world war z as I don’t quite classify it as sci fi but it’s great.

I don’t do as much fantasy but Patrick rothfuss - the name of the wind and naomi novik - uprooted/spinning silver were great. Not sure if J.K. Nemesin’s Broken Earth is fantasy or sci fi but highly recommend

In the queue. Ian Banks, Neal Asher, Ada Palmer, Peter F Hamilton, Nnedi Okorafor more Paolo Bacigalupi, Simon Clark, Walter M. Miller Jr, and Mary Doria Russell. )

On 2023-10-04 I fed this into bing chat and google bard and got back these suggested authors Bing recommended: Greg Bear, David Brin, Cory Doctorow, Lois McMaster Bujold, Ken Liu, Bard: Becky Chambers, Ann Leckie, Ann Leckie, Alix E. Harrow, Alix E. Harrow, Martha Wells, P. Djèlí Clark, Tomi Adeyemi, Tochi Onyebuchi, Tade Thompson