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Looking for a sci-fi book that isn't all spaceships

Speculative fiction that's about people first, technology second.
  1. Station Eleven — Emily St. John Mandel 2014
    Pandemic, Shakespeare troupe, twenty years on.
  2. Never Let Me Go — Kazuo Ishiguro 2005
    British boarding school. Slow reveal.
  3. The Left Hand of Darkness — Le Guin 1969
    An icy planet, gender, diplomacy.
  4. Klara and the Sun — Ishiguro 2021
    An AF (artificial friend) waits.
  5. Dark Matter — Blake Crouch 2016
    Multiverse done well.
  6. Recursion — Blake Crouch 2019
    Memory + time. Crouch's other big one.
  7. Project Hail Mary — Andy Weir 2021
    Single astronaut. Weir's best.
  8. Severance — Ling Ma 2018
    Pandemic novel that came out before the pandemic.
  9. Annihilation — Jeff VanderMeer 2014
    Area X. Read in summer.
  10. The Three-Body Problem — Cixin Liu 2008
    Cultural Revolution into cosmology.