Uploaded November 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
Ross is back for another top 10! This time, the genres under the spotlight are sci-fi and speculative fiction. (It's difficult to tell where the line gets crossed, so we didn't bother to distinguish them.) We've got a cracking list, only ameliorated by the special dispensation of two of these 10 slots to the other half of Hardy's Books, Laura. (Fang has yet to read a book.)
Bookmarks:
01:00 Honourable mention
01:46 Book 1
02:26 Book 2
03:17 Book 3
04:04 Book 4
04:55 Book 5
06:28 Book 6
07:13 Book 7
08:16 Book 8
10:10 Book 9 (Laura)
12:54 Book 10 (Laura)
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Ross & Laura are a couple of internet nerds with over 20 years combined experience in eCommerce and Retail, and a shared passion for quality fantasy and science fiction.
📚 Our bookshop: hardysbooks.co.uk
📷 Instagram: instagram.com/hardysbooks
🎧 Tome Raiders (our podcast): tomeraiders.co.uk
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The list:
📚 Exhalation (Ted Chiang)
📚 Station Eleven (Emily St John Mandel)
📚 Sea of Tranquility (Emily St John Mandel)
📚 The Man in the High Castle (Philip K Dick)
📚 Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
📚 The Left Hand of Darkness (Ursula Le Guin)
📚 Children of Time (Adrian Tchaikovsky)
📚 The Player of Games (Iain M Banks)
📚 Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
📚 Oryx and Crake (Margaret Atwood)
Ross is back for another top 10! This time, the genres under the spotlight are sci-fi and speculative fiction. (It's difficult to tell where the line gets crossed, so we didn't bother to distinguish them.) We've got a cracking list, only ameliorated by the special dispensation of two of these 10 slots to the other half of Hardy's Books, Laura. (Fang has yet to read a book.)
Bookmarks:
01:00 Honourable mention
01:46 Book 1
02:26 Book 2
03:17 Book 3
04:04 Book 4
04:55 Book 5
06:28 Book 6
07:13 Book 7
08:16 Book 8
10:10 Book 9 (Laura)
12:54 Book 10 (Laura)
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Ross & Laura are a couple of internet nerds with over 20 years combined experience in eCommerce and Retail, and a shared passion for quality fantasy and science fiction.
📚 Our bookshop: hardysbooks.co.uk
📷 Instagram: instagram.com/hardysbooks
🎧 Tome Raiders (our podcast): tomeraiders.co.uk
===
The list:
📚 Exhalation (Ted Chiang)
📚 Station Eleven (Emily St John Mandel)
📚 Sea of Tranquility (Emily St John Mandel)
📚 The Man in the High Castle (Philip K Dick)
📚 Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
📚 The Left Hand of Darkness (Ursula Le Guin)
📚 Children of Time (Adrian Tchaikovsky)
📚 The Player of Games (Iain M Banks)
📚 Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
📚 Oryx and Crake (Margaret Atwood)
