Definitive rankings of the best sci-fi crime novels ever written based on curated lists and suggestions from readers and authors.

Based on curated lists from BookBub, Crime Reads, Book Riot and more, suggestions from readers on Goodreads, Quora and Reddit, and recommendations from authors like Jasper Fforde, Sharon Shinn and David Brin, here is a roundup of the 81 best sci-fi crime novels ever written.

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    3 days ago

    The rape depiction is insanely unsettling.

    Edit: and really isn’t necessary for the book.

    • BennyInc@feddit.org
      11·
      3 days ago

      Wait what? I’ve read the book twice, but it’s been a long while… I don’t remember any such scene? Must have blocked this out of my mind… gonna have to reread.

      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        It’s fairly early in the book, basically the nightclub guy drugs up an underage (iirc could be wrong on the age) girl and convinces her boyfriend to start having sex on camera- then is followed by every guy in the room.

        It’s absolutely gratuitous and, even it was really important for the audience to know, it could have easily been alluded to. It serves not real purpose to the plot.