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r/printSF · 2022

Most-mentioned books in r/printSF during 2022

This page ranks books by exact tracked mentions in r/printSF within the published source unit for 2022. Counts come from the reconciled subreddit-by-month matrix; a source unit may be a bounded sample.

128
Books ranked
8,872
Tracked mentions in 2022
Sort by upvotes = sum of comment scores on recognized mentions
Cover of Dune #1

Dune

Frank Herbert

Paul Atreides survives his family's massacre on a desert planet and becomes the messiah the empire engineered him to be, then has to live with it.

718 in 2022
Cover of Hyperion #2

Hyperion

Dan Simmons

Seven pilgrims travel together to a planet that kills, each one carrying the private story of why they volunteered to go.

718 in 2022
Cover of Children of Time #3

Children of Time

Adrian Tchaikovsky

A nanovirus meant to uplift monkeys lands on spiders instead, and eight thousand years later the last human survivors arrive looking for a new Earth.

606 in 2022
Cover of Blindsight #4

Blindsight

Peter Watts

A crew of post-human specialists, one of them a resurrected vampire, gets sent to first contact and finds aliens that may not be conscious at all.

565 in 2022
Cover of All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries) #5

All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries)

Martha Wells

A security android with no interest in gender, romance, or heroics just wants to watch its shows, and ends up saving its clients from a conspiracy anyway.

546 in 2022
Cover of Project Hail Mary #6

Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir

A dying astronaut wakes up alone on a spaceship with amnesia, two corpses for company, and Earth's one shot at survival riding on him.

420 in 2022
Cover of Neuromancer #7

Neuromancer

William Gibson

A washed-up hacker gets his nervous system rebuilt for one last job, in a world Gibson invented before the internet existed to copy it.

349 in 2022
Cover of We Are Legion (We Are Bob) #8

We Are Legion (We Are Bob)

Dennis E. Taylor

A software engineer dies in 2016, wakes up as a von Neumann probe, and starts cloning himself across the galaxy.

335 in 2022
Cover of The Left Hand of Darkness #9

The Left Hand of Darkness

Ursula K. Le Guin

A human envoy crosses a glacier on foot with the one alien on the planet capable of ambisexuality, and neither of them trusts the other yet.

293 in 2022
Cover of The Martian #10

The Martian

Andy Weir

A botanist gets left for dead on Mars after a dust storm and has to grow his own food to survive until the next mission arrives, years later.

290 in 2022
Cover of The Dispossessed #11

The Dispossessed

Ursula K. Le Guin

A physicist from an anarchist moon travels to the capitalist planet his people fled, carrying a theory of time that could unite both worlds or arm one of them.

274 in 2022
Cover of The Three-Body Problem #12

The Three-Body Problem

Liu Cixin

A disillusioned physicist's daughter answers a signal from another star and invites the invasion of Earth out of spite for humanity.

273 in 2022
Cover of Snow Crash #13

Snow Crash

Neal Stephenson

Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for the Mafia, moonlights as a hacker-samurai, and stumbles into a virus that infects minds instead of computers.

231 in 2022
Cover of Ender's Game #14

Ender's Game

Orson Scott Card

A child prodigy recruited into Battle School at six ends up commanding real war fleets, believing until the end that it's all just a simulation.

229 in 2022
Cover of The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet #15

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

Becky Chambers

A ragtag crew tunnels a hole through space for a living, and the alien passenger they're ferrying turns the trip into a slow-burn found-family story.

171 in 2022
Cover of Foundation #16

Foundation

Isaac Asimov

A mathematician predicts the empire's collapse centuries out and plants a colony at the galaxy's edge to shrink the coming dark age from thirty thousand years to one.

168 in 2022
Cover of The Fifth Season #17

The Fifth Season

N. K. Jemisin

An orogene comes home to find her son beaten to death and her daughter gone, the same day a continent starts splitting apart.

168 in 2022
Cover of Red Rising #18

Red Rising

Pierce Brown

A low-caste miner surgically altered to pass as the ruling elite infiltrates the academy that killed his wife, planning to burn the system down from inside.

128 in 2022
Cover of A Wizard of Earthsea #19

A Wizard of Earthsea

Ursula K. Le Guin

A proud boy on a poor island learns real magic, casts one spell out of arrogance, and spends the rest of the book hunted by what it let loose.

123 in 2022
Cover of The Lord of the Rings #20

The Lord of the Rings

J. R. R. Tolkien

A gardener and three friends carry a cursed ring across a continent at war, because the only way to destroy it is to walk it into the volcano that forged it.

112 in 2022
Cover of Gardens of the Moon #21

Gardens of the Moon

Steven Erikson

A continent-spanning empire's mage-soldiers besiege a city that might already be doomed by gods playing a board game with human pieces.

102 in 2022
Cover of Piranesi #22

Piranesi

Susanna Clarke

A man alone in an endless house of statues and tides slowly realizes he used to have a different name.

102 in 2022
Cover of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #23

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams

Earth gets demolished to build a hyperspace bypass, and the last man alive escapes only because an alien researching a galactic encyclopedia needed an assistant.

98 in 2022
Cover of Flowers for Algernon #24

Flowers for Algernon

Daniel Keyes

Charlie Gordon's IQ triples after experimental brain surgery, then the same surgery begins failing, and he narrates his own decline in real time.

95 in 2022
Cover of Ready Player One #25

Ready Player One

Ernest Cline

A teenager hunts an Easter egg hidden inside a global VR world, and the hunt is built entirely from 1980s trivia.

94 in 2022