10 Sci-Fi Books You Need to Read Before You Die

By Ryan Epps · Polygon · Wednesday, 14 October 2026 at 04:00 (1h ago) · Original article ↗

Sci-fi remains one of the most expansive playgrounds for storytelling, capable of charting distant galaxies and alien frontiers just as easily as it exposes the immediate horrors of modern-day technology. At its peak, speculative fiction uses its invented worlds and distant planets to interrogate what it means to be human, cracking open philosophical questions that grounded genres simply can’t reach.

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