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SFF: Best Settings
What are the best worlds of the science fiction/fantasy genre?
What are your favorite science fiction/fantasy books with creative settings?
Feel free to include books in genres that are adjacent to the science fiction/fantasy genre (like paranormal horror, YA dystopia, alternate history, magical realism, etc).
What are your favorite science fiction/fantasy books with creative settings?
Feel free to include books in genres that are adjacent to the science fiction/fantasy genre (like paranormal horror, YA dystopia, alternate history, magical realism, etc).
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,374,085 ratings
score: 200,
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The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (Fairyland, #1)
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Catherynne M. Valente (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 41,420 ratings
score: 199,
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2 people voted
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A Curse of Roses
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Diana Pinguicha (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 1,512 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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The City of Dreaming Books (Zamonia, #4)
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4.40 avg rating — 23,751 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Doppelgänger: An Orphan, a Prodigy, a Murder
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Chip Walter (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 82 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Discovery (D Notice, #1)
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Louise McLaughlin (Goodreads Author)
4.79 avg rating — 28 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Angela's Arm
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Roland Allnach (Goodreads Author)
4.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
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Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author)
4.67 avg rating — 637,505 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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Stranger in a Strange Land
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3.92 avg rating — 324,260 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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To Kill a Shadow (Mistlands, #1)
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Katherine Quinn (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 8,582 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear (Zamonia, #1)
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4.32 avg rating — 26,905 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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Witch Is When It All Began (A Witch P.I. Mystery, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 19,564 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 502,012 ratings
score: 98,
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1 person voted
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Evergreen
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Devin Greenlee (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 691 ratings
score: 98,
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1 person voted
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Rumo & His Miraculous Adventures (Zamonia, #3)
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4.52 avg rating — 13,123 ratings
score: 98,
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1 person voted
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The Glass Town Game
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Catherynne M. Valente (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 1,457 ratings
score: 97,
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1 person voted
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The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
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Becky Chambers (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 177,855 ratings
score: 97,
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1 person voted
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Radiance
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Catherynne M. Valente (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 5,429 ratings
score: 96,
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1 person voted
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Going Postal (Discworld, #33; Moist von Lipwig, #1)
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4.41 avg rating — 133,652 ratings
score: 96,
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1 person voted
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Summer in Orcus
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4.49 avg rating — 2,773 ratings
score: 95,
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1 person voted
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Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)
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4.34 avg rating — 230,817 ratings
score: 95,
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1 person voted
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The Habitation of the Blessed (A Dirge for Prester John, #1)
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Catherynne M. Valente (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 1,064 ratings
score: 94,
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1 person voted
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Small Gods (Discworld, #13)
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4.32 avg rating — 131,279 ratings
score: 94,
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1 person voted
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Swordheart (Swordheart, #1)
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4.09 avg rating — 35,358 ratings
score: 93,
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1 person voted
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Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1)
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Matt Dinniman (Goodreads Author)
4.50 avg rating — 141,509 ratings
score: 93,
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1 person voted
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The Refrigerator Monologues
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Catherynne M. Valente (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 4,099 ratings
score: 92,
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1 person voted
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Fluff (Fluff, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 296 ratings
score: 92,
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1 person voted
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In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)
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Seanan McGuire (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 36,584 ratings
score: 91,
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1 person voted
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All the Skills (All the Skills, #1)
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4.53 avg rating — 9,510 ratings
score: 91,
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1 person voted
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The Phantom Tollbooth
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4.20 avg rating — 303,215 ratings
score: 90,
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1 person voted
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Maximillian Fly
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 497 ratings
score: 90,
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1 person voted
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Early Riser
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Jasper Fforde (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 16,963 ratings
score: 89,
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1 person voted
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A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking
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4.06 avg rating — 62,124 ratings
score: 89,
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1 person voted
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The Cloud Roads (Books of the Raksura, #1)
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Martha Wells (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 15,855 ratings
score: 88,
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1 person voted
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Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow (Nevermoor, #1)
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Jessica Townsend (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 74,115 ratings
score: 88,
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1 person voted
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Palimpsest
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Catherynne M. Valente (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 5,234 ratings
score: 87,
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1 person voted
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36 books ·
8 voters ·
list created September 23rd, 2022
by Eden Garrity.
Tags:
aliens, alternate-history, alternate-universe, apocalyptic, bizarro-fiction, cyberpunk, dark-fantasy, dragons, dying-earth, dystopia, elves, epic-fantasy, erotic-horror, fairy-tales, fantasy, fantasy-of-manners, fiction, ghost-stories, gothic-horror, hard-science-fiction, heroic-fantasy, high-fantasy, horror, lovecraftian, low-fantasy, magic, magical-realism, military-science-fiction, mythology, near-future, paranormal, planetary-romance, robots, science-fiction, setting, settings, space-opera, splatterpunk, steampunk, supernatural, sword-and-planet, thriller, time-travel, unicorns, urban-fantasy, utopia, virtual-reality, weird-fiction, worldbuilding, ya, young-adult, zombies
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