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Best Books About Nanotechnology
Fiction or nonfiction! Science fiction author Matthew Joseph Harrington shares his favorite books on the emerging technology in honor of his new book, The Goliath Stone. Add more books to his list here!
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Divergent (Divergent, #1)
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Veronica Roth (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 4,310,818 ratings
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Insurgent (Divergent, #2)
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Veronica Roth (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 1,603,553 ratings
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Uglies (Uglies, #1)
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Scott Westerfeld (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 703,187 ratings
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The Host (The Host, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 1,042,491 ratings
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Delirium (Delirium, #1)
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Lauren Oliver (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 477,400 ratings
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Matched (Matched, #1)
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Ally Condie (Goodreads Author)
3.62 avg rating — 811,069 ratings
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Pretties (Uglies, #2)
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Scott Westerfeld (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 277,925 ratings
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Specials (Uglies, #3)
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Scott Westerfeld (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 202,612 ratings
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The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 92,586 ratings
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Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
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4.31 avg rating — 1,456,239 ratings
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Prey
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3.79 avg rating — 184,318 ratings
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Beautiful Creatures (Caster Chronicles, #1)
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Kami Garcia (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 618,047 ratings
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Crossed (Matched, #2)
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Ally Condie (Goodreads Author)
3.52 avg rating — 257,136 ratings
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Pandemonium (Delirium, #2)
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Lauren Oliver (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 244,889 ratings
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Prodigy (Legend, #2)
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Marie Lu (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 278,466 ratings
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The Angel Experiment (Maximum Ride, #1)
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James Patterson (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 232,371 ratings
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Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)
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Marissa Meyer (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 998,047 ratings
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Under the Never Sky (Under the Never Sky, #1)
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Veronica Rossi (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 115,197 ratings
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Requiem (Delirium, #3)
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Lauren Oliver (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 153,911 ratings
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Extras (Uglies, #4)
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Scott Westerfeld (Goodreads Author)
3.59 avg rating — 126,614 ratings
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Evermore (The Immortals, #1)
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Alyson Noel (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 297,570 ratings
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BZRK (BZRK, #1)
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Michael Grant (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 8,984 ratings
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The Summoning (Darkest Powers #1)
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Kelley Armstrong (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 175,919 ratings
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Perilous Waif (Alice Long #1)
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E. William Brown (Goodreads Author)
4.40 avg rating — 4,466 ratings
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The Reckoning (Darkest Powers, #3)
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Kelley Armstrong (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 118,566 ratings
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The Awakening (Darkest Powers, #2)
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Kelley Armstrong (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 117,596 ratings
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Reached (Matched, #3)
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Ally Condie (Goodreads Author)
3.54 avg rating — 176,100 ratings
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School's Out—Forever (Maximum Ride, #2)
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James Patterson (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 124,246 ratings
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Stray (Touchstone, #1)
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Andrea K. Höst (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 3,976 ratings
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New Dawn
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4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
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4.13 avg rating — 65,600 ratings
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Snow Crash
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 294,645 ratings
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Blood Music
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3.84 avg rating — 16,675 ratings
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Robopocalypse (Robopocalypse, #1)
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Daniel H. Wilson (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 40,969 ratings
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Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology
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4.18 avg rating — 931 ratings
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Shift (Silo, #2)
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Hugh Howey (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 146,490 ratings
score: 871,
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Blue Moon (The Immortals, #2)
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Alyson Noel (Goodreads Author)
3.61 avg rating — 99,495 ratings
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Beta (Annex, #1)
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3.53 avg rating — 7,773 ratings
score: 856,
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Skinned
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Robin Wasserman (Goodreads Author)
3.54 avg rating — 12,895 ratings
score: 831,
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The Meat Market (Jonathan Harkon Adventures #1)
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James Chalk (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 478 ratings
score: 800,
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Born at Midnight (Shadow Falls, #1)
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C.C. Hunter (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 94,547 ratings
score: 794,
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Birthmarked (Birthmarked, #1)
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Caragh M. O'Brien (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 48,763 ratings
score: 740,
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The Maze Runner (The Maze Runner, #1)
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James Dashner (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 1,646,928 ratings
score: 684,
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The Devil Colony (Sigma Force, #7)
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James Rollins (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 27,938 ratings
score: 679,
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Shadowland (The Immortals, #3)
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Alyson Noel (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 86,024 ratings
score: 622,
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Lab Rat One (Touchstone, #2)
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Andrea K. Höst (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 2,415 ratings
score: 592,
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Variant (Variant, #1)
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Robison Wells (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 23,320 ratings
score: 577,
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The Last Sword Maker (The Course of Empire, #1)
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Brian Nelson (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 1,147 ratings
score: 499,
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Unwind (Unwind, #1)
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Neal Shusterman (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 245,870 ratings
score: 489,
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Caszandra (Touchstone, #3)
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Andrea K. Höst (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 2,188 ratings
score: 488,
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The Bohr Maker
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Linda Nagata (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 1,758 ratings
score: 483,
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The Four Lords of the Diamond (The Four Lords of the Diamond, #1-4)
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4.21 avg rating — 295 ratings
score: 477,
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I Am Number Four (Lorien Legacies, #1)
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3.94 avg rating — 350,291 ratings
score: 474,
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The Almond Tree
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Michelle Cohen Corasanti (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 8,231 ratings
score: 398,
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The Tenth Planet (The Tenth Planet #1)
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3.59 avg rating — 195 ratings
score: 396,
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Incarceron (Incarceron, #1)
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3.65 avg rating — 62,261 ratings
score: 393,
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The Tenth Planet: Oblivion (The Tenth Planet #2)
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3.68 avg rating — 100 ratings
score: 392,
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Plague Year (Plague, #1)
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Jeff Carlson (Goodreads Author)
3.40 avg rating — 2,687 ratings
score: 381,
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Bloodline (Sigma Force, #8)
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James Rollins (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 24,484 ratings
score: 379,
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Earth Flight (Earth Girl, #3)
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Janet Edwards (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 1,765 ratings
score: 371,
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Two Weeks' Notice (Revivalist, #2)
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3.92 avg rating — 2,360 ratings
score: 369,
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Autonomy
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Jean-Michel Smith (Goodreads Author)
4.54 avg rating — 26 ratings
score: 300,
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Post-Human Omnibus
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David Simpson (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 4,612 ratings
score: 300,
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Nexus (Nexus, #1)
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Ramez Naam (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 20,857 ratings
score: 298,
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Selected Papers on Scanning Acoustic Microscopy (S.P.I.E. Milestone Series)
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Butrus T. Khuri-Yakub (Goodreads Author)
3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
score: 297,
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Five Tribes (The Course of Empire, #2)
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Brian Nelson (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 411 ratings
score: 294,
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Limit of Vision
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Linda Nagata (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 522 ratings
score: 293,
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Newsflesh Trilogy
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4.49 avg rating — 343 ratings
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The House of the Scorpion (Matteo Alacran, #1)
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Nancy Farmer (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 95,810 ratings
score: 292,
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Tech-Heaven
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Linda Nagata (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 428 ratings
score: 289,
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Crescent City Rhapsody (Nanotech, #3)
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3.63 avg rating — 256 ratings
score: 289,
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The Empress File (Kidd & LuEllen, #2)
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4.06 avg rating — 8,035 ratings
score: 287,
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Never Let Me Go
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Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 824,806 ratings
score: 286,
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The Giver (The Giver, #1)
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Lois Lowry (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 2,751,542 ratings
score: 285,
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Feedback (Variant, #2)
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Robison Wells (Goodreads Author)
3.56 avg rating — 8,633 ratings
score: 280,
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Working Stiff (Revivalist, #1)
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Queen City Jazz (Nanotech, #1)
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3.47 avg rating — 758 ratings
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Earth Star (Earth Girl, #2)
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Janet Edwards (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 2,317 ratings
score: 275,
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Innerverse
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John DeChancie (Goodreads Author)
3.40 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Rebel (Reboot, #2)
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Amy Tintera (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 13,186 ratings
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Usher Syndrome (Becoming Agie, #1)
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Grigory Ryzhakov (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 36 ratings
score: 200,
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The Iron Duke (Iron Seas, #1)
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3.85 avg rating — 17,164 ratings
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Idoru (Bridge, #2)
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3.84 avg rating — 24,832 ratings
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Some Girls Bite (Chicagoland Vampires, #1)
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Chloe Neill (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 65,566 ratings
score: 198,
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1.4 (Point 4, #2)
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Mike A. Lancaster (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 1,033 ratings
score: 198,
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Hard Kill (The Rizwan Sabir Mysteries #1)
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4.11 avg rating — 159 ratings
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Area 51 (Area 51, #1)
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Robert Doherty (Pseudonym)
3.87 avg rating — 4,831 ratings
score: 196,
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Wither (The Chemical Garden, #1)
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Lauren DeStefano (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 100,731 ratings
score: 196,
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Prized (Birthmarked, #2)
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Caragh M. O'Brien (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 24,126 ratings
score: 194,
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Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
score: 192,
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Promised (Birthmarked, #3)
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Caragh M. O'Brien (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 15,480 ratings
score: 192,
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The Fool's Run (Kidd & LuEllen, #1)
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4.02 avg rating — 11,128 ratings
score: 191,
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Ender's Shadow (The Shadow Series, #1)
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4.32 avg rating — 178,465 ratings
score: 191,
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Congo (Spirit of Darkness, #1)
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Mayi Ngwala (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 34 ratings
score: 190,
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Gone (Gone, #1)
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Michael Grant (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 209,004 ratings
score: 190,
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Life As We Knew It (Last Survivors, #1)
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3.89 avg rating — 132,701 ratings
score: 188,
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Skin in the Game
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R.P. Finch (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 33 ratings
score: 187,
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Vast
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Linda Nagata (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 865 ratings
score: 182,
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Counting Heads (Counting Heads, #1)
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David Marusek (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 1,241 ratings
score: 182,
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Shadow Game (GhostWalkers, #1)
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Christine Feehan (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 22,754 ratings
score: 180,
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I definitely don't understand the thinking behind how a lot of these books are considered nanotechnology. Anyone have any explanation for Hunger Games or the Host for example?
Mitchell wrote: "I definitely don't understand the thinking behind how a lot of these books are considered nanotechnology. Anyone have any explanation for Hunger Games or the Host for example?"I guess they are included on the list because of their futuristic setting. I can understand The Host making the cut but The Hunger Games - not so much.
It's too bad, I thought this was a good concept for a list. Perhaps people could read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanotech... and remove there book from this list if there books contains NO nanotechnology.
What about The Mortal Instruments? Why is the series included in this list?
Nae wrote: "What about The Mortal Instruments? Why is the series included in this list?"Because it doesn't contain nano-technology. Most of the books on this list doesn't. Im guessing alot of people just dont know what nano-technology is.
Jason wrote: "Nae wrote: "What about The Mortal Instruments? Why is the series included in this list?"Because it doesn't contain nano-technology. Most of the books on this list doesn't. Im guessing alot of peo..."
Actually there are 140 voters on this list and 108 books. There are 66 books with more than one vote. I voted for 18 books and I'm willing to defend each of those.
The primary problem appears to be one voter - Taylor - who voted for 53 books.
Yea, this is kinda weird. A lot of these don't contain nanotech in their storyline. However, if you are looking for a really great book that deals with nanotech, try
There are an awful lot of books on this list about nanotechnology - and then there are some that are questionable. And then there are some for there is no question such as Eragon and Fellowship of the Ring - and those should be removed. A fair rule would be if it doesn't say nanotechnology or some derivative of that word in the title or goodreads description or amazon or powells writeup then it shouldn't be here.
Removed The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Fellowship of the Ring, Eragon, The Hobbit, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone for not being even in the slightest bit about nanotechnology.
Removed The Diary of a Young Girl and Twilight the Graphic Novel for not being even in the slightest bit about nanotechnology.
Mitchell wrote: "Removed The Diary of a Young Girl and Twilight the Graphic Novel for not being even in the slightest bit about nanotechnology."Yay for removing them!
Quite honestly I'd like to remove the Hunger Games trilogy from this list as well. But not badly enough to reread them any time soon. At some point though I'll prove to myself that I can find random words from the books in google and that nano isn't in there in the slightest. Unless one of you 120 people want to explain to us all how these books have ANYTHING to do with NANOTECHNOLOGY. I'd love to be corrected.
I've read and am familiar enough with the the first book of the Hunger Games to be confident enough to say that there is no mention of 'nanotechnology' in that one. Nanotech would only appear in Capitol tech, and while we see mutants, costuming, and weaponry, as well as small cameras everywhere, we see no tiny building, consuming, or repairing machines, thus no nanotech. I don't remember that The Host had any either- most of the advanced medical stuff was passed off with a very vague reference about chemicals and physiology, not nanotechs.
Matched didn't have anything like that. They relied mostly upon pharmaceutical plot devices, which were simply a concoction of medicine, not technology.
Gone, although it has been awhile since I read it, was mostly technology free- there was little power to begin with in the novel, and any reference to either tech or little creatures were either alien-esque creatures spoken with in death or supernatural-ish creatures with a hive mind in a deep tunnel. Neither of which have much to do with nanotech.
What is even up with this list? Uglies and Pretties has some nanotech, as I remember it- the cure was actually programmed nanobots in pill form, designed to fix a pretties brain to pre-operation, and then be turned off. I don't know about the other books in the same series, though.
Skinned and Cinder both had plausible amounts of nanotech to be kept on this list.
Eva wrote: "I've read and am familiar enough with the the first book of the Hunger Games to be confident enough to say that there is no mention of 'nanotechnology' in that one. Nanotech would only appear in Ca..."I agree!
Removing Hunger Games, Catching Fire and Mockingjay from this list.
Danyel wrote: "Suggestions to add:Stone by Adam Roberts
Gridlinked by Neal Asher
The Skinner by Neal Asher
Counting Heads by David Marusek"
Danyel, if you think a book should be added, you should add that book.
Mortal Instruments is not nanotechnology. It's about magic and monsters!
Removing The Mortal Instruments and anything else I can find without any nanotechnology.
Mike wrote: "Removing The Mortal Instruments and anything else I can find without any nanotechnology."If you would list what you remove here, that would be helpful. Also I strongly suggest that if there is any doubt - leave the book in.
Mitchell wrote: "I definitely don't understand the thinking behind how a lot of these books are considered nanotechnology. Anyone have any explanation for Hunger Games or the Host for example?"That's exactly what I want to know.
Reading the titles in the list makes me think that the voters have no idea of what nanotechnology is. Not to mention "best"
It's quicker to list the "Definitely yes" books. "Snow Crash" and "Diamond Age" by Neal Stephenson. Obviously missing are "Altered Carbon" "Woken Furies" and "Broken Angels" (and actually I'd have to re-read the sequels to confirm).
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Stone by Adam Roberts
Gridlinked by Neal Asher
The Skinner by Neal Asher
Counting Heads by David Marusek