Other Suggestions: Anathem by Neal Stephenson and A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M.
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Several of my all-time favorites are listed, including the Foundation trilogy, Anathem, and my all-time favorite sci-fi novel, The Stars My Destination.
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But the plot moves so quickly and smoothly that I read it in a fraction of the time it took to complete his last novel, the slightly shorter (but much heavier) Anathem.