This Collider feature ranks the ten best science-fiction books published during the 1990s, a decade in which authors built on the previous era's cyberpunk boom to explore hard science, biotechnology, artificial intelligence and virtual worlds. Writer Luc Haasbroek highlights how the genre's writers blended ambitious scientific concepts with deeply human storylines, covering themes ranging from planetary colonisation and time travel to genetic engineering and civilisational collapse.

Entries include Vernor Vinge's space opera "A Fire Upon the Deep" (1992), Lois Lowry's dystopian YA novel "The Giver" (1993), and Kim Stanley Robinson's "Red Mars" (1992), the first instalment of his acclaimed Mars Trilogy about humanity's colonisation of the Red Planet. Each entry is discussed in terms of its central premise, themes and lasting influence on the genre.

– A ranked list of ten standout sci-fi novels from the 1990s
– Highlights include "A Fire Upon the Deep", "The Giver" and "Red Mars"
– Focuses on themes of AI, biotechnology, colonisation and dystopia