Best science-fiction novels of the 2010s

Requested by a visitor · October 25, 2026

We asked 10 models: The best science-fiction novels published in the 2010s. Each named its own top 10.

Agreement between models

44%

Same model, run twice

60%

Different picks

35

When agreement between models is well below a model's agreement with itself, the split reflects real differences in taste rather than randomness.

The consensus

Each cell is the position that model gave the pick; blank means it left the pick off. Click a row for each model's reasoning.

#	Pick	Score	Listed by	Claude Haiku 5.5	GPT-6.1 Sol	Gemini 4 Argon	Qwen 3.8 Max	DeepSeek V4 Pro	GLM-5.3	Kimi K3	MiniMax M3	Mistral Large 4	Nemotron 3 Ultra
1	The Three-Body Problem		10/10	1	6	6	1	2	2	2	1	1	1
2	Ancillary Justice		10/10	6	2	2	2	1	1	1	3	5	3
3	Children of Time		9/10	4	1	1	3	5		9	2	7	6
4	The Fifth Season		8/10	2	5		5	3	5	6	5	3
5	Station Eleven		7/10	9	3	3		9	6		4	10
6	The Martian		7/10	5	8	9	8	7	4	3
7	A Memory Called Empire		6/10			4	6	4			8	6	5
8	Annihilation		6/10	3	7	8	4	10		5
9	Seveneves		4/10	8			9			7		4
10	Embassytown		3/10		4	10	7
11	Aurora		2/10						3			8
12	Ancillary Mercy		1/10									2
13	Project Hail Mary		1/10										2
14	Exhalation		2/10						9	4
15	Leviathan Wakes		2/10			7		6

20 lower-scoring picks are not shown; every ballot below lists them in full.

Every ballot

Hover a pick to find it on the other ballots. Marked picks appear on no other ballot.

Claude Haiku 5.5

1. The Three-Body Problem
2. The Fifth Season
3. Annihilation
4. Children of Time
5. The Martian
6. Ancillary Justice
7. Red Rising
8. Seveneves
9. Station Eleven
10. The Stars Are Legion

70% with consensus · 90% self-consistent

GPT-6.1 Sol

1. Children of Time
2. Ancillary Justice
3. Station Eleven
4. Embassytown
5. The Fifth Season
6. The Three-Body Problem
7. Annihilation
8. The Martian
9. The Quantum Thief
10. The Peripheral

59% with consensus · 37% self-consistent

Gemini 4 Argon

1. Children of Time
2. Ancillary Justice
3. Station Eleven
4. A Memory Called Empire
5. Death's End
6. The Three-Body Problem
7. Leviathan Wakes
8. Annihilation
9. The Martian
10. Embassytown

54% with consensus · 56% self-consistent

Qwen 3.8 Max

1. The Three-Body Problem
2. Ancillary Justice
3. Children of Time
4. Annihilation
5. The Fifth Season
6. A Memory Called Empire
7. Embassytown
8. The Martian
9. Seveneves
10. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

88% with consensus · 51% self-consistent

DeepSeek V4 Pro

1. Ancillary Justice
2. The Three-Body Problem
3. The Fifth Season
4. A Memory Called Empire
5. Children of Time
6. Leviathan Wakes
7. The Martian
8. Gideon the Ninth
9. Station Eleven
10. Annihilation

67% with consensus · 86% self-consistent

GLM-5.3

1. Ancillary Justice
2. The Three-Body Problem
3. Aurora
4. The Martian
5. The Fifth Season
6. Station Eleven
7. All Systems Red
8. The Power
9. Exhalation
10. The Testaments

58% with consensus · 35% self-consistent

Kimi K3

1. Ancillary Justice
2. The Three-Body Problem
3. The Martian
4. Exhalation
5. Annihilation
6. The Fifth Season
7. Seveneves
8. The Power
9. Children of Time
10. Dark Matter

56% with consensus · 69% self-consistent

MiniMax M3

1. The Three-Body Problem
2. Children of Time
3. Ancillary Justice
4. Station Eleven
5. The Fifth Season
6. The Dispossessed
7. The Power of the Dog
8. A Memory Called Empire
9. Consider Phlebas
10. All the Light We Cannot See

80% with consensus · 83% self-consistent

Mistral Large 4

1. The Three-Body Problem
2. Ancillary Mercy
3. The Fifth Season
4. Seveneves
5. Ancillary Justice
6. A Memory Called Empire
7. Children of Time
8. Aurora
9. The Calculating Stars
10. Station Eleven

62% with consensus · 26% self-consistent

Nemotron 3 Ultra

1. The Three-Body Problem
2. Project Hail Mary
3. Ancillary Justice
4. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
5. A Memory Called Empire
6. Children of Time
7. The Murderbot Diaries
8. The Windup Girl
9. Ninefox Gambit
10. Recursion

58% with consensus · 64% self-consistent

Who agrees with whom

Overlap between two models' lists, weighted toward the top · 100 means identical · Color runs from 21 (lightest) to 80 (darkest)

	Claude Haiku 5.5	GPT-6.1 Sol	Gemini 4 Argon	Qwen 3.8 Max	DeepSeek V4 Pro	GLM-5.3	Kimi K3	MiniMax M3	Mistral Large 4	Nemotron 3 Ultra
Claude Haiku 5.5		34	25	71	52	41	48	59	61	46
GPT-6.1 Sol	34		80	56	44	40	38	56	23	24
Gemini 4 Argon	25	80		49	49	32	31	52	21	31
Qwen 3.8 Max	71	56	49		63	51	58	73	60	61
DeepSeek V4 Pro	52	44	49	63		69	67	52	51	47
GLM-5.3	41	40	32	51	69		75	47	38	35
Kimi K3	48	38	31	58	67	75		41	37	36
MiniMax M3	59	56	52	73	52	47	41		56	57
Mistral Large 4	61	23	21	60	51	38	37	56		51
Nemotron 3 Ultra	46	24	31	61	47	35	36	57	51