I was thinking the other day about favorite SF/ fantasy tropes and I thought it would be fun to make a list. Everyone likes a good list, right? So I thought I'd narrow it down and share an example for each one of a favorite book that embraces that trope. Little did I know how many books I would end up looking at- and how many intriguing reads I would find. I may have to do this for fantasy as well, but for now here are my top SF tropes.
Time/ Space Gates
![The Complete Morgaine (Morgaine Saga #1-4)](https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1440537038l/24713696.jpg)
There are a lot of examples of this trope but my favorite probably has to be this series. A four book series (helpfully collected in this omnibus) about a woman named Morgaine and her loyal companion who must travel from world to world, closing the world gates that are disrupting space/ time.
Generation Ships
![Glow (Sky Chasers, #1)](https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1312847982l/10174795.jpg)
![Across the Universe (Across the Universe, #1)](https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/books/1401852218l/8235178.jpg)
![A Million Suns (Across the Universe, #2)](https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/books/1330214586l/10345927.jpg)
![Shades of Earth (Across the Universe, #3)](https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/books/1346494567l/10345937.jpg)
![Starship](https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/books/1460396745l/15808268.jpg)
Cloning
![Six Wakes](https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1483175828l/28962996.jpg)
![The Originals](https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1358972630l/15790886.jpg)
Cyberpunk
![Blackfish City](https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1516571578l/38117405.jpg)
![Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?](https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1348795112l/367305.jpg)
Lost worlds
![The Lost World (Jurassic Park #2)](https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1386864575l/8650.jpg)
![Star man's son](https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1387667916l/1183890.jpg)
![The Complete Land that Time Forgot (Caspak, #1-3)](https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1179968734l/980515.jpg)
Dystopian/ postapocalyptic
![The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)](https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/books/1447303603l/2767052.jpg)
![Divergent (Divergent, #1)](https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/books/1328559506l/13335037.jpg)
![Star man's son](https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/books/1387667916l/1183890.jpg)
Galactic civilization/ long lost colonies
![The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)](https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1526050112l/25786523.jpg)
![A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2)](https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1457598923l/29475447.jpg)
Parallel worlds/ alternate realities
![Dark Matter](https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1490029732l/34639452.jpg)