# Cloud Atlas - A genre-bending book we can't stop thinking about!

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Podcast: [Hugonauts: The Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time](https://stenobird.com/podcast/hugonauts-the-best-sci-fi-books-of-all-time-4678139)
Published: 2025-11-04T13:00:00+00:00
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Duration seconds: 2410

## Resource

David Mitchell's masterpiece twists genres, transforming historical fiction into science fiction (and mind-bendingly back around again).

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