Andrews & Rennison, 100 Must-Read Science Fiction Novels
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The 100 novels of the title are arranged by author and described in short, 1-2 page entries. Each entry is appended by half-dozen or so 'read on' titles by the same author or on the same theme.
Ranked: No
Titles Cited: 678
Publication: A&C Black (Bloomsbury Good Reading Guides), 2006
Compile Notes
Posted so far are the 100 main titles. Additional titles are listed here -->.
Ranked: No
Titles Cited: 678
Publication: A&C Black (Bloomsbury Good Reading Guides), 2006
Compile Notes
Posted so far are the 100 main titles. Additional titles are listed here -->.
- Brian W. Aldiss, Hothouse (Faber and Faber, 1962)
- Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Gnome, 1951)
- Isaac Asimov, I, Robot (Gnome, 1950)
- J. G. Ballard, The Drowned World (Berkley Medallion, 1962)
- J. G. Ballard, Super-Cannes (HarperCollins/Flamingo, 2000)
- Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Macmillan, 1988)
- Stephen Baxter, Moonseed (HarperCollins/Voyager, 1998)
- Barrington J. Bayley, The Garments of Caean (Doubleday, 1976)
- Greg Bear, Blood Music (Arbor House, 1985)
- Gregory Benford, Timescape (Simon and Schuster, 1980)
- Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man (Shasta, 1953)
- Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination (NAL/Signet, 1957)
- Michael Bishop, Ancient of Days (Arbor House, 1985)
- James Blish, A Case of Conscience (Ballantine, 1958)
- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (Ballantine, 1953)
- Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles (Doubleday, 1950)
- John Brunner, The Sheep Look Up (Harper & Row, 1972)
- Algis Budrys, Rogue Moon (Fawcett Gold Medal, 1960)
- Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange (Heinemann , 1962)
- Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (McClurg, 1917)
- William S. Burroughs, The Ticket that Exploded (Olympia Press, 1962)
- Pat Cadigan, Synners (Bantam Spectra, 1991)
- John W. Campbell, Jr., edited by George Hay, The Best of John W. Campbell (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1973)
- Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game (Tor, 1985)
- Angela Carter, Heroes and Villains (Heinemann, 1969)
- Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End (Ballantine, 1953)
- D. G. Compton, The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe (Gollancz, 1974)
- Samuel R. Delany, Nova (Doubleday, 1968)
- Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Doubleday, 1968)
- Philip K. Dick, Ubik (Doubleday, 1969)
- Thomas M. Disch, The Genocides (Berkley Medallion, 1965)
- Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World (Hodder and Stoughton, 1912)
- Greg Egan, Permutation City (Millennium, 1994)
- Harlan Ellison, The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World (Avon , 1969)
- Philip José Farmer, The Lovers (Ballantine, 1961)
- William Gibson, Neuromancer (Ace Special, 1984)
- Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (St. Martin's, 1974)
- Peter F. Hamilton, The Reality Dysfunction (Macmillan, 1996)
- Harry Harrison, Make Room! Make Room! (Doubleday, 1966)
- M. John Harrison, The Centauri Device (Doubleday, 1974)
- Robert A. Heinlein, Orphans of the Sky (Gollancz, 1963)
- Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers (Putnam, 1959)
- Frank Herbert, Dune (Chilton, 1965)
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (Chatto & Windus, 1932)
- K. W. Jeter, Dr. Adder (Bluejay, 1984)
- Raymond F. Jones, This Island Earth (Shasta , 1952)
- Leigh Kennedy, The Journal of Nicholas the American (Atlantic Monthly, 1986)
- Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon (Harcourt, Brace and World, 1966)
- Henry Kuttner, Fury (Grosset & Dunlap, 1950)
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed (Harper & Row, 1974)
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness (Ace Special, 1969)
- Stanislaw Lem, Solaris (Walker, 1970; Poland 1961)
- Barry N. Malzberg, Guernica Night (Bobbs-Merrill, 1975)
- Richard Matheson, I Am Legend (Orb, 1995)
- Maureen F. McHugh, China Mountain Zhang (Tor, 1992)
- Walter M. Miller, Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz (Lippincott, 1959)
- Michael Moorcock, The Final Programme (Avon, 1968)
- C. L. Moore, Black Gods and Scarlet Dreams (Donald M. Grant, 2002)
- Ward Moore, Bring the Jubilee ( Farrar, Straus and Young, 1953)
- Richard Morgan, Altered Carbon (Gollancz, 2002)
- Larry Niven, Ringworld (Ballantine, 1970)
- George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (Secker & Warburg, 1949)
- Frederik Pohl, Man Plus (Random House, 1976)
- Tim Powers, The Anubis Gates (Ace, 1983)
- Christopher Priest, The Glamour (Jonathan Cape, 1984)
- Keith Roberts, Pavane (Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968)
- Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (HarperCollins, 1992)
- Joanna Russ, The Female Man (Bantam, 1975)
- Bob Shaw, Other Days, Other Eyes (Gollancz, 1972)
- Robert Sheckley, Immortality, Inc. (Bantam, 1959)
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (Lackington Hughes, 1818)
- Lucius Shepard, Life During Wartime (Bantam, 1987)
- John Shirley, City Come A-Walkin' (Dell, 1980)
- Robert Silverberg, The Man in the Maze (Avon, 1969)
- John Sladek, Tik-Tok (Gollancz, 1983)
- Cordwainer Smith, Norstrilia (Ballantine, 1975)
- Edward E. Smith, Triplanetary (Fantasy Press , 1948)
- Norman Spinrad, The Iron Dream (Avon , 1972)
- Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra, 1992)
- Bruce Sterling, Involution Ocean (Jove, 1977)
- George R. Stewart, Earth Abides (Random House, 1949)
- Arkady & Boris Strugatsky, Roadside Picnic (Avrora, 1972)
- Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human (Farrar, Straus & Young/Ballantine, 1953)
- Michael Swanwick, Stations of the Tide (Morrow, 1991)
- Walter S. Tevis, The Man Who Fell to Earth (Fawcett Gold Medal, 1963)
- A. E. van Vogt, The Voyage of the Space Beagle (Simon & Schuster , 1950)
- Jack Vance, The Languages of Pao (Avalon, 1958)
- Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth (J. Hetzel, 1864)
- Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon The Deep (Tor, 1992)
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five (Delacorte, 1969)
- Ian Watson, The Jonah Kit (Gollancz , 1975)
- H. G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau (Heinemann , 1896)
- H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (Henry Holt, 1895)
- H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds (Heinemann, 1898)
- Kate Wilhelm, Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang (Harper & Row, 1976)
- Jack Williamson, The Legion of Time (Fantasy Press, 1952)
- Connie Willis, Doomsday Book (Bantam Spectra, 1992)
- Gene Wolfe, The Shadow of the Torturer (Simon & Schuster, 1980)
- John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos (Michael Joseph, 1957)
- Roger Zelazny, This Immortal (Ace, 1966)
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