Keith Olexa, The 100 science fiction books you just have to read!
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An editor for Phobos Publications posted this list on the company's site in 2003. The page is no longer available on the website, though the list has been reproduced on various other sites (e.g. here), and is reproduced below.
Ranked: No
Titles Cited: 99
Publication: http://www.phobosweb.com/features/100books/top100index.html, 2003
Compile Notes
99 of the 100 titles are posted; a 100th title, Upanishads, as an ancient religious text, is out of scope of this database.
Ranked: No
Titles Cited: 99
Publication: http://www.phobosweb.com/features/100books/top100index.html, 2003
Compile Notes
99 of the 100 titles are posted; a 100th title, Upanishads, as an ancient religious text, is out of scope of this database.
- Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland (Seeley, 1884)
- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Pan, 1979)
- Poul Anderson, Brain Wave (Ballantine, 1954)
- Piers Anthony, Omnivore (Ballantine, 1968)
- Isaac Asimov, The Foundation Trilogy (series, 1951-1953)
- Isaac Asimov, The Gods Themselves (Doubleday, 1972)
- Isaac Asimov, I, Robot (Gnome, 1950)
- A. A. Attanasio, Radix (Morrow, 1981)
- J. G. Ballard, The Drowned World (Berkley Medallion, 1962)
- Greg Bear, Blood Music (Arbor House, 1985)
- Greg Bear, Eon (Bluejay, 1985)
- Gregory Benford, Cosm (Avon Eos, 1998)
- Gregory Benford, Timescape (Simon and Schuster, 1980)
- Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man (Shasta, 1953)
- Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination (NAL/Signet, 1957)
- James Blish, A Case of Conscience (Ballantine, 1958)
- James Blish, Cities in Flight (Avon, 1970)
- Ben Bova, Mars (Bantam Spectra, 1992)
- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (Ballantine, 1953)
- Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles (Doubleday, 1950)
- Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Heritage of Hastur (DAW, 1975)
- David Brin, The Postman (Bantam Spectra, 1985)
- David Brin, Startide Rising (Bantam, 1983)
- John Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar (Doubleday, 1968)
- Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange (Heinemann , 1962)
- Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (McClurg, 1917)
- Octavia E. Butler, Dawn (Warner, 1987)
- Karel Capek, War with the Newts (Allen & Unwin , 1937; Czechoslovakia 1936)
- Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game (Tor, 1985)
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Macmillan, 1865)
- C. J. Cherryh, Cuckoo's Egg (Phantasia, 1985)
- C. J. Cherryh, Downbelow Station (DAW, 1981)
- John Christopher, The Death of Grass (Michael Joseph, 1956)
- Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (NAL, 1968)
- Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End (Ballantine, 1953)
- Hal Clement, Mission of Gravity (Doubleday, 1954)
- Michael Crichton, The Andromeda Strain (Knopf , 1969)
- Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren (Bantam, 1975)
- Samuel R. Delany, Triton (Bantam, 1976)
- A. K. Dewdney, The Planiverse: Computer Contact with a Two-Dimensional World (Poseidon, 1984)
- Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle (Putnam, 1962)
- Philip K. Dick, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (Doubleday, 1965)
- Philip K. Dick, VALIS (Bantam, 1981)
- Thomas M. Disch, Camp Concentration (Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968)
- Harlan Ellison, Deathbird Stories (Harper & Row, 1975)
- Philip José Farmer, Flesh (Beacon Books/Galaxy, 1960)
- Philip José Farmer, To Your Scattered Bodies Go (Putnam, 1971)
- Robert L. Forward, Dragon's Egg (Ballantine Del Rey, 1980)
- C. S. Friedman, In Conquest Born (DAW, 1987)
- Hugo Gernsback, Ralph 124C 41+: A Romance of the Year 2660 (Stratford, 1925)
- David Gerrold, The Man Who Folded Himself (Random House, 1973)
- William Gibson, Neuromancer (Ace Special, 1984)
- Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (St. Martin's, 1974)
- Robert A. Heinlein, The Puppet Masters (Doubleday, 1951)
- Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers (Putnam, 1959)
- Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land (Putnam, 1961)
- Frank Herbert, Dune (Chilton, 1965)
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (Chatto & Windus, 1932)
- Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon (Harcourt, Brace and World, 1966)
- Nancy Kress, Beggars in Spain (Morrow AvoNova, 1993)
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven (Scribner's, 1971)
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness (Ace Special, 1969)
- Stanislaw Lem, Solaris (Walker, 1970; Poland 1961)
- Richard Matheson, I Am Legend (Fawcett Gold Medal, 1954)
- Anne McCaffrey, Dragonflight (Ballantine, 1968)
- Walter M. Miller, Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz (Lippincott, 1959)
- Michael Moorcock, Behold the Man (Alison & Busby, 1969)
- Larry Niven, Ringworld (Ballantine, 1970)
- George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (Secker & Warburg, 1949)
- Lewis Padgett, Mutant (Gnome Press, 1953)
- Frederik Pohl, Gateway (St. Martin's, 1977)
- Frederik Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth, The Space Merchants (Ballantine, 1953)
- Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (HarperCollins, 1992)
- Fred Saberhagen, Berserker (Ballantine, 1967)
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (Lackington Hughes, 1818)
- Clifford D. Simak, Way Station (Doubleday, 1963)
- Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Doubleday Foundation, 1989)
- Edward E. Smith, Gray Lensman (Fantasy Press , 1951)
- Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men (Methuen, 1930)
- Olaf Stapledon, Star Maker (Methuen, 1937)
- Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra, 1992)
- Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (George Munro, 1886)
- 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)
- A. E. van Vogt, Slan (Arkham House, 1946)
- A. E. van Vogt, The Voyage of the Space Beagle (Simon & Schuster , 1950)
- Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth (J. Hetzel, 1864)
- Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (George Smith, 1873; France 1871)
- Joan D. Vinge, The Snow Queen (Dial, 1980)
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1963)
- H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (Henry Holt, 1895)
- H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds (Heinemann, 1898)
- James White, Star Surgeon (Ballantine, 1963)
- Connie Willis, Doomsday Book (Bantam Spectra, 1992)
- Gene Wolfe, The Shadow of the Torturer (Simon & Schuster, 1980)
- John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids (Doubleday, 1951)
- John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos (Michael Joseph, 1957)
- Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light (Doubleday, 1967)
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