David Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels
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David Pringle's influential book is a series of short essays, 2-3 pages each, describing Pringle's personal selections of the best 100 novels from 1949 up to the book's publication date in 1985. Titles are not ranked, but arranged in chronological order of original publication.
Ranked: No
Titles Cited: 102
Publication: Xanadu, 1985
Compile Notes
The 100 titles are listed below by author, including a 101st title (by Sterling) Pringle mentions in his introduction as a new title he would have included. A couple entries refer to series (Moorcock) or pairs of titles (Sladek).
Ranked: No
Titles Cited: 102
Publication: Xanadu, 1985
Compile Notes
The 100 titles are listed below by author, including a 101st title (by Sterling) Pringle mentions in his introduction as a new title he would have included. A couple entries refer to series (Moorcock) or pairs of titles (Sladek).
- Brian W. Aldiss, Greybeard (Harcourt Brace World, 1964)
- Brian W. Aldiss, Hothouse (Faber and Faber, 1962)
- Brian W. Aldiss, Non-Stop (Faber and Faber, 1958)
- Kingsley Amis, The Alteration (Cape, 1976)
- Poul Anderson, Tau Zero (Doubleday, 1970)
- Isaac Asimov, The End of Eternity (Doubleday, 1955)
- J. G. Ballard, Crash (Jonathan Cape, 1973)
- J. G. Ballard, The Crystal World (Jonathan Cape, 1966)
- J. G. Ballard, The Drowned World (Berkley Medallion, 1962)
- J. G. Ballard, High-Rise (Jonathan Cape, 1975)
- John Calvin Batchelor, The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica (Dial , 1983)
- 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, No Enemy But Time (Timescape, 1982)
- James Blish, A Case of Conscience (Ballantine, 1958)
- Leigh Brackett, The Long Tomorrow (Doubleday, 1955)
- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (Ballantine, 1953)
- Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles (Doubleday, 1950)
- Damien Broderick, The Dreaming Dragons (Pocket, 1980)
- John Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar (Doubleday, 1968)
- Algis Budrys, Michaelmas (Berkley Putnam, 1977)
- Algis Budrys, Rogue Moon (Fawcett Gold Medal, 1960)
- Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange (Heinemann , 1962)
- William S. Burroughs, Nova Express (Grove Press, 1964)
- Octavia E. Butler, Wild Seed (Doubleday, 1980)
- Angela Carter, Heroes and Villains (Heinemann, 1969)
- Suzy McKee Charnas, Walk to the End of the World (Ballantine, 1974)
- John Christopher, The Death of Grass (Michael Joseph, 1956)
- Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End (Ballantine, 1953)
- Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars (Harcourt Brace, 1956)
- Hal Clement, Mission of Gravity (Doubleday, 1954)
- John Crowley, Engine Summer (Doubleday, 1979)
- Samuel R. Delany, Nova (Doubleday, 1968)
- Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Doubleday, 1968)
- Philip K. Dick, Dr. Bloodmoney (Ace, 1965)
- Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle (Putnam, 1962)
- Philip K. Dick, Martian Time-Slip (Ballantine, 1964)
- Philip K. Dick, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (Doubleday, 1965)
- Philip K. Dick, Time Out of Joint (Lippincott, 1959)
- Thomas M. Disch, 334 (MacGibbon & Kee, 1972)
- Thomas M. Disch, Camp Concentration (Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968)
- Thomas M. Disch, On Wings of Song (St Martin's, 1979)
- Philip José Farmer, The Unreasoning Mask (Putnam, 1981)
- Pat Frank, Alas, Babylon (Lippincott, 1959)
- William Gibson, Neuromancer (Ace Special, 1984)
- William Golding, The Inheritors (Faber and Faber, 1955)
- Charles L. Harness, The Paradox Men (Ace Double, 1955)
- Harry Harrison, Make Room! Make Room! (Doubleday, 1966)
- M. John Harrison, The Centauri Device (Doubleday, 1974)
- Robert A. Heinlein, The Door Into Summer (Doubleday, 1957)
- Robert A. Heinlein, Have Space Suit -- Will Travel (Scribners, 1958)
- Robert A. Heinlein, The Puppet Masters (Doubleday, 1951)
- Frank Herbert, Dune (Chilton, 1965)
- Russell Hoban, Riddley Walker (Jonathan Cape, 1980)
- Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon (Harcourt, Brace and World, 1966)
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed (Harper & Row, 1974)
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness (Ace Special, 1969)
- Fritz Leiber, The Wanderer (Ballantine, 1964)
- Barry N. Malzberg, Galaxies (Pyramid, 1975)
- Walter M. Miller, Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz (Lippincott, 1959)
- Michael Moorcock, The Dancers at the End of Time (series, 1972-1977)
- Michael Moorcock, The Final Programme (Avon, 1968)
- Ward Moore, Bring the Jubilee ( Farrar, Straus and Young, 1953)
- Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle, Oath of Fealty (Timescape, 1981)
- George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (Secker & Warburg, 1949)
- Edgar Pangborn, A Mirror for Observers (Doubleday, 1954)
- Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time (Knopf , 1976)
- Frederik Pohl, Man Plus (Random House, 1976)
- Frederik Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth, The Space Merchants (Ballantine, 1953)
- Christopher Priest, Inverted World (Faber and Faber, 1974)
- Mack Reynolds, Looking Backward, From The Year 2000 (Ace, 1973)
- Keith Roberts, Pavane (Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968)
- Joanna Russ, The Female Man (Bantam, 1975)
- Bob Shaw, Orbitsville (Gollancz, 1975)
- Bob Shaw, The Palace of Eternity (Ace Special, 1969)
- Robert Sheckley, Journey Beyond Tomorrow (NAL/Signet, 1962)
- Robert Silverberg, Downward to the Earth (Nelson Doubleday, 1970)
- Clifford D. Simak, Ring Around the Sun (Simon and Schuster, 1953)
- Clifford D. Simak, Way Station (Doubleday, 1963)
- John Sladek, Roderick (Timescape, 1982)
- John Sladek, Roderick at Random (Granada , 1983)
- Cordwainer Smith, Norstrilia (Ballantine, 1975)
- Norman Spinrad, Bug Jack Barron (Walker, 1969)
- Brian Stableford, The Walking Shadow (Fontana, 1979)
- Bruce Sterling, Schismatrix (Arbor House, 1985)
- George R. Stewart, Earth Abides (Random House, 1949)
- Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human (Farrar, Straus & Young/Ballantine, 1953)
- Theodore Sturgeon, Venus Plus X (Pyramid, 1960)
- Wilson Tucker, The Year of the Quiet Sun (Ace Special, 1970)
- John Varley, The Ophiuchi Hotline (The Dial Press/James Wade, 1977)
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1963)
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., The Sirens of Titan (Dell, 1959)
- Ian Watson, The Embedding (Gollancz , 1973)
- Ian Watson, Miracle Visitors (Gollancz , 1978)
- Kate Wilhelm, Juniper Time (Harper & Row, 1979)
- Bernard Wolfe, Limbo (Random House , 1952)
- Gene Wolfe, The Book of the New Sun (1980-1983)
- Gene Wolfe, The Fifth Head of Cerberus (Scribner's, 1972)
- John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids (Doubleday, 1951)
- John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos (Michael Joseph, 1957)
- Roger Zelazny, The Dream Master (Ace, 1966)
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