Adam Roberts, The History of Science Fiction
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Roberts' history runs from ancient times to the present, both in books and in 20th century cinema. An appendix, pp346-350, is a "Chronology of Key Titles in Science Fiction and Developments in Science", including books, short fiction, films, and TV.
Ranked: No
Titles Cited: 118
Publication: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
Compile Notes
Compiled here are the fiction titles from the Chronology, not including nonfiction titles included as significant to the history of science.
Ranked: No
Titles Cited: 118
Publication: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
Compile Notes
Compiled here are the fiction titles from the Chronology, not including nonfiction titles included as significant to the history of science.
- Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland (Seeley, 1884)
- Brian W. Aldiss, Billion Year Spree (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1973)
- Brian W. Aldiss, Helliconia Spring (Atheneum, 1982)
- Brian W. Aldiss, Hothouse (Faber and Faber, 1962)
- Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel (Doubleday, 1954)
- Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale (McClelland and Stewart, 1985)
- Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake (McClelland & Stewart, 2003)
- J. G. Ballard, The Crystal World (Jonathan Cape, 1966)
- Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas (Macmillan, 1987)
- Rene Barjavel, Ashes, Ashes (Doubleday, 1967; France 1943)
- John Barth, Giles Goat-Boy (Doubleday, 1966)
- Stephen Baxter, Coalescent (Gollancz, 2003)
- Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward 2000-1887 (Ticknor and Company, 1888)
- Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination (NAL/Signet, 1957)
- James Blish, A Case of Conscience (Ballantine, 1958)
- Félix Bodin, The Novel of the Future (Black Coat Press, 2008; France 1834)
- Pierre Boulle, Planet of the Apes (Vanguard , 1963; France 1963)
- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (Ballantine, 1953)
- Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles (Doubleday, 1950)
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Coming Race (William Blackwood, 1871)
- Katharine Burdekin, Swastika Night (Gollancz , 1937)
- Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange (Heinemann , 1962)
- Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (McClurg, 1917)
- Octavia E. Butler, Dawn (Warner, 1987)
- Karel Capek, R.U.R.: Rossum's Universal Robots (Oxford University Press/Humphrey Milford, 1923; Czechoslovakia 1920)
- Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game (Tor, 1985)
- Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Chto delat? [What Is to Be Done?] (1863)
- George T. Chesney, The Battle of Dorking: Reminiscences of a Volunteer (Blackwood's Magazine, 1871)
- Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End (Ballantine, 1953)
- Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren (Bantam, 1975)
- Samuel R. Delany, The Einstein Intersection (Ace, 1967)
- Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Doubleday, 1968)
- Philip K. Dick, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (Doubleday, 1965)
- Philip K. Dick, Ubik (Doubleday, 1969)
- Greg Egan, Diaspora (Millennium, 1997)
- Edward S. Ellis, The Steam Man of the Prairies (American Novels Publishing Co, 1868)
- Harlan Ellison, ed., Dangerous Visions (Doubleday, 1967)
- Achille Eyraud, Voyage à Vénus (Michel Lévy frères, 1865)
- Camille Flammarion, Lumen (--, 1872)
- Camille Flammarion, Omega: The Last Days of the World (--, 1893)
- Hugo Gernsback, Ralph 124C 41+: A Romance of the Year 2660 (Stratford, 1925)
- William Gibson, Neuromancer (Ace Special, 1984)
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland (The Forerunner, 1915)
- Percy Greg, Across the Zodiac: The Story of a Wrecked Record (Trübner and Co, 1880)
- Harry Harrison, Make Room! Make Room! (Doubleday, 1966)
- M. John Harrison, Light (Gollancz, 2002)
- Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers (Putnam, 1959)
- Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land (Putnam, 1961)
- Frank Herbert, Dune (Chilton, 1965)
- Russell Hoban, Riddley Walker (Jonathan Cape, 1980)
- Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles (Knopf, 2000; France 1998)
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (Chatto & Windus, 1932)
- Gwyneth Jones, White Queen (Gollancz , 1991)
- Ernst Jünger, The Glass Bees (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1960; Germany 1957)
- Hermann Kasack, Die Stadt hinter dem Strom [The City Beyond the River] (Longmans, Green, 1953; Germany 1949)
- Kurd Lasswitz, Two Planets (Elischer Nachfolger, 1897)
- 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)
- C. S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Bodley Head, 1938)
- David Lindsay, A Voyage to Arcturus (Methuen , 1920)
- Jane Loudon, The Mummy! Or a Tale of the Twenty-Second Century (Henry Colburn , 1827)
- Ken MacLeod, The Cassini Division (Orbit, 1998)
- Filippo Marinetti, Il Manifesto del futurismo [Futurist Manifesto] (1909)
- Paul J. McAuley, Fairyland (Gollancz, 1995)
- China Miéville, Perdido Street Station (Macmillan, 2000)
- Walter M. Miller, Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz (Lippincott, 1959)
- Michael Moorcock, The Final Programme (Avon, 1968)
- William Morris, News from Nowhere, or An Epoch of Rest (Roberts Brothers, 1890)
- Larry Niven, Ringworld (Ballantine, 1970)
- George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (Secker & Warburg, 1949)
- Edgar Allan Poe, Eureka: A Prose Poem (Geo P Putnam, 1848)
- Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow (Viking , 1973)
- Keith Roberts, Pavane (Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968)
- Albert Robida, The Twentieth Century (Wesleyan University Press, 2004; France 1882)
- Kim Stanley Robinson, Blue Mars (HarperCollins/Voyager UK, 1996)
- Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars (HarperCollins UK, 1993)
- Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (HarperCollins, 1992)
- Joanna Russ, The Female Man (Bantam, 1975)
- Adam Seaborn, Symzonia: A Voyage of Discovery (Jonathan Seymour, 1820)
- Garrett P. Serviss, Edison's Conquest of Mars (Carcosa House, 1947)
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (Lackington Hughes, 1818)
- Mary Shelley, The Last Man (Henry Colburn, 1826)
- Robert Silverberg, Dying Inside (Scribner's, 1972)
- Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Doubleday Foundation, 1989)
- Edward E. Smith, The Skylark of Space (Buffalo , 1946)
- Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men (Methuen, 1930)
- Olaf Stapledon, Star Maker (Methuen, 1937)
- Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra, 1992)
- Arkady & Boris Strugatsky, Roadside Picnic (Avrora, 1972)
- Sheri S. Tepper, The Gate to Women's Country (Doubleday Foundation, 1988)
- Sheri S. Tepper, Grass (Doubleday Foundation, 1989)
- James Tiptree, Jr., Warm Worlds and Otherwise (Ballantine, 1975)
- A. E. van Vogt, Slan (Arkham House, 1946)
- A. E. van Vogt, The Weapon Shops of Isher (Greenberg , 1951)
- Jack Vance, The Dying Earth (Hillman, 1950)
- Jack Vance, Emphyrio (Doubleday, 1969)
- Jules Verne, Around the Moon (J. Hetzel, 1870)
- Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon (J. Hetzel, 1865)
- Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth (J. Hetzel, 1864)
- Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island (Sampson Low, 1875; France 1875)
- Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (George Smith, 1873; France 1871)
- Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Tomorrow's Eve (University of Illinois Press, 1982; France 1886)
- David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest (Little, Brown, 1996)
- H. G. Wells, Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human LIfe and Thought (Chapman & Hall, 1901)
- H. G. Wells, The First Men in the Moon (Bowen-Merrill, 1901)
- H. G. Wells, The Food of the Gods (Macmillan, 1904)
- H. G. Wells, In the Days of the Comet (Macmillan, 1906)
- H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man (C. Arthur Pearson, 1897)
- H. G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau (Heinemann , 1896)
- H. G. Wells, A Modern Utopia (Chapman & Hall, 1905)
- H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (Henry Holt, 1895)
- H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds (Heinemann, 1898)
- Gene Wolfe, The Book of the New Sun (1980-1983)
- Gene Wolfe, The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories (Pocket, 1980)
- John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids (Doubleday, 1951)
- John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos (Michael Joseph, 1957)
- Yevgeny Zamyatin, We (Dutton, 1924)
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