Searles & Michael Franklin, A Reader's Guide to Science Fiction
science fiction awards database
The authors provide ~page-long essays about 200 authors and their major works, with suggestions in each case for other authors you might like. Appendices include lists of series titles, awards, and a brief history of SF. Compiled here are 49 titles from the "Suggested Basic Library and/or Reading List" in Part Four.
Ranked: No
Titles Cited: 49
Publication: Avon, 1979, 1979
Ranked: No
Titles Cited: 49
Publication: Avon, 1979, 1979
- Brian W. Aldiss, Hothouse (Faber and Faber, 1962)
- Poul Anderson, Tau Zero (Doubleday, 1970)
- Isaac Asimov, The Foundation Trilogy (series, 1951-1953)
- J. G. Ballard, Vermillion Sands (Berkley Medallion, 1971)
- Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination (NAL/Signet, 1957)
- James Blish, A Case of Conscience (Ballantine, 1958)
- Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles (Doubleday, 1950)
- John Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar (Doubleday, 1968)
- Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (McClurg, 1917)
- Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End (Ballantine, 1953)
- Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars (Harcourt Brace, 1956)
- Hal Clement, Needle (Doubleday, 1950)
- Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren (Bantam, 1975)
- Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle (Putnam, 1962)
- Gordon R. Dickson, Dorsai! (DAW, 1976)
- Thomas M. Disch, 334 (MacGibbon & Kee, 1972)
- Harlan Ellison, ed., Dangerous Visions (Doubleday, 1967)
- M. John Harrison, The Centauri Device (Doubleday, 1974)
- Robert A. Heinlein, Citizen of the Galaxy (Scribners, 1957)
- Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (Putnam, 1966)
- Frank Herbert, Dune (Chilton, 1965)
- William Hope Hodgson, The Night Land (Eveleigh Nash , 1912)
- Henry Kuttner, The Dark World (Ace, 1965)
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness (Ace Special, 1969)
- Fritz Leiber, The Big Time (Ace Double, 1961)
- H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness (Astounding, 1936)
- A. Merritt, The Moon Pool (Putnam , 1919)
- Walter M. Miller, Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz (Lippincott, 1959)
- Michael Moorcock, The Cornelius Chronicles (Avon, 1977)
- C. L. Moore & Henry Kuttner, Earth's Last Citadel (Ace, 1964)
- Larry Niven, Ringworld (Ballantine, 1970)
- H. Beam Piper, Little Fuzzy (Avon , 1962)
- Frederik Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth, The Space Merchants (Ballantine, 1953)
- Joanna Russ, And Chaos Died (Ace Special, 1970)
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (Lackington Hughes, 1818)
- Cordwainer Smith, Norstrilia (Ballantine, 1975)
- Edward E. Smith, First Lensman (Fantasy Press , 1950)
- Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men (Methuen, 1930)
- Olaf Stapledon, Odd John (Methuen, 1935)
- Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human (Farrar, Straus & Young/Ballantine, 1953)
- A. E. van Vogt, The World of Null-A (Simon & Schuster, 1948)
- Jack Vance, The Dying Earth (Hillman, 1950)
- Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon (J. Hetzel, 1865)
- Stanley G. Weinbaum, A Martian Odyssey and Others (Fantasy Press , 1949)
- H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (Henry Holt, 1895)
- Jack Williamson, The Humanoids (Simon & Schuster , 1949)
- S. Fowler Wright, The World Below (W. Collins Sons, 1929)
- John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos (Michael Joseph, 1957)
- Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light (Doubleday, 1967)
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