Astounding Magazine, The Twenty-Eight All-Time Best SF Books
science fiction awards database
One of several reader polls conducted by Astounding and Analog, these results are reproduced from Maxim Jakubowski & Malcolm Edwards' The SF Book of Lists (Berkley, 1983), page 174.
Ranked: Yes
Titles Cited: 28
Publication: Astounding Science Fiction, 1952
Ranked: Yes
Titles Cited: 28
Publication: Astounding Science Fiction, 1952
-
Raymond J. Healy & J. Francis McComas, eds., Adventures in Time and Space
(Random House , 1946)
-
A. E. van Vogt, Slan
(Arkham House, 1946)
-
H. G. Wells, Seven Famous Novels by H.G. Wells
(Knopf, 1934)
-
Robert A. Heinlein, The Man Who Sold the Moon
(Shasta, 1950)
-
John W. Campbell, Jr., Who Goes There?
(Shasta, 1948)
-
Groff Conklin, ed., The Best of Science Fiction
(Crown, 1946)
-
Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
(Doubleday, 1950)
-
Robert A. Heinlein, The Green Hills of Earth
(Shasta, 1951)
-
Everett F. Bleiler & T. E. Dikty, eds., Science Fiction Omnibus
(Garden City Books , 1952)
-
Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man
(Doubleday, 1951)
-
L. Sprague de Camp, Lest Darkness Fall
(Henry Holt , 1941)
-
Donald A. Wollheim, ed., The Portable Novels of Science
(Viking, 1945)
-
Edward E. Smith, Gray Lensman
(Fantasy Press , 1951)
-
A. E. van Vogt, The World of Null-A
(Simon & Schuster, 1948)
-
Isaac Asimov, The Foundation Trilogy
(series, 1953)
-
John W. Campbell, Jr., ed., The Astounding Science Fiction Anthology
(Simon & Schuster, 1952)
-
George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
(Secker & Warburg, 1949)
-
Eric Frank Russell, Sinister Barrier
(Fantasy Press , 1948)
-
H. G. Wells, The Short Stories of H.G. Wells
(Ernest Benn , 1927)
-
Groff Conklin, ed., A Treasury of Science Fiction
(Crown , 1948)
-
Lester del Rey, …And Some Were Human
(Prime Press, 1948)
-
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
(Chatto & Windus, 1932)
-
Isaac Asimov, I, Robot
(Gnome, 1950)
-
John W. Campbell, Jr., The Moon Is Hell
(Fantasy Press, 1951)
-
Robert A. Heinlein, Beyond This Horizon
(Fantasy Press, 1948)
-
A. E. van Vogt, The Weapon Makers
(Hadley Publishing, , 1947)
-
Jack Williamson, The Humanoids
(Simon & Schuster , 1949)
-
S. Fowler Wright, The World Below
(W. Collins Sons, 1929)
Copyright 2012 - 2025 by Mark R. Kelly and the Locus Science Fiction Foundation. All rights reserved.