Astounding Magazine, The Twenty-six All-Time Best SF Books
science fiction awards database
Readers' poll results, reproduced in Maxim Jakubowski & Malcolm Edwards' The SF Book of Lists (Berkley, 1983), page 174-5.
Ranked: Yes
Titles Cited: 26
Publication: Astounding Science Fiction, 1956
Ranked: Yes
Titles Cited: 26
Publication: Astounding Science Fiction, 1956
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Raymond J. Healy & J. Francis McComas, eds., Adventures in Time and Space
(Random House , 1946)
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Clifford D. Simak, City
(Gnome Press, 1952)
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Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
(Doubleday, 1950)
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Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human
(Farrar, Straus & Young/Ballantine, 1953)
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A. E. van Vogt, Slan
(Arkham House, 1946)
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Robert A. Heinlein, The Man Who Sold the Moon
(Shasta, 1950)
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Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man
(Shasta, 1953)
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John W. Campbell, Jr., ed., The Astounding Science Fiction Anthology
(Simon & Schuster, 1952)
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Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End
(Ballantine, 1953)
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George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
(Secker & Warburg, 1949)
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A. E. van Vogt, The World of Null-A
(Simon & Schuster, 1948)
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Isaac Asimov, The Foundation Trilogy
(series, 1951-1953)
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John W. Campbell, Jr., Who Goes There?
(Shasta, 1948)
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Olaf Stapledon, edited by Basil Davenport, To the End of Time
(Funk & Wagnalls, 1953)
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Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
(Chatto & Windus, 1932)
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H. G. Wells, Seven Famous Novels by H.G. Wells
(Knopf, 1934)
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Robert A. Heinlein, The Green Hills of Earth
(Shasta, 1951)
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Hal Clement, Mission of Gravity
(Doubleday, 1954)
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Jack Williamson, The Humanoids
(Simon & Schuster , 1949)
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L. Sprague de Camp, Lest Darkness Fall
(Henry Holt , 1941)
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Isaac Asimov, I, Robot
(Gnome, 1950)
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Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man
(Doubleday, 1951)
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Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars
(Harcourt Brace, 1956)
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Frederik Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth, The Space Merchants
(Ballantine, 1953)
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Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
(Ballantine, 1953)
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Arthur C. Clarke, Prelude to Space
(Galaxy, 1951)
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