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Sci-Fi Reading List

Just got a top 100 list of SciFi books from a friend.... guess I have some more reading to do.  

If you are interested lookup Nebula and Hugo awards for more great Science Fiction novels.

Note: Science Fiction is fiction based on science.  NOT FANTASY!

Bold are items I have read previously.


1 - Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card - 1985

2 - Dune - Frank Herbert - 1965

3- Foundation - Isaac Asimov - 1951

4 - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - 1979

5 - 1984 - George Orwell - 1949

6 - Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A Heinlein - 1961

7 - Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury - 1954

8 - 2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C Clarke - 1968

9 - Starship Troopers - Robert A Heinlein - 1959

10 - I, Robot - Isaac Asimov - 1950

11 - Neuromancer - William Gibson - 1984

12 - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Philip K *** - 1968

13 - Ringworld - Larry Niven - 1970

14 - Rendezvous With Rama - Arthur C Clarke - 1973

15 - Hyperion - Dan Simmons - 1989

16 - Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - 1932

17 - The Time Machine - H G Wells - 1895

18 - Childhood's End - Arthur C Clarke - 1954

19 - The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert A Heinlein - 1966

20 - The War of the Worlds - H G Wells - 1898

21 - The Forever War - Joe Haldeman - 1974

22 - The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury - 1950

23 - Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut - 1969

24 - Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson - 1992

25 - The Mote in God's Eye - Niven & Pournelle - 1975

26 - The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K Le Guin - 1969

27 - Speaker for the Dead - Orson Scott Card - 1986

28 - Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton - 1990

29 - The Man in the High Castle - Philip K *** - 1962

30 - The Caves of Steel - Isaac Asimov - 1954

31 - The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester - 1956

32 - Gateway - Frederik Pohl - 1977

33 - Lord of Light - Roger Zelazny - 1967

34 - Solaris - Lem Stanislaw - 1961

35 - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne - 1870

36 - A Wrinkle in Time - Madelein L'Engle - 1962

37 - Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut - 1963

38 - Contact - Carl Sagan - 1985

39 - The Andromeda Strain - Michael Crichton - 1969

40 - The Gods Themselves - Isaac Asimov - 1972

41 - A Fire Upon the Deep - Vernor Vinge - 1991

42 - Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson - 1999

43 - The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham - 1951

44 - UBIK - Philip K *** - 1969

45 - Time Enough For Love - Robert A Heinlein - 1973

46 - A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess - 1962

47 - Red Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson - 1992

48 - Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes

49 - A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M Miller - 1959

50 - The End of Eternity - Isaac Asimov - 1955

51 - Battlefield Earth - L Ron Hubbard - 1982

52 - Frankenstein - Mary Shelley - 1818

53 - Journey to the Center of the Earth - Jules Verne - 1864

54 - The Dispossessed - Ursula K Le Guin - 1974

55 - The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson - 1995

56 - The Player of Games - Iain M Banks - 1988

57 - The Reality Dysfunction - Peter F Hamilton - 1996

58 - Startide Rising - David Brin - 1983

59 - The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut - 1959

60 - Eon - Greg Bear - 1985

61 - Ender's Shadow - Orson Scott Card - 1999

62 - To Your Scattered Bodies Go - Philip Jose Farmer - 1971

63 - A Scanner Darkly - Philip K *** - 1977

64 - Lucifer's Hammer - Niven & Pournell - 1977

65 - The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood - 1985

66 - The City and the Stars - Arthur C Clark - 1956

67 - The Stainless Steel Rat - Harry Harrison - 1961

68 - The Demolished Man - Alfred Bester - 1953

69 - The Shadow of the Torturer - Gene Wolfe - 1980

70 - Sphere - Michael Crichton - 1987

71 - The Door Into Summer - Robert A Heinlein - 1957

72 - The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - Philip K *** - 1964

73 - Revelation Space - Alastair Reynolds - 2000

74 - Citizen of the Galaxy - Robert A Heinlein - 1957

75 - Doomsday Book - Connie Willis - 1992

76 - Ilium - Dan Simmons - 2003

77 - The Invisible Man - H G Wells - 1897

78 - Have Space-Suit Will Travel - Robert A Heinlein - 1958

79 - The Puppet Masters - Robert A Heinlein - 1951

80 - Out of the Silent Planet - C S Lewis - 1938

81 - A Princess of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs - 1912

82 - The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula K Le Guin - 1971

83 - Use of Weapons - Iain M Banks - 1990

84 - The Chrysalids - John Wyndham - 1955

85 - Way Station - Clifford Simak - 1963

86 - Flatland - Edwin A Abbott - 1884

87 - Altered Carbon - Richard Morgan - 2002

88 - Old Man's War - John Scalzi - 2005

90 - The Road - Cormac McCarthy - 2006

91 - The Postman - David Brin - 1985

93 - VALIS - Philip K *** - 1981

96 - The Lost World - Arthur Conan Doyle - 1912

97 - The Many-Colored Land - Julian May - 1981

98 - Gray Lensman - E E 'Doc' Smith - 1940

99 - The Uplift War - David Brin - 1987

Posted: Nov 30 2011, 09:44 AM by scassells | with 1 comment(s)
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