Norman
Allan
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The
Ten Best Science Fiction Books of All Time! * | ||
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The
Crysalids by John Wyndham | The last quarter of the Crysalids turns into a car chase, but the first 3/4s is so good that I still rank it as one of the very best. 1955 | |
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Dreaming Jewels Theodore Sturgeon,. . | 1950. "More Than Human" is also wicked (or wonderful), perhaps even one of the top ten | |
Magic Street Orson Scott Card | 2005 | |
| The Stars My Destination Alfred Bester | 1953. Also published as "Tiger Tiger" | |
Childhoods End Arthur C Clarke
| 1953. The City and the Stars (which is "a complete rewrite of his earlier novella, Against the Fall of Night" {Wikipedia} is also awesome) | |
| Lord of Light Roger Zelazny | 1967 | |
| Sirens of Titan Kurt Vonnegut | 1959 | |
| 1984
George Orwell | 1949 Yes, it is serious literature, but yes, it is science fiction | |
| Among Others Jo Walton | 2010 (I think: just finished it yesterday: I think...) | |
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| The last novel amongst the top ten would be from amongst the following (it's debatable) | ||
| Hot House Brian Aldiss | 1962 Aldiss' AI is a great film (expanding a nice short story into (as it were) a novel)** | |
| Stranger
in a Strange Land
Robert Heinlen | The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is also fabulous, oh, and Space Merchants! | |
| The Green Brain Frank Herbert | ||
| Dragon Masters Jack Vance | ||
| Dune Frank Herbert | ||
| Lord of the Rings Tolkien | and "the Hobbit" is part of that tale | |
| Cats Cradle Kurt Vonnegut | ||
Scanner Darkly Philip K Dick | Dick's work is awesome | |
Stars
in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand | "It was part of a planned diptych whose second half, The Splendor and Misery of Bodies, of Cities, remains unfinished..." Wikipedia. When I read this I thought it was fantastic, but I'd have to wait to judge or rank it. Still waiting | |
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the 100 greatest Sci Fi works I'd list... | But
these would never make it into my top ten | |
Foundation
Isaac Asimov | just because the scene when they are approaching Trantor impressed me so. Currents of Space is also neat. | |
| Nova Samuel Delany | "Dhalgren" is also fascinating (and unique) - for that matter, the first and third parts of Delany's Triton are fabulous! | |
Player
of Games Iaim M Banks | perhaps some, but not all, of the other "Culture" books | |
| Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury | ||
| Way Station Clifford Simac | After writing this I was reading someones list of 100, and I seem to remember that Way Station was wicked... have to reread it | |
| even though Wells' Time Machine, War of the Worlds, and Invisable Man made a great impression (establishing the genre), I'm not sure they'd make it into the top 100 (read "Mr. Polly" instead) ... likewise the best work of Gibson and Blish ... anyway, the 100 best is beyond me (I forget...) Atwoods recent Year of the Flood might be in that 100. The Eye in the Mote of God... Ventus ? Snow Crash ? | ||
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this is my list, and to get onto it you have to be a book that
I have read to be updated (I think I'm going to write a great sci fi flicks page... AI and Solaris and... | see
also "a book list" |
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