11.17.2006

last one

...maybe.


50 Science Fiction books meme
The most significant SF/F novels from 1953-2006 according to the SF Book Club. Bold the ones you have read, italicize those you started but never finished, put a minus next to the ones you hated, and put a star next to the ones you love.

* The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
-The Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov
* Dune, Frank Herbert
Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein
* A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin
* Neuromancer, William Gibson

Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
* The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
* Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

The Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe
A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr.
The Caves of Steel, Isaac Asimov
Children of the Atom, Wilmar Shiras
Cities in Flight, James Blish
The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett
Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison
Deathbird Stories, Harlan Ellison
*The Demolished Man, Alfred Bester

Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany
*Dragonflight, Anne McCaffrey
* Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card

-The First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Stephen R. Donaldson
The Forever War, Joe Haldeman
Gateway, Frederik Pohl
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J.K. Rowling
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

*I Am Legend, Richard Matheson
Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin

Little, Big, John Crowley
* Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
Mission of Gravity, Hal Clement
More Than Human, Theodore Sturgeon
The Rediscovery of Man, Cordwainer Smith
On the Beach, Nevil Shute
Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke
Ringworld, Larry Niven
Rogue Moon, Algis Budrys
The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
*Slaughterhouse-5, Kurt Vonnegut
-Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson

Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner
The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester
Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein
Stormbringer, Michael Moorcock
-The Sword of Shannara, Terry Brooks

Timescape, Gregory Benford
*To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip Jose Farmer

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