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50 most significant sci-fi/fantasy novels

Posted by Mark | Filed under Books, Life

This is a list of the 50 most sig­nif­i­cant sci­ence fiction/fantasy nov­els, 1953–2002, accord­ing to the Sci­ence Fic­tion Book Club. Bold the ones you’ve read, strike-out the ones you hated, ital­i­cize those you started but never fin­ished and put an aster­isk beside the ones you loved.

1. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien*
2. The Foun­da­tion Tril­ogy, Isaac Asi­mov
3. Dune, Frank Her­bert
4. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Hein­lein*
5. A Wiz­ard of Earth­sea, Ursula K. Le Guin
6. Neu­ro­mancer, William Gib­son
7. Childhood’s End, Arthur C. Clarke
8. Do Androids Dream of Elec­tric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
9. The Mists of Avalon, Mar­ion Zim­mer Bradley
10. Fahren­heit 451, Ray Brad­bury
11. The Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe
12. A Can­ti­cle for Lei­bowitz, Wal­ter M. Miller, Jr.
13. Caves of Steel, Isaac Asi­mov
14. Chil­dren Of The Atom, Wilmar Shi­ras
15. Cities in Flight, James Blish
16. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratch­ett
17. Dan­ger­ous Visions, edited by Har­lan Elli­son
18. Death­bird Sto­ries, Har­lan Elli­son
19. The Demol­ished Man, Alfred Bester
20. Dhal­gren, Samuel R. Delany
21. Drag­on­flight, Anne McCaf­frey
22. Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card*
23. The First Chron­i­cles of Thomas Covenant the Unbe­liever, Stephen R. Don­ald­son* This is really three books that they’ve lumped alto­gether and I don’t see any com­bined ver­sion for sale on Ama­zon. The indi­vid­ual books are: Lord Foul’s Bane (Book 1), The Illearth War (Book 2) and The Power That Pre­serves (Book 3).
24. The For­ever War, Joe Halde­man
25. Gate­way, Fred­erik Pohl
26. Harry Pot­ter and the Philosopher’s Stone, J.K. Rowl­ing
27. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Dou­glas Adams*
28. I Am Leg­end, Richard Math­e­son
29. Inter­view With The Vam­pire, Anne Rice
30. The Left Hand of Dark­ness, Ursula K. Le Guin
31. Lit­tle, Big, John Crow­ley
32. Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
33. The Man in the High Cas­tle, Philip K. Dick
34. Mis­sion of Grav­ity, Hal Clement
35. More Than Human, Theodore Stur­geon
36. The Redis­cov­ery of Man, Cord­wainer Smith
37. On the Beach, Nevil Shute
38. Ren­dezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke
39. Ring­world, Larry Niven
40. Rogue Moon, Algis Budrys
41. The Sil­mar­il­lion, J.R.R. Tolkien
42. Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Von­negut
43. Snow Crash., Neal Stephen­son
44. Stand on Zanz­ibar, John Brun­ner
45. The Stars My Des­ti­na­tion, Alfred Bester
46. Star­ship Troop­ers, Robert A. Hein­lein*
47. Storm­bringer, Michael Moor­cock
48. The Sword of Shan­nara, Terry Brooks
49. Timescape, Gre­gory Ben­ford
50. To Your Scat­tered Bod­ies Go, Philip Jose Farmer

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