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Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels

From George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) to William Gibson's Neuromancer (1984), David Pringle's Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels is a formidable selection of science fiction masterpieces. This list is reproduced on our website with permission of the author.

1949
Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
1951
The Puppet Masters by Robert A. Heinlein
1951
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
1952
Limbo by Bernard Wolfe
1953
The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
1953
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
1953
The Paradox Men by Charles L. Harness
1953
Bring the Jubilee by Ward Moore
1953
The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth
1953
Ring Around the Sun by Cifford D. Simak
1953
More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon
1954
Mission of Gravity by Hal Clement
1954
A Mirror for Observers by Edgar Pangborn
1955
The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov
1955
The Long Tomorrow by Leigh Brackett
1955
The Inheritors by William Golding
1956
The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
1956
The Death of Grass by John Christopher
1956
The City and the Stars by Arthur C. Clarke
1957
The Door into Summer by Robert A. Heinlein
1957
The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
1958
A Case of Conscience by James Blish
1958
Have Space-Suit by Robert A. Heinlein
1959
Time Out of Joint by Philip K. Dick
1959
Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
1960
Rogue Moon by Algis Budrys
1960
Venus Plus X by Theodore Sturgeon
1962
Hothouse by Brian W. Aldiss
1962
The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard
1962
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
1963
Journey Beyond Tomorrow by Robert Sheckley
1963
Way Station by Clifford D. Simak
1963
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
1964
Greybeard by Brian W. Aldiss
1964
Nova Express by William S. Burroughs
1964
Martian Time-Slip by Philip K. Dick
1964
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick
1964
The Wanderer by Fritz Leiber
1964
Norstrilia by Cordwainer Smith
1965
Dr. Bloodmoney by Philip K. Dick
1966
Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison
1966
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
1966
The Dream Master by Roger Zelazny
1968
Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
1968
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
1968
Camp Concentration by Thomas M. Disch
1968
The Final Programme by Michael Moorcock
1968
Pavane by Keith Roberts
1969
Heroes and Villains by Angela Carter
1969
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
1969
The Palace of Eternity by Bob Shaw
1969
Bug Jack Barron by Norman Spinrad
1970
Tau Zero by Poul Anderson
1970
Downward to the Earth by Robert Silverberg
1970
The Year of the Quiet Sun by Wilson Tucker
1972
1972
The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe
1972
The Dancers at the End of Time by Michael Moorcock
1973
Crash by J.G. Ballard
1973
Looking Backward, From the Year 2000 by Mack Reynolds
1973
The Embedding by Ian Watson
1974
Walk to the End of the World by Suzy McKee Charnas
1974
The Centauri Device by M. John Harrison
1974
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
1974
Inverted World by Christopher Priest
1975
Galaxies by Barry N. Malzberg
1975
The Female Man by Joanna Russ
1975
Orbitsville by Bob Shaw
1976
The Alteration by Kingsley Amis
1976
Man Plus by Frederik Pohl
1977
The Ophiuchi Hotline by John Varley
1978
Miracle Visitors by Ian Watson
1979
On Wings of Song by Thomas M. Disch
1979
The Walking Shadow by Brian Stableford
1979
Juniper Time by Kate Wilhelm
1980
Timescape by Gregory Benford
1980
The Dreaming Dragons by Damien Broderick
1980
Wild Seed by Octavia A. Butler
1980
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
1980
Roderick and Roderick at Random by John Sladek
1980
The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
1980
The Unreasoning Mask by Philip Jos
1982
No Enemy But Time by Michael Bishop