Wednesday, 21 July 2010

Top 100 Sci-Fi Books Meta-List version 3.0

I've updated the list of top 100 science fiction books. The original post with explanation can be found here and version 2 of the list can be found here.


  1. Dune by Frank Herbert

  2. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

  3. 1984 by George Orwell

  4. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

  5. Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein

  6. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

  7. Foundation by Isaac Asimov

  8. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein

  9. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.

  10. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick

  11. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

  12. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

  13. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

  14. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

  15. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

  16. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

  17. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

  18. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

  19. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C Clarke

  20. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein

  21. Ringworld by Larry Niven

  22. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

  23. Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke

  24. The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester

  25. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

  26. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

  27. Neuromancer by William Gibson

  28. Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card

  29. The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

  30. Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

  31. A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge

  32. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick

  33. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham

  34. Hyperion by Dan Simmons

  35. More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon

  36. The Forever War by Joe Haldeman

  37. The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin

  38. Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke

  39. A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 3) by George R.R. Martin

  40. The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson

  41. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

  42. The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov

  43. Ubik by Philip K. Dick

  44. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson

  45. Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny

  46. Flatland by Edwin A Abbott

  47. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

  48. The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut

  49. Gateway by Frederik Pohl

  50. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

  51. The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester

  52. A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick

  53. Startide Rising by David Brin

  54. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

  55. Way Station by Clifford D Simak

  56. The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle

  57. The Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons

  58. Tigana by Guy G. Kay

  59. Earth Abides by George R. Stewart

  60. Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

  61. Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

  62. A Song of Ice And Fire by George R.R. Martin

  63. The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov

  64. The Invisible Man by H G Wells

  65. Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

  66. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke

  67. The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov

  68. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

  69. The Door Into Summer by Robert A Heinlein

  70. Solaris by Stanislaw Lem

  71. Contact by Carl Sagan

  72. A Case of Conscience by James Blish

  73. Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress

  74. Animal Farm by George Orwell

  75. True Names by Vernor Vinge

  76. Player of Games by Iain M. Banks

  77. Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne

  78. Camp Concentration by Thomas M Disch

  79. The Puppet Masters by Robert A Heinlein

  80. The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe

  81. VALIS by Philip K Dick

  82. The Road by Cormac McCarthy

  83. Mission of Gravity by Hal Clement

  84. The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers

  85. The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe

  86. The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov

  87. Old Man's War by John Scalzi

  88. Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card

  89. To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip Jose Farmer

  90. Sphere by Michael Crichton

  91. Roadside Picnic by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky

  92. Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan

  93. The Alteration by Kingsley Amis

  94. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

  95. The Fionavar Tapestry by Guy G. Kay

  96. Eon by Greg Bear

  97. The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton

  98. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

  99. Time Enough For Love by Robert A Heinlein

  100. The City and the Stars by Arthur C Clarke


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