- George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four
- George R. Stewart - Earth Abides
- Ray Bradbury - The Martian Chronicles
- Robert A. Heinlein - The Puppet Masters
- John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids
- Bernard Wolfe - Limbo
- Alfred Bester - The Demolished Man
- Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451
- Arthur C. Clarke - Childhood's End
- Charles L. Harness - The Paradox men
- Ward Moore - Bring the Jubilee
- Frederik Pohl & C.M. Kornbluth - The Space Merchants
- Clifford D. Simak - Ring Around the Sun
- Theodore Sturgeon - More than Human
- Hal Clement - Mission of Gravity
- Edgar Pangborn - A Mirror for Observers
- Isaac Asimov - The End of Eternity
- Leigh Brackett - The Long Tomorrow
- William Golding - The Inheritors
- Alfred Bester - The Stars My Destination
- John Christopher - The Death of Grass
- Arthur C. Clarke - The City and the Stars
- Robert A. Heinlein - The Door Into Summer
- John Wyndham - The Midwich cuckoos
- Brian W. Aldiss - Non-Stop
- James Blish - A Case of Conscience
- Robert A. Heinlein - Have Space-Suit -- Will Travel
- Philip K. Dick - Time Out of Joint
- Pat Frank - Alas, Babylon
- Walter M. Miller - A Canticle for Leibowitz
- Kurt Vonnegut - The Sirens of Titan
- Algis Budrys - Rogue Moon
- Theodore Sturgeon - Venus Plus X
- Brian W. Aldiss - Hothouse
- J.G. Ballard - The Drowned World
- Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange
- Philip K. Dick - The Man in the High Castle
- Robert Sheckley - Journey Beyond Tomorrow
- Clifford D. Simak - Way Station
- Kurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle
- Brian W. Aldiss - Greybeard
- William S. Burroughs - Nova Express
- Philip K. Dick - Martian Time-Slip
- Philip K. Dick - The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
- Fritz Leiber - The Wanderer
- Cordwainer Smith - Nostrilia
- Philip K. Dick - Dr Bloodmoney
- Frank Herbert - Dune
- J.G. Ballard - The Crystal World
- Harry Harrison - Make Room! Make Room!
- Daniel Keyes - Flowers for Algernon
- Roger Zelazny - The Dream Master
- John Brunner - Stand on Zanzibar
- Samuel R. Delany - Nova
- Philip K. Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
- Thomas M. Disch - Camp Concentration
- Michael Moorcock - The Final Programme
- Keith Roberts - Pavane
- Angela Carter - Heroes and Villains
- Ursula K. Le Guin - The Left Hand of Darkness
- Bob Shaw - The Palace of Eternity
- Norman Spinrad - Bug Jack Barron
- Poul Anderson - Tau Zero
- Robert Silverberg - Downward to the Earth
- Wilson Tucker - The Year of the Quiet Sun
- Thomas M. Disch - 334
- Gene Wolfe - The Fifth Head of Cerberus
- Michael Moorcock - The Dancers at the End of Time
- J.G. Ballard - Crash
- Mack Reynolds - Looking Backward from the Year 2000
- Ian Watson - The Embedding
- Suzy McKee Charnas - Walk to the End of the World
- M. John Harrison - The Centauri Device
- Ursula K. Le Guin - The Dispossessed
- Christopher Priest - Inverted World
- J.G. Ballard - High-Rise
- Barry N. Malzberg - Galaxies
- Joanna Russ - The Female Man
- Bob Shaw - Orbitsville
- Kingsley Amis - The Alteration
- Marge Piercy - Woman on the Edge of Time
- Frederik Pohl - Man Plus
- Algis Budrys - Michaelmas
- John Varley - The Ophiuchi Hotline
- Ian Watson - Miracle Visitors
- John Crowley - Engine Summer
- Thomas M. Disch - On Wings of Song
- Brian Stableford - The Walking Shadow
- Kate Wilhelm - Juniper Time
- Gregory Benford - Timescape
- Damien Broderick - The Dreaming Dragons
- Octavia Butler - Wild Seed
- Russell Hoban - Riddley Walker
- John Sladek - Roderick and Roderick at Random
- Gene Wolfe - The Book of the New Sun
- Philip Jose Farmer - The Unreasoning Mask
- Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle - Oath of Fealty
- Michael Bishop - No Enemy but Time
- John Calvin Batchelor - The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica
- William Gibson - Neuromancer
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
David Pringle's 100 Science Fiction Novels
This list comes from a book a teacher I had in high school gave me. I have since taken it upon myself to read all the books on the list. The ones in bold are books I have read although I just started The Demolished Man. I feel as if I should have read more than 9% of the books but I keep getting distracted, not to mention mind wasters like television. The un-italicized books are books I own. I have to say, every book I have read on this list has been stellar. I would start with Earth Abides if you are looking for a new book. It is one of the best I have read on the list thus far. Nineteen Eighty-Four goes without saying. I won't gush anymore, read The Lefthand of Darkness if you are looking for a different book. Read Nova if you are looking for a universe in under 250 pages.
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I read Frank Herbert's Dune from cover to cover one rainy day when I was... 17 or 18. I've read about half of 1984. The others, no not really. That leaves me at 1.5%. None of the other books are yet on my "will be hoping to have time to read" list either...
Conclusion: classical scifi-buff I am not.
-Will
Oh, see if I had the time I would read all of these books one after another sitting in a chair (one of those round ones made out of wicker and a big pillow) on a porch in the mountains in the spring time. (I pick spring time because there are no bugs!) Yea, 1984 is hard, it's one of those books that comes with a razor blade taped to the last page. All of the books thus far go on the "greatest books ever read" list. Pringle skips a lot of books and I think if he had written this list in say 2005 instead of 1985 he would have included some more books that have taken off more recently. He also leans much more towards British authors than American Authors. He is also obviously a fan of Philip K. Dick and J.G. Ballard seeing how many books that are on the list by them.
I stand at around 60% on the read side of the list. I like it well enough that I reposted it on LibraryThing's SF forum in its own thread, with a link back here. Much good discussion fodder in this list.
Thanks for telling me about LibraryThing's OldFan. I just joined and will be posting as mnky9800n. It is a really cool website!
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