Best science fiction books

List of the best scifi books



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1. George Orwell 1984
1949 The complete picture of the world messed up by Authority. The great Dystopia.

2. George R. Stewart Earth Abides
1949 The ur-ecological disaster novel, and more. The Dying Earth, where the Earth dies hard.

3. Ray Bradbury The Martian Chronicles
1950 Okay, the stories are not really about Mars, but Bradbury's sometimes pastoral and often beautiful tales are the most human in science fiction.

4. Robert Heinlein The Puppet Masters
1951 A great Body Snatchers story, enlivened by Bob's anti-Communist paranoia.

5. John Wyndham The Day of the Triffids
1951 Invading extraterrestrial plants in a world gone blind, except for Two. Tour de force storytelling.

6. Bernard Wolfe Limbo
1952 Masterful tale of a future where men cut off their arms so that they won't make war. Amazing and disturbing book.

7. Alfred Bester The Demolished Man
1953 The first of Bester's masterpieces. Rich guy attempts to get away with murder in a part-telepathic society.

8. Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451
1953 Classic tale of an anti-book society where the Firemen burn literature.

9. Arthur C. Clarke Childhood's End
1953 Alien Overlords arrive and bring order to a troubled world. And the humans Dream, and transcend. One of science fiction's most mystical books.

10. Charles L. Harness The Paradox Men
1953 Superior tale of the paradoxes of time travel. Amazing conceptualization.

11. Ward Moore Bring the Jubilee
1953 One of the best alternative world stories, in which the DSouth has won the Civil War.

12. Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth The Space Merchants
1953 Hilarious tale of when the admen rule the world.

13. Cifford D. Simak Ring Around the Sun
1953 Complex story of the economics of a Universe of many parallel worlds, with a bit of McCarthyism satire thrown in.

14. Theodore Sturgeon More Than Human
1953 Misfits and morons come together telepathically to form a greater whole.

15. Hal Clement Mission of Gravity
1954 Hard sci fi story of Earthers on complexly conceived ovoid Big Planet.

16. Edgar Pangborn A Mirror for Observers
1954 Martians are secretly observing Earth, and messing around. A good vs. evil morality story, almost pretentious in its attempt to come to terms with human nature.

17. Isaac Asimov The End of Eternity
1955 Adventures of time traveling Fixer, who smooths the bumps in human history. Then he falls in love with an agent of Change.

18. Leigh Brackett The Long Tomorrow
1955 Two searchers after technology in a Luddite pastoral world that follows a nuclear catastrophe. A Good Science story.

19. William Golding The Inheritors
1955 A reappraisal of our assumptions, portraying Neanderthal society as rich and humane, until destroyed by the murderous Modern Men.

20. Alfred Bester The Stars My Destination
1956 High adventure following a seeker of Vengeance in a Strange New World.

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21. John Christopher The Death of Grass
1956 Published in the US as No Blade of Grass. A virus kills all the grasses in the world and most of its food. A grim story.

22. Arthur C. Clarke The City and the Stars
1956 Expansion of Against the Fall of Night. The last city on Earth cowers in isolation from terrible alien Invaders. An Individual goes forth.

23. Robert Heinlein The Door Into Summer
1957 Cat lover attempts to become rich through canny investment and suspended animation, but his plans go awry. So there is time travel and stuff. Not as politically shrill as a lot of Heinlein is.

24. John Wyndham The Midwich Cuckoos
1957 Aliens inseminate an English village, and the Humans must make some hard moral choices.

25. Brain Aldiss Non-Stop
1957 Published in the US as Starship. The mother of all generation starship stories.

26. James Blish A Case of Conscience
1958 Priest/scientist discovers heresy, and it leads to trouble, and an act of genocide.

27. Robert Heinlein Have Spacesuit-Will Travel
1958 Last of Bob's juvenile titles. Guy wins second hand spacesuit, is taken into flying saucer, and has adventures. Many think Heinlein's juvenile titles are his best work.

28. Philip K. Dick Time Out of Joint
1959 Paranoid tale of a guy who is going about his life until he finds out he is the center of a virtual reality environment for predicting missle trajectories.

29. Pat Frank Alas, Babylon
1959 Morally ambiguous tale of the aftermath of a nuclear war. Holocaust as transcendence.

30. Walter M. Miller A Canticle for Liebowitz
1959 Great classic tale of the monks who preserve Knowledge after the nuclear catastrophe, in a world that may be unredeemable.

31. Kurt Vonnegut The Sirens of Titan
1959 Millionaire spaceman flies into a synclastic infundibulum, and has a series of wacky adventures that cannot be adequately summarized; it must be read.

32. Algis Budrys Rogue Moon
1960 Psychological novel about Earthers investigating a deadly alien maze on the Dark Side of the Moon. One of the first really modern, modern sci fi books.

33. Theodore Sturgeon Venus Plus X
1960 Interesting story of a guy who awakes in a post-sexual Somewhere Else.

34. Brian Aldiss Hothouse
1962 Tale of a far, far future Earth that has stopped rotating and is covered by a giant Tree.

35. J.G. Ballard The Drowned World
1962 Masterpiece of the survivors on a world covered by water.

36. Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange
1962 Classic dystopian future England and the adventures of a vicious gangleader, and how society deals with him, oh my brothers.

37. Philip K. Dick The Man in the High Castle
1962 Inside out world in which the Axis won WWII, and Americans are the oppressed people under the heel of foreigners.

38. Robert Sheckley Journey Beyond Tomorrow
1963 Amusing story of an innocent Polynesian guy thrown into American society and ultimately triggering Armageddon.

39. Clifford D. Simak Way Station
1963 Meditative tale of an aging Wisconsin hermit, and what happens when his farm becomes a galactic way station.

40. Kurt Vonnegut Cat's Cradle
1963 Great story that mocks everything, and about a dangerous substance called ice-nine.

41. Brian Aldiss Greybeard
1964 In a world where a nuclear disaster has rendered everyone sterile and no more children are born, the youngest man left (over 50) makes the last voyage of discovery.

42. William Burroughs Nova Express
1964 The Nova Police take on the Nova Mob, who want to addict the world. Massively brilliant book.

43. Philip K. Dick Martian Time-Slip
1964 A Mars novel in which Man has conquered space but stayed Everyman.

44. Philip K. Dick The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
1963 Druggy nightmare of a story about duelling hallucinogenics and stuff. Very, very weird, and great.

45. Fritz Leiber The Wanderer
1964 A giant artificial planet arrives during a lunar eclipse and causes gravitational disaster, among other things.

46. Cordwainer Smith Norstrilia
1964-8 The Planet Buyer and The Underpeople combined and posthumously revised. Far, far future wherein are the Underpeople and the Lords of the Instrumentality. Complex, complicated, unique, and great.

47. Philip K. Dick Dr. Bloodmoney
1965 World War III happens, but life goes on in Marin County. A Dickian community forms, and two maniacs try to tear it apart.

48. Frank Herbert Dune
1965 A complexly built World, with a vastly interesting beat-all story of a Chosen One. An incredible book.

49. J.G. Ballard The Crystal World
1965 Another of Ballard's "elemental" novels. In this one, the world is turning to Stone. Amazing imagery.

50. Harry Harrison Make Room! Make Room!
1965 A crime story within a horrifying setting of a massively overpopulated New York. Filmed as Soylent Green.



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