Phobos Entertainment's "100 Science Fiction Books You Just Have to Read"

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Take my word for it; all science fiction books are not created equal. All right, don’t take my word for it. You’ll figure it out when you plow through packed bookstore shelves. You’ll realize soon enough that not every writer pens a tale worth reading. So just how does one find stellar SF? For starters, why don’t you try out these 100 narrative works. Each one should be part of every SF reader’s—not to mention every SF writer’s—repertoire. Many of these novels are award winners, and most have inspired profound trends in science fiction. List picked by Keith Olexa for Phobos.

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  1. 51.
    Nineteen Eighty-four (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by George Orwell

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  2. 52.
    The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson

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  3. 53.
    Snow Crash.
    by Neal Stephenson

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  4. 54.
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    Flesh
    by Philip Jose Farmer

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  5. 55.
    Cities in Flight
    by James Blish

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  6. 56.
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    Shadow of the Torturer
    by Gene Wolfe

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  7. 57.
    Startide Rising (Uplift)
    by David Brin

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  8. 58.
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    Triton
    by Samuel R. Delany

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  9. 59.
    Stand on Zanzibar
    by John Brunner

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  10. 60.
    A Clockwork Orange
    by Anthony Burgess

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  11. 61.
    Fahrenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury

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  12. 62.
    A Canticle for Leibowitz (Bantam Spectra Book)
    by Walter M. Miller Jr.

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  13. 63.
    Flowers for Algernon
    by Daniel Keyes

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  14. 64.
    No Blade of Grass
    by John Christopher

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  15. 65.
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    The Postman
    by David BRIN

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  16. 66.
    Dhalgren
    by Samuel R. Delany

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  17. 67.
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    Berserker (Berserker, Bk. 1)
    by Fred Saberhagen

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  18. 68.
    Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
    by Edwin A., Abbott

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  20. 70.
    Dragon's Egg (Del Rey Impact)
    by Robert L. Forward

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  21. 71.
    Downbelow Station (20th Anniversary) (Daw Book Collectors)
    by C. J. Cherryh

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  22. 72.
    Dawn (Xenogenesis)
    by Octavia E. Butler

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  23. 73.
    The Puppet Masters
    by Robert A. Heinlein

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  24. 74.
    Doomsday Book
    by Connie Willis

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  25. 75.
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    The Forever War
    by Joe Haldeman

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  26. 76.
    Deathbird Stories
    by Harlan Ellison

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  27. 77.
    Roadside Picnic (SF Collector's Edition)
    by Arkadi Strugatsky

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  28. 78.
    The Snow Queen
    by Joan D. Vinge

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  29. 79.
    The Martian Chronicles (The Grand Master Editions)
    by Ray Bradbury

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  30. 80.
    The Drowned World
    by J. G. Ballard

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  31. 81.
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    Cat's Cradle
    by Kurt Jr. Vonnegut

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  32. 82.
    Red Mars
    by Kim Stanley Robinson

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  33. 83.
    The Upanishads

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  34. 84.
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    Alice In Wonderland Lewis Carroll Harcover 1957
    by Lewis Carroll

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  35. 85.
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    by Douglas Adams

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  36. 86.
    Lathe of Heaven
    by Ursula K. Le Guin

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  37. 87.
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    The Midwich Cuckoos.
    by JOHN WYNDHAM

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  38. 88.
    Mutant
    by Henry Kuttner

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  39. 89.
    Solaris
    by Stanislaw Lem

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  40. 90.
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    Ralph 124C41+;: A romance of the year 2660,
    by Hugo Gernsback

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  41. 91.
    I Am Legend
    by Richard Matheson

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  42. 92.
    Timescape (Millennium SF Masterworks S)
    by Gregory Benford

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  43. 93.
    The Demolished Man
    by Alfred Bester

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  44. 94.
    War with the Newts (European Classics)
    by Karel Capek

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  45. 95.
    Mars
    by Ben Bova

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  46. 96.
    Brainwave: His Enduring Masterpiece
    by Poul Anderson

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  47. 97.
    Hyperion
    by Dan Simmons

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  48. 98.
    The Andromeda Strain
    by Michael Crichton

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  49. 99.
    Camp Concentration: A Novel
    by Thomas M. Disch

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  50. 100.
    A Princess of Mars (Penguin Classics)
    by Edgar Rice Burroughs

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