David Pringle's 100 Best Science Fiction Novels

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David Pringle is a master of science fiction bibliography and criticism. Some find him a bit of a Britophile, but we certainly don’t see any harm in that (if true). Here is his list of the 100 best science fiction novels of all time (through about 1984, when Everything Changed anyway). It is a strange list in many ways; there are no Van Vogt books, Asimov’s Foundation isn’t included, but it is a good list in most aspects.

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    TITUS GROAN - VOLUME 1 OF THE GORMENGHAST TRILOGY
    by Mervyn Peake

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    Book of Ptath
    by A E Van Vogt

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    THE WELL OF THE UNOCORN

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    Darker Than You Think
    by Jack Williamson

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    Seven Days in New Crete
    by Robert Graves

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    The Day of the Triffids (20th Century Rediscoveries)
    by John Wyndham

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    Limbo
    by Bernard Wolfe

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    The Demolished Man
    by Alfred Bester

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    Fahrenheit 451 (Ave Fenix)
    by Ray Bradbury

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    Childhood's End (Del Rey Impact)
    by Arthur C. Clarke

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    Paradox Men (Classics of Modern Science Fiction, Vol 7)
    by Rh Value Publishing

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    Bring the Jubilee (Alternate History Masterpiece)
    by Ward Moore

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    The Space Merchants
    by Frederik Pohl

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    Un Anillo Alrededor del Sol / Ring Around the Sun
    by Clifford D. Simak

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  15. 15.
    More Than Human
    by Theodore Sturgeon

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    MISSION OF GRAVITY
    by HAL CLEMENT

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    A Mirror for Observers
    by Edgar Pangborn

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    The End of Eternity
    by Isaac Asimov

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    LONG TOMORROW
    by LEIGH BRACKETT

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    The Inheritors
    by Joseph Conrad

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    The Stars My Destination
    by Alfred Bester

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    Death of Grass
    by John Christopher

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    The City & the Stars
    by Arthur C. Clarke

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    The Door into Summer
    by Robert A. Heinlein

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    The Midwich Cuckoos
    by John Wyndham

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    Non-Stop
    by Brian Aldiss

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    A Case of Conscience (Del Rey Impact)
    by James Blish

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    Have Spacesuit, Will Travel
    by Robert A. Heinlein

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    Time Out of Joint (Vintage)
    by Philip K. Dick

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    Alas, Babylon (Perennial Classics)
    by Pat Frank

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    A Canticle for Liebowitz
    by Walter M. Miller Jr.

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    The Sirens of Titan
    by Kurt Vonnegut

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    Rogue Moon
    by Algis Budrys

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    Venus Plus X
    by Theodore Sturgeon

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    Hothouse
    by Brian W. Aldiss

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    The Drowned World
    by J.G. Ballard

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    A Clockwork Orange (Essential.penguin)
    by Anthony Burgess

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    The Man in the High Castle
    by Philip K. Dick

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    Journey Beyond Tomorrow (Gollancz Classic SF)
    by Robert Sheckley

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    Way Station
    by Clifford D. Simak

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    Cat's Cradle
    by Kurt Vonnegut

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    Greybeard
    by Brian Wilson Aldiss

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    Nova Express
    by William S. Burroughs

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    Martian Time-Slip
    by Philip K. Dick

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    The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
    by Philip K. Dick

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    The Wanderer
    by Fritz Leiber

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    Norstrilia
    by Cordwainer Smith

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    Dr. Bloodmoney (Vintage)
    by Philip K. Dick

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  49. 49.
    Dune, 40th Anniversary Edition (Dune Chronicles, Book 1)
    by Frank Herbert

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    The Crystal World
    by J. G. Ballard

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Comments

Untitled — 1 year ago

Just corrected “The Wanderer”


Untitled — 2 years ago

The Wanderer is by Fritz Leiber, and I think The Inheritors is by William Golding