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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  1. 1.
    Nineteen Eighty-Four
    by George Orwell
  2. 2.
    Earth Abides
    by George R. Stewart
  3. 3.
    The Martian Chronicles
    by Ray Bradbury
  4. 4.
    The Puppet Masters (Baen Science Fiction)
    by Robert A. Heinlein
  5. 5.
    The Day of the Triffids (20th Century Rediscoveries)
    by John Wyndham
  6. 6.
    ?
    Limbo
    by Bernard Wolfe
  7. 7.
    The Demolished Man
    by Alfred Bester
  8. 8.
    Fahrenheit 451 (Ave Fenix)
    by Ray Bradbury
  9. 9.
    Childhood's End (Del Rey Impact)
    by Arthur C. Clarke
  10. 10.
    ?
    Paradox Men (Classics of Modern Science Fiction, Vol 7)
    by Rh Value Publishing
  11. 11.
    Bring the Jubilee (Alternate History Masterpiece)
    by Ward Moore
  12. 12.
    The Space Merchants
    by Frederik Pohl
  13. 13.
  14. 14.
    More Than Human
    by Theodore Sturgeon
  15. 15.
    MISSION OF GRAVITY
    by HAL CLEMENT
  16. 16.
    A Mirror for Observers
    by Edgar Pangborn
  17. 17.
    The End of Eternity
    by Isaac Asimov
  18. 18.
    LONG TOMORROW
    by LEIGH BRACKETT
  19. 19.
    The Inheritors
    by Joseph Conrad
  20. 20.
    The Stars My Destination
    by Alfred Bester
  21. 21.
    ?
    Death of Grass (Alpha Books)
    by John Christopher
  22. 22.
    The City & the Stars
    by Arthur C. Clarke
  23. 23.
    The Door into Summer
    by Robert A. Heinlein
  24. 24.
    The Midwich Cuckoos
    by John Wyndham
  25. 25.
    Non-Stop
    by Brian Aldiss
  26. 26.
    A Case of Conscience (Del Rey Impact)
    by James Blish
  27. 27.
    Have Spacesuit, Will Travel
    by Robert A. Heinlein
  28. 28.
    Time Out of Joint
    by Philip K. Dick
  29. 29.
    Alas, Babylon
    by Pat Frank
  30. 30.
    A Canticle for Liebowitz
    by Walter M. Miller Jr.
  31. 31.
    The Sirens of Titan: A Novel
    by Kurt Vonnegut
  32. 32.
    Rogue Moon
    by Algis Budrys
  33. 33.
    Venus Plus X
    by Theodore Sturgeon
  34. 34.
    Hothouse
    by Brian W. Aldiss
  35. 35.
    The Drowned World
    by J G Ballard
  36. 36.
    A Clockwork Orange (Essential.penguin)
    by Anthony Burgess
  37. 37.
    The Man in the High Castle
    by Philip K. Dick
  38. 38.
    ?
    Journey Beyond Tomorrow (Gollancz classic SF)
    by Robert Sheckley
  39. 39.
    Way Station
    by Clifford D. Simak
  40. 40.
    Cat's Cradle: A Novel
    by Kurt Vonnegut
  41. 41.
    Greybeard
    by Brian Wilson Aldiss
  42. 42.
    Nova Express
    by William S. Burroughs
  43. 43.
    Martian Time-Slip
    by Philip K. Dick
  44. 44.
    The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
    by Philip K. Dick
  45. 45.
    The Wanderer
    by Fritz Leiber
  46. 46.
    Norstrilia
    by Cordwainer Smith
  47. 47.
    Dr. Bloodmoney
    by Philip K. Dick
  48. 48.
    Dune, 40th Anniversary Edition (Dune Chronicles, Book 1)
    by Frank Herbert
  49. 49.
    The Crystal World
    by J. G. Ballard
  50. 50.
    Make Room! Make Room!
    by Harry Harrison

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RobT2

Untitled — 5 years ago

Just corrected “The Wanderer”

Nov 14, 08:25PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

vaal

Untitled — 5 years ago

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

Jun 06, 11:12PM | 0 comments | Reply to this



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