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. 51.
    Make Room! Make Room!
    by Harry Harrison

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  2. 52.
    Flowers for Algernon (Millennium SF Masterworks S)
    by Daniel Keyes

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  3. 53.
    The Dream Master (Gollancz SF)
    by Roger Zelazny

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  4. 54.
    Stand on Zanzibar
    by John Brunner

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  5. 55.
    Nova
    by Samuel R. Delany

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  6. 56.
    Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
    by Philip K. Dick

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  7. 57.
    Camp Concentration: A Novel
    by Thomas M. Disch

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  8. 58.
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    The Final Programme (The Gregg Press Science Fiction Series)
    by Michael Moorcock

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  9. 59.
    Pavane (Del Rey Impact)
    by Keith Roberts

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  10. 60.
    Heroes and Villians
    by Angela Carter

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  11. 61.
    The Left Hand Of Darkness
    by Ursula L. Le Guin

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  12. 62.
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    The Palace of Eternity
    by Bob Shaw

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  13. 63.
    Bug Jack Barron
    by Norman Spinrad

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  14. 65.
    Downward to the Earth
    by Robert Silverberg

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  15. 66.
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    The Year of the Quiet Sun
    by Wilson Tucker

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  16. 67.
    334: A Novel
    by Thomas M. Disch

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  17. 68.
    The Fifth Head of Cerberus: Three Novellas
    by Gene Wolfe

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  18. 69.
    The Dancers at the End of Time (Borealis Legends)
    by Michael Moorcock

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  19. 70.
    Crash: A Novel
    by J. G. Ballard

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  20. 71.
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    Looking backward, from the year 2000
    by Mack Reynolds

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  21. 72.
    The Embedding
    by Ian Watson

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  22. 73.
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    Walk To End Of World
    by Suzy McKee Charnas

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  23. 74.
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    The Centauri Device
    by M. John Harrison

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  24. 75.
    The Dispossessed
    by Ursula K. Le Guin

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  25. 76.
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    The inverted world;: A novel
    by Christopher Priest

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  26. 77.
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    High Rise
    by J. G. Ballard

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  27. 78.
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    Galaxies
    by Barry N. Malzberg

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  28. 79.
    The Female Man (Bluestreak)
    by Joanna Russ

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  29. 80.
    Orbitsville (SF Collector's Edition)
    by Bob Shaw

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  30. 81.
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    The Alteration

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  31. 82.
    Woman on the Edge of Time
    by Marge Piercy

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  32. 83.
    Man Plus (SF Masterworks)
    by Frederik Pohl

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  33. 84.
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    Michaelmas
    by Algis Budrys

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  34. 85.
    The Ophiuchi Hotline (Sf Collector's)
    by John Varley

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  35. 86.
    Miracle Visitors (Sf Collector's)
    by Ian Watson

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  36. 87.
    Engine Summer (Engine Summer)
    by John Crowley

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  37. 88.
    On Wings of Song

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  38. 89.
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    The Walking Shadow

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  39. 90.
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    Juniper Time
    by Kate Wilhelm

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  40. 91.
    Timescape
    by Gregory Benford

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  41. 92.
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    The dreaming dragons: A time opera
    by Damien Broderick

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  42. 93.
    Wild Seed
    by Octavia E. Butler

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  43. 94.
    Riddley Walker
    by Russell Hoban

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  44. 95.
    The Complete Roderick
    by John Sladek

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  45. 96.
    The Hungry Moon
    by Ramsey Campbell

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  46. 97.
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    Replay
    by Ken Grimwood

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  47. 98.
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    Unconquered Country

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  48. 99.
    The Day of Creation: A Novel
    by J. G. Ballard

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  49. 100.
    Aegypt
    by John Crowley

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