Lists of Bests: David Pringle's 100 Best Science Fiction Novels

Send to Printer David Pringle's 100 Best Science Fiction Novels 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.	?	TITUS GROAN - VOLUME 1 OF THE GORMENGHAST TRILOGY by Mervyn Peake
	2.		Book of Ptath by A E Van Vogt
	3.	?	THE WELL OF THE UNOCORN
	4.		Darker Than You Think by Jack Williamson
	5.	?	Seven Days in New Crete by Robert Graves
	6.		The Day of the Triffids (20th Century Rediscoveries) by John Wyndham
	7.	?	Limbo by Bernard Wolfe
	8.		The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
	9.		Fahrenheit 451 (Ave Fenix) by Ray Bradbury
	10.		Childhood's End (Del Rey Impact) by Arthur C. Clarke
	11.	?	Paradox Men (Classics of Modern Science Fiction, Vol 7) by Rh Value Publishing
	12.		Bring the Jubilee (Alternate History Masterpiece) by Ward Moore
	13.		The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl
	14.	?	Un Anillo Alrededor del Sol / Ring Around the Sun by Clifford D. Simak
	15.		More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon
	16.		MISSION OF GRAVITY by HAL CLEMENT
	17.		A Mirror for Observers by Edgar Pangborn
	18.		The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov
	19.		LONG TOMORROW by LEIGH BRACKETT
	20.		The Inheritors by Joseph Conrad
	21.		The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
	22.	?	Death of Grass by John Christopher
	23.	?	The City & the Stars by Arthur C. Clarke
	24.		The Door into Summer by Robert A. Heinlein
	25.		The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
	26.		Non-Stop by Brian Aldiss
	27.		A Case of Conscience (Del Rey Impact) by James Blish
	28.		Have Spacesuit, Will Travel by Robert A. Heinlein
	29.		Time Out of Joint (Vintage) by Philip K. Dick
	30.		Alas, Babylon (Perennial Classics) by Pat Frank
	31.		A Canticle for Liebowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
	32.		The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
	33.	?	Rogue Moon by Algis Budrys
	34.		Venus Plus X by Theodore Sturgeon
	35.		Hothouse by Brian W. Aldiss
	36.		The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard
	37.		A Clockwork Orange (Essential.penguin) by Anthony Burgess
	38.		The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
	39.	?	Journey Beyond Tomorrow (Gollancz Classic SF) by Robert Sheckley
	40.		Way Station by Clifford D. Simak
	41.		Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
	42.		Greybeard by Brian Wilson Aldiss
	43.		Nova Express by William S. Burroughs
	44.		Martian Time-Slip by Philip K. Dick
	45.		The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick
	46.	?	The Wanderer by Fritz Leiber
	47.		Norstrilia by Cordwainer Smith
	48.		Dr. Bloodmoney (Vintage) by Philip K. Dick
	49.		Dune, 40th Anniversary Edition (Dune Chronicles, Book 1) by Frank Herbert
	50.		The Crystal World by J. G. Ballard
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