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mightydin's "Essential Science Fiction"

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These are books I consider essential to a lover of science fiction.
For series, I just list the first book in the series, but recommend the whole thing (and possibly the books in the setting it takes place in).

  1. 1.
    Foundation
    by Isaac Asimov

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  2. 2.
    Dune, 40th Anniversary Edition (Dune Chronicles, Book 1)
    by Frank Herbert

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  3. 3.
    Ender's Game
    by Orson Scott Card

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  4. 4.
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    by Douglas Adams

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  5. 5.
    Caves of Steel (Robot City (Paperback))
    by Isaac Asimov

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    Radix
    by A.A. Attanasio

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  7. 7.
    Feersum Endjinn
    by Iain M Banks

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  8. 8.
    Consider Phlebas
    by Iain M. Banks

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  9. 9.
    The Martian Chronicles
    by Ray Bradbury

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  10. 10.
    Fahrenheit 451 (Ave Fenix)
    by Ray Bradbury

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  11. 11.
    Stand on Zanzibar
    by John Brunner

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  12. 12.
    Wyrms
    by Orson Scott Card

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  13. 13.
    2001: A Space Odyssey
    by Arthur C. Clarke

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  14. 14.
    Nova
    by Samuel R. Delany

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  15. 15.
    Einstein Intersection
    by Samuel R. Delany

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  16. 16.
    Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
    by Samuel R. Delany

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  17. 17.
    The Man in the High Castle
    by Philip K. Dick

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  18. 18.
    The Real Story: The Gap into Conflict (Gap)
    by Stephen R. Donaldson

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  19. 19.
    Neuromancer
    by William Gibson

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  20. 20.
    Stranger in a Strange Land
    by Robert A. Heinlein

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  21. 21.
    Starship Troopers
    by Robert A. Heinlein

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  22. 22.
    Time Enough for Love
    by Robert A. Heinlein

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  23. 23.
    Puppet Masters
    by Robert A. Heinlein

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  24. 24.
    The Cyberiad
    by Stanislaw Lem

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  25. 25.
    Solaris
    by Stanislaw Lem

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  26. 26.
    A Canticle for Leibowitz
    by Walter M. Miller Jr.

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  27. 27.
    Ringworld
    by Larry Niven

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  28. 29.
    The Stars My Destination
    by Alfred Bester

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  29. 30.
    Hyperion
    by Dan Simmons

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  30. 31.
    Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra Book)
    by Neal Stephenson

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  31. 33.
    Roadside Picnic (SF Collector's Edition)
    by Arkadi Strugatsky

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    Beetle in the Anthill (Best of Soviet Science Fiction)
    by Arkady Strugatsky

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  33. 35.
    The Snail on the Slope
    by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky

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  34. 36.
    From the Earth to the Moon
    by Jules Verne

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  35. 37.
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    20,000 Leagues Under the Sea / By Jules
    by Jules Verne

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  36. 38.
    A Journey to the Center of the Earth
    by Jules Verne

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  37. 39.
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    True Names...and Other Dangers
    by Vinge

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  38. 40.
    A Fire Upon The Deep (Zones of Thought)
    by Vernor Vinge

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  39. 41.
    Cat's Cradle
    by Kurt Vonnegut

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  40. 42.
    The Time Machine
    by H.G. Wells

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  41. 43.
    The Invisible Man (Penguin Classics)
    by H.G. Wells

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  42. 44.
    H. G. Wells' The War Of The Worlds
    by Ian Edginton

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  43. 45.
    The First Men in the Moon (Penguin Classics)
    by H.G. Wells

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  44. 46.
    The Day of the Triffids (20th Century Rediscoveries)
    by John Wyndham

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  45. 47.
    City of Golden Shadow (Otherland, Volume 1)
    by Tad Williams

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  46. 50.
    Lord of Light
    by Roger Zelazny

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  47. 51.
    Neverness
    by David Zindell

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  48. 52.
    Eon
    by Greg Bear

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  49. 53.
    Blood Music (Ibooks Science Fiction Classics)
    by Greg Bear

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  50. 54.
    Island (Perennial Classics)
    by Aldous Huxley

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  51. 55.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

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  52. 56.
    Childhood's End (Del Rey Impact)
    by Arthur C. Clarke

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  53. 57.
    The Forever War
    by Joe Haldeman

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  54. 58.
    The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
    by Robert A. Heinlein

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  55. 59.
    The Left Hand Of Darkness
    by Ursula L. Le Guin

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  56. 60.
    A Wrinkle In Time
    by Madeleine L'Engle

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  57. 61.
    A Clockwork Orange
    by Anthony Burgess

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  58. 62.
    Flowers for Algernon
    by Daniel Keyes

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  59. 63.
    Frankenstein (Penguin Classics)
    by Mary Shelley

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  60. 64.
    The Demolished Man
    by Alfred Bester

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  61. 65.
    Red Mars (Mars Trilogy)
    by Kim Stanley Robinson

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  62. 66.
    The Dispossessed
    by Ursula K. Le Guin

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  63. 67.
    Brightness Reef (The Uplift Trilogy, Book 1)
    by David Brin

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  64. 68.
    Contact
    by Carl Sagan

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  65. 69.
    Princess of Mars
    by Edgar Rice Burroughs

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  66. 70.
    Titan
    by John Varley

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  67. 71.
    Out of the Silent Planet (Space Trilogy, Book One)
    by C.S. Lewis

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  69. 73.
    Darwin's Radio
    by Greg Bear

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  70. 74.
    Cities in Flight
    by James Blish

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  71. 75.
    We (Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin

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  72. 76.
    Ilium (Simmons, Dan)
    by Dan Simmons

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  73. 77.
    The Handmaid's Tale (New Windmill)
    by Margaret Atwood

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Created by mightydin on Jul 01, 2009.