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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
  2. 2.
    Dune, 40th Anniversary Edition (Dune Chronicles, Book 1)
    by Frank Herbert
  3. 3.
    Ender's Game
    by Orson Scott Card
  4. 4.
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    by Douglas Adams
  5. 5.
    The Caves of Steel (R. Daneel Olivaw, Book 1)
    by Isaac Asimov
  6. 6.
    ?
    Radix
    by A.A. Attanasio
  7. 7.
    Feersum Endjinn
    by Iain M Banks
  8. 8.
    Consider Phlebas
    by Iain M Banks
  9. 9.
    The Martian Chronicles
    by Ray Bradbury
  10. 10.
    Fahrenheit 451 (Ave Fenix)
    by Ray Bradbury
  11. 11.
    Stand on Zanzibar
    by John Brunner
  12. 12.
    Wyrms
    by Orson Scott Card
  13. 13.
    2001: A Space Odyssey
    by Arthur C. Clarke
  14. 14.
    Nova
    by Samuel R. Delany
  15. 15.
    The Einstein Intersection
    by Samuel R. Delany
  16. 16.
    Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
    by Samuel R. Delany
  17. 17.
    The Man in the High Castle
    by Philip K. Dick
  18. 18.
    The Real Story: The Gap into Conflict
    by Stephen R. Donaldson
  19. 19.
    Neuromancer
    by William Gibson
  20. 20.
    Stranger in a Strange Land
    by Robert A. Heinlein
  21. 21.
    Starship Troopers
    by Robert A. Heinlein
  22. 22.
    Time Enough for Love
    by Robert A. Heinlein
  23. 23.
    Puppet Masters
    by Robert A. Heinlein
  24. 24.
    The Cyberiad
    by Stanislaw Lem
  25. 25.
    Solaris
    by Stanislaw Lem
  26. 26.
    A Canticle for Leibowitz
    by Walter M. Miller Jr.
  27. 27.
    Ringworld
    by Larry Niven
  29. 29.
    The Stars My Destination
    by Alfred Bester
  30. 30.
    Hyperion
    by Dan Simmons
  31. 31.
    Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra Book)
    by Neal Stephenson
  33. 33.
    Roadside Picnic (SF Collector's Edition)
    by Arkadii Strugatsky
  34. 34.
    Beetle in the Anthill (Best of Soviet Science Fiction)
    by Arkady Strugatsky
  35. 35.
    The Snail On The Slope
    by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
  36. 36.
    From the Earth to the Moon
    by Jules Verne
  37. 37.
    ?
    20,000 Leagues Under the Sea / By Jules
    by Jules Verne
  38. 38.
    A Journey to the Center of the Earth
    by Jules Verne
  39. 39.
    True Names...and Other Dangers
    by Vernor Vinge
  40. 40.
    A Fire Upon The Deep
    by Vernor Vinge
  41. 41.
    Cat's Cradle: A Novel
    by Kurt Vonnegut
  42. 42.
    The Time Machine (Signet Classics)
    by H.G. Wells
  43. 43.
    The Invisible Man (Penguin Classics)
    by H.G. Wells
  44. 44.
    H. G. Wells' The War Of The Worlds
    by Ian Edginton
  45. 45.
    The First Men in the Moon (Penguin Classics)
    by H.G. Wells
  46. 46.
    The Day of the Triffids (20th Century Rediscoveries)
    by John Wyndham
  47. 47.
    City of Golden Shadow (Otherland, Volume 1)
    by Tad Williams
  50. 50.
    Lord of Light
    by Roger Zelazny
  51. 51.
    Neverness
    by David Zindell
  52. 52.
    Eon
    by Greg Bear
  53. 53.
    Blood Music (Ibooks Science Fiction Classics)
    by Greg Bear
  54. 54.
    Island (Perennial Classics)
    by Aldous Huxley
  55. 55.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley
  56. 56.
    Childhood's End (Del Rey Impact)
    by Arthur C. Clarke
  57. 57.
    The Forever War
    by Joe Haldeman
  58. 58.
    The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
    by Robert A. Heinlein
  59. 59.
    The Left Hand Of Darkness
    by Ursula L. Le Guin
  60. 60.
    A Wrinkle In Time
    by Madeleine L'Engle
  61. 61.
    A Clockwork Orange
    by Anthony Burgess
  62. 62.
    Flowers for Algernon
    by Daniel Keyes
  63. 63.
    Frankenstein (Penguin Classics)
    by Mary Shelley
  64. 64.
    The Demolished Man
    by Alfred Bester
  65. 65.
    Red Mars (Mars Trilogy)
    by Kim Stanley Robinson
  66. 66.
    The Dispossessed
    by Ursula K. Le Guin
  67. 67.
    Brightness Reef (The Uplift Trilogy, Book 1)
    by David Brin
  68. 68.
    Contact
    by Carl Sagan
  69. 69.
    Princess of Mars
    by Edgar Rice Burroughs
  70. 70.
    Titan (Gaea)
    by John Varley
  71. 71.
    Out of the Silent Planet (Space Trilogy, Book One)
    by C.S. Lewis
  72. 72.
  73. 73.
    Darwin's Radio
    by Greg Bear
  74. 74.
    Cities in Flight
    by James Blish
  75. 75.
    We
    by Yevgeny Zamyatin
  76. 76.
    Ilium (Simmons, Dan)
    by Dan Simmons
  77. 77.
    The Handmaid's Tale (New Windmill)
    by Margaret Atwood
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Created by mightydin on Jul 01, 2009.
 

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