Lists of Bests: mightydin's "Essential Science Fiction"

Send to Printer mightydin's "Essential Science Fiction" 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).
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	1.		Foundation by Isaac Asimov
	2.		Dune, 40th Anniversary Edition (Dune Chronicles, Book 1) by Frank Herbert
	3.		Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
	4.		The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
	5.		Caves of Steel (Robot City (Paperback)) by Isaac Asimov
	6.	?	Radix by A.A. Attanasio
	7.		Feersum Endjinn by Iain M Banks
	8.		Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks
	9.		The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
	10.		Fahrenheit 451 (Ave Fenix) by Ray Bradbury
	11.		Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
	12.		Wyrms by Orson Scott Card
	13.		2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
	14.		Nova by Samuel R. Delany
	15.		Einstein Intersection by Samuel R. Delany
	16.		Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand by Samuel R. Delany
	17.		The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
	18.		The Real Story: The Gap into Conflict (Gap) by Stephen R. Donaldson
	19.		Neuromancer by William Gibson
	20.		Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
	21.		Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
	22.		Time Enough for Love by Robert A. Heinlein
	23.		Puppet Masters by Robert A. Heinlein
	24.		The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem
	25.		Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
	26.		A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
	27.		Ringworld by Larry Niven
	28.		Empire of the East (Bks. 1-3: The Broken Lands, The Black Mountains, and Ardneh's World) by Fred Saberhagen
	29.		The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
	30.	?	Hyperion by Dan Simmons
	31.		Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra Book) by Neal Stephenson
	32.		The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book) by Neal Stephenson
	33.		Roadside Picnic (SF Collector's Edition) by Arkadi Strugatsky
	34.	?	Beetle in the Anthill (Best of Soviet Science Fiction) by Arkady Strugatsky
	35.	?	The Snail on the Slope by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky
	36.		From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne
	37.	?	20,000 Leagues Under the Sea / By Jules by Jules Verne
	38.		A Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
	39.	?	True Names...and Other Dangers by Vinge
	40.		A Fire Upon The Deep (Zones of Thought) by Vernor Vinge
	41.		Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
	42.		The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
	43.		The Invisible Man (Penguin Classics) by H.G. Wells
	44.		H. G. Wells' The War Of The Worlds by Ian Edginton
	45.		The First Men in the Moon (Penguin Classics) by H.G. Wells
	46.		The Day of the Triffids (20th Century Rediscoveries) by John Wyndham
	47.		City of Golden Shadow (Otherland, Volume 1) by Tad Williams
	48.		The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, Leviathan by Robert Shea
	49.		The Great Book of Amber: The Complete Amber Chronicles, 1-10 (Chronicles of Amber) by Roger Zelazny
	50.		Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
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