Dmitri Z.'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).

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  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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  6. 6.
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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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  32. 34.
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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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