100 Top Science Fiction Books

1 Orson Scott Card Ender’s Game 1985    
2 Frank Herbert Dune 1965    
3 Isaac Asimov Foundation 1951    
4 Douglas Adams Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 1979    
5 George Orwell 1984 1949    
6 Robert A Heinlein Stranger in a Strange Land 1961    
7 Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 1954    
8 Arthur C Clarke 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968    
9 Isaac Asimov I, Robot 1950    
10 Robert A Heinlein Starship Troopers 1959    
11 Philip K Dick Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968    
12 William Gibson Neuromancer 1984    
13 Larry Niven Ringworld 1970    
14 Arthur C Clarke Rendezvous With Rama 1973    
15 Dan Simmons Hyperion 1989    
16 H G Wells The Time Machine 1895    
17 Aldous Huxley Brave New World 1932    
18 Arthur C Clarke Childhood’s End 1954    
19 H G Wells The War of the Worlds 1898    
20 Robert A Heinlein The Moon is a Harsh Mistress 1966    
21 Joe Haldeman The Forever War 1974    
22 Ray Bradbury The Martian Chronicles 1950    
23 Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse Five 1969    
24 Neal Stephenson Snow Crash 1992    
25 Niven & Pournelle The Mote in God’s Eye 1975    
26 Ursula K Le Guin The Left Hand of Darkness 1969    
27 Orson Scott Card Speaker for the Dead 1986    
28 Michael Crichton Jurassic Park 1990    
29 Philip K Dick The Man in the High Castle 1962    
30 Isaac Asimov The Caves of Steel 1954    
31 Alfred Bester The Stars My Destination 1956    
32 Frederik Pohl Gateway 1977    
33 Roger Zelazny Lord of Light 1967    
34 Stanislaw Lem Solaris 1961    
35 Jules Verne 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 1870    
36 Madeleine L’Engle A Wrinkle In Time 1962    
37 Kurt Vonnegut Cat’s Cradle 1963    
38 Michael Crichton The Andromeda Strain 1969    
39 Carl Sagan Contact 1985    
40 Isaac Asimov The Gods Themselves 1972    
41 Vernor Vinge A Fire Upon the Deep 1991    
42 Philip K Dick UBIK 1969    
43 John Wyndham The Day of the Triffids 1951    
44 Neal Stephenson Cryptonomicon 1999    
45 Robert A Heinlein Time Enough For Love 1973    
46 Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange 1962    
47 Kim Stanley Robinson Red Mars 1992    
48 Walter M Miller A Canticle for Leibowitz 1959    
49 Daniel Keyes Flowers for Algernon 1966    
50 Mary Shelley Frankenstein 1818    
51 Neal Stephenson The Diamond Age 1995    
52 Isaac Asimov The End Of Eternity 1955    
53 Jules Verne Journey to the Center of the Earth 1864    
54 Ursula K Le Guin The Dispossessed 1974    
55 L Ron Hubbard Battlefield Earth 1982    
56 Iain M Banks Player Of Games 1988    
57 Kurt Vonnegut The Sirens of Titan 1959    
58 David Brin Startide Rising 1983    
59 Peter F Hamilton The Reality Dysfunction 1996    
60 Orson Scott Card Ender’s Shadow 1999    
61 Greg Bear Eon 1985    
62 Philip Jose Farmer To Your Scattered Bodies Go 1971    
63 Philip K Dick A Scanner Darkly 1977    
64 Niven & Pournelle Lucifer’s Hammer 1977    
65 Margaret Atwood The Handmaid’s Tale 1985    
66 Arthur C Clarke The City and the Stars 1956    
67 Harry Harrison The Stainless Steel Rat 1961    
68 Gene Wolfe The Shadow of the Torturer 1980    
69 Alfred Bester The Demolished Man 1953    
70 Michael Crichton Sphere 1987    
71 Philip K Dick The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch 1964    
72 Robert A Heinlein The Door Into Summer 1956    
73 Alastair Reynolds Revelation Space 2000    
74 Robert A Heinlein Citizen Of the Galaxy 1957    
75 Connie Willis Doomsday Book 1992    
76 Dan Simmons Ilium 2003    
77 H G Wells The Invisible Man 1897    
78 Robert A Heinlein Have Space-Suit – Will Travel 1958    
79 C S Lewis Out of the Silent Planet 1938    
80 Robert A Heinlein The Puppet Masters 1951    
81 Edgar Rice Burroughs A Princess of Mars 1912    
82 Ursula K Le Guin The Lathe of Heaven 1971    
83 Clifford Simak Way Station 1963    
84 John Wyndham The Chrysalids 1955    
85 Iain M Banks Use of Weapons 1990    
86 Edwin A Abbott Flatland 1884    
87 Richard Morgan Altered Carbon 2002    
88 John Scalzi Old Man’s War 2005    
89 David Brin The Postman 1985    
90 Arkady & Boris Strugatsky Roadside Picnic 1972    
91 Philip K Dick VALIS 1981    
92 Julian May The Many-Colored Land 1981    
93 John Brunner Stand on Zanzibar 1969    
94 James Blish Cities in Flight 1955    
95 Stanislaw Lem The Cyberiad 1974    
96 Clifford Simak City 1952    
97 E E ‘Doc’ Smith Grey Lensman 1951    
98 David Brin The Uplift War 1987    
99 Arthur Conan Doyle The Lost World 1912    
100 Cormac McCarthy The Road 2006