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02/01/14 Sci-Fi Lists - Top 100 Sci-Fi Books scifilists.sffjazz.com/lists_books_rank1.html 1/3 Rank Author/Editor Title Year Amazon 0 1 Frank Herbert Dune [S1] 1965 0 2 Orson Scott Card Ender's Game [S1] 1985 0 3 Isaac Asimov The Foundation Trilogy 1951 0 4 Douglas Adams Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy [S1] 1979 0 5 George Orwell 1984 1949 0 6 Robert A Heinlein Stranger in a Strange Land 1961 0 7 Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 1954 0 8 William Gibson Neuromancer [S1] 1984 0 9 Arthur C Clarke 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 0 10 Philip K Dick Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968 0 11 Robert A Heinlein Starship Troopers 1959 0 12 Isaac Asimov [C] I, Robot 1950 0 13 Larry Niven Ringworld [S1] 1970 0 14 Arthur C Clarke Rendezvous With Rama 1973 0 15 Dan Simmons Hyperion [S1] 1989 0 16 Aldous Huxley Brave New World 1932 0 17 H G Wells The Time Machine 1895 0 18 Arthur C Clarke Childhood's End 1954 0 19 Joe Haldeman The Forever War 1974 0 20 Robert A Heinlein The Moon is a Harsh Mistress 1966 0 21 H G Wells The War of the Worlds 1898 0 22 Ray Bradbury [C] The Martian Chronicles 1950 0 23 Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse Five 1969 0 24 Ursula K Le Guin The Left Hand of Darkness 1969 0 25 Neal Stephenson Snow Crash 1992 0 26 Niven & Pournelle The Mote in God's Eye 1975 0 27 Orson Scott Card Ender's Shadow [S1] 1999 0 28 Orson Scott Card Speaker for the Dead [S2] 1986 0 29 Michael Crichton Jurassic Park 1990 0 30 Philip K Dick The Man in the High Castle 1962 0 31 Alfred Bester The Stars My Destination 1956 0 32 Isaac Asimov The Caves of Steel 1954 1 33 Roger Zelazny Lord of Light 1967 -1 34 Frederik Pohl Gateway 1977 0 35 Stanislaw Lem Solaris 1961 0 36 Jules Verne 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 1870 0 37 Kurt Vonnegut Cat's Cradle 1963 0 38 Michael Crichton The Andromeda Strain 1969 1 39 Philip K Dick Ubik 1969 -1 40 Madeleine L'Engle A Wrinkle In Time 1962 0 41 Carl Sagan Contact 1985

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0 1 Frank Herbert Dune [S1] 1965

0 2 Orson Scott Card Ender's Game [S1] 1985

0 3 Isaac AsimovThe FoundationTrilogy

1951

0 4 Douglas AdamsHitch Hiker's Guideto the Galaxy [S1]

1979

0 5 George Orwell 1984 1949

0 6 Robert A HeinleinStranger in aStrange Land

1961

0 7 Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 1954

0 8 William Gibson Neuromancer [S1] 1984

0 9 Arthur C Clarke2001: A SpaceOdyssey

1968

0 10 Philip K DickDo Androids Dreamof Electric Sheep?

1968

0 11 Robert A Heinlein Starship Troopers 1959

0 12 Isaac Asimov [C] I, Robot 1950

0 13 Larry Niven Ringworld [S1] 1970

0 14 Arthur C ClarkeRendezvous WithRama

1973

0 15 Dan Simmons Hyperion [S1] 1989

0 16 Aldous Huxley Brave New World 1932

0 17 H G Wells The Time Machine 1895

0 18 Arthur C Clarke Childhood's End 1954

0 19 Joe Haldeman The Forever War 1974

0 20 Robert A HeinleinThe Moon is a HarshMistress

1966

0 21 H G WellsThe War of theWorlds

1898

0 22 Ray Bradbury[C] The MartianChronicles

1950

0 23 Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse Five 1969

0 24 Ursula K Le GuinThe Left Hand ofDarkness

1969

0 25 Neal Stephenson Snow Crash 1992

0 26 Niven & PournelleThe Mote in God'sEye

1975

0 27 Orson Scott Card Ender's Shadow [S1]1999

0 28 Orson Scott CardSpeaker for theDead [S2]

1986

0 29 Michael Crichton Jurassic Park 1990

0 30 Philip K DickThe Man in the HighCastle

1962

0 31 Alfred BesterThe Stars MyDestination

1956

0 32 Isaac Asimov The Caves of Steel 1954

1 33 Roger Zelazny Lord of Light 1967

-1 34 Frederik Pohl Gateway 1977

0 35 Stanislaw Lem Solaris 1961

0 36 Jules Verne20,000 LeaguesUnder the Sea

1870

0 37 Kurt Vonnegut Cat's Cradle 1963

0 38 Michael CrichtonThe AndromedaStrain

1969

1 39 Philip K Dick Ubik 1969

-1 40 Madeleine L'Engle A Wrinkle In Time 1962

0 41 Carl Sagan Contact 1985

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0 42 Vernor Vinge A Fire Upon theDeep [S1]

1991

0 43 Isaac AsimovThe GodsThemselves

1972

0 44 John WyndhamThe Day of theTriffids

1951

0 45 Walter M MillerA Canticle forLeibowitz

1959

0 46 Kim Stanley Robinson Red Mars [S1] 1992

0 47 Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange 1962

0 48 Ursula K Le Guin The Dispossessed 1974

0 49 Robert A HeinleinTime Enough ForLove

1973

0 50 Isaac Asimov The End of Eternity 1955

0 51 Mary Shelley Frankenstein 1818

0 52 Daniel Keyes Flowers for Algernon 1966

0 53 Jules VerneJourney to theCenter of the Earth

1864

0 54 Peter F HamiltonThe RealityDysfunction [S1]

1996

0 55 Neal Stephenson The Diamond Age 1995

0 56 Philip Jose FarmerTo Your ScatteredBodies Go

1971

0 57 L Ron Hubbard Battlefield Earth 1982

0 58 David Brin Startide Rising [S2] 1983

0 59 Philip K Dick A Scanner Darkly 1977

0 60 Kurt Vonnegut The Sirens of Titan 1959

0 61 Greg Bear Eon [S1] 1985

0 62 Iain M BanksUse of Weapons[S3]

1990

0 63 Margaret AtwoodThe Handmaid'sTale

1985

0 64 Niven & Pournelle Lucifer's Hammer 1977

0 65 Arthur C ClarkeThe City and theStars

1956

0 66 Michael Crichton Sphere 1987

0 67 Alfred BesterThe DemolishedMan

1953

0 68 John Scalzi Old Man's War [S1] 2005

0 69 Robert A HeinleinThe Door IntoSummer

1956

0 70 Harry HarrisonThe Stainless SteelRat [S1]

1961

0 71 Alastair ReynoldsRevelation Space[S1]

2000

0 72 Iain M BanksPlayer of Games[S2]

1988

0 73 Gene WolfeThe Fifth Head ofCerberus

1972

0 74 Connie Willis Doomsday Book 1992

0 75 Edgar Rice BurroughsA Princess of Mars[S1]

1912

0 76 Robert A Heinlein Citizen of the Galaxy 1957

0 77 Cormac McCarthy The Road 2006

0 78 Dan Simmons Ilium 2003

0 79 Richard Morgan Altered Carbon [S1] 2002

0 80 C S LewisOut of the SilentPlanet [S1]

1938

0 81 Philip K DickThe Three Stigmataof Palmer Eldritch

1964

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0 82 Robert A HeinleinHave Space-Suit -Will Travel

1958

0 83 Edwin A Abbott Flatland 1884

0 84 Clifford Simak Way Station 1963

0 85 John Wyndham The Chrysalids 1955

0 86 Arkady & Boris Strugatsky Roadside Picnic 1972

0 87 Ursula K Le Guin The Lathe of Heaven 1971

0 88 John Brunner Stand on Zanzibar 1969

0 89 Richard Matheson I Am Legend 1954

1 90 Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games 2008

-1 91 Clifford Simak [C] City 1952

0 92 Stanislaw Lem [C] The Cyberiad 1974

0 93 David Brin The Postman 1985

1 94 Neal Stephenson Anathem 2008

-1 95 Philip K Dick VALIS 1981

0 96 Theodore Sturgeon More Than Human 1953

1 97 Julian MayThe Many-ColoredLand [S1]

1981

1 98 Orson Scott Card Xenocide [S3] 1991

-2 99 Robert Louis StevensonStrange Case of DrJekyll & Mr Hyde

1886

0 100 Greg BearThe Forge of GodS1]