Meme Time!
This is a list of the 50 most significant science fiction/fantasy novels, 1953-2002, according to the Science Fiction Book Club. Bold the ones you’ve read, strike-out the ones you hated, italicize those you started but never finished and put an asterisk beside the ones you loved
- The Lord of the Rings *
J.R.R. Tolkien - The Foundation Trilogy
Isaac Asimov - Dune *
Frank Herbert Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert A. Heinlein- A Wizard of Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin - Neuromancer
William Gibson - Childhood’s End
Arthur C. Clarke - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick - The Mists of Avalon
Marion Zimmer Bradley - Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury - The Book of the New Sun
Gene Wolfe - A Canticle for Leibowitz
Walter M. Miller, Jr - The Caves of Steel
Isaac Asimov - Children of the Atom
Wilmar Shiras - Cities in Flight
James Blish - The Colour of Magic
Terry Pratchett - Dangerous Visions
edited by Harlan Ellison - Deathbird Stories
Harlan Ellison - The Demolished Man
Alfred Bester - Dhalgren
Samuel R. Delany - Dragonflight
Anne McCaffrey - Ender’s Game *
Orson Scott Card - The First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever *
Stephen R. Donaldson - The Forever War
Joe Haldeman - Gateway
Frederik Pohl - Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
J.K. Rowling - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy *
Douglas Adams - I Am Legend
Richard Matheson - Interview with the Vampire
Anne Rice - The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin - Little, Big
John Crowley - Lord of Light
Roger Zelazny - The Man in the High Castle
Philip K. Dick - Mission of Gravity
Hal Clement - More Than Human
Theodore Sturgeon - The Rediscovery of Man
Cordwainer Smith - On the Beach
Nevil Shute - Rendezvous with Rama
Arthur C. Clarke - Ringworld
Larry Niven - Rogue Moon
Algis Budrys The Silmarillion
J.R.R. Tolkien- Slaughterhouse-5
Kurt Vonnegut - Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson - Stand on Zanzibar
John Brunner - The Stars My Destination
Alfred Bester - Starship Troopers
Robert A. Heinlein - Stormbringer *
Michael Moorcock - The Sword of Shannara
Terry Brooks - Timescape
Gregory Benford - To Your Scattered Bodies Go
Philip Jose Farmer