David Pringle's Best 100 Science Fiction Novels

Submitted by Slothrop33 on Mon, 07/17/2006 - 02:17
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  1. George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four
  2. George R. Stewart - Earth Abides
  3. Ray Bradbury - The Martian Chronicles
  4. Robert A. Heinlein - The Puppet Masters
  5. John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids
  6. Bernard Wolfe - Limbo
  7. Alfred Bester - The Demolished Man
  8. Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451
  9. Arthur C. Clarke - Childhood's End
  10. Charles L. Harness - The Paradox men
  11. Ward Moore - Bring the Jubilee
  12. Frederik Pohl & C.M. Kornbluth - The Space Merchants
  13. Clifford D. Simak - Ring Around the Sun
  14. Theodore Sturgeon - More than Human
  15. Hal Clement - Mission of Gravity
  16. Edgar Pangborn - A Mirror for Observers
  17. Isaac Asimov - The End of Eternity
  18. Leigh Brackett - The Long Tomorrow
  19. William Golding - The Inheritors
  20. Alfred Bester - The Stars My Destination
  21. John Christopher - The Death of Grass
  22. Arthur C. Clarke - The City and the Stars
  23. Robert A. Heinlein - The Door Into Summer
  24. John Wyndham - The Midwich cuckoos
  25. Brian W. Aldiss - Non-Stop
  26. James Blish -A Case of Conscience
  27. Robert A. Heinlein - Have Space-Suit -- Will Travel
  28. Philip K. Dick - Time Out of Joint
  29. at Frank - Alas, Babylon
  30. Walter M. Miller - A Canticle for Leibowitz
  31. Kurt Vonnegut - The Sirens of Titan
  32. Algis Budrys - Rogue Moon
  33. Theodore Sturgeon - Venus Plus X
  34. Brian W. Aldiss - Hothouse
  35. J.G. Ballard - The Drowned World
  36. Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange
  37. Philip K. Dick - The Man in the High Castle
  38. Robert Sheckley - Journey Beyond Tomorrow
  39. Clifford D. Simak - Way Station
  40. Kurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle
  41. Brian W. Aldiss - Greybeard
  42. William S. Burroughs - Nova Express
  43. Philip K. Dick - Martian Time-Slip
  44. Philip K. Dick - The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
  45. Fritz Leiber - The Wanderer
  46. Cordwainer Smith - Nostrilia
  47. Philip K. Dick - Dr Bloodmoney
  48. Frank Herbert - Dune
  49. J.G. Ballard - The Crystal World
  50. Harry Harrison - Make Room! Make Room!
  51. Daniel Keyes - Flowers for Algernon
  52. Roger Zelazny - The Dream Master
  53. John Brunner - Stand on Zanzibar
  54. Samuel R. Delany - Nova
  55. Philip K. Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
  56. Thomas M. Disch - Camp Concentration
  57. Michael Moorcock - The Final Programme
  58. Keith Roberts - Pavane
  59. Angela Carter - Heroes and Villains
  60. Ursula K. Le Guin - The Left Hand of Darkness
  61. Bob Shaw - The Palace of Eternity
  62. Norman Spinrad - Bug Jack Barron
  63. Poul Anderson - Tau Zero
  64. Robert Silverberg - Downward to the Earth
  65. Wilson Tucker - The Year of the Quiet Sun
  66. Thomas M. Disch - 334
  67. Gene Wolfe - The Fifth Head of Cerberus
  68. Michael Moorcock - The Dancers at the End of Time
  69. J.G. Ballard - Crash
  70. Mack Reynolds - Looking Backward from the Year 2000
  71. Ian Watson - The Embedding
  72. Suzy McKee Charnas - Walk to the End of the World
  73. M. John Harrison - The Centauri Device
  74. Ursula K. Le Guin - The Dispossessed
  75. Christopher Priest - Inverted World
  76. J.G. Ballard - High-Rise
  77. Barry N. Malzberg - Galaxies
  78. Joanna Russ - The Female Man
  79. Bob Shaw - Orbitsville
  80. Kingsley Amis - The Alteration
  81. Marge Piercy - Woman on the Edge of Time
  82. Frederik Pohl - Man Plus
  83. Algis Budrys - Michaelmas
  84. John Varley - The Ophiuchi Hotline
  85. Ian Watson - Miracle Visitors
  86. John Crowley - Engine Summer
  87. Thomas M. Disch - On Wings of Song
  88. Brian Stableford - The Walking Shadow
  89. Kate Wilhelm - Juniper Time
  90. Gregory Benford - Timescape
  91. Damien Broderick - The Dreaming Dragons
  92. Octavia Butler - Wild Seed
  93. Russell Hoban - Riddley Walker
  94. John Sladek - Roderick and Roderick at Random
  95. Gene Wolfe - The Book of the New Sun
  96. Philip Jose Farmer - The Unreasoning Mask
  97. Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle - Oath of Fealty
  98. Michael Bishop - No Enemy but Time
  99. John Calvin Batchelor - The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica
  100. William Gibson - Neuromancer
Author Comments: 

As you see I am pretty weak in the Sci Fi realm...

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David Pringle's Best 100 Science Fiction Novels
misscurly07/21/2006

Flowers for Algernon was SF? I'm not sure I agree with that classification....

I'm so cloning this list too!

Slothrop3307/22/2006

Yeah, bizarre! I didnt make the list; it seems pretty good though. It is hard to seperate the good from the bad in genre fiction...

Nance08/30/2006

I thought I was a sci-fi geek, I've just read "Dune" on that list ...
Do Douglas Adams (H2G2) count in sci-fi genre?

"Fahrenheit 451", "1984", "A Clockwork Orange" and "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" are in my to-read list.

I will clone the list, maybe it will give me some ideas.
By the way, is the list in order 1 to 100?

Nance08/30/2006

A little error: "Alas, Babylon" is by Pat Frank.

chellepixel01/15/2007

I can't believe that Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, John Wyndham's The Chrysalids, Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game et al., Philip Pullmans's His Dark Materials trilogy and Monica Hughes's The Guardian of Isis, if you haven't read them I'd highly recommend giving them a try. I had a few more on the tip of my tongue, alas my mind is a little foggy right now oh well.

rentastrawbe08/13/2007

wheres ubik?!?!?!