David Pringle's Best 100 Science Fiction Novels

Submitted by RuTemple on Mon, 08/07/2006 - 04:37
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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. Pat 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: 

the fellow I cloned this list from, got it list from a book Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels which reviews the 100 novels he considers the best SF novels published from 1949 - 1984. No, they're not all Hugo winners, but they look like a list I'd certainly like to complete!

I've read the ones not numbered.

Of the remaining, some are on my to-be-read pile already, many of the others I'd never heard of.

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David Pringle's Best 100 Science Fiction Novels