David Pringle's Best 100 Science Fiction Novels
Submitted by rivethead808 on Tue, 06/10/2008 - 09:44
- George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four
- George R. Stewart - Earth Abides -10-
- Ray Bradbury - The Martian Chronicles
- Robert A. Heinlein - The Puppet Masters
- John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids
- Bernard Wolfe - Limbo
- Alfred Bester - The Demolished Man
- Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451
- Arthur C. Clarke - Childhood's End
- Charles L. Harness - The Paradox Men
- Ward Moore - Bring the Jubilee
- Frederik Pohl & C.M. Kornbluth - The Space Merchants
- Clifford D. Simak - Ring Around the Sun
- Theodore Sturgeon - More than Human
- Hal Clement - Mission of Gravity
- Edgar Pangborn - A Mirror for Observers
- Isaac Asimov - The End of Eternity
- Leigh Brackett - The Long Tomorrow
- William Golding - The Inheritors
- Alfred Bester - The Stars My Destination
- John Christopher - The Death of Grass
- Arthur C. Clarke - The City and the Stars
- Robert A. Heinlein - The Door Into Summer
- John Wyndham - The Midwich Cuckoos
- Brian W. Aldiss - Non-Stop
- James Blish - A Case of Conscience
- Robert A. Heinlein - Have Space-Suit -- Will Travel
- Philip K. Dick - Time Out of Joint -8-
- Pat Frank - Alas, Babylon
- Walter M. Miller - A Canticle for Leibowitz
- Kurt Vonnegut - The Sirens of Titan
- Algis Budrys - Rogue Moon
- Theodore Sturgeon - Venus Plus X
- Brian W. Aldiss - Hothouse
- J.G. Ballard - The Drowned World
- Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange
- Philip K. Dick - The Man in the High Castle
- Robert Sheckley - Journey Beyond Tomorrow
- Clifford D. Simak - Way Station
- Kurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle
- Brian W. Aldiss - Greybeard
- William S. Burroughs - Nova Express
- Philip K. Dick - Martian Time-Slip
- Philip K. Dick - The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch -10-
- Fritz Leiber - The Wanderer
- Cordwainer Smith - Nostrilia
- Philip K. Dick - Dr Bloodmoney
- Frank Herbert - Dune
- J.G. Ballard - The Crystal World
- Harry Harrison - Make Room! Make Room!
- Daniel Keyes - Flowers for Algernon
- Roger Zelazny - The Dream Master
- John Brunner - Stand on Zanzibar
- Samuel R. Delany - Nova
- Philip K. Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
- Thomas M. Disch - Camp Concentration
- Michael Moorcock - The Final Programme
- Keith Roberts - Pavane
- Angela Carter - Heroes and Villains
- Ursula K. Le Guin - The Left Hand of Darkness -started to read-didnt really get into it
- Bob Shaw - The Palace of Eternity
- Norman Spinrad - Bug Jack Barron
- Poul Anderson - Tau Zero
- Robert Silverberg - Downward to the Earth
- Wilson Tucker - The Year of the Quiet Sun
- Thomas M. Disch - 334
- Gene Wolfe - The Fifth Head of Cerberus
- Michael Moorcock - The Dancers at the End of Time
- J.G. Ballard - Crash
- Mack Reynolds - Looking Backward From The Year 2000
- Ian Watson - The Embedding
- Suzy McKee Charnas - Walk to the End of the World
- M. John Harrison - The Centauri Device
- Ursula K. Le Guin - The Dispossessed
- Christopher Priest - Inverted World
- J.G. Ballard - High-Rise -8-
- Barry N. Malzberg - Galaxies
- Joanna Russ - The Female Man
- Bob Shaw - Orbitsville
- Kingsley Amis - The Alteration
- Marge Piercy - Woman on the Edge of Time
- Frederik Pohl - Man Plus
- Algis Budrys - Michaelmas
- John Varley - The Ophiuchi Hotline
- Ian Watson - Miracle Visitors
- John Crowley - Engine Summer
- Thomas M. Disch - On Wings of Song
- Brian Stableford - The Walking Shadow
- Kate Wilhelm - Juniper Time
- Gregory Benford - Timescape
- Damien Broderick - The Dreaming Dragons
- Octavia Butler - Wild Seed
- Russell Hoban - Riddley Walker
- John Sladek - Roderick and Roderick at Random
- Gene Wolfe - The Book of the New Sun
- Philip Jose Farmer - The Unreasoning Mask
- Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle - Oath of Fealty
- Michael Bishop - No Enemy but Time
- John Calvin Batchelor - The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica
- William Gibson - Neuromancer -read half-dont really like Cyberpunk-
Author Comments:
The highlighted ones are the ones that Ive read. The titles in red are ones that I am interested in reading. The remaining titles I dont care to read
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Interesting list! It appears that this list includes also books that have themes which are less SF and more something else, for example Kurt Vonnegut's Sirens of Titan. I probabaly won't include that book in my SF list because it's not pure SF, instead SF is a medium to express an unrelated theme. You might argue that the same can be said for Dune, but Dune can still be read as an out and out SF book, while - atleast for me - Sirens of Titan cannot.
If this list is in order of best to worst, won't Neuromancer and Dune deserve a higher place? Neuromancer did put cyberpunk on the map after all.
The Foundation series, the Mars trilogy and the Odyssey series are missing, they are must-adds in any SF list even if you haven't read them as yet.
Gotta try out all that stuff I haven't read though. Thanks for the recommendations!
This isnt MY list. David Pringle is apparently somewhat of an authority on SF and a lot of people have repasted his list here and marked things off and whatnot. I have reposted the list verbatim and huighlighted the ones that Ive read, and bolded the ones that I want to read. The rest are ones that I probably dont want to read judging by their plotlines or if I like that author, etc.
As for Gibson, Ive tried reading Gibson, Neuromancer in particular, and I just couldnt get into it. Ive also tried reading Snow Crash and same thing; Cyberpunk just doesnt interest me. I also havent read Sirens Of Titan but regardless of how SF it it, I do intend to as I am a fan (even if I only have read Cat's Crade so far).
And yes, Im sure once I finish Dune, it will rank quite highly. Ive already read some of it and loved what I read, not to mention that I love the movie (few can claim that).
For a more accurate representation of what Ive read and what Ive rated, please see my My Favorite Author list
I didn't mean to imply that it was your list.
Anyhow, its true that some people like cyberpunk and some just don't, since its so different from normal SF. I'll check your "My Favorite Author" list out =)