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Top 200 sci-fi books

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Top 200 Science Fiction Books
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Rank Author/Editor Title Year
6 Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [S1] 1979
 126 Brian Aldiss Hothouse 1962
 94 Brian Aldiss Helliconia Spring [S1] 1982
 91 Poul Anderson Tau Zero 1970
 29 Isaac Asimov [C] I, Robot 1950
 4 Isaac Asimov Foundation [S1-3] 1951
 50 Isaac Asimov The Caves of Steel 1954
 112 Isaac Asimov The End Of Eternity 1955
 47 Isaac Asimov The Gods Themselves 1972
 83 Isaac Asimov (et al) [eds] [A] Hugo Winners/New Hugo Winners 1962
 157 Isaac Asimov [ed] [A] Before the Golden Age 1974
 73 Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale 1985
 175 J G Ballard The Drowned World 1962
 86 Iain M Banks Player Of Games 1988
 123 Iain M Banks Use of Weapons 1990
 191 John Barnes Mother of Storms 1994
 156 Stephen Baxter The Time Ships 1995
 65 Greg Bear Blood Music 1985
 102 Greg Bear Eon 1985
 143 Greg Bear Darwin's Radio 1999
 54 Gregory Benford Timescape 1980
 22 Alfred Bester The Demolished Man 1953
 27 Alfred Bester The Stars My Destination 1956
 118 Michael Bishop No Enemy But Time 1982
 93 James Blish [C] Earthman, Come Home 1955
 80 James Blish A Case of Conscience 1958
 64 Ben Bova [ed] [A] The Best of the Nebulas 1989
 17 Ray Bradbury [C] The Martian Chronicles 1950
 10 Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 1954
 35 David Brin Startide Rising [S2] 1983
 92 David Brin The Postman 1985
 55 David Brin The Uplift War [S3] 1987
 181 David Brin Kiln People 2002
 34 John Brunner Stand on Zanzibar 1969
 141 John Brunner The Sheep Look Up 1972
 184 John Brunner The Shockwave Rider 1975
 179 Algis Budrys Rogue Moon 1960
 70 Lois McMaster Bujold Barrayar [S2] 1991
 148 Lois McMaster Bujold Memory [S12] 1996
 127 Lois McMaster Bujold A Civil Campaign [S11] 1999
 39 Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange 1962
 66 Edgar Rice Burroughs A Princess of Mars [S1] 1912
 168 Octavia Butler Parable of the Sower 1993
2 Orson Scott Card Ender's Game [S1] 1985
41 Orson Scott Card Speaker for the Dead [S2] 1986
 19 Orson Scott Card Ender's Shadow [S1] 1999
 63 C J Cherryh Downbelow Station 1981
 101 C J Cherryh Cyteen 1988
 197 John Christopher The Death of Grass 1956
 177 Clarke & Lee Rama Revealed 1994
 15 Arthur C Clarke Childhood's End 1954
 81 Arthur C Clarke The City and the Stars 1956
 37 Arthur C Clarke 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968
 23 Arthur C Clarke Rendezvous With Rama 1973
 79 Arthur C Clarke The Fountains of Paradise 1979
 74 Hal Clement Mission of Gravity 1953
 158 John Crowley Engine Summer 1979
 144 L Sprague DeCamp Lest Darkness Fall 1939
 111 Samuel R Delany Babel-17 1966
 160 Samuel R Delany The Einstein Intersection 1966
 185 Samuel R Delany Nova 1968
 105 Samuel R Delany Dhalgren 1975
 30 Philip K Dick The Man in the High Castle 1962
 72 Philip K Dick Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch 1964
 24 Philip K Dick Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968
 59 Philip K Dick Ubik 1969
 187 Philip K Dick VALIS 1981
 130 Gordon R Dickson Dorsai (vt The Genetic General) 1960
 110 Thomas M Disch Camp Concentration 1968
 71 Gardner Dozois [ed] [A] The Year's Best Science Fiction 1984
 188 George Alec Effinger When Gravity Fails 1987
 152 Greg Egan Permutation City 1994
 182 Greg Egan Diaspora 1997
 119 Harlan Ellison [C] Deathbird Stories 1975
 32 Harlan Ellison [ed] [A] Dangerous Visions 1967
 122 Harlan Ellison [ed] [A] Again, Dangerous Visions 1972
 57 Philip José Farmer To Your Scattered Bodies Go 1971
 125 Robert L Forward Dragon's Egg 1980
 153 Pat Frank Alas, Babylon 1959
 96 Gibson & Sterling The Difference Engine 1990
7 William Gibson Neuromancer 1984
 113 William Gibson [C] Burning Chrome 1986
 129 William Gibson Pattern Recognition 2003
 180 James Gunn [ed] [A] The Road to Science Fiction [S1-4] 1977
 12 Joe Haldeman The Forever War 1974
 161 Joe Haldeman Forever Peace 1997
 120 James L Halperin The Truth Machine 1997
 139 Peter F Hamilton The Reality Dysfunction [S1] 1996
 166 Harry Harrison The Stainless Steel Rat [S1] 1961
 146 Harry Harrison Make Room! Make Room! 1966
 97 Robert A Heinlein The Puppet Masters 1951
 85 Robert A Heinlein The Door Into Summer 1956
 95 Robert A Heinlein Double Star 1956
 174 Robert A Heinlein Citizen Of the Galaxy 1957
 106 Robert A Heinlein Have Space-Suit - Will Travel 1958
 16 Robert A Heinlein Starship Troopers 1959
 5 Robert A Heinlein Stranger in a Strange Land 1961
 11 Robert A Heinlein The Moon is a Harsh Mistress 1966
 98 Robert A Heinlein [C] The Past Through Tomorrow 1967
 62 Robert A Heinlein Time Enough For Love 1973
1 Frank Herbert Dune [S1] 1965
 163 Russell Hoban Riddley Walker 1980
 18 Aldous Huxley Brave New World 1932
 25 Daniel Keyes Flowers for Algernon 1966
 121 Nancy Kress Beggars in Spain 1993
 8 Ursula K Le Guin The Left Hand of Darkness 1969
 84 Ursula K Le Guin The Lathe of Heaven 1971
 20 Ursula K Le Guin The Dispossessed 1974
 138 Fritz Leiber The Big Time 1958
 77 Stanislaw Lem Solaris 1970
 164 Stanislaw Lem [C] The Cyberiad 1974
 58 Madeleine L'Engle A Wrinkle In Time 1962
 169 Jonathan Lethem Gun, With Occasional Music 1994
 131 C S Lewis Out of the Silent Planet [S1] 1938
 189 Jack McDevitt Engines of God 1994
 107 Vonda N McIntyre Dreamsnake 1978
 21 Walter M Miller A Canticle for Leibowitz 1959
 196 Elizabeth Moon The Speed of Dark 2003
 136 Richard Morgan Altered Carbon 2002
 46 Audrey Niffenegger The Time Traveler's Wife 2003
 33 Niven & Pournelle The Mote in God's Eye 1975
 82 Niven & Pournelle Lucifer's Hammer 1977
 176 Larry Niven [C] Neutron Star 1968
9 Larry Niven Ringworld 1970
3 George Orwell Nineteen Eighty-Four 1949
 135 Edgar Pangborn A Mirror for Observers 1954
 155 Alexei Panshin Rite of Passage 1968
 67 Pohl & Kornbluth The Space Merchants 1953
 100 Frederik Pohl Man Plus 1976
 14 Frederik Pohl Gateway 1977
 61 Tim Powers The Anubis Gates 1983
 192 Christopher Priest Inverted World 1969
 162 Alastair Reynolds Revelation Space 2000
 159 Keith Roberts Pavane 1968
 44 Kim Stanley Robinson Red Mars 1992
 165 Kim Stanley Robinson The Years Of Rice and Salt 2002
 117 Joanna Russ The Female Man 1975
 104 Mary Doria Russell The Sparrow 1996
 190 Richard Paul Russo Ship of Fools 2001
 183 Robert J Sawyer Hominids [S1] 2002
 178 James H Schmitz The Witches Of Karres 1966
 48 Mary Shelley Frankenstein 1818
 69 Robert Silverberg Dying Inside 1972
 88 Robert Silverberg [ed] [A] Science Fiction Hall of Fame 1 1970
 76 Clifford Simak [C] City 1952
 49 Clifford Simak Way Station 1963
 13 Dan Simmons Hyperion 1989
 142 Dan Simmons Ilium 2003
 147 Cordwainer Smith Norstrilia 1975
 149 Cordwainer Smith [C] The Rediscovery of Man 1975
 90 E E 'Doc' Smith Grey Lensman [S4] 1951
 195 Norman Spinrad Bug Jack Barron 1969
 103 Olaf Stapledon Last and First Men 1930
 132 Olaf Stapledon Star Maker 1937
 36 Neal Stephenson Snow Crash 1992
 52 Neal Stephenson The Diamond Age 1995
 60 Neal Stephenson Cryptonomicon 1999
 133 Bruce Sterling Islands in the Net 1988
 193 Bruce Sterling Distraction 1998
 124 Bruce Sterling [ed] [A] Mirrorshades 1986
 109 Robert Louis Stevenson Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde 1886
 68 George R Stewart Earth Abides 1949
 99 Arkady & Boris Strugatsky Roadside Picnic 1972
 40 Theodore Sturgeon More Than Human 1953
 128 Michael Swanwick Stations of the Tide 1991
 194 James Tiptree Jr [C] Her Smoke Rose Up Forever 1990
 173 Harry Turtledove Worldwar: In the Balance [S1] 1994
 140 Mark Twain A Connecticut Yankee in KA's Court 1889
 115 A E Van Vogt Slan 1946
 154 A E Van Vogt The World of Null-A 1948
 137 John Varley [C] The Persistence Of Vision 1978
 114 John Varley Titan 1979
 75 Jules Verne Journey to the Center of the Earth 1864
 51 Jules Verne 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 1870
 87 Joan D Vinge The Snow Queen 1980
 42 Vernor Vinge A Fire Upon the Deep [S1] 1991
 170 Kurt Vonnegut Player Piano 1952
 78 Kurt Vonnegut The Sirens of Titan 1959
 56 Kurt Vonnegut Cat's Cradle 1963
43 Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse Five 1969
 198 Ian Watson The Embedding 1973
 26 H G Wells The Time Machine 1895
 116 H G Wells The Invisible Man 1897
 31 H G Wells The War of the Worlds 1898
 134 Kate Wilhelm Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang 1976
 199 Jack Williamson The Humanoids 1949
 45 Connie Willis Doomsday Book 1992
 108 Connie Willis To Say Nothing Of the Dog 1997
 167 Connie Willis Passage 2001
 186 Robert Charles Wilson The Chronoliths 2001
 38 Gene Wolfe The Shadow of the Torturer [S1] 1980
 53 John Wyndham The Day of the Triffids 1951
 151 John Wyndham The Chrysalids 1955
 171 John Wyndham The Midwich Cuckoos 1957
 150 Yevgeny Zamiatin We 1924
 89 Roger Zelazny This Immortal 1966
 172 Roger Zelazny Dream Master 1966
 28 Roger Zelazny Lord of Light 1967
 145 Roger Zelazny [C] Doors of His Face, Lamps of His Mouth 1971
 200 Sarah Zettel Fool's War 1997
 
Are these your top 200 or a list from somewhere else? If so where and if yours how do you rank them?
 
Topp 200 sci-fi booklist

I find this list somewhere on the web. Im working on my own booklist now and will post it as soon as i can, but my top 3 sci-fi series are:

1. Dune
2. Gateway trilogy by Pohl
3. Sprawl series by William Gibson.

Im working on a top 100 sci-fi list, (se under) i havent rated it yet, but i will.
Maby you will rate it for your self? :) Im sorry for my bad inglish, im also working on that, im from the cold nord in Norway... :eek:

Anderson, Poul - Operation Chaos
Anderson, Poul - Operation Luna
Anderson, Poul - Queen of Air & Darkness
Anderson, Poul - Starfarers
Anderson, Poul - The Avatar
Anderson, Poul - The High Crusade
Asimov, Isaac - Foundation 00 - Prelude to Foundation
Asimov, Isaac - Foundation 01 - Foundation
Asimov, Isaac - Foundation 02 - Foundation and Empire
Asimov, Isaac - Foundation 03 - Second Foundation
Asimov, Isaac - Foundation 04 - Foundation`s Edge
Asimov, Isaac - Foundation 05 - Foundation and Earth
Asimov, Isaac - Foundation 06 - Prelude to Foundation
Asimov, Isaac - Foundation 07 - Forward the Foundation
Asimov, Isaac - Foundation and Earth
Asimov, Isaac - Foundation and Empire
Ballard, J.G - The Drowned World
Battlestar Galactica 01 - From the Amada Journals
Battlestar Galactica 02 - The Cylon Death Machine
Battlestar Galactica 03 - Resurrection
Battlestar Galactica 04 - Rebellion
Battlestar Galactica 05 - Paradis
Benford, Gregory - Timescape
Bester, Alfred - Demolished Man
Bester, Alfred - The Stars My Destination
Bester, Alfred - Tiger! Tiger!
Bethke, Bruce - Cyberpunk
Card, Orson Scott - Ender's Saga 1 - Ender's Game
Card, Orson Scott - Ender's Saga 2 - Speaker for the Dead
Card, Orson Scott - Ender's Saga 3 - Xenocide
Card, Orson Scott - Ender's Saga 4 - Children of the Mind
Card, Orson Scott - Ender's Saga 5 - Ender's Shadow
Card, Orson Scott - Ender's Saga 6 - Shadow of the Hegemon
Card, Orson Scott - Ender's Saga 7 - Shadow Puppets
Clarke, Arthur C. - Childhood's End
Clarke, Arthur C. - Rama 01 - Rendezvous With Rama
Clarke, Arthur C. - Rama 02 - Rama Revisited
Clarke, Arthur C. - Rama 03 - The Garden of Rama
Clarke, Arthur C. - Rama 04 - Rama Revealed
Clarke, Arthur C. - Space Odyssey 01 - 2001 A Space Odyssey
Clarke, Arthur C. - Space Odyssey 02 - 2010 Odyssey Two
Clarke, Arthur C. - Space Odyssey 03 - 2061 Odyssey Three
Clarke, Arthur C. - Space Odyssey 04 - 3001 The Final Odyssey
Dick, Philip K. - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Dick, Philip K. - The Minority Report
Dick, Philip K. - The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Dick, Philip K. - Ubik
Douglas Adams - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Douglas Adams - Life in the Universe and everything
Douglas Adams - Mostly Harmless
Douglas Adams - So Long And Thanks For All The Fish
Douglas Adams - The Hitch Hikers Guide to Galaxy
Douglas Adams - The long dark tea - time of the soul
Douglas Adams - The Resturant at the end of the Universe
Douglas Adams - Young Zaphod Plays it safe
Dune Book 1 Dune
Dune Book 2 Messiah
Dune Book 3 Children of Dune
Dune Book 4 The God Emperor
Dune Book 5 Heretics of Dune
Dune Book 6 Chapterhouse DuneDune book 7 - Herbert, Brian & Keven J. Anderson - Dune History 01 - House Harkonnen
Dune book 8 - Herbert, Brian & Keven J. Anderson - Dune History 02 - House Corrino
Foster, Alan Dean - The Dig
Foster, Alan Dean - The Last Starfighter
Gibson, William - Bridge Trilogy 01 - Virtual Light & Some Xtras
Gibson, William - Bridge Trilogy 02 - Idoru
Gibson, William - Bridge Trilogy 03 - All Tomorrows Parties
Gibson, William - Sprawl 01 - Neuromancer
Gibson, William - Sprawl 02 - Count Zero
Gibson, William - Sprawl 03 - Mona Lisa Overdrive
Heinlein, Robert A - Citizen of the Galaxy
Heinlein, Robert A - Have Space Suit Will - Travel
Heinlein, Robert A - Red Planet
Heinlein, Robert A - Rocket Ship Galileo
Heinlein, Robert A - Starship Troopers
Heinlein, Robert A - Stranger In a Strange Land
Heinlein, Robert A - The Cat Who Walked Through Walls
Heinlein, Robert A - The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Niven, Larry - Ringworld 1 - Ringworld
Niven, Larry - Ringworld 2 - The Ringworld Engineers
Niven, Larry - Ringworld 3 - The Ringworld Throne
Orwell, Georg - 1984
Orwell, Georg - Animal Farm
Pohl, Frederik - Heechee 1 - Gateway
Pohl, Frederik - Heechee 2 - Beyond the Blue Event Horizon
Pohl, Frederik - Heechee 3 - Heechee Rendevous
Stephenson, Neal - Cryptonomicon
Stephenson, Neal - In the Beginning was the Command Line
Stephenson, Neal - Interface
Stephenson, Neal - Mother Earth Mother Board
Stephenson, Neal - Snow Crash
Stephenson, Neal - The Big UStephenson, Neal - The Diamond Age
Tolkien, J.R.R - The Fellowship of the Ring
Tolkien, J.R.R - The Hobbit
Wells, H. G. - The Time Machine
Wells, H.G. - War of the Worlds
Zelazny, Roger - Damnation Alley
Zelazny, Roger - Lord of Light
 
Here is the list in order of ranking:

1 Frank Herbert Dune [S1] 1965
2 Orson Scott Card Ender's Game [S1] 1985
3 George Orwell Nineteen Eighty-Four 1949
4 Isaac Asimov Foundation [S1-3] 1951
5 Robert A Heinlein Stranger in a Strange Land 1961
6 Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [S1] 1979
7 William Gibson Neuromancer 1984
8 Ursula K Le Guin The Left Hand of Darkness 1969
9 Larry Niven Ringworld 1970
10 Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 1954
11 Robert A Heinlein The Moon is a Harsh Mistress 1966
12 Joe Haldeman The Forever War 1974
13 Dan Simmons Hyperion 1989
14 Frederik Pohl Gateway 1977
15 Arthur C Clarke Childhood's End 1954
16 Robert A Heinlein Starship Troopers 1959
17 Ray Bradbury [C] The Martian Chronicles 1950
18 Aldous Huxley Brave New World 1932
19 Orson Scott Card Ender's Shadow [S1] 1999
20 Ursula K Le Guin The Dispossessed 1974
21 Walter M Miller A Canticle for Leibowitz 1959
22 Alfred Bester The Demolished Man 1953
23 Arthur C Clarke Rendezvous With Rama 1973
24 Philip K Dick Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968
25 Daniel Keyes Flowers for Algernon 1966
26 H G Wells The Time Machine 1895
27 Alfred Bester The Stars My Destination 1956
28 Roger Zelazny Lord of Light 1967
29 Isaac Asimov [C] I, Robot 1950
30 Philip K Dick The Man in the High Castle 1962
31 H G Wells The War of the Worlds 1898
32 Harlan Ellison [ed] [A] Dangerous Visions 1967
33 Niven & Pournelle The Mote in God's Eye 1975
34 John Brunner Stand on Zanzibar 1969
35 David Brin Startide Rising [S2] 1983
36 Neal Stephenson Snow Crash 1992
37 Arthur C Clarke 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968
38 Gene Wolfe The Shadow of the Torturer [S1] 1980
39 Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange 1962
40 Theodore Sturgeon More Than Human 1953
41 Orson Scott Card Speaker for the Dead [S2] 1986
42 Vernor Vinge A Fire Upon the Deep [S1] 1991
43 Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse Five 1969
44 Kim Stanley Robinson Red Mars 1992
45 Connie Willis Doomsday Book 1992
46 Audrey Niffenegger The Time Traveler's Wife 2003
47 Isaac Asimov The Gods Themselves 1972
48 Mary Shelley Frankenstein 1818
49 Clifford Simak Way Station 1963
50 Isaac Asimov The Caves of Steel 1954
51 Jules Verne 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 1870
52 Neal Stephenson The Diamond Age 1995
53 John Wyndham The Day of the Triffids 1951
54 Gregory Benford Timescape 1980
55 David Brin The Uplift War [S3] 1987
56 Kurt Vonnegut Cat's Cradle 1963
57 Philip José Farmer To Your Scattered Bodies Go 1971
58 Madeleine L'Engle A Wrinkle In Time 1962
59 Philip K Dick Ubik 1969
60 Neal Stephenson Cryptonomicon 1999
61 Tim Powers The Anubis Gates 1983
62 Robert A Heinlein Time Enough For Love 1973
63 C J Cherryh Downbelow Station 1981
64 Ben Bova [ed] [A] The Best of the Nebulas 1989
65 Greg Bear Blood Music 1985
66 Edgar Rice Burroughs A Princess of Mars [S1] 1912
67 Pohl & Kornbluth The Space Merchants 1953
68 George R Stewart Earth Abides 1949
69 Robert Silverberg Dying Inside 1972
70 Lois McMaster Bujold Barrayar [S2] 1991
71 Gardner Dozois [ed] [A] The Year's Best Science Fiction 1984
72 Philip K Dick Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch 1964
73 Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale 1985
74 Hal Clement Mission of Gravity 1953
75 Jules Verne Journey to the Center of the Earth 1864
76 Clifford Simak [C] City 1952
77 Stanislaw Lem Solaris 1970
78 Kurt Vonnegut The Sirens of Titan 1959
79 Arthur C Clarke The Fountains of Paradise 1979
80 James Blish A Case of Conscience 1958
81 Arthur C Clarke The City and the Stars 1956
82 Niven & Pournelle Lucifer's Hammer 1977
83 Isaac Asimov (et al) [eds] [A] Hugo Winners/New Hugo Winners 1962
84 Ursula K Le Guin The Lathe of Heaven 1971
85 Robert A Heinlein The Door Into Summer 1956
86 Iain M Banks Player Of Games 1988
87 Joan D Vinge The Snow Queen 1980
88 Robert Silverberg [ed] [A] Science Fiction Hall of Fame 1 1970
89 Roger Zelazny This Immortal 1966
90 E E 'Doc' Smith Grey Lensman [S4] 1951
91 Poul Anderson Tau Zero 1970
92 David Brin The Postman 1985
93 James Blish [C] Earthman, Come Home 1955
94 Brian Aldiss Helliconia Spring [S1] 1982
95 Robert A Heinlein Double Star 1956
96 Gibson & Sterling The Difference Engine 1990
97 Robert A Heinlein The Puppet Masters 1951
98 Robert A Heinlein [C] The Past Through Tomorrow 1967
99 Arkady & Boris Strugatsky Roadside Picnic 1972
100 Frederik Pohl Man Plus 1976
101 C J Cherryh Cyteen 1988
102 Greg Bear Eon 1985
103 Olaf Stapledon Last and First Men 1930
104 Mary Doria Russell The Sparrow 1996
105 Samuel R Delany Dhalgren 1975
106 Robert A Heinlein Have Space-Suit - Will Travel 1958
107 Vonda N McIntyre Dreamsnake 1978
108 Connie Willis To Say Nothing Of the Dog 1997
109 Robert Louis Stevenson Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde 1886
110 Thomas M Disch Camp Concentration 1968
111 Samuel R Delany Babel-17 1966
112 Isaac Asimov The End Of Eternity 1955
113 William Gibson [C] Burning Chrome 1986
114 John Varley Titan 1979
115 A E Van Vogt Slan 1946
116 H G Wells The Invisible Man 1897
117 Joanna Russ The Female Man 1975
118 Michael Bishop No Enemy But Time 1982
119 Harlan Ellison [C] Deathbird Stories 1975
120 James L Halperin The Truth Machine 1997
121 Nancy Kress Beggars in Spain 1993
122 Harlan Ellison [ed] [A] Again, Dangerous Visions 1972
123 Iain M Banks Use of Weapons 1990
124 Bruce Sterling [ed] [A] Mirrorshades 1986
125 Robert L Forward Dragon's Egg 1980
126 Brian Aldiss Hothouse 1962
127 Lois McMaster Bujold A Civil Campaign [S11] 1999
128 Michael Swanwick Stations of the Tide 1991
129 William Gibson Pattern Recognition 2003
130 Gordon R Dickson Dorsai (vt The Genetic General) 1960
131 C S Lewis Out of the Silent Planet [S1] 1938
132 Olaf Stapledon Star Maker 1937
133 Bruce Sterling Islands in the Net 1988
134 Kate Wilhelm Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang 1976
135 Edgar Pangborn A Mirror for Observers 1954
136 Richard Morgan Altered Carbon 2002
137 John Varley [C] The Persistence Of Vision 1978
138 Fritz Leiber The Big Time 1958
139 Peter F Hamilton The Reality Dysfunction [S1] 1996
140 Mark Twain A Connecticut Yankee in KA's Court 1889
141 John Brunner The Sheep Look Up 1972
142 Dan Simmons Ilium 2003
143 Greg Bear Darwin's Radio 1999
144 L Sprague DeCamp Lest Darkness Fall 1939
145 Roger Zelazny [C] Doors of His Face, Lamps of His Mouth 1971
146 Harry Harrison Make Room! Make Room! 1966
147 Cordwainer Smith Norstrilia 1975
148 Lois McMaster Bujold Memory [S12] 1996
149 Cordwainer Smith [C] The Rediscovery of Man 1975
150 Yevgeny Zamiatin We 1924
151 John Wyndham The Chrysalids 1955
152 Greg Egan Permutation City 1994
153 Pat Frank Alas, Babylon 1959
154 A E Van Vogt The World of Null-A 1948
155 Alexei Panshin Rite of Passage 1968
156 Stephen Baxter The Time Ships 1995
157 Isaac Asimov [ed] [A] Before the Golden Age 1974
158 John Crowley Engine Summer 1979
159 Keith Roberts Pavane 1968
160 Samuel R Delany The Einstein Intersection 1966
161 Joe Haldeman Forever Peace 1997
162 Alastair Reynolds Revelation Space 2000
163 Russell Hoban Riddley Walker 1980
164 Stanislaw Lem [C] The Cyberiad 1974
165 Kim Stanley Robinson The Years Of Rice and Salt 2002
166 Harry Harrison The Stainless Steel Rat [S1] 1961
167 Connie Willis Passage 2001
168 Octavia Butler Parable of the Sower 1993
169 Jonathan Lethem Gun, With Occasional Music 1994
170 Kurt Vonnegut Player Piano 1952
171 John Wyndham The Midwich Cuckoos 1957
172 Roger Zelazny Dream Master 1966
173 Harry Turtledove Worldwar: In the Balance [S1] 1994
174 Robert A Heinlein Citizen Of the Galaxy 1957
175 J G Ballard The Drowned World 1962
176 Larry Niven [C] Neutron Star 1968
177 Clarke & Lee Rama Revealed 1994
178 James H Schmitz The Witches Of Karres 1966
179 Algis Budrys Rogue Moon 1960
180 James Gunn [ed] [A] The Road to Science Fiction [S1-4] 1977
181 David Brin Kiln People 2002
182 Greg Egan Diaspora 1997
183 Robert J Sawyer Hominids [S1] 2002
184 John Brunner The Shockwave Rider 1975
185 Samuel R Delany Nova 1968
186 Robert Charles Wilson The Chronoliths 2001
187 Philip K Dick VALIS 1981
188 George Alec Effinger When Gravity Fails 1987
189 Jack McDevitt Engines of God 1994
190 Richard Paul Russo Ship of Fools 2001
191 John Barnes Mother of Storms 1994
192 Christopher Priest Inverted World 1969
193 Bruce Sterling Distraction 1998
194 James Tiptree Jr [C] Her Smoke Rose Up Forever 1990
195 Norman Spinrad Bug Jack Barron 1969
196 Elizabeth Moon The Speed of Dark 2003
197 John Christopher The Death of Grass 1956
198 Ian Watson The Embedding 1973
199 Jack Williamson The Humanoids 1949
200 Sarah Zettel Fool's War 1997
 
104 Mary Doria Russell The Sparrow 1996
165 Kim Stanley Robinson The Years Of Rice and Salt 2002

I can only assume the list was compiled by people who have never bothered to read these books.
 
165 Kim Stanley Robinson The Years Of Rice and Salt 2002

I can only assume the list was compiled by people who have never bothered to read these books.

I haven't read it but from the review I just looked at, I don't really see how they go Sci-Fi out of that one.
 
It wasn't sci fi. More of an alternative history written by someone with limited imagination. I was waiting for the plot to start and finally gave up when I realised there wasn't one. Still, it's got a pretty cover.
 
It wasn't sci fi. More of an alternative history written by someone with limited imagination. I was waiting for the plot to start and finally gave up when I realised there wasn't one. Still, it's got a pretty cover.

Alternative history isn't sci-fi (and by the same token, sci-fi that was written for a date that has passed isn't alternative history either. I'm talking to you 2001).

I recently picked up the Mars Series by Kim Stanley Robinson. Have you read it?
 
Alternative history isn't sci-fi (and by the same token, sci-fi that was written for a date that has passed isn't alternative history either. I'm talking to you 2001).

I don't know about that.Like "The man in a high Castel" by K Dick-is alternative history,as well as "the day of the triffids" by Wyndhan would be more Horror.
I didn,t go to much through the list but i would say a good few could be argued about.Sometime it's just elimination from other genre that classify a book to be scifi.
 
IMO, alternative history becomes sci-fi when sci-fi elements are introduced. For example, The Difference Engine would be sci-fi even though it's an alternative history. I'll admit there's a lot of gray area though.
 
I have the Mars Trilogy, but have only read the first half or so of Red Mars. I'm not exactly sure why I was diverted, it was enjoyable, if a little dated IMO. It almost read like a Soap Opera in space. /shrugs/

But I'm not a huge sci-fi fan either.
Didn't care for Philip K. Dick the few I tried.

I've read
The Day of the Triffids by Wyndham [and actually purchased two more]
The Time Machine by Wells

And have several of the list in my TBR stack.
 
*For sparkchaser

I can tell you my wife started Red Mars and aborted after a good way into the book. It sounds like it is the hardest of the "hard sci-fi" out there. Lots of technical description and based largely on science as we understand it presently.
 
Interesting. Pont's description makes me want to shuffle it to the bottom of Mt. TBR but joderu's description makes me want to move it towards the top.
 
I also got two Wyndham in stock-kraken and chrysalides-

This K Dick is the world is the Germain had won the World War II,pretty scarry stuff!The man in the high Castel being Hiltler himself!
 
You'll have to let me know what he thinks of it.

Sorry, you misunderstand. He started it. That's it. This was a few years ago now.

He says it was more tedious sci fi than hard sci fi. Like a text book with a plot, but without the plot. There were about four pages on baking parachute silk and regolith into bricks and that was when he realised it was never going to improve so he gave up. He loves hard sci fi. He's an engineer. It was not a good book. Don't put it at the bottom of your pile, put it at the bottom of a bonfire.
 
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