Friday, October 16, 2009

My list for the top 100 SF Books

Arranged Alphabetically:

Akira by Katsuhiro Otomo
The Artificial Kid by Bruce Sterling
Babel 17 by Samuel R. Delany
Bicentennial Man by Isaac Asimov
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Callahan's Crosstime Saloon by Spider Robinson
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller
A Case of Conscience by James Blish
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
City by Clifford D. Simak
Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks
Crash by J. G. Ballard
Cyteen by C. J. Cherryh
Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear
Deathbird Stories by Harlan Ellison
A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephensen
The Difference Engine by William Gibson
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Downbelow Station by C. J. Cherryh
Dreamsnake by Vonda McIntyre
The Drowned World by J. G. Ballard
Dune by Frank Herbert
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Farmer in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein
A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Flow My Tears the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick
Footfall by Larry Niven
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke
Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
Gateway by Frederik Pohl
The Girl, the Gold Watch, and Everything by John D. MacDonald
The Gladiator by Philip Wylie
Glory Road by Robert A. Heinlein
The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov
The Green Brain by Frank Herbert
Green Eyes by Lucius Shepard
Hardwired by Walter Jon Williams
Hiero's Journey by Sterling E. Lanier
Highways in Hiding by George O. Smith
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Hominids by Robert J. Sawyer
The Humanoids by Jack Williamson
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
Jaguar Hunter by Lucius Shepard
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
Jumper by Stephen Gould
Kiln People by David Brin
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper
Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
Lord Valentine's Castle by Robert Silverberg
Macroscope by Piers Anthony
The Maker of Universes by Philip Jose Farmer
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold
The Many-Colored Land by Julian May
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
Mission of Gravity by Hal Clement
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Peach War by Vernor Vinge
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Planet of the Damned by Ray Harrison
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Reefs of Space by Frederik Pohl
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds
Ringworld by Larry Niven
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
The Star Surgeon by James White
Startide Rising by David Brin
Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Tau Zero by Poul Anderson
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
Two Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip Jose Farmer
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
Uplift War by David Brin
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
Var the Stick by Piers Anthony
Way Station by Clifford D. Simak
When Worlds Collide by Philip Wylie
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm
Who Goes There by John W. Campbell



Fantasy Books:
Three Hearts and Three Lions by Poul Anderson
The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
The Serpent Mage by Greg Bear
And the Gods Laughed by Frederick Brown
Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card
The Power that Preserves by Stephen R. Donaldson
A Feast Unknown by Philip Jose Farmer
The Maker of Universes by Philip Jose Farmer
Magician by Raymond E. Feist
Preludes and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman
Watchmen by Alan Moore
King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
Glory Road by Robert A. Heinlein
Hour of the Dragon by Robert E. Howard
Brak the Barbarian by John Jakes
The Dark Tower by Stephen King
Twilight Eyes by Dean Koontz
Stinger by Robert R. McCammon
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
Conan the Barbarian by Robert E. Howard
The Sunset Warrior by Eric Van Lustbader
Seven Footprints to Satan by A. Merritt
The Knight of Swords by Michael Moorcock
The Eternal Champion by Michael Moorcock
Elric of Melnibone by Michael Moorcock
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan Moore
Watchmen by Alan Moore
From Hell by Alan Moore
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
Merlin's Ring by H. Warner Munn
Silverlock by John Myers Myers
Outlaw of Gor by John Norman
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers
The Stress of Her Regard by Tim Powers
The Golden Compass by Philip Pulman
Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Potter
Tomoe Gozen by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
The Fellowship of the Talisman by Clifford D. Simak
Song of Kali by Dan Simmons
Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons
A Warlock in Spite of Himself by Christopher Stasheff
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
Jack of Shadows by Roger Zelazney
Darkness Weaves with Many Shades... by Karl Edward Wagner
The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe
The Wizard Knight by Gene Wolfe
The Midwich Cuckoos by John Windham
Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny
My Name is Legion by Roger Zelazny
The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold
Dreamsnake by Vonda McIntyre
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Elric of Melnibone by Michael Moorcock
Gloriana the Unfulfilled Queen by Michael Moorcock
Dragon Flight by Anne McCaffrey

-- John

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