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David Pringle's 100 Best Science Fiction Novels

This list is taken from David Pringle's book, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels.  Pringle only deals with books from 1949-1984.  I have alphabetized the list, totally disregarding the order he had them in originally. Those that I have read are marked with a * at the end of the listing.  Those Moira has read are marked with a * at the end of the listing.

• Brian W. Aldiss, Greybeard
• Brian W. Aldiss, The Long Afternoon of Earth (aka Hothouse) **
• Brian W. Aldiss, Non-Stop
• Kingsley Amis, The Alteration
• Poul Anderson, Tau Zero
• Issac Asimov, The End of Eternity
• J. G. Ballard, Crash
• J. G. Ballard, The Crystal World
• J. G. Ballard, The Drowned World
• J. G. Ballard, High-Rise
• John Calvin Batchelor, The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica
• Gregory Benford, Timescape
• Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man
• Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination
• Michael Bishop, No Enemy but Time
• James Blish, A Case of Conscience
• Leigh Brackett, The Long Tomorrow
• Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 **
• Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
• Damien Broderick, The Dreaming Dragons
• John Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar *
• Algis Budrys, Michaelmas
• Algis Budrys, Rogue Moon
• Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange **
• William S. Burroughs, Nova Express
• Octavia Butler, The Wild Seed
• Angela Carter, Heroes and Villains
• Suzy McKee Charnas, Walk to the End of the World
• John Christopher, The Death of Grass
• Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End **
• Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars *
• Hal Clement, Mission of Gravity
• John Crowley, Engine Summer
• Samuel R. Delany, Nova *
• Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
• Philip K. Dick, Dr. Bloodmoney
• Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
• Philip K. Dick, Martian Time-Slip
• Philip K. Dick, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
• Philip K. Dick, Time Out of Joint
• Thomas M. Disch, 334
• Thomas M. Disch, Camp Concentration
• Thomas M. Disch, On Wings of Song
• Phillip Jose Farmer, The Unreasoning Mask
• Pat Frank, Alas, Babylon
• William Gibson, Neuromancer
• William Golding, The Inheritors
• Charles L. Harness, The Paradox Man
• Harry Harrison, Make Room! Make Room!
• M. John Harrison, The Centauri Device
• Robert A. Heinlein, The Door Into Summer
• Robert A. Heinlein, Have Space-Suit - Will Travel
• Robert A. Heinlein, The Puppet Masters
• Russell Hoban, Riddley Walker
• Frank Herbert, Dune **
• Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
• Ursula K. LeGuin, The Dispossessed
• Ursula K. LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness *
• Fritz Leiber, The Wanderer
• Barry N. Malzberg, Galaxies
• Walter M. Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz *
• Michael Moorcock, The Dancers at the End of Time
• Michael Moorcock, The Final Programme *
• Ward Moore, Bring the Jubilee
• Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, Oath of Fealty
• George Orwell, 1984 *
• Edgar Pangborn, A Mirror for Observers
• Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time
• Frederick Pohl, Man Plus
• Frederick Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth, The Space Merchants
• Christopher Priest, Inverted World
• Mack Reynolds, Looking Backward from the Year 2000
• Keith Roberts, Pavane
• Joanna Russ, The Female Man
• Bob Shaw, Orbitsville
• Bob Shaw, The Palace of Eternity
• Robert Sheckley, Journey Beyond Tomorrow
• Robert Silverberg, Downward to the Earth *
• Clifford D. Simak, Ring Around the Sun
• Clifford D. Simak, Way Station
• John Sladek, Roderick and Roderick at Random
• Cordwainer Smith, Norstrilia
• Norman Spinrad, Bug Jack Barron
• Brian Stableford, The Walking Shadow
• George A. Stewart, Earth Abides
• Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human
• Theodore Sturgeon, Venus Plus X
• Wilson Tucker, The Year of the Quiet Sun
• John Varley, The Ophiuchi Hotline
• Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
• Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
• Ian Watson, The Embedding
• Ian Watson, Miracle Visitors
• Kate Wilhelm, Juniper Time
• Bernard Wolfe, Limbo
• Gene Wolfe, The Book of the New Sun
• Gene Wolfe, The Fifth Head of Cerberus
• John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids *
• John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos
• Roger Zelazny, The Dream Master

 

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