AbeBooks, 50 essential science fiction books
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This list of 50 SF titles, limited to one title per author, attempts to include a variety of themes, according to Richard Davies' introduction. Entries display book covers, mostly of first editions, and are listed chronologically. The list below is by author.
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Titles Cited: 50
Publication: AbeBooks, 2021
Ranked: No
Titles Cited: 50
Publication: AbeBooks, 2021
- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Pan, 1979)
- Brian W. Aldiss, Hothouse (Faber and Faber, 1962)
- Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Gnome, 1951)
- J. G. Ballard, The Drowned World (Berkley Medallion, 1962)
- Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas (Macmillan, 1987)
- Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man (Shasta, 1953)
- Leigh Brackett, The Long Tomorrow (Doubleday, 1955)
- Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man (Doubleday, 1951)
- Lois McMaster Bujold, Falling Free (Baen, 1988)
- Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game (Tor, 1985)
- John Christopher, The Death of Grass (Michael Joseph, 1956)
- Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Gollancz, 1973) [check]
- Hal Clement, Mission of Gravity (Doubleday, 1954)
- Paul Di Filippo, Ribofunk (Four Walls Eight Windows, 1996)
- Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Doubleday, 1968)
- Cory Doctorow, Little Brother (Tor, 2008)
- Alan Dean Foster, Nor Crystal Tears (Ballantine Del Rey, 1982)
- Pat Frank, Alas, Babylon (Lippincott, 1959)
- Harry Harrison, Make Room! Make Room! (Doubleday, 1966)
- Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers (Putnam, 1959)
- Frank Herbert, Dune (Chilton, 1965)
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (Chatto & Windus, 1932)
- Stephen King, The Stand (Doubleday, 1978)
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness (Ace Special, 1969)
- Stanislaw Lem, Solaris (Walker, 1970; Poland 1961)
- Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time (Farrar Straus Cudahy, 1962)
- China Miéville, Embassytown (Ballantine Del Rey, 2011)
- Walter M. Miller, Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz (Lippincott, 1959)
- Michael Moorcock, Behold the Man (Alison & Busby, 1969)
- Larry Niven, Ringworld (Ballantine, 1970)
- William F. Nolan & George Clayton Johnson, Logan's Run (Dial Press, 1967)
- George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (Secker & Warburg, 1949)
- Frederik Pohl, Man Plus (Random House, 1976)
- Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (HarperCollins, 1992)
- Joanna Russ, The Female Man (Bantam, 1975)
- John Scalzi, Old Man's War (Tor, 2005)
- Clifford D. Simak, Ring Around the Sun (Simon and Schuster, 1953)
- Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Doubleday Foundation, 1989)
- Olaf Stapledon, Odd John (Methuen, 1935)
- Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon (Avon, 1999)
- George R. Stewart, Earth Abides (Random House, 1949)
- Arkady & Boris Strugatsky, Roadside Picnic and Tale of the Troika (Macmillan, 1977; Russia 1972/1968)
- Theodore Sturgeon, Venus Plus X (Pyramid, 1960)
- Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth (J. Hetzel, 1864)
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., The Sirens of Titan (Dell, 1959)
- Chris Ware, Acme Novelty Library #19 (Drawn and Quarterly, 2018)
- H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds (Heinemann, 1898)
- Scott Westerfeld, Uglies (Simon Pulse, 2005)
- Philip Wylie & Edwin Balmer, When Worlds Collide (Frederick A. Stokes, 1933)
- John Wyndham, The Chrysalids (Michael Joseph, 1955)
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