Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Anna's Top 100 Sci-Fi

Some of these books I attempted to read when I was all of ten, so I abandoned them. I fully plan on reading them in full one day, so I put those in italics.

1. Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
2. Frank Herbert, Dune
3. Isaac Asimov, Foundation
4. Douglas Adams, Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
5. George Orwell, 1984
6. Robert A Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
7. Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
8. Arthur C Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey
9. Isaac Asimov, I, Robot
10. William Gibson, Neuromancer
11. Robert A Heinlein, Starship Troopers
12. Larry Niven, Ringworld
13. Philip K Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
14. Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
15. Arthur C Clarke, Rendezvous With Rama
16. H G Wells, The Time Machine
17. Robert A Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
18. Arthur C Clarke, Childhood's End
19. Dan Simmons, Hyperion
20. H G Wells, The War of the Worlds
21. Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
22. Joe Haldeman, The Forever War
23. Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
24. Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
25. Niven & Pournelle, The Mote in God's Eye
26. Ursula K Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
27. Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead
28. Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel
29. Philip K Dick, The Man in the High Castle
30. Frederik Pohl, Gateway
31. Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park
32. Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle In Time
33. Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
34. Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light
35. Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination
36. Stanislaw Lem, Solaris
37. Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
38. Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
39. Robert A Heinlein, Time Enough For Love
40. Carl Sagan, Contact
41. Isaac Asimov, The Gods Themselves
42. Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
43. John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids
44. Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
45. Michael Crichton, The Andromeda Strain
46. Philip K Dick, UBIK
47. Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep
48. Isaac Asimov, The End Of Eternity
49. Walter M Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz
50. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
51. Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars
52. Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age
53. Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
54. L Ron Hubbard, Battlefield Earth
55. Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth
56. Iain M Banks, Player Of Games
57. Niven & Pournelle, Lucifer's Hammer
58. Ursula K Le Guin, The Dispossessed
59. Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow
60. David Brin, Startide Rising
61. Greg Bear, Eon
62. Peter F Hamilton, The Reality Dysfunction
63. Philip Jose Farmer, To Your Scattered Bodies Go
64. Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man
65. Harry Harrison, The Stainless Steel Rat
66. Gene Wolfe, The Shadow of the Torturer
67. Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
68. Arthur C Clarke, The City and the Stars
69. Philip K Dick, The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch
70. Robert A Heinlein, The Door Into Summer
71. Connie Willis, Doomsday Book
72. Robert A Heinlein, Citizen Of the Galaxy
73. Philip K Dick, A Scanner Darkly
74. Robert A Heinlein, The Puppet Masters
75. Robert A Heinlein, Have Space-Suit - Will Travel
76. C S Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet
77. Clifford Simak, Way Station
78. John Wyndham, The Chrysalids
79. Ursula K Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
80. Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars
81. H G Wells, The Invisible Man
82. Julian May, The Many-Colored Land
83. Dan Simmons, Ilium
84. Iain M Banks, Use of Weapons
85. E E 'Doc' Smith, Grey Lensman
86. William Gibson, Burning Chrome
87. Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in KA's Court
88. Michael Crichton, Sphere
89. Alastair Reynolds, Revelation Space
90. David Brin, The Postman
91. Clifford Simak, City
92. Arthur C Clarke, The Fountains of Paradise
93. John Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar
94. Edwin A Abbott, Flatland
95. Philip K Dick, VALIS
96. Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human
97. Greg Bear, Blood Music
98. Stanislaw Lem, The Cyberiad
99. James Blish, Cities in Flight
100. David Brin, The Uplift War

Celeste will win. I remember she had a hard-on for Heinlein and Vonnegut. I never could finish those Heinlein books, because I was so young. I'll have to try again. Incidentally I just finished Cryptonomicon last week. It's like 1500 pages long. Good read though.

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