User:Bri/List of 100 best SF novels
Appearance
< User:Bri
- Comment: Is the list not copyrighted and the original opinion of the author? Legacypac (talk) 08:23, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
In 1985, science fiction critic David Pringle wrote Science Fiction the 100 Best Novels. These are the novels that he included in his list.
1940s
[edit]Year | Title | Author |
---|---|---|
1949 | Nineteen Eighty-Four | George Orwell |
1949 | Earth Abides | George R. Stewart |
1950s
[edit]Year | Title | Author |
---|---|---|
1950 | The Martian Chronicles | Ray Bradbury |
1951 | The Puppet Masters | Robert A. Heinlein |
1951 | The Day of the Triffids | John Wyndham |
1952 | Limbo (novel) | Bernard Wolfe |
1953 | The Demolished Man | Alfred Bester |
1953 | Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury |
1953 | Childhood's End | Arthur C. Clarke |
1953 | The Paradox Men | Charles L. Harness |
1953 | Bring the Jubilee | Ward Moore |
1953 | The Space Merchants | Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth |
1953 | Ring Around the Sun | Clifford D. Simak |
1953 | More Than Human | Theodore Sturgeon |
1954 | Mission of Gravity | Hal Clement |
1954 | A Mirror for Observers | Edgar Pangborn |
1955 | The End of Eternity | Isaac Asimov |
1955 | The Long Tomorrow | Leigh Brackett |
1955 | The Inheritors | William Golding |
1956 | The Stars My Destination | Alfred Bester |
1956 | The Death of Grass | John Christopher |
1956 | The City and the Stars | Arthur C. Clarke |
1957 | The Door into Summer | Robert A. Heinlein |
1957 | The Midwich Cuckoos | John Wyndham |
1958 | Non-Stop | Brian Aldiss |
1958 | A Case of Conscience | James Blish |
1958 | Have Space Suit—Will Travel | Robert A. Heinlein |
1959 | Time Out of Joint | Philip K. Dick |
1959 | Alas, Babylon | Pat Frank |
1959 | A Canticle for Leibowitz | Walter M. Miller |
1959 | The Sirens of Titan | Kurt Vonnegut |
1960s
[edit]Year | Title | Author |
---|---|---|
1960 | Rogue Moon | Algis Budrys |
1960 | Venus Plus X | Theodore Sturgeon |
1962 | Hothouse | Brian W. Aldiss |
1962 | The Drowned World | J.G. Ballard |
1962 | A Clockwork Orange | Anthony Burgess |
1962 | The Man in the High Castle | Philip K. Dick |
1963 | Journey Beyond Tomorrow | Robert Sheckley |
1963 | Way Station | Clifford D. Simak |
1963 | Cat's Cradle | Kurt Vonnegut |
1964 | Greybeard | Brian W. Aldiss |
1964 | Nova Express | William S. Burroughs |
1964 | Martian Time-Slip | Philip K. Dick |
1964 | The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch | Philip K. Dick |
1964 | The Wanderer | Fritz Leiber |
1964-68 | Norstrilia | Cordwainer Smith |
1965 | Dr. Bloodmoney | Philip K. Dick |
1965 | Dune | Frank Herbert |
1966 | The Crystal World | J.G. Ballard |
1966 | Make Room! Make Room! | Harry Harrison |
1966 | Flowers for Algernon | Daniel Keyes |
1966 | The Dream Master | Roger Zelazny |
1968 | Stand on Zanzibar | John Brunner |
1968 | Nova | Samuel R. Delany |
1968 | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | Philip K. Dick |
1968 | Camp Concentration | Thomas M. Disch |
1968 | Pavane | Keith Roberts |
1969 | Heroes and Villains | Angela Carter |
1969 | The Left Hand of Darkness | Ursula K. Le Guin |
1969 | The Palace of Eternity | Bob Shaw |
1969 | Bug Jack Barron | Norman Spinrad |
1970s
[edit]Year | Title | Author |
---|---|---|
1970 | Tau Zero | Poul Anderson |
1970 | Downward to the Earth | Robert Silverberg |
1970 | The Year of the Quiet Sun | Wilson Tucker |
1972 | 334 | Thomas M. Disch |
1972 | The Fifth Head of Cerberus | Gene Wolfe |
1972-1976 | The Dancers at the End of Time | Michael Moorcock |
1973 | Crash | J.G. Ballard |
1973 | Looking Backward, From the Year 2000 | Mack Reynolds |
1973 | The Embedding | Ian Watson |
1974 | Walk to the End of the World | Suzy McKee Charnas |
1974 | The Centauri Device | M. John Harrison |
1974 | The Dispossessed | Ursula K. Le Guin |
1974 | Inverted World | Christopher Priest |
1975 | High-Rise | J.G. Ballard |
1975 | Galaxies | Barry N. Malzberg |
1975 | The Female Man | Joanna Russ |
1975 | Orbitsville | Bob Shaw |
1976 | The Alteration | Kingsley Amis |
1976 | Woman on the Edge of Time | Marge Piercy |
1976 | Man Plus | Frederik Pohl |
1977 | Michaelmas | Algis Budrys |
1977 | The Ophiuchi Hotline | John Varley |
1978 | Miracle Visitors | Ian Watson |
1979 | Engine Summer | John Crowley |
1979 | On Wings of Song | Thomas M. Disch |
1979 | The Walking Shadow | Brian Stableford |
1979 | Juniper Time | Kate Wilhelm |
1980s
[edit]Year | Title | Author |
---|---|---|
1980 | Timescape | Gregory Benford |
1980 | The Dreaming Dragon | Damien Broderick |
1980 | Wild Seed | Octavia A. Butler |
1980 | Riddley Walker | Russell Hoban |
1980-83 | Roderick and Roderick at Random | John Sladek |
1980-83 | The Book of the New Sun | Gene Wolfe |
1980 | The Unreasoning Mask | Philip José Farmer |
1981 | Oath of Fealty | Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle |
1982 | No Enemy But Time | Michael Bishop |
1983 | The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica | John Calvin Batchelor |
1984 | Neuromancer | William Gibson |