Tuesday, May 22, 2012

The 50 SF Books You Must Read

According to Forbidden Planet (via SF Signal), the The 50 SF Books You Must Read:

1. Dune
2. S.F. Masterworks: The Forever War
3. Fantasy Masterworks: Book Of The New Sun Book 1 & Shadow & Claw Book 1
4. Neuromancer
5. SF Masterworks: The Demolished Man
6. SF Masterworks: Dispossed
7. S.F. Masterworks: Gateway
8. The Man In The High Castle
9. Childhood's End
10. SF Masterworks: Timescape
11. Ringworld
12. S.F. Masterworks: Babel 17
13. Left Hand Of Darkness
14. SF Masterworks: Stand On Zanzibar [don't remember if I've read it]
15. SF Masterworks: Flowers For Algernon
16. S.F. Masterworks: The Stars My Destination
17. Foundation
18. Snow Crash
19. Ender's Game
20. A Canticle For Leibowitz
21. The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress
22. War Of The Worlds
23. Day Of The Triffids
24. S.F. Masterworks: I Am Legend
25. SF Masterworks: Helliconia: Hellonica Spring, Helliconia Summer, & Helliconia Winter
26. SF Masterworks: The Female Man
27. SF Masterworks: Inverted World
28. The Death Of Grass
29. Fahrenheit 451
30. SF Masterworks: Ubik
31. Mars: Book 1: Red Mars
32. Zones Of Thought: A Fire Upon The Deep & A Deepness In The Sky
33. SF Masterworks: Rendezvous With Rama
34. S.F. Masterworks: Lord Of Light
35. SF Masterworks: Blood Music
36. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy Of Four
37. SF Masterworks: Dying Inside
38. Altered Carbon
39. The Player Of Games
40. Make Room! Make Room!
41. SF Masterworks: Pavane
42. The Drowned World
43. SF Masterworks: Centauri Device
44. SF Masterworks: The Difference Engine
45. Cat's Cradle
46. The Reality Dysfunction
47. Uplift: Book 1: Sundiver
48. The Windup Girl [currently reading]
49. Zoo City
50. Embassytown

There are plot descriptions and links at Forbidden Planet. I've read the ones in bold print above.

1 comment:

  1. Anonymous9:06 AM

    Alas, only #s 20, 22, 29, 45 (8% !).
    Clearly lacking in sci-fi literacy.
    -- A Pal

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