User:Brianhe/List of 100 best SF novels
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In 1985, science fiction critic David Pringle wrote Science Fiction the 100 Best Novels. These are the novels that he included in his list.
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[edit] 1940s
| Year | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 1949 | Nineteen Eighty-Four | George Orwell |
| 1949 | Earth Abides | George R. Stewart |
[edit] 1950s
| 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 |
[edit] 1960s
| 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 |
[edit] 1970s
| 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 |
[edit] 1980s
| 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 |
