50 of the Best Science Fiction Books Ever

1936

At the Mountains of Madness

By H. P. Lovecraft

1949

1984

By George Orwell

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1950

I, Robot

By Isaac Asimov

1950

The Martian Chronicles

By Ray Bradbury

1951

Foundation

By Isaac Asimov

1959

Starship Troopers

By Robert A. Heinlein

1959

Canticle for Leibowitz

By Walter M. Miller Jr.

1961

Stranger in a Strange Land

By Robert A. Heinlein

1961

Catseye

By Andre Norton

1961

Solaris

By Stanislaw Lem

1962

The Man in the High Castle

By Philip K. Dick

1962

Hothouse

By Brian W. Aldiss

1963

Way Station

By Clifford D. Simak

1965

Dune

By Frank Herbert

1966

Babel-17

By Samuel R. Delany

1968

2001: A Space Odyssey

By Arthur C. Clarke

1968

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

By Philip K. Dick

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1969

The Left Hand of Darkness

By Ursula K. Le Guin

1969

A Boy and His Dog

By Harlan Ellison

1970

Tau Zero

By Poul Anderson

1970

Ringworld

By Larry Niven

1974

The Forever War

By Joe Haldeman

1974

The Dispossesed

By Ursula K. Le Guin

1974

The Mote in God's Eye

By Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle

1975

The Female Man

By Joanna Russ

1979

Fountains of Paradise

By Arthur C. Clarke

1979

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

By Douglas Adams

1980

The Book of the New Sun

By Gene Wolfe

1983

Eon

By Greg Bear

1984

Neuromancer

By William Gibson

1985

Contact

By Carl Sagan

1985

Ender's Game

By Orson Scott Card

1986

The Falling Woman

By Pat Murphy

1992

Red Mars

By Kim Stanley Robinson

1992

Snow Crash

By Neal Stephenson

1993

Jurassic Park

By Michael Crichton

1993

Parable of the Sower

By Octavia E. Butler

1995

The Diamond Age

By Neal Stephenson

2002

Altered Carbon

By Richard K. Morgan

2006

World War Z

By Max Brooks

2009

The Wind Up Girl

By Paolo Bacigalupi

2010

The Three-Body Problem

By Cixin Liu

2012

Redshirts

By John Scalzi

2013

Ancillary Justice

By Ann Leckie

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

By Becky Chambers

2015

The Martian

By Andy Weir

2015

The Fifth Season

By N.K. Jemisin

2016

Sleeping Giants

By Sylvain Neuvel

2017

All Systems Red

By Martha Wells