My List (top 15)
[annotated]
1.......Frank Herbert...........Dune
[Will probably always be the best sci-fi ever.]
2.......William Gibson..........Neuromancer
[The book that changed sci-fi forever - for better or worse]
3.......Douglas Adams...........Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
[The funiest damn book ever written]
4.......Daniel Keyes............Flowers for Algernon
[One of the greatest character stories of any genre period]
5.......Kim Stanley Robinson....Red Mars
[Pendantic? Sure! But it's still a great book]
6.......Carl Sagan..............Contact
[Because it was written by Carl Sagan - my boyhood hero]
7.......Kurt Vonnegut...........Cat's Cradle
[Exposes religion for what it really is]
8.......Anthony Burgess.........A Clockwork Orange
[Has their ever been a more likeable felon?]
9.......Orson Scott Card........Ender's Game
[Except for the cop-out ending, a blast to read]
10......George Orwell...........1984
[More people should read this book cause it's happening RIGHT NOW!]
11......H G Wells...............The Time Machine
[This is the way the world ends ... not with a bang, but a whimper]
12......Richard Morgan..........Altered Carbon
["I'm telling you I was murdered. I DID NOT COMMIT SUICIDE!"]
13......Greg Bear...............Anvil of Stars
[coolest aliens ever]
14......Arthur C Clarke.........Rendezvous with Rama
[Who turned on the lights? Oh God, VERTIGO!]
15......Philip K Dick...........Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
[well do they?]
Seriously, this list is bizarre. Since when were 1984, a Clockwork Orange, The Postman and Handmaid's Tale science fiction? Also, anything by L. Wrong Hubbard being on that list is a travesty. To have Rendezvous with Rama higher than Eon, anything by Iain M Banks and Frankenstein is a crime. And where are Robots and Empire, Excession and Feersum Enjin?
I read 24, 9 of them from the top ten (I never read Orson Scott Card).
My Top 10 of today:
1. Neuromancer
2. HHGttG
3. The Man in the High Castle
4. Ilium
5. Hyperion
6. 1984
7. I am legend (How could they give this a miss? I'm rooting for Kassovitz not to let me down!)
8. A brave new world
9. Mona Lisa Overdrive
10. Dune
Originally posted by reader1107I've read 11 or so... Ringworld WAS a good book, but I'm surprised to see it as a top. Wrinkle in time I read about 3 times as a kid... once every few years. Good stuff.
Sci-Fi books
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#6 was the very first SF book I read. I think I've only read 15 of them 😞 But I have a few more from the list. I should spend more time reading and less time on Stumble!
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