I don’t read much science fiction these days, but that was by no means always the case. I devoured sci-fi novels as a teenager and for extended periods later in life, attracted above all by the sheer creativity the writers demonstrated in speculating about life and reality from new perspectives.
Here, in alphbetical order by author, are the science fiction novels that have lingered in my mind — in some cases, for fifty years or more:
- Isaac Asimov, The Foundation Trilogy
- Paolo Bacigalupi, The Windup Girl
- Greg Bear, Darwin’s Radio
- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
- Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
- Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
- Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
- Frank Herbert, Dune
- Ursula LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness
- Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz
- Larry Niven, Ringworld
- George Orwell, Animal Farm
- George Orwell, 1984
- Kim Stanley Robinson, The Mars Trilogy
- Robert J. Sawyer, The Hominids Trilogy
- Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-5
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Cat’s-Cradle
- H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
- Connie Willis, The Doomsday Book
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My 20 all-time favorite science fiction novels
I don’t read much science fiction these days, but that was by no means always the case. I devoured sci-fi novels as a teenager and for extended periods later in life, attracted above all by the sheer creativity the writers demonstrated in speculating about life and reality from new perspectives.
Here, in alphbetical order by author, are the science fiction novels that have lingered in my mind — in some cases, for fifty years or more:
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