There’s been a list going around as of late of the top 100 SF books chosen by a teacher. Seeing how I plan to be a teacher one day and also have hopes to see SF become more common in public schools, I’m going to turn this one into a meme.
Here are the rules:
- Bold the titles you’ve read.
- Italicize the titles you want to read (and I mean REALLY want to read).
- Mark titles you’ve never heard of with strikeouts, underlines, or (NH) for “never heard”.
- Tag people.
I’m tagging SQT, John of Grasping For the Wind, Tia Nevitt of Fantasy Debut, and Carraka.
Here goes:
# George R. Stewart – Earth Abides
# Ray Bradbury – The Martian Chronicles
# Robert A. Heinlein – The Puppet Masters
# John Wyndham – The Day of the Triffids
# Bernard Wolfe – Limbo (NH)
# Alfred Bester – The Demolished Man
# Ray Bradbury – Fahrenheit 451
# Arthur C. Clarke – Childhood’s End
# Charles L. Harness – The Paradox men (NH)
# Ward Moore – Bring the Jubilee (NH)
# Frederik Pohl & C.M. Kornbluth – The Space Merchants
# Clifford D. Simak – Ring Around the Sun
# Theodore Sturgeon – More than Human
# Hal Clement – Mission of Gravity
# Edgar Pangborn – A Mirror for Observers (NH)
# Isaac Asimov – The End of Eternity
# Leigh Brackett – The Long Tomorrow (NH)
# William Golding – The Inheritors (NH)
# Alfred Bester – The Stars My Destination
# John Christopher – The Death of Grass (NH)
# Arthur C. Clarke – The City and the Stars
# Robert A. Heinlein – The Door Into Summer
# John Wyndham – The Midwich cuckoos
# Brian W. Aldiss – Non-Stop
# James Blish – A Case of Conscience
# Robert A. Heinlein – Have Space-Suit — Will Travel
# Philip K. Dick – Time Out of Joint
# Pat Frank – Alas, Babylon
# Walter M. Miller – A Canticle for Leibowitz
# Kurt Vonnegut – The Sirens of Titan
# Algis Budrys – Rogue Moon
# Theodore Sturgeon – Venus Plus X
# Brian W. Aldiss – Hothouse (NH)
# J.G. Ballard – The Drowned World
# Anthony Burgess – A Clockwork Orange
# Philip K. Dick – The Man in the High Castle
# Robert Sheckley – Journey Beyond Tomorrow (NH)
# Clifford D. Simak – Way Station (NH)
# Kurt Vonnegut – Cat’s Cradle
# Brian W. Aldiss – Greybeard (NH)
# William S. Burroughs – Nova Express
# Philip K. Dick – Martian Time-Slip
# Philip K. Dick – The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
# Fritz Leiber – The Wanderer
# Cordwainer Smith – Nostrilia (NH)
# Philip K. Dick – Dr Bloodmoney
# Frank Herbert – Dune
# J.G. Ballard – The Crystal World
# Harry Harrison – Make Room! Make Room!
# Daniel Keyes – Flowers for Algernon
# Roger Zelazny – The Dream Master
# John Brunner – Stand on Zanzibar
# Samuel R. Delany – Nova
# Philip K. Dick – Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
# Thomas M. Disch – Camp Concentration
# Michael Moorcock – The Final Programme (NH)
# Keith Roberts – Pavane (NH)
# Angela Carter – Heroes and Villains
# Ursula K. Le Guin – The Left Hand of Darkness
# Bob Shaw – The Palace of Eternity (NH)
# Norman Spinrad – Bug Jack Barron (NH)
# Poul Anderson – Tau Zero
# Robert Silverberg – Downward to the Earth
# Wilson Tucker – The Year of the Quiet Sun (NH)
# Thomas M. Disch – 334
# Gene Wolfe – The Fifth Head of Cerberus
# Michael Moorcock – The Dancers at the End of Time (NH)
# J.G. Ballard – Crash
# Mack Reynolds – Looking Backward from the Year 2000 (NH)
# Ian Watson – The Embedding (NH)
# Suzy McKee Charnas – Walk to the End of the World (NH)
# M. John Harrison – The Centauri Device
# Ursula K. Le Guin – The Dispossessed
# Christopher Priest – Inverted World (NH)
# J.G. Ballard – High-Rise
# Barry N. Malzberg – Galaxies (NH)
# Joanna Russ – The Female Man
# Bob Shaw – Orbitsville (NH)
# Kingsley Amis – The Alteration (NH)
# Marge Piercy – Woman on the Edge of Time (NH)
# Frederik Pohl – Man Plus
# Algis Budrys – Michaelmas (NH)
# John Varley – The Ophiuchi Hotline
# Ian Watson – Miracle Visitors (NH)
# John Crowley – Engine Summer
# Thomas M. Disch – On Wings of Song
# Brian Stableford – The Walking Shadow (NH)
# Kate Wilhelm – Juniper Time (NH)
# Gregory Benford – Timescape
# Damien Broderick – The Dreaming Dragons
# Octavia Butler – Wild Seed
# Russell Hoban – Riddley Walker (NH)
# John Sladek – Roderick and Roderick at Random (NH)
# Gene Wolfe – The Book of the New Sun
# Philip Jose Farmer – The Unreasoning Mask
# Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle – Oath of Fealty
# Michael Bishop – No Enemy but Time (NH)
# John Calvin Batchelor – The Birth of the People’s Republic of Antarctica
# William Gibson – Neuromancer
Well, I have read a total of seven books on this list, which further proves that I am not as well read as I think I am. And that makes me sad…
How well did you do?
