Bloomsbury's 100 Must-Read Science Fiction Novels

Bloomsbury's 100 Must-Read Science Fiction Novels

Published in 2006 by Stephen E Andrews



1984 by George Orwell   
Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan   
Ancient of Days by Michael Bishop   
The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers   
The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World by Harlan Ellison   
The Best of John W. Campbell by John W. Campbell   
Black Gods and Scarlet Dreams by C. L. Moore   
Blood Music by Greg Bear   
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley   
Bring the Jubilee by Ward Moore   
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.   
A Case of Conscience by James Blish   
The Centauri Device by M. John Harrison   
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke   
China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh   
City Come A-Walkin' by John Shirley   
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess   
The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe by David G. Compton   
The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester   
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin   
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick   
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis   
Dr. Adder by K. W. Jeter   
The Drowned World by J. G. Ballard   
Dune by Frank Herbert   
Earth Abides by George R. Stewart   
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card   
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury   
The Female Man by Joanna Russ   
The Final Programme by Michael Moorcock   
A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge   
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes   
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman   
Foundation by Isaac Asimov   
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley   
Fury by Henry Kuttner   
The Garments of Caean by Barrington J. Bayley   
The Genocides by Thomas M. Disch   
The Glamour by Christopher Priest   
Guernica Night by Barry N. Malzberg   
Heroes and Villains by Angela Carter   
Hothouse by Brian W. Aldiss   
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson   
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov   
Immortality Inc. by Robert Sheckley   
Involution Ocean by Bruce Sterling   
The Iron Dream by Norman Spinrad   
The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells   
The Jonah Kit by Ian Watson   
The Journal of Nicholas the American by Leigh Kennedy   
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne   
The Languages of Pao by Jack Vance   
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin   
The Legion of Time by Jack Williamson   
Life During Wartime by Lucius Shepard   
The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle   
The Lovers by Philip José Farmer   
Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison   
The Man in the Maze by Robert Silverberg   
Man Plus by Frederik Pohl   
The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis   
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury   
The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham   
Moonseed by Stephen Baxter   
More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon   
Neuromancer by William Gibson   
Norstrilia by Cordwainer Smith   
Nova by Samuel R. Delany   
Orphans of the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein   
Other Days, Other Eyes by Bob Shaw   
Pavane by Keith Roberts   
Permutation City by Greg Egan   
The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks   
A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs   
The Reality Dysfunction by Peter F. Hamilton   
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson   
Ringworld by Larry Niven   
Roadside Picnic by Arkadi Strugatsky   
Rogue Moon by Algis Budrys   
The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe   
The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner   
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut   
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson   
Solaris by Stanisław Lem   
The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester   
Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein   
Stations of the Tide by Michael Swanwick   
Super-Cannes by J. G. Ballard   
Synners by Pat Cadigan   
This Immortal by Roger Zelazny   
This Island Earth by Raymond F. Jones   
The Ticket That Exploded by William S. Burroughs   
Tik-Tok by John Sladek   
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells   
Timescape by Gregory Benford   
Triplanetary by E. E. "Doc" Smith   
Ubik by Philip K. Dick   
The Voyage of the Space Beagle by A. E. Van Vogt   
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells   
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm