List of 100 Best Science Fiction novels

[dvandom]

http://listsofbests.com/list/29/ The definition of science fiction is a wee bit loose (i.e. I'd call Alice in Wonderland a sociopolitical satire but not really SF), but hey. Here's the books on the list I've read:

Childhood's End, Foundation, Dune, Man in the High Castle, Starship Troopers, Frankenstein, Space Merchants, 2001: A Space Odyssey, More Than Human, Gray Lensman, The Gods Themselves, Left Hand of Darkness, War of the Worlds, 20000 Leagues Under The Sea, Heritage of Hastur, The Time Machine, Neuromancer, Dragonflight, Stranger in a Strange Land, I Robot, Brave New World, The Man Who Folded Himself, 1984, Clockwork Orange, Fahrenheit 451, A Canticle for Leibowitz, Flowers for Algernon, Dhalgren (no, I don't really understand it either), Flatland, Planiverse, Forever War, The Martian Chronicles, Alice in Wonderland, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Lathe of Heaven, The Demolished Man, The Andromeda Strain. 37 out of 100, but all of the top five.

Here's a few I've read bits of, but not the whole thing (either read excerpts in magazines, or just started and never finished): Snow Crash, A Princess of Mars

Comments

[z4nd4r.livejournal.com]

Snow Crash is fucking awesome. I would offer to loan you a copy, but that is "the book."

You know the book that you always loan to people and never get it back?
I have bought like 3 copies of it. No more.

Edit: Haven't read too many off the list: Starship Troopers, The War of the Worlds, Neuromancer, Ender's Game, Journey to the Center of the Earth, 1984, Snow Crash, Flowers for Algernon, The Puppet Masters and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure I still own a copy of Snow Crash. Just never read it. Just read an excerpt in Pyramid Magazine years ago.

[tvsgrady.livejournal.com]

Wait...Fahrenheit *452*?

[z-gryphon.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you know. It's the sequel to Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Six.