Loremaster's top 50 sci-fi books/series

[Loredoctor]

Inspired by Danlo's excellent list, here is mine:

1. Last and First Men – Olaf Stapledon
2. Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keyes
3. The First Men in the Moon – H.G. Wells
4. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
5. The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
6. Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
7. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
8. The Hyperion Cantos – Dan Simmons
9. The Book of the New Sun – Gene Wolfe
10. Star Maker – Olaf Stapledon
11. The Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
12. Blood Music – Greg Bear
13. The Uplift Series – David Brin
14. Neverness - Zindell
15. Earth Abides – George.R. Stewart
16. Foundation – Asimov
17. Dune – Frank Herbert
18. Rendezvous with Rama – Arthur.C. Clarke
19. The Gap Sequence – Stephen Donaldson
20. A Case of Conscience – James Blish
21. Against a Dark Background – Iain.M. Banks
22. The Faded Sun Trilogy – C.J. Cherryh
23. Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein
24. Consider Phlebas – Iain.M. Banks
25. Starship Troopers – Robert Heinlein
26. The Gods Themselves – Asimov
27. Contact – Carl Sagan
28. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
29. Earth – David Brin
30. The Night’s Dawn Trilogy – Peter.F. Hamilton
31. Childhood’s End – Arthur C Clarke
32. Feersum Enjinn – Iain.M. Banks
33. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
34. Use of Weapons – Iain.M. Banks
35. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch – Phillip K Dick
36. Solaris – Stanislaw Lem
37. A Fire Upon the Deep – Vernor Vinge
38. Raft – Stephen Baxter
39. The Mote in God’s Eye - Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
40. The Forever War – Joe Haldeman
41. The Endymion Series – Dan Simmons
42. Gateway - Frederick Pohl
43. Stand on Zanzibar – John Brunner
44. Footfall – Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
45. The Stars My Destination – Alfred Bester
46. Man Plus – Frederick Pohl
47. Downbelow Station – C.J.Cherryh
48. Nemesis – Asimov
49. The Forge of God – Greg Bear
50. Cities in Flight – James Blish

[danlo]

Wow! Day of the Triffids (incredibly scary movie, btw...), Downbelow Station and Cities in Flight are great books! You've reminded me to look into Hamilton and Baxter as well...I also like Bear's Moving Mars which, for some odd reason, didn't make my list.

[Loredoctor]

Cool that you like my list!

[Variol Farseer]

Brings home to me what an ill-read lout I am. I've only read 18 out of the 50.

[Loredoctor]

Brings home to me what an ill-read lout I am. I've only read 18 out of the 50.

And Danlo has read more than all of us!

[I'm Murrin]

Every sci-fi book I've read is on that list - I've only read Night's Dawn and the Gap (unless... does Otherland count? I tend to think of it more as fantasy). Anyway, what I'm saying is, I haven't read much sci-fi, and I probably should look into some of the series you and danlo have listed.

[Loredoctor]

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Some of my favourites on this list too. Ian M. Banks and Farenheit amongst others.

--A

[Warmark]

Brings home to me what an ill-read lout I am. I've only read 18 out of the 50.

dont know what i am then i have only read nineteen eighty four
and the first chapter of book of new sun