Bloomsbury 100 Must-Read Science Fiction Novels

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Published in 2006 Bloomsbury 100 Must-Read Science Fiction Novels is a guide to some of the finest science fiction novels ever published.

Work
Hothouse (1962) by Brian W. Aldiss
Foundation (1951) by Isaac Asimov
I, Robot (1940) by Isaac Asimov
The Drowned World (1962) by J. G. Ballard
Super-Cannes (2000) by J. G. Ballard
The Player of Games (1988) by Iain M. Banks
Moonseed (1998) by Stephen Baxter
The Garments of Caean (1976) by Barrington J. Bayley
Blood Music (1985) by Greg Bear
Timescape (1980) by Gregory Benford
The Demolished Man (1952) by Alfred Bester
The Stars My Destination (1956) by Alfred Bester
Ancient of Days (1985) by Michael Bishop
A Case of Conscience (1958) by James Blish
Fahrenheit 451 (1953) by Ray Bradbury
The Martian Chronicles (1950) by Ray Bradbury
The Sheep Look Up (1972) by John Brunner
Rogue Moon (1960) by Algis Budrys
A Clockwork Orange (1962) by Anthony Burgess
A Princess of Mars (1912) by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Ticket That Exploded (1962) by William S. Burroughs
Synners (1991) by Pat Cadigan
The Best of John W. Campbell (1976) by John W. Campbell
Ender's Game (1985) by Orson Scott Card
Heroes and Villains (1969) by Angela Carter
Childhood's End (1954) by Arthur C. Clarke
The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe (1973) by David G. Compton
Nova (1968) by Samuel R. Delany
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) by Philip K. Dick
Ubik (1966) by Philip K. Dick
The Genocides (1965) by Thomas M. Disch
The Lost World (1912) by Arthur Conan Doyle
Permutation City (1994) by Greg Egan
The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World (1969) by Harlan Ellison
The Lovers (1961) by Philip José Farmer
Neuromancer (1984) by William Gibson
The Forever War (1974) by Joe Haldeman
The Reality Dysfunction (1996) by Peter F. Hamilton
Make Room! Make Room! (1966) by Harry Harrison
The Centauri Device (1974) by M. John Harrison
Orphans of the Sky (1941) by Robert A. Heinlein
Starship Troopers (1959) by Robert A. Heinlein
Dune (1965) by Frank Herbert
Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley
Dr. Adder (1984) by K. W. Jeter
This Island Earth (1952) by Raymond F. Jones
The Journal of Nicholas the American (1986) by Leigh Kennedy
Flowers for Algernon (1966) by Daniel Keyes
Fury (1947) by Henry Kuttner
The Dispossessed (1974) by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) by Ursula K. Le Guin
Solaris (1961) by Stanisław Lem
Guernica Night (1974) by Barry N. Malzberg
I Am Legend (1954) by Richard Matheson
China Mountain Zhang (1992) by Maureen F. McHugh
A Canticle for Leibowitz (1955) by Walter M. Miller Jr.
The Final Programme (1968) by Michael Moorcock
Black Gods and Scarlet Dreams (2002) by C. L. Moore
Bring the Jubilee (1953) by Ward Moore
Altered Carbon (2002) by Richard K. Morgan
Ringworld (1970) by Larry Niven
1984 (1949) by George Orwell
Man Plus (1976) by Frederik Pohl
The Anubis Gates (1983) by Tim Powers
The Glamour (1984) by Christopher Priest
Pavane (1968) by Keith Roberts
Red Mars (1992) by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Female Man (1975) by Joanna Russ
Other Days, Other Eyes (1972) by Bob Shaw
Immortality Inc. (1958) by Robert Sheckley
Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Life During Wartime (1987) by Lucius Shepard
City Come A-Walkin' (1980) by John Shirley
The Man in the Maze (1969) by Robert Silverberg
Tik-Tok (1983) by John Sladek
Norstrilia (1975) by Cordwainer Smith
Triplanetary (1948) by Edward E. Smith
The Iron Dream (1972) by Norman Spinrad
Snow Crash (1992) by Neal Stephenson
Involution Ocean (1977) by Bruce Sterling
Earth Abides (1949) by George R. Stewart
Roadside Picnic (1972) by Arkady Strugatsky
More Than Human (1953) by Theodore Sturgeon
Stations of the Tide (1991) by Michael Swanwick
The Man Who Fell to Earth (1963) by Walter Tevis
The Languages of Pao (1958) by Jack Vance
The Voyage of the Space Beagle (1950) by A. E. van Vogt
Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864) by Jules Verne
A Fire upon the Deep (1992) by Vernor Vinge
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut
The Jonah Kit (1975) by Ian Watson
The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896) by H. G. Wells
The Time Machine (1895) by H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds (1897) by H. G. Wells
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang (1976) by Kate Wilhelm
The Legion of Time (1938) by Jack Williamson
Doomsday Book (1992) by Connie Willis
The Shadow of the Torturer (1980) by Gene Wolfe
The Midwich Cuckoos (1957) by John Wyndham
This Immortal (1966) by Roger Zelazny

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