David Pringle's Best 100 Science Fiction Novels

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pringle 100 best SF novels
WorkOrder Label
1984 (1949) by George Orwell
1
Earth Abides (1949) by George R. Stewart
2
The Martian Chronicles (1950) by Ray Bradbury
3
The Puppet Masters (1951) by Robert A. Heinlein
4
The Day of the Triffids (1951) by John Wyndham
5
Limbo (1952) by Bernard Wolfe
6
The Demolished Man (1952) by Alfred Bester
7
Fahrenheit 451 (1953) by Ray Bradbury
8
Childhood's End (1954) by Arthur C. Clarke
9
The Paradox Men (1953) by Charles L. Harness
10
Bring the Jubilee (1953) by Ward Moore
11
The Space Merchants (1953) by Frederik Pohl
12
Ring Around the Sun (1953) by Clifford D. Simak
13
More Than Human (1953) by Theodore Sturgeon
14
Mission of Gravity (1953) by Hal Clement
15
A Mirror for Observers (1954) by Edgar Pangborn
16
The End of Eternity (1955) by Isaac Asimov
17
The Long Tomorrow (1955) by Leigh Brackett
18
The Inheritors (1955) by William Golding
19
The Stars My Destination (1956) by Alfred Bester
20
The Death of Grass (1956) by John Christopher
21
The City and the Stars (1956) by Arthur C. Clarke
22
The Door into Summer (1956) by Robert A. Heinlein
23
The Midwich Cuckoos (1957) by John Wyndham
24
Non-Stop (1958) by Brian Aldiss
25
A Case of Conscience (1958) by James Blish
26
Have Spacesuit, Will Travel (1958) by Robert A. Heinlein
27
Time Out of Joint (1959) by Philip K. Dick
28
Alas, Babylon (1959) by Pat Frank
29
A Canticle for Leibowitz (1955) by Walter M. Miller Jr.
30
The Sirens of Titan (1959) by Kurt Vonnegut
31
Rogue Moon (1960) by Algis Budrys
32
Venus Plus X (1960) by Theodore Sturgeon
33
Hothouse (1962) by Brian W. Aldiss
34
The Drowned World (1962) by J. G. Ballard
35
A Clockwork Orange (1962) by Anthony Burgess
36
The Man in the High Castle (1962) by Philip K. Dick
37
Journey Beyond Tomorrow (1962) by Robert Sheckley
38
Way Station (1963) by Clifford D. Simak
39
Cat's Cradle (1963) by Kurt Vonnegut
40
Greybeard (1964) by Brian W. Aldiss
41
Nova Express (1964) by William S. Burroughs
42
Martian Time-Slip (1962) by Philip K. Dick
43
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1964) by Philip K. Dick
44
The Wanderer (1964) by Fritz Leiber
45
Norstrilia (1975) by Cordwainer Smith
46
Dr. Bloodmoney (1963) by Philip K. Dick
47
Dune (1965) by Frank Herbert
48
The Crystal World (1966) by J. G. Ballard
49
Make Room! Make Room! (1966) by Harry Harrison
50
Flowers for Algernon (1966) by Daniel Keyes
51
The Dream Master (1966) by Roger Zelazny
52
Stand on Zanzibar (1968) by John Brunner
53
Nova (1968) by Samuel R. Delany
54
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) by Philip K. Dick
55
Camp Concentration (1968) by Thomas M. Disch
56
The Final Programme (1968) by Michael Moorcock
57
Pavane (1968) by Keith Roberts
58
Heroes and Villains (1969) by Angela Carter
59
The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) by Ursula K. Le Guin
60
The Palace of Eternity (1969) by Bob Shaw
61
Bug Jack Barron (1969) by Norman Spinrad
62
Tau Zero (1970) by Poul Anderson
63
Downward to the Earth (1969) by Robert Silverberg
64
The Year of the Quiet Sun (1970) by Wilson Tucker
65
334 (1967) by Thomas M. Disch
66
The Fifth Head of Cerberus (1972) by Gene Wolfe
67
The Dancers at the End of Time (1981) by Michael Moorcock
68
Crash (1973) by J. G. Ballard
69
Looking Backward, From the Year 2000 (1973) by Mack Reynolds
70
The Embedding (1973) by Ian Watson
71
Walk to the End of the World (1974) by Suzy McKee Charnas
72
The Centauri Device (1974) by M. John Harrison
73
The Dispossessed (1974) by Ursula K. Le Guin
74
Inverted World (1974) by Christopher Priest
75
High-Rise (1975) by J. G. Ballard
76
Galaxies (1975) by Barry N. Malzberg
77
The Female Man (1975) by Joanna Russ
78
Orbitsville (1975) by Bob Shaw
79
The Alteration (1976) by Kingsley Amis
80
Woman on the Edge of Time (1976) by Marge Piercy
81
Man Plus (1976) by Frederik Pohl
82
Michaelmas (1977) by Algis Budrys
83
The Ophiuchi Hotline (1977) by John Varley
84
Miracle Visitors (1978) by Ian Watson
85
Engine Summer (1979) by John Crowley
86
On Wings of Song (1979) by Thomas M. Disch
87
The Walking Shadow (1979) by Brian Stableford
88
Juniper Time (1980) by Kate Wilhelm
89
Timescape (1980) by Gregory Benford
90
The Dreaming Dragons (1980) by Damien Broderick
91
Wild Seed (1980) by Octavia E. Butler
92
Riddley Walker (1980) by Russell Hoban
93
The Complete Roderick (1980) by John Sladek
94
The Book of the New Sun (1980) by Gene Wolfe
95
The Unreasoning Mask (1981) by Philip José Farmer
96
Oath of Fealty (1981) by Larry Niven
97
No Enemy But Time (1982) by Michael Bishop
98
The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica: A Novel (1983) by John Calvin Batchelor
99
Neuromancer (1984) by William Gibson
100

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