AbeBooks: 50 Essential Science Fiction Books

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979) by Douglas Adams
Hothouse (1962) by Brian W. Aldiss
Foundation (1951) by Isaac Asimov
The Handmaid's Tale (1985) by Margaret Atwood
The Drowned World (1962) by J. G. Ballard
Consider Phlebas (1987) by Iain M. Banks
The Demolished Man (1952) by Alfred Bester
The Illustrated Man (1946) by Ray Bradbury
Falling Free (1988) by Lois McMaster Bujold
Ender's Game (1985) by Orson Scott Card
The Death of Grass (1956) by John Christopher
Rendezvous With Rama (1973) by Arthur C. Clarke
Mission of Gravity (1953) by Hal Clement
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) by Philip K. Dick
Ribofunk (1996) by Paul Di Filippo
Little Brother (2008) by Cory Doctorow
Nor Crystal Tears (1982) by Alan Dean Foster
Alas, Babylon (1959) by Pat Frank
Neuromancer (1984) by William Gibson
Make Room! Make Room! (1966) by Harry Harrison
Starship Troopers (1959) by Robert A. Heinlein
Dune (1965) by Frank Herbert
Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley
The Stand (1978) by Stephen King
The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) by Ursula K. Le Guin
Solaris (1961) by Stanisław Lem
A Wrinkle in Time (1962) by Madeleine L'Engle
A Canticle for Leibowitz (1955) by Walter M. Miller Jr.
Embassytown (2011) by China Miéville
Behold the Man (1969) by Michael Moorcock
Ringworld (1970) by Larry Niven
Logan's Run (1967) by William F. Nolan
Man Plus (1976) by Frederik Pohl
Red Mars (1992) by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Female Man (1975) by Joanna Russ
Old Man's War (2005) by John Scalzi
Ring Around the Sun (1953) by Clifford D. Simak
Hyperion (1989) by Dan Simmons
Odd John (1935) by Olaf Stapledon
Cryptonomicon (1999) by Neal Stephenson
Earth Abides (1949) by George R. Stewart
Roadside Picnic / Tale of the Troika (1977) by Arkady Strugatsky
Venus Plus X (1960) by Theodore Sturgeon
Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864) by Jules Verne
The Sirens of Titan (1959) by Kurt Vonnegut
Acme Novelty Library, Issue 19 (1996) by Chris Ware
The War of the Worlds (1897) by H. G. Wells
Uglies (2005) by Scott Westerfeld
When Worlds Collide (1932) by Philip Wylie
The Chrysalids (1955) by John Wyndham

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