501 Must-Read Books (Emma Beare, 2006)Science Fiction

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From the introduction to "501 Must-Read Books": "The recommendations for inclusion in this comprehensive book were made by a bibliophile and writer with a peerless reputation, but the reviews show more themselves were compiled by lecturers, writers and book lovers, sharing their pleasure or surprise or even indignation with the rest of us." show less
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979) by Douglas Adams
Hothouse (1962) by Brian W. Aldiss
Brain Wave (1957) by Poul Anderson
I, Robot (1950) by Isaac Asimov
The Handmaid's Tale (1985) by Margaret Atwood
The Crystal World (1966) by J. G. Ballard
The Demolished Man (1952) by Alfred Bester
The Invention of Morel (1940) by Adolfo Bioy Casares
Planet of the Apes (1963) by Pierre Boulle
The Martian Chronicles (1950) by Ray Bradbury
The Sheep Look Up (1972) by John Brunner
A Clockwork Orange (1962) by Anthony Burgess
Erewhon (1872) by Samuel Butler
Cosmicomics (1965) by Italo Calvino
Who Goes There? - novella (1938) by John W. Campbell Jr
Lest Darkness Fall (1939) by L. Sprague de Camp
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) by Arthur C. Clarke
A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder (1888) by James De Mille
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1964) by Philip K. Dick
To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971) by Philip José Farmer
Neuromancer (1984) by William Gibson
Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) by Robert A. Heinlein
Dune (1965) by Frank Herbert
Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley
Two Planets (1897) by Kurd Laßwitz
The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) by Ursula K. Le Guin
Solaris (1961) by Stanisław Lem
Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta (1979) by Doris Lessing
The Stepford Wives (1972) by Ira Levin
Out of the Silent Planet (1938) by C. S. Lewis
I Am Legend (1954) by Richard Matheson
Dwellers in the Mirage (1932) by A. Merritt
A Canticle for Leibowitz (1955) by Walter M. Miller Jr.
Ringworld (1970) by Larry Niven
The Time Traders (1958) by Andre Norton
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1833) by Edgar Allan Poe
Inverted World (1974) by Christopher Priest
The Green Child (1935) by Herbert Read
The People Trap (1968) by Robert Sheckley
City (1952) by Clifford D. Simak
Donovan's Brain (1942) by Curt Siodmak
Last and First Men (1930) by Olaf Stapledon
More Than Human (1953) by Theodore Sturgeon
Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864) by Jules Verne
Slan (1946) by A. E. Van Vogt
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut
The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896) by H. G. Wells
Islandia (1942) by Austin Tappan Wright
The Day of the Triffids (1951) by John Wyndham

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