The 75 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time

[Who's Wee Dug]

The 75 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time - is a matter of opinion one of my favourites is at number 64 which I disagree with.

 

[Tonyblack]

I've read quite a few of those. But there were a lot I hadn't heard of. I would like to add a couple of my own favourites: Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham and Sea of Glass by Barry B Longyear.

 

[RathDarkblade]

I haven't read many of these, but ...

A Clockwork Orange isn't sci-fi.

OTOH, of course they included Clarke, and Asimov, and Heinlein. And Hitch-hiker's Guide. (Took 'em long enough).

Brave New World and 1984 are classic sci-fi novels. So is "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"

And, of course, Dune and Frankenstein had to be there.

But where the sod was The Long Earth?

 

[Quatermass]

Uhh, yes, A Clockwork Orange does count, it's set in the future, or at least the future of the time. Otherwise, other dystopian novels like Nineteen Eighty-Four don't count.

 

[raisindot]

Any list of best SF novels that doesn't include Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card or thinks that a collection of Asimov's robot stories is better than the original Foundation series isn't worth taking seriously.

And, sorry, none of PTerry's SF books belong on this list. Especially anything from the godsawful Long Earth series.

 

[RathDarkblade]

Hmm. What about Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden?

 

[Quatermass]

I was shocked to see he died recently.