100 Must Read SF Novels - Stephen Andrews & Nick Rennison

100 Must Read Science Fiction Novels - Stephen Andrews & Nick Rennison (SF reference - review 0804 - March 30, 2019)

 

comments by CR:

 

This very compact book (it measures 5 1/2 by 4" !) contains a great deal of useful data about Science-Fiction. The heart of the book are the 100 meaty reviews of the authors estimations of "100 Must Read Science Fiction Novels". The fact that I disagree with many of the authors selections - and I would imagine many other readers would also - making this a most recommended book. SF fans are an opinionated species and prone to arguing at the drop of a title or an authors name I've heard on the street.

 

In addition to the reviews a detailed alphabetical index of all authors and titles mentioned and several appendices add to the books usefulness.

 

I have added a + after those titles I would recommend as a must read. An X after a title that in my opinion is a minor work by that author and another title should by cited. note added 03-05-2023

 

One glaring omission is a listing in the front index of only those books "must read" reviewed books. Therefore I've made my own and include it here for the gentle readers use:

100 Must Read SF Novels Index omitted from front index

·p01 Aldiss - Hothouse

·p02 Asimov - I Robot

·p03 Asimov - Foundation

·p05 Ballard - Drowned World X

·p06 Ballard - Super Cannes

·p08 Banks - Players of the Game

·p10 Baxter - Moonseed

·p11 Bayley - The Garments of Caen

·p13 Bear - Blood Music

·p14 Benford - Timescape

·p16 Bester - Demolished Man

·p17 Bester - Stars My Destination

·p19 Bishop - Ancient of Days +

·p20 Blish - Case of Conscience

·p23 Bradbury - Martian Chronicles +

·p24 Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451

·p25 Brunner - The Sheep Look Up

·p27 Budrys - Rogue Moon

·p28 Burgess - Clockwork Orange

·p29 E.R. Burroughs - A Princess of Mars

·p31 W.S. Burroughs - The Ticket that Exploded

·p34 Cadigan - Synners

·p35 Campbell, J.W. - Best of

·p39 Card - Ender's Game

·p40 Carter A. - Heroes and Villains

·p42 Clarke - Childhood's End +

·p43 Compton D.G. - The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe

·p45 Delany - Nova

·p47 Dick - Do Androds Dream of Electric Sheep

·p49 Dick - Ubik X

·p51 Disch - Genocides

·p52 Doyle - Lost World

·p54 Egan - Permutation

·p55 Ellison - Beast that Shouted Love...

·p57 Farmer - Lovers

·p59 Gibson - Necromancer

·p60 Haldeman - Forever War

·p62 Hamilton, Peter F. - Reality Dysfunction

·p64 Harrison, H. - Make Room, Make Room

·p65 Harrison, J - Centauri Device

·p67 Heinlein - Orphans of the Sky

·p68 Heinlein - Starship Trooper

·p70 Herbert - Dune

·p72 Huxley - Brave New World

·p73 Jetter - Dr. Adder

·p75 Jones R.F. - This Island Earth

·p76 Kennedy, L. - The Journal of Nicholas The American

·p79 Keyes, Daniel - Flowers of Algernon

·p80 Kuttner - Fury

·p83 LeGuin - Left Hand of Darkness

·p84 LeGuin - Dispossessed

·p86 Lem - Solaris

·p87 McHugh - China Mountains Zhang

·p89 Malzberg - Guernica Nights

·p90 Matheson - I an Legend

·p92 Miller - A Canticle for Leibowitz

·p93 Moorcock - The Final Programme

·p95 Moore, C.L. - Black Gods and Scarlet Dreams

·p97 Moore, Ward - Bring the Jubilee

·p98 Moore, R - Altered Carbon

·p100 Niven, L - Ringworld +

·p102 Orwell - 1984

·p104 Pohl - Man Plus

·p106 Powers, Tim - Anubis Gates +

·p108 Priest, C. - The Glamour

·p110 Roberts, K. - Pavane

·p112 Robinson K.S. - Red Mars

·p113 Russ - Female Man

·p115 Shaw - Other Days - Other Eyes

·p117 Sheckley - Immortality Inc.

·p119 Shelly - Frankstein

·p121 Shepherd - Life During Wartime

·p122 Shirley, John - City Come-A-Walkin'

·p125 Silverberg - Man in the Maze

·p126 Saldek - Tic-Tok

·p128 Smith, Cordwainer - Norstrilia +

·p129 Smith "Doc" - Triplanetary

·p131 Spinard - Iron Dream +

·p133 Stephenson - Snow Crash

·p135 Sterling, B. - Involution Ocean

·p136 Stewart, G. - Earth Abides

·p138 Strugatksy - Roadside Picnic

·p139 Sturgeon - More Than Human

·p141 Stanwick - Stations of the Tide

·p142 Telvis - The Man Who Fell to Earth

·p144 Van Vogt - Voyage of the Space Beagle

·p145 Vance - Languages of Pao X

·p147 Verne - Journey to the Center of the Earth

·p148 Vinge - A Fire Upon the Deep

·p150 Vonnegut - Slaughter House-Five

·p152 Watson - The Jonah Kit

·p153 Wells - The Time Machine

·p155 Wells - The Island of Dr. Moreau

·p158 Wilhelm - Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang

·p160 Williamson - Legion of Time

·p161 Willis - Doomsday Book

·p163 Wolfe - Shadow of the Torturer

·p164 Wyndham - Midwich Cuckoos

·p166 Zelazny - This Immortal aka And Call Me Conrad

 

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