Ash K asked:
I like science fiction and was looking for a few good books to read. Do you have any suggestions?
Tyler
I like science fiction and was looking for a few good books to read. Do you have any suggestions?
Tyler
What are some good science fiction books?
Paula
anything by Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, etc.
Titles at
Bobby
Here are the top 100
2 1 Orson Scott Card Ender’s Game [S1] 1985
1 2 Frank Herbert Dune [S1] 1965
3 3 Isaac Asimov Foundation [S1-3] 1951
4 4 Douglas Adams Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy [S1] 1979
5 5 George Orwell 1984 1949
6 6 Robert A Heinlein Stranger in a Strange Land 1961
7 7 Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 1954
8 8 Arthur C Clarke 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968
9 9 Isaac Asimov [C] I, Robot 1950
10 10 William Gibson Neuromancer 1984
11 11 Robert A Heinlein Starship Troopers 1959
12 12 Philip K **** Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968
13 13 Larry Niven Ringworld 1970
14 14 Aldous Huxley Brave New World 1932
15 15 Arthur C Clarke Rendezvous With Rama 1973
16 16 H G Wells The Time Machine 1895
19 17 Dan Simmons Hyperion [S1] 1989
17 18 H G Wells The War of the Worlds 1898
18 19 Robert A Heinlein The Moon is a Harsh Mistress 1966
20 20 Arthur C Clarke Childhood’s End 1954
21 21 Ray Bradbury [C] The Martian Chronicles 1950
22 22 Joe Haldeman The Forever War 1974
24 23 Neal Stephenson Snow Crash 1992
23 24 Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse Five 1969
25 25 Niven & Pournelle The Mote in God’s Eye 1975
26 26 Ursula K Le Guin The Left Hand of Darkness 1969
27 27 Orson Scott Card Speaker for the Dead [S2] 1986
28 28 Philip K **** The Man in the High Castle 1962
31 29 Michael Crichton Jurassic Park 1990
30 30 Frederik Pohl Gateway 1977
29 31 Isaac Asimov The Caves of Steel 1954
35 32 Alfred Bester The Stars My Destination 1956
32 33 Madeleine L’Engle A Wrinkle In Time 1962
34 34 Roger Zelazny Lord of Light 1967
33 35 Jules Verne 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 1870
36 36 Stanislaw Lem Solaris 1961
37 37 Kurt Vonnegut Cat’s Cradle 1963
38 38 Carl Sagan Contact 1985
41 39 Neal Stephenson Cryptonomicon 1999
42 40 Isaac Asimov The Gods Themselves 1972
44 41 Michael Crichton The Andromeda Strain 1969
40 42 John Wyndham The Day of the Triffids 1951
39 43 Robert A Heinlein Time Enough For Love 1973
43 44 Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange 1962
45 45 Daniel Keyes Flowers for Algernon 1966
46 46 Philip K **** UBIK 1969
48 47 Kim Stanley Robinson Red Mars [S1] 1992
47 48 Vernor Vinge A Fire Upon the Deep 1991
49 49 Mary Shelley Frankenstein 1818
50 50 Isaac Asimov The End Of Eternity 1955
51 51 Walter M Miller A Canticle for Leibowitz 1959
55 52 Jules Verne Journey to the Center of the Earth 1864
53 53 Neal Stephenson The Diamond Age 1995
52 54 Kurt Vonnegut The Sirens of Titan 1959
54 55 Iain M Banks Player Of Games [S2] 1988
56 56 L Ron Hubbard Battlefield Earth 1982
57 57 Ursula K Le Guin The Dispossessed 1974
58 58 Orson Scott Card Ender’s Shadow [S1] 1999
61 59 David Brin Startide Rising [S2] 1983
60 60 Greg Bear Eon 1985
59 61 Niven & Pournelle Lucifer’s Hammer 1977
62 62 Peter F Hamilton The Reality Dysfunction [S1] 1996
63 63 Philip Jose Farmer To Your Scattered Bodies Go 1971
64 64 Alfred Bester The Demolished Man 1953
65 65 Margaret Atwood The Handmaid’s Tale 1985
67 66 Gene Wolfe The Shadow of the Torturer [S1] 1980
68 67 Arthur C Clarke The City and the Stars 1956
66 68 Harry Harrison The Stainless Steel Rat [S1] 1961
70 69 Philip K **** A Scanner Darkly 1977
69 70 Philip K **** The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch 1964
71 71 Robert A Heinlein The Door Into Summer 1956
73 72 Connie Willis Doomsday Book 1992
72 73 Robert A Heinlein Citizen Of the Galaxy 1957
74 74 C S Lewis Out of the Silent Planet [S1] 1938
76 75 Robert A Heinlein Have Space-Suit - Will Travel 1958
75 76 Robert A Heinlein The Puppet Masters 1951
78 77 Clifford Simak Way Station 1963
79 78 Dan Simmons Ilium 2003
82 79 Ursula K Le Guin The Lathe of Heaven 1971
80 80 John Wyndham The Chrysalids 1955
77 81 H G Wells The Invisible Man 1897
81 82 Edgar Rice Burroughs A Princess of Mars [S1] 1912
86 83 Alastair Reynolds Revelation Space [S1] 2000
85 84 Michael Crichton Sphere 1987
83 85 Iain M Banks Use of Weapons [S3] 1990
84 86 Julian May The Many-Colored Land [S1] 1981
92 87 Edwin A Abbott Flatland 1884
87 88 William Gibson [C] Burning Chrome 1986
90 89 John Brunner Stand on Zanzibar 1969
88 90 E E ‘Doc’ Smith Grey Lensman [S4] 1951
97 91 Arkady & Boris Strugatsky Roadside Picnic 1972
96 92 David Brin The Postman 1985
94 93 Audrey Niffenegger The Time Traveler’s Wife 2003
91 94 Arthur C Clarke The Fountains of Paradise 1979
100 95 Theodore Sturgeon More Than Human 1953
89 96 Mark Twain A Connecticut Yankee in KA’s Court 1889
93 97 Philip K **** VALIS 1981
98 98 James Blish [C] Cities in Flight 1955
95 99 Stanislaw Lem [C] The Cyberiad 1974
99 100 Clifford Simak [C] City
Jamie
Try Prey by Micheal Crichton
Jose
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Rick
Stephen King has many to choose from.
Start with the “Dark Tower series.” It will
take you all summer. “guaranteed.”
If you want something more current try
Duma Key or Everythings Eventual.
Christina
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
Eileen
Read ‘Black Hole’ on