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Top 100 Sci-Fi Books

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[S1] First book in a series; [C] Single-author collection; [A] Multiple author anthology

0	1	Frank Herbert	Dune [S1]	1965
0	2	Orson Scott Card	Ender's Game [S1]	1985
0	3	Isaac Asimov	The Foundation Trilogy	1951
0	4	Douglas Adams	Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy [S1]	1979
1	5	George Orwell	1984	1949
-1	6	Robert A Heinlein	Stranger in a Strange Land	1961
0	7	Ray Bradbury	Fahrenheit 451	1954
1	8	Philip K Dick	Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?	1968
-1	9	Arthur C Clarke	2001: A Space Odyssey	1968
0	10	William Gibson	Neuromancer [S1]	1984
0	11	Isaac Asimov	[C] I, Robot	1950
0	12	Robert A Heinlein	Starship Troopers	1959
1	13	Arthur C Clarke	Rendezvous With Rama	1973
-1	14	Larry Niven	Ringworld [S1]	1970
0	15	Dan Simmons	Hyperion [S1]	1989
0	16	Joe Haldeman	The Forever War	1974
1	17	Aldous Huxley	Brave New World	1932
-1	18	H G Wells	The Time Machine	1895
0	19	Arthur C Clarke	Childhood's End	1954
0	20	Robert A Heinlein	The Moon is a Harsh Mistress	1966
0	21	H G Wells	The War of the Worlds	1898
0	22	Ray Bradbury	[C] The Martian Chronicles	1950
0	23	Kurt Vonnegut	Slaughterhouse Five	1969
0	24	Ursula K Le Guin	The Left Hand of Darkness	1969
0	25	Neal Stephenson	Snow Crash	1992
0	26	Niven & Pournelle	The Mote in God's Eye	1975
0	27	Orson Scott Card	Ender's Shadow [S1]	1999
0	28	Orson Scott Card	Speaker for the Dead [S2]	1986
0	29	Michael Crichton	Jurassic Park	1990
0	30	Alfred Bester	The Stars My Destination	1956
0	31	Philip K Dick	The Man in the High Castle	1962
0	32	Isaac Asimov	The Caves of Steel	1954
0	33	Frederik Pohl	Gateway	1977
0	34	Stanislaw Lem	Solaris	1961
0	35	Roger Zelazny	Lord of Light	1967
0	36	Jules Verne	20,000 Leagues Under the Sea	1870
0	37	Michael Crichton	The Andromeda Strain	1969
0	38	Philip K Dick	Ubik	1969
0	39	Kurt Vonnegut	Cat's Cradle	1963
1	40	John Wyndham	The Day of the Triffids	1951
-1	41	Carl Sagan	Contact	1985
0	42	Vernor Vinge	A Fire Upon the Deep [S1]	1991
0	43	Isaac Asimov	The Gods Themselves	1972
0	44	Madeleine L'Engle	A Wrinkle In Time	1962
0	45	Anthony Burgess	A Clockwork Orange	1962
0	46	Kim Stanley Robinson	Red Mars [S1]	1992
0	47	Walter M Miller	A Canticle for Leibowitz	1959
0	48	Ursula K Le Guin	The Dispossessed	1974
0	49	Mary Shelley	Frankenstein	1818
0	50	Robert A Heinlein	Time Enough For Love	1973
0	51	Isaac Asimov	The End of Eternity	1955
0	52	Daniel Keyes	Flowers for Algernon	1966
0	53	L Ron Hubbard	Battlefield Earth	1982
0	54	Jules Verne	Journey to the Center of the Earth	1864
0	55	Philip Jose Farmer	To Your Scattered Bodies Go	1971
0	56	Peter F Hamilton	The Reality Dysfunction [S1]	1996
2	57	John Scalzi	Old Man's War [S1]	2005
0	58	Philip K Dick	A Scanner Darkly	1977
-2	59	Neal Stephenson	The Diamond Age	1995
0	60	Margaret Atwood	The Handmaid's Tale	1985
0	61	David Brin	Startide Rising [S2]	1983
0	62	Kurt Vonnegut	The Sirens of Titan	1959
0	63	Iain M Banks	Use of Weapons [S3]	1990
0	64	Greg Bear	Eon [S1]	1985
0	65	Arthur C Clarke	The City and the Stars	1956
0	66	Alfred Bester	The Demolished Man	1953
0	67	Alastair Reynolds	Revelation Space [S1]	2000
0	68	Michael Crichton	Sphere	1987
0	69	Robert A Heinlein	The Door Into Summer	1956
0	70	Harry Harrison	The Stainless Steel Rat [S1]	1961
0	71	Iain M Banks	Player of Games [S2]	1988
0	72	Edgar Rice Burroughs	A Princess of Mars [S1]	1912
0	73	Connie Willis	Doomsday Book	1992
0	74	Cormac McCarthy	The Road	2006
0	75	Robert A Heinlein	Citizen of the Galaxy	1957
0	76	C S Lewis	Out of the Silent Planet [S1]	1938
1	77	Philip K Dick	The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch	1964
-1	78	Gene Wolfe	The Fifth Head of Cerberus	1972
0	79	Dan Simmons	Ilium	2003
0	80	Suzanne Collins	The Hunger Games	2008
0	81	Richard Morgan	Altered Carbon [S1]	2002
0	82	John Wyndham	The Chrysalids	1955
0	83	Niven & Pournelle	Lucifer's Hammer	1977
0	84	Clifford Simak	Way Station	1963
0	85	Edwin A Abbott	Flatland	1884
0	86	Robert A Heinlein	Have Space-Suit - Will Travel	1958
1	87	Ursula K Le Guin	The Lathe of Heaven	1971
-1	88	Richard Matheson	I Am Legend	1954
0	89	Arkady & Boris Strugatsky	Roadside Picnic	1972
0	90	John Brunner	Stand on Zanzibar	1969
0	91	Stanislaw Lem	[C] The Cyberiad	1974
0	92	Neal Stephenson	Anathem	2008
0	93	Robert Louis Stevenson	Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde	1886
0	94	Clifford Simak	[C] City	1952
0	95	Julian May	The Many-Colored Land [S1]	1981
3	96	Peter F Hamilton	Pandora's Star [S1]	2004
0	97	Orson Scott Card	Xenocide [S3]	1991
-2	98	Philip K Dick	VALIS	1981
-1	99	David Brin	The Postman	1985
1	100	Robert A Heinlein	Friday	1982

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