100 beste SF: 50-100.

50. Harry Harrison: Make Room! Make Room!
1965 A crime story within a horrifying setting of a massively overpopulated New York. Filmed as Soylent Green.

Bestill Make Room Make Room her!

51. Daniel Keyes: Flowers for Algernon
1966 A story about intelligence enhancement, and its problems.

Bestill Flowers for Algernon her!

52. Roger Zelazny: The Dream Master
1966 A doctor has a machine to enter people's dreams, then loses control of the process.

Bestill The Dream Master (Nebula Award-Winning Novel) her!

53. John Brunner: Stand On Zanzibar
1966 An excellent attempt to portray the future world without fantasy. A very ambitious book.

Bestill Stand on Zanzibar her!

54. Samuel R. Delany: Nova
1968 A richly drawn space opera, featuring one of Delany's ubiquitous Kids.

Bestill Nova her!

55. Philip K. Dick: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
1968 Masterful story of Deckard, the bounty hunter tracking down rogue androids. Filmed as Blade Runner.

Bestill Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep her!

56. Thomas M. Disch: Camp Concentration
1968 In a future world of endless war, secret intelligence enhancing experiments that result in horrible physical side effects.

Bestill Camp Concentration: A Novel her!

57. Michael Moorcock: The Final Programme
1968 A Jerry Cornelius adventure, with lots of action and Strange Happenings.

Bestill The Final Programme her!

58. Keith Roberts: Pavane
1968 A fascinating world in which the Catholic Church dominates.

Bestill Pavane (Del Rey Impact) her!

59. Angela Carter: Heroes and Villains
1969 A story of a post-nuclear war world and the struggle between civilization and barbarism.

Bestill Heroes & Villains her!

60. Ursula K. Le Guin: The Left Hand of Darkness
1969 A gender issues tale of an Earthman's journey through a world of hermaphrodites. Giant piece of narrative writing.

Bestill The Left Hand of Darkness her!

61. Bob Shaw: The Palace of Eternity
1969 The "poet's world" must go to interstellar war.

Bestill The Palace of Eternity her!

62. Norman Spinrad: Bug Jack Barron
1969 Hurly-burly tale of a charismatic and powerful media figue and immortality.

Bestill Bug Jack Barron her!

63. Poul Anderson: Tau Zero
1970 Starship which can't slow down and is approaching the speed of light. Excellent hard sci fi.

Bestill Tau Zero her!

64. Robert Silverberg: Downward to the Earth
1970 Colonial administrator seeks redemption on pastoral alien planet. Loosely quotes Conrad's Heart of Darkness.

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65. Wilson Tucker: The Year of the Quiet Sun
1970 Time traveler finds parallels between Biblical apocalyptic manuscript and the end of the United States. Evocative writing.

Bestill The year of the quiet sun her!

66. Thomas M. Disch: 334
1972 Tour de force storytelling in a nasty future City, technologically advanced but socially bereft.

Bestill 334: A Novel her!

67. Gene Wolfe: The Fifth Head of Cerberus
1972 Interesting Gothic tale of an exotic space culture, touching on cloning and individuality.

Bestill The Fifth Head of Cerberus her!

68. Michael Moorcock: The Dancers at the End of Time
1972-6 Moorcock's Hero in a far-off furture. Trilogy, comprising An Alien Heat, The Hollow Lands, and The End of All Songs.

Bestill The Dancers at the End of Time (S.F.Masterworks S.) her!

69. J.G. Ballard: Crash
1973 Amazing story of cars and sex. A masterpiece.

Bestill Crash: A Novel her!

70. Mack Reynolds: Looking Backwards, From the Year 2000
1973 Interesting re-doing of Bellamy's 1888 classic Looking Backward.

Bestill Looking backward, from the year 2000 her!

71. Ian Watson: The Embedding
1973 Complex, sometimes anthropological first contact story. Lots of issues.

Bestill The Embedding (Gollancz) her!

72. Suzy McKee Charnas: Walk to the End of the World
1974 Harrowing feminist parable of gender horror. A very tough book.

Bestill The Slave and the Free: Books 1 and 2 of 'The Holdfast Chronicles': 'Walk to the End of the World' and 'Motherlines' (Holdfast Chronicles) her!

73. M. John Harrison: The Centauri Device
1974 Satirical but action packed story of a nasty future Earth and the loser Spacemen is carrying alien DNA and dealing with space Anarchists and...

Bestill The Centauri Device (Millennium SF Masterworks S) her!

74. Ursula K. Le Guin: The Dispossessed
1974 People flee to planet's moon and form Utopian society. In the Hanish universe of The Left Hand of Darkness.

Bestill The Dispossessed her!

75. Christopher Priest: Inverted World
1974 Interesting and complex story of a Place where Time and Distance are, well, confused.

Bestill Inverted World her!

76. J.G. Ballard: High Rise
1975 Terrific story of a mega-apartment building whose inhabitants become unglued and get in touch with their inner Savage.

Bestill High Rise (Flamingo Modern Classic) her!

77. Barry N. Malzberg: Galaxies
1975 Subversive writers writing about writers writing story, deconstructing sci fi while revelling in its eccentricities.

Bestill Galaxies her!

78. Joanna Russ: The Female Man
1975 The masterwork of feminist science fiction, told in a gripping multiplex narrative.

Bestill The Female Man (Bluestreak) her!

79. Bob Shaw: Orbitsville
1975 Spacers discover a Dyson Sphere. Sort of a thinking man's Ringworld.

Bestill Orbitsville (SF Collector's Edition) her!

80. Kingsley Amis: The Alteration
1976 Tale of a would-be eunich in a world where the Spanish Armada conquered England. Great alternates history story. (See also Keith Roberts' Pavane)

Bestill The Alteration her!                   BACK TO THE TOP

81. Marge Piercy: Woman On the Edge of Time
1976 Woman wrongly committed to a mental hospital is haunted by a ghost of the Utopian Future.

Bestill Woman on the Edge of Time her!

82. Frederik Pohl: Man Plus
1976 A grimmer than usual story of cyborgs and the cyborged society, as man and machine merge.

Bestill Man Plus (SF Masterworks) (Sf Masterworks 29) her!

83. Algis Budrys: Michaelmas
1976 Very interesting story of machine intelligence and a networked world. Ahead of its time.

Bestill Michaelmas her!

84. John Varley: The Ophiuchi Hotline
1977 A title of Varley's Eight Worlds series. Mankind in the Solar System and aliens communicating. Many interesting facets.

Bestill The Ophiuchi Hotline (Sf Collector's) her!

85. Ian Watson: Miracle Visitors
1977 A serious look at UFO culture, with a red Thunderbird that flies to the Moon and Back. More serious than it sounds.

Bestill Miracle Visitors (Sf Collector's) her!

86. John Crowley: Engine Summer
1979 An often beautiful story of the world After the Big One, told by an storyteller.

Bestill Engine Summer her!

87. Thomas M. Disch: On Wings of Song
1979 Coming of Age story in a Balkanized future America.

Bestill On Wings of Song her!

88. Brian Stableford: The Walking Shadow
1979 Time jumpers travel to the End of Time, to a world owned by an gigantic idiot vegatable mass. Grim.

Bestill The Walking Shadow her!

89. Kate Wilhelm: Juniper Time
1979 More great feminist sci fi, in an America devastated by Drought, and an alien artifact and the damaged Survivor who is the only one who can translate it.

Bestill Juniper Time her!

90. Gregory Benford: Timescape
1980 Scientists in the Future (well, the late 90's) try to send a warning message to the Past.

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91. Damien Broderick: The Dreaming Dragons
1980 Wonderfully arcane story of an Australian aborigine who finds an alien artifact in Ayers Rock.

Bestill DREAMING DRAGONS her!

92. Octavia Butler: Wild Seed
1980 Prequel to the Patternist books, covering the rise of the telepathically gifted.

Bestill Wild Seed her!

93. Russell Hoban: Riddley Walker
1980 Great story of a post-nuclear war barbarized England, as the narratot tells the Story of His Life.

Bestill Riddley Walker her!

94. John Sladek: The Roderick Books
1980-3 Often hilarious tale of the life and times of a robot growing up.

Bestill The Complete Roderick her!

95. Gene Wolfe: Book of the New Sun
1980-3 Epic rationalized fantasy of the Dying Earth in the far, far distant future. A visionary work.

Bestill The Book of the New Sun (Millennium Fantasy Masterworks) her!

96. Philip Jose Farmer: The Unreasoning Mask
1981 One of the great books of modern sci fi. A sentient ship and crew steal a line to the infant God. Startling cosmology.

Bestill The Unreasoning Mask (Overlook Sf&F Classics) her!

97. Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle: Oath of Fealty
1981 A less hoakum tale than their usual by these two, in a fascinating arcology society.

Bestill Oath of Fealty her!

98. Michael Bishop: No Enemy But Time
1982 Interesting story of a guy who travels back in Time to visit humanity's ancesters.

Bestill No Enemy But Time her!

99. John Calvin Batchelor: The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica
1983 Latter day Vikings flee a disentegrating world for the Far South.

Bestill The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica: A Novel her!

100. William Gibson: Neuromancer
1984 Either the book that ended sci fi or the book the gave it rebirth. Compelling adventures in the Wired cyberfuture. A triology.

Bestill Neuromancer her!                   BACK TO THE TOP


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