100 beste Science Fiction bøker!
Dette er en liste over de 100 beste science fiction bøkene utarbeidet av David Pringle, som er en stor kjenner av denne genren. En del bøker som vi selv setter stor pris på mangler på denne listen, og boken er selvsagt preget av David Pringles egen smak. Men bøkene som er på listen holder alle høy kvalitet, og regnes gjennomgående som blant de store bøkene i denne genren.
Vi håper du vil ha nytte av listen når du orienterer deg i denne litteraturen!
1. George Orwell: 1984
1949 The complete picture of the world messed up by Authority. The great Dystopia.
Bestill boken her!
2. George R. Stewart: Earth Abides
1949 The ur-ecological disaster novel, and more. The Dying Earth, where the Earth dies hard.
Bestill boken Earth Abides her!
3. Ray Bradbury: The Martian Chronicles
1950 Okay, the stories are not really about Mars, but Bradbury's sometimes pastoral and often beautiful tales are the most human in science fiction.
Bestill boken The Martian Chronicles her!
4. Robert Heinlein: The Puppet Masters
1951 A great Body Snatchers story, enlivened by Bob's anti-Communist paranoia.
Bestill boken Puppet Masters her!
5. John Wyndham: The Day of the Triffids
1951 Invading extraterrestrial plants in a world gone blind, except for Two. Tour de force storytelling.
Bestill boken The Day of the Triffids her!
6. Bernard Wolfe: Limbo
1952 Masterful tale of a future where men cut off their arms so that they won't make war. Amazing and disturbing book.
Bestill boken Limbo her!
7. Alfred Bester: The Demolished Man
1953 The first of Bester's masterpieces. Rich guy attempts to get away with murder in a part-telepathic society.
Bestill boken The Demolished Man her!
8. Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451
1953 Classic tale of an anti-book society where the Firemen burn literature.
Bestill boken Fahrenheit 451 her!
9. Arthur C. Clarke: Childhood's End
1953 Alien Overlords arrive and bring order to a troubled world. And the humans Dream, and transcend. One of science fiction's most mystical books.
Bestill boken Childhood's End her!
10. Charles L. Harness: The Paradox Men
1953 Superior tale of the paradoxes of time travel. Amazing conceptualization.
Bestill boken Paradox Men her!
11. Ward Moore: Bring the Jubilee
1953 One of the best alternative world stories, in which the DSouth has won the Civil War.
Bestill boken Bring the Jubilee her!
12. Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth: The Space Merchants
1953 Hilarious tale of when the admen rule the world.
Bestill boken The Space Merchants her!
13. Cifford D. Simak: Ring Around the Sun
1953 Complex story of the economics of a Universe of many parallel worlds, with a bit of McCarthyism satire thrown in.
Bestill boken Ring around the sun her!
14. Theodore Sturgeon: More Than Human
1953 Misfits and morons come together telepathically to form a greater whole.
Bestill boken More Than Human her!
15. Hal Clement: Mission of Gravity
1954 Hard sci fi story of Earthers on complexly conceived ovoid Big Planet.
Bestill boken Mission of Gravity her!
16. Edgar Pangborn. A Mirror for Observers
1954 Martians are secretly observing Earth, and messing around. A good vs. evil morality story, almost pretentious in its attempt to come to terms with human nature.
Bestill boken A Mirror for Observers her!
17. Isaac Asimov: The End of Eternity
1955 Adventures of time traveling Fixer, who smooths the bumps in human history. Then he falls in love with an agent of Change.
Bestill boken The End of Eternity her!
18. Leigh Brackett: The Long Tomorrow
1955 Two searchers after technology in a Luddite pastoral world that follows a nuclear catastrophe. A Good Science story.
Bestill boken The Long Tomorrow her!
19. William Golding:The Inheritors
1955 A reappraisal of our assumptions, portraying Neanderthal society as rich and humane, until destroyed by the murderous Modern Men.
Bestill bokenThe Inheritors her!
20. Alfred Bester: The Stars My Destination
1956 High adventure following a seeker of Vengeance in a Strange New World.
Bestill boken The Stars My Destination her!
21. John Christopher: The Death of Grass
1956 Published in the US as No Blade of Grass. A virus kills all the grasses in the world and most of its food. A grim story.
Bestill boken The Death of Grass her!
22. Arthur C. Clarke: The City and the Stars
1956 Expansion of Against the Fall of Night. The last city on Earth cowers in isolation from terrible alien Invaders. An Individual goes forth.
Bestill boken The City and the Stars and the Sands of Mars her!
23. Robert Heinlein: The Door Into Summer
1957 Cat lover attempts to become rich through canny investment and suspended animation, but his plans go awry. So there is time travel and stuff. Not as politically shrill as a lot of Heinlein is.
Bestill boken The Door into Summer her!
24. John Wyndham: The Midwich Cuckoos
1957 Aliens inseminate an English village, and the Humans must make some hard moral choices.
Bestill boken The Midwich Cuckoos her!
25. Brain Aldiss: Non-Stop
1957 Published in the US as Starship. The mother of all generation starship stories.
Bestill boken Non-Stop her!
26. James Blish: A Case of Conscience
1958 Priest/scientist discovers heresy, and it leads to trouble, and an act of genocide.
Bestill boken A Case of Conscience her!
27. Robert Heinlein: Have Spacesuit-Will Travel
1958 Last of Bob's juvenile titles. Guy wins second hand spacesuit, is taken into flying saucer, and has adventures. Many think Heinlein's juvenile titles are his best work.
Bestill boken Have Spacesuit, Will Travel her!
28. Philip K. Dick: Time Out of Joint
1959 Paranoid tale of a guy who is going about his life until he finds out he is the center of a virtual reality environment for predicting missle trajectories.
Bestill boken Time Out of Joint (S.F.Masterworks S.) her!
29. Pat Frank: Alas, Babylon
1959 Morally ambiguous tale of the aftermath of a nuclear war. Holocaust as transcendence.
Bestill boken Alas, Babylon (Perennial Classics) her!
30. Walter M. Miller: A Canticle for Liebowitz
1959 Great classic tale of the monks who preserve Knowledge after the nuclear catastrophe, in a world that may be unredeemable.
Bestill boken Canticle for Liebowitz her!
31. Kurt Vonnegut: The Sirens of Titan
1959 Millionaire spaceman flies into a synclastic infundibulum, and has a series of wacky adventures that cannot be adequately summarized; it must be read.
Bestill boken The Sirens of Titan her!
32. Algis Budrys: Rogue Moon
1960 Psychological novel about Earthers investigating a deadly alien maze on the Dark Side of the Moon. One of the first really modern, modern sci fi books.
Bestill boken Rogue Moon her!
33. Theodore Sturgeon: Venus Plus X
1960 Interesting story of a guy who awakes in a post-sexual Somewhere Else.
Bestill boken Venus Plus X her!
34. Brian Aldiss: Hothouse
1962 Tale of a far, far future Earth that has stopped rotating and is covered by a giant Tree.
 Bestill boken Hothouse her!
35. J.G. Ballard: The Drowned World
1962 Masterpiece of the survivors on a world covered by water.
Bestill boken Drowned World (Everyman Fiction) her!
36. Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange
1962 Classic dystopian future England and the adventures of a vicious gangleader, and how society deals with him, oh my brothers.
Bestill boken A Clockwork Orange her!  Se vår omtale av boken her.
37. Philip K. Dick: The Man in the High Castle
1962 Inside out world in which the Axis won WWII, and Americans are the oppressed people under the heel of foreigners.
Bestill boken The Man in the High Castle her!
38. Robert Sheckley: Journey Beyond Tomorrow
1963 Amusing story of an innocent Polynesian guy thrown into American society and ultimately triggering Armageddon.
Bestill boken Journey Beyond Tomorrow her!
39. Clifford D. Simak: Way Station
1963 Meditative tale of an aging Wisconsin hermit, and what happens when his farm becomes a galactic way station.
Bestill boken Way Station her!
40. Kurt Vonnegut: Cat's Cradle
1963 Great story that mocks everything, and about a dangerous substance called ice-nine.
Bestill boken Cat's Cradle her!
41. Brian Aldiss: Greybeard
1964 In a world where a nuclear disaster has rendered everyone sterile and no more children are born, the youngest man left (over 50) makes the last voyage of discovery.
Bestill boken Greybeard her!
42. William Burroughs: Nova Express
1964 The Nova Police take on the Nova Mob, who want to addict the world. Massively brilliant book.
Bestill boken Nova Express her!
43. Philip K. Dick: Martian Time-Slip
1964 A Mars novel in which Man has conquered space but stayed Everyman.
Bestill boken Martian Time-Slip her!
44. Philip K. Dick: The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
1963 Druggy nightmare of a story about duelling hallucinogenics and stuff. Very, very weird, and great.
Bestill boken The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch her!
45. Fritz Leiber: The Wanderer
1964 A giant artificial planet arrives during a lunar eclipse and causes gravitational disaster, among other things.
Bestill boken The Wanderer her!
46. Cordwainer Smith: Norstrilia
1964-8 The Planet Buyer and The Underpeople combined and posthumously revised. Far, far future wherein are the Underpeople and the Lords of the Instrumentality. Complex, complicated, unique, and great.
Bestill boken Norstrilia her!
47. Philip K. Dick: Dr. Bloodmoney
1965 World War III happens, but life goes on in Marin County. A Dickian community forms, and two maniacs try to tear it apart.
Bestill boken Dr. Bloodmoney her!
48. Frank Herbert: Dune
1965 A complexly built World, with a vastly interesting beat-all story of a Chosen One. An incredible book.
Bestill boken Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 1) her!
49. J.G. Ballard: The Crystal World
1965 Another of Ballard's "elemental" novels. In this one, the world is turning to Stone. Amazing imagery.
Bestill boken The Crystal World her!
Andre del av listen, bøkene rangert fra 50-100, finner du her.
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