67 Science Fiction Books
This is a list of science fiction books I haven't read, but intend to read in 2008. I based this list off Sci-Fi Lists Top 100 Sci0-Fi Books. Of their top 100, I've read 33 prior to 2008.
Formatting coming once I don't have cats, a dog, and a 3 year old freaking out over New Year's Eve fireworks.
[S1] First book in a series; [C] Single-author collection; [A] Multiple author anthology
Rank Author/Editor Title
2 Orson Scott Card Ender’s Game [S1]
10 Arthur C Clarke 2001: A Space Odyssey
11 Larry Niven Ringworld
16 Arthur C Clarke Rendezvous With Rama
17 Robert A Heinlein The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
18 H G Wells The War of the Worlds
19 Dan Simmons Hyperion [S1]
20 Arthur C Clarke Childhood’s End
22 Neal Stephenson Snow Crash
23 Orson Scott Card Speaker for the Dead [S2]
24 Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse Five
26 Niven & Pournelle The Mote in God’s Eye
28 Orson Scott Card Ender’s Shadow [S1]
30 Jules Verne 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
31 Philip K Dick The Man in the High Castle
32 Roger Zelazny Lord of Light
33 Frederik Pohl Gateway
36 Stanislaw Lem Solaris
37 Kurt Vonnegut Cat’s Cradle
38 Alfred Bester The Stars My Destination
40 Neal Stephenson Cryptonomicon
41 Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange
42 John Wyndham The Day of the Triffids
45 Carl Sagan Contact
46 Vernor Vinge A Fire Upon the Deep
47 Philip K Dick UBIK
48 Isaac Asimov The End Of Eternity
53 L Ron Hubbard Battlefield Earth
55 Kurt Vonnegut The Sirens of Titan
56 Neal Stephenson The Diamond Age
57 Niven & Pournelle Lucifer’s Hammer
58 Iain M Banks Player Of Games [S2]
60 Greg Bear Eon
61 Peter F Hamilton The Reality Dysfunction [S1]
62 David Brin Startide Rising [S2]
63 Harry Harrison The Stainless Steel Rat [S1]
64 Iain M Banks Use of Weapons [S3]
65 Philip Jose Farmer To Your Scattered Bodies Go
66 Alfred Bester The Demolished Man
67 Gene Wolfe The Shadow of the Torturer [S1]
70 David Brin The Uplift War [S3]
71 Philip K Dick The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch
72 Robert A Heinlein The Door Into Summer
74 Arthur C Clarke The City and the Stars
75 Robert A Heinlein Citizen Of the Galaxy
76 Robert A Heinlein The Puppet Masters
77 C S Lewis Out of the Silent Planet [S1]
79 Clifford Simak Way Station
80 John Wyndham The Chrysalids
82 Julian May The Many-Colored Land [S1]
83 Dan Simmons Ilium
84 Edgar Rice Burroughs A Princess of Mars [S1]
85 Philip K Dick A Scanner Darkly
86 William Gibson [C] Burning Chrome
88 E E ‘Doc’ Smith Grey Lensman [S4]
89 David Brin The Postman
90 Arthur C Clarke The Fountains of Paradise
92 Edwin A Abbott Flatland
93 John Brunner Stand on Zanzibar
94 Philip K Dick VALIS
95 Greg Bear Blood Music
96 Stanislaw Lem [C] The Cyberiad
97 Theodore Sturgeon More Than Human
98 Clifford Simak [C] City
99 Arthur Conan Doyle The Lost World
100 Alastair Reynolds Revelation Space [S1]
Confessions of a Geeky Mama : Blog Archive : [New Year’s Resolutions] 67 SciFi Books — 2008, January 1 @ 12:24 am
[...] of unfamiliar authors with a blah synopsis on the back cover. So I’ve decided to tackle the 67 books I haven’t read on the Sci-Fi Top 100 Books [...]