Top 200 Sci-Fi BooksA statistical survey of the all-time Top 200 sci-fi books

Move Rank Author/Editor Title Year

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

0 5 George Orwell 1984 1949

0 6 Robert A Heinlein Stranger in a Strange Land 1961

0 7 Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 1954

0 8 William Gibson Neuromancer [S1] 1984

0 9 Arthur C Clarke 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968

0 10 Philip K Dick Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968

1 11 Isaac Asimov [C] I, Robot 1950

-1 12 Robert A Heinlein Starship Troopers 1959

0 13 Larry Niven Ringworld [S1] 1970

0 14 Arthur C Clarke Rendezvous With Rama 1973

0 15 Dan Simmons Hyperion [S1] 1989

0 16 Aldous Huxley Brave New World 1932

0 17 H G Wells The Time Machine 1895

1 18 Joe Haldeman The Forever War 1974

-1 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 Philip K Dick The Man in the High Castle 1962

0 31 Alfred Bester The Stars My Destination 1956

0 32 Isaac Asimov The Caves of Steel 1954

1 33 Frederik Pohl Gateway 1977

-1 34 Roger Zelazny Lord of Light 1967

0 35 Stanislaw Lem Solaris 1961

0 36 Jules Verne 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 1870

0 37 Kurt Vonnegut Cat's Cradle 1963

1 38 Philip K Dick Ubik 1969

-1 39 Michael Crichton The Andromeda Strain 1969

0 40 Madeleine L'Engle A Wrinkle In Time 1962

0 41 Carl Sagan Contact 1985

1 42 Isaac Asimov The Gods Themselves 1972

-1 43 Vernor Vinge A Fire Upon the Deep [S1] 1991

0 44 John Wyndham The Day of the Triffids 1951

0 45 Walter M Miller A Canticle for Leibowitz 1959

0 46 Kim Stanley Robinson Red Mars [S1] 1992

0 47 Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange 1962

0 48 Ursula K Le Guin The Dispossessed 1974

0 49 Robert A Heinlein Time Enough For Love 1973

0 50 Isaac Asimov The End of Eternity 1955

0 51 Mary Shelley Frankenstein 1818

0 52 Daniel Keyes Flowers for Algernon 1966

0 53 Jules Verne Journey to the Center of the Earth 1864

0 54 Peter F Hamilton The Reality Dysfunction [S1] 1996

2 55 L Ron Hubbard Battlefield Earth 1982

0 56 Philip Jose Farmer To Your Scattered Bodies Go 1971

-2 57 Neal Stephenson The Diamond Age 1995

1 58 Philip K Dick A Scanner Darkly 1977

-1 59 David Brin Startide Rising [S2] 1983

0 60 Kurt Vonnegut The Sirens of Titan 1959

0 61 Greg Bear Eon [S1] 1985

1 62 Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale 1985

-1 63 Iain M Banks Use of Weapons [S3] 1990

0 64 Niven & Pournelle Lucifer's Hammer 1977

0 65 Arthur C Clarke The City and the Stars 1956

2 66 John Scalzi Old Man's War [S1] 2005

-1 67 Michael Crichton Sphere 1987

-1 68 Alfred Bester The Demolished Man 1953

0 69 Robert A Heinlein The Door Into Summer 1956

0 70 Harry Harrison The Stainless Steel Rat [S1] 1961

0 71 Alastair Reynolds Revelation Space [S1] 2000

0 72 Iain M Banks Player of Games [S2] 1988

2 73 Edgar Rice Burroughs A Princess of Mars [S1] 1912

0 74 Connie Willis Doomsday Book 1992

-2 75 Gene Wolfe The Fifth Head of Cerberus 1972

0 76 Robert A Heinlein Citizen of the Galaxy 1957

0 77 Cormac McCarthy The Road 2006

0 78 Dan Simmons Ilium 2003

1 79 C S Lewis Out of the Silent Planet [S1] 1938

-1 80 Richard Morgan Altered Carbon [S1] 2002

0 81 Philip K Dick The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch 1964

0 82 Robert A Heinlein Have Space-Suit - Will Travel 1958

0 83 Edwin A Abbott Flatland 1884

1 84 John Wyndham The Chrysalids 1955

-1 85 Clifford Simak Way Station 1963

0 86 Arkady & Boris Strugatsky Roadside Picnic 1972

0 87 Ursula K Le Guin The Lathe of Heaven 1971

0 88 John Brunner Stand on Zanzibar 1969

1 89 Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games 2008

-1 90 Richard Matheson I Am Legend 1954

0 91 Clifford Simak [C] City 1952

0 92 Stanislaw Lem [C] The Cyberiad 1974

1 93 Neal Stephenson Anathem 2008

2 94 Theodore Sturgeon More Than Human 1953

3 95 Orson Scott Card Xenocide [S3] 1991

-1 96 Philip K Dick VALIS 1981

-4 97 David Brin The Postman 1985

-1 98 Julian May The Many-Colored Land [S1] 1981

0 99 Robert Louis Stevenson Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde 1886

0 100 Greg Bear The Forge of God [S1] 1987

1 101 Arthur Conan Doyle The Lost World 1912-1 102 James Blish [C] Cities in Flight 19550 103 Robert A Heinlein Friday 19821 104 David Brin The Uplift War [S3] 1987-1 105 Greg Bear Blood Music 19850 106 Arthur C Clarke The Fountains of Paradise 19790 107 Peter F Hamilton Pandora's Star [S1] 20040 108 Audrey Niffenegger The Time Traveler's Wife 20030 109 Iain M Banks Consider Phlebas [S1] 19870 110 Pierre Boulle Planet of the Apes (aka Monkey Planet) 19630 111 Anne McCaffrey [C] The Ship Who Sang 19690 112 Mark Twain A Connecticut Yankee in KA's Court 18890 113 Greg Bear Darwin's Radio [S1] 19991 114 Robert Charles Wilson Spin [S1] 2005-1 115 David Weber On Basilisk Station [S1] 19930 116 John Varley Titan [S1] 19790 117 Poul Anderson Tau Zero 19701 118 George R Stewart Earth Abides 1949-1 119 William Gibson [C] Burning Chrome 19860 120 Robert A Heinlein [C] The Man Who Sold the Moon 19500 121 Samuel R Delany Dhalgren 19750 122 C J Cherryh Downbelow Station [S1] 19812 123 Philip K Dick Martian Time Slip 1964-1 124 Ayn Rand Anthem 19381 125 Robert A Heinlein Double Star 1956-2 126 Roger Zelazny This Immortal 19660 127 Pat Frank Alas, Babylon 19590 128 John Steakley Armor 19840 129 Harlan Ellison [ed] [A] Dangerous Visions 19672 130 Mary Doria Russell The Sparrow 19960 131 William Gibson Pattern Recognition [S1] 2003-2 132 Larry Niven [C] Neutron Star 1968

0 133 Stephen Baxter The Time Ships 19950 134 Gordon Dickson Dorsai! (vt The Genetic General) 19601 135 Neville Shute On the Beach 19575 136 Paolo Bacigalupi The Windup Girl 2009-2 137 Gregory Benford Timescape 1980-1 138 E E 'Doc' Smith Grey Lensman [S4] 1951-1 139 Pohl & Kornbluth The Space Merchants 19530 140 Connie Willis To Say Nothing of the Dog 19972 141 Ben Bova Mars 1992-3 142 C J Cherryh Cyteen 1988-1 143 Yevgeny Zamiatin We 19242 144 Lois Lowry The Giver [S1] 1993-1 145 Lois McMaster Bujold Barrayar [S5] 1991-1 146 Robert Silverberg Dying Inside 19720 147 J G Ballard The Drowned World 19623 148 Spider Robinson [C] Callahan's Crosstime Saloon 19770 149 Olaf Stapledon Last and First Men 19300 150 Kurt Vonnegut Player Piano 1952-3 151 Brian Aldiss Helliconia Spring [S1] 19821 152 Octavia Butler Parable of the Sower [S1] 1993-1 153 Charles Stross Accelerando 20055 154 Brian Aldiss Non-Stop (vt Starship) 19582 155 Olaf Stapledon Star Maker 1937-2 156 Hal Clement Mission of Gravity 1953-2 157 Lois McMaster Bujold Memory [S16] 19960 158 Samuel R Delany Babel-17 1966-3 159 Robert L Forward Dragon's Egg 19802 160 Brian Aldiss Hothouse (vt Long Afternoon of Earth) 19622 161 Harlan Ellison [C] Deathbird Stories 1975-2 162 Jack L Chalker Midnight At the Well of Souls 19771 163 Margaret Atwood Oryx and Crake 2003-3 164 Stephen Donaldson Gap Into Conflict: The Real Story [S1] 19900 165 Harry Harrison Deathworld One [S1] 19601 166 Piers Anthony Macroscope 1969-1 167 Harry Turtledove Guns of the South 19920 168 Stephen Baxter Evolution 20021 169 H G Wells The First Men in the Moon 1901-1 170 David Brin Earth 19901 171 Samuel R Delany Nova 1968-1 172 Nancy Kress Beggars in Spain 19931 173 Edgar Allan Poe [C] Science Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe 1976-1 174 Orson Scott Card [C] Maps in a Mirror 19900 175 Richard Bachman The Long Walk 19791 176 John Christopher The White Mountains [S1] 1967-1 177 Sheri S Tepper Grass 19890 178 John Brunner The Sheep Look Up 19720 179 Poul Anderson The High Crusade 19601 180 William Gibson Virtual Light [S1] 19934 181 Kazuo Ishiguro Never Let Me Go 2005-2 182 David Zindell Neverness 1988-1 183 Robert J Sawyer Hominids [S1] 2002-1 184 Joan D Vinge The Snow Queen 19804 185 Cory Doctorow Little Brother 20086 186 Iain M Banks The Algebraist 2004

-1 187 John Brunner The Shockwave Rider 1975— 188 Frank Herbert Children of Dune [S3] 1976-5 189 Cordwainer Smith [C] The Rediscovery of Man 1975-3 190 Vernor Vinge Rainbows End 20062 191 A E van Vogt The Voyage of the Space Beagle 1950— 192 Ernest Cline Ready Player One 2011-3 193 Charles Stross Singularity Sky [S1] 2003-6 194 James H Schmitz The Witches of Karres 1966— 195 Margaret Atwood MaddAddam [S3] 2013— 196 Pratchett & Baxter The Long Earth [S1] 2012-6 197 Roger Zelazny [C] Doors of His Face, Lamps of His Mouth 1971-1 198 Marion Zimmer Bradley The Heritage of Hastur [S9] 19750 199 David Mitchell Cloud Atlas 2004-4 200 H Beam Piper Little Fuzzy 1962

? 201 Keith Laumer The Great Time Machine Hoax 1965