15 best Sci Fi books ever written

[Andromeda]

A Sci Fi site claimed these to be the 15 best Sci Fi books ever written, and I was wondering if you agree, or
do you have your own list.....I find a few of my favourites missing.

1. The Time Machine, H G Wells
2. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
3. The Lensman Series, E E “Doc” Smith
4. 2001 - A Space Odyssey, Arthur C Clarke
5. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
6. The Foundation Series, Isaac Asimov
7. Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
8. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
9. Dune, Frank Herbert
10. Neuromancer, William Gibson
11. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K Dick
12. Gateway, Frederik Pohl
13. Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card
14. 1984, George Orwell
15. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

[Ziggaa]

I've seen list where they put Battlefield earth on before....although the movie was a flop...the book is worth a read for sci-fi lovers....I would also move the dune series up the list imo......

[linuxguru]

Wow - I am better educated than I thought! I read 14 of 15 [missed number 3] Back to the library soon!

[Andromeda]

You certainly are well read linuxguru.

Have not read 3 either nor 10 or 11.

The one I would put in there is
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr., and all of Heinleins books.

[eddyk]

I am surprized that a Jules Verne book is not on the list since he is considered the pioneer of science fiction literature.

Also, I believe Mary Shelley's Frankenstein should be on the list.

I would take Slaughterhouse-Five off the list, not because it is not a great book but I consider it more social satire then Sci-fi.

And I would take 2001 - A Space Odyssey off the list because I think its notoriety owes more to the Stanley Kubrick film rather then Arthur C Clarke's writing skills or vision.

[Dan]

Enders game was one of my favs.. I am now reading the Speaker for the Dead

[darkronin]

Just started a good one that I picked up on Manybooks.net. The creature from beyond. Btw does any one remember a sci fi story where a guy is sent down to an inhabited backwards planet to find guy hiding on it. I don't remember much about it except that he has a teenage pilot who stays orbiting around the planet and talks to him through a transmitter implanted in his head. In order to communicate with his ship, he just has to 'talk to himself'. He also has a tooth with poison in it to kill himself if he is captured, and his mistress figures out he is from somewhere else, because he is circumcised. Does this ring a bell for anyone?:tkl:

[Jemima]

Do you have the link Andromeda?

I have not read

2. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
7. Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
15. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

So 12/15 for me!

I am going to go grab those others on eBay asap :)

[Andromeda]

Originally posted by Jemima
Do you have the link Andromeda?


Sure do Jemima, here it is :)

http://listverse.com/literature/top-15-great-science-fiction-books/

I also said it was from a Sci Fi site, but it's actually a list site, my bad.....

[Jemima]

Sure do Jemima, here it is :)

http://listverse.com/literature/top-15-great-science-fiction-books/

I also said it was from a Sci Fi site, but it's actually a list site, my bad.....

Thanks Andromeda!!

Just off-topic - I recently bought the 1st series of Andromeda on DVD and am making my way through it :)

[Andromeda]

That's way cool Jemima, I liked the series too. But my nick is for the Galaxy 'Andromeda'.
Have fun with your DVD'S. I wouldn't mind having those myself.:)

[Jemima]

Oh I thought your nick mught be from the series :)

[Andromeda]

No alas I'm not a warship lol
Well, I'm not a galaxy either, but that's where the idea came from.:)