Most Significant SF & Fantasy Books

[Dave Monroe]

The Most Significant SF & Fantasy Books of the Last 50
Years, 1953-2002

1. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien 
2. The Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov 
3. Dune, Frank Herbert 
4. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein 
5. A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin 
6. Neuromancer, William Gibson
7. Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke 
8. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K.
Dick 
9. The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
10. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury 
11. The Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe 
12. A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr.
13. The Caves of Steel, Isaac Asimov 
14. Children of the Atom, Wilmar Shiras 
15. Cities in Flight, James Blish 
16. The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett 
17. Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison
18. Deathbird Stories, Harlan Ellison 
19. The Demolished Man, Alfred Bester 
20. Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany 
21. Dragonflight, Anne McCaffrey
22. Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card 
23. The First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the
Unbeliever, Stephen R. Donaldson 
24. The Forever War, Joe Haldeman 
25. Gateway, Frederik Pohl 
26. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J.K.
Rowling
27. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas
Adams
28. I Am Legend, Richard Matheson 
29. Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice 
30. The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin 
31. Little, Big, John Crowley 
32. Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny 
33. The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick 
34. Mission of Gravity, Hal Clement 
35. More Than Human, Theodore Sturgeon 
36. The Rediscovery of Man, Cordwainer Smith 
37. On the Beach, Nevil Shute 
38. Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke 
39. Ringworld, Larry Niven 
40. Rogue Moon, Algis Budrys 
41. The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
42. Slaughterhouse-5, Kurt Vonnegut 
43. Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
44. Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner 
45. The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester 
46. Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein
47. Stormbringer, Michael Moorcock
48. The Sword of Shannara, Terry Brooks 
49. Timescape, Gregory Benford 
50. To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip Jose Farmer

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