The Twenty Science Fiction Novels that Will Change Your Life
Submitted by haresign on Fri, 02/29/2008 - 10:42
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- Frankenstein (1818), by Mary Shelley
- The Time Machine (1895), by H.G. Wells
- At the Mountains of Madness (1931), by H.P. Lovecraft
- I, Robot (1955), by Isaac Asimov
- The Dispossessed (1974), by Ursula LeGuin
- Kindred (1979), by Octavia Butler
- Wizard (1979), by John Varley
- Consider Phlebas (1987), by Iain M. Banks
- He, She, and It (1991), by Marge Piercy
- Sarah Canary (1991), by Karen Joy Fowler
- A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), by Vernor Vinge
- The Sparrow (1996), by Mary Doria Russell
- Cryptonomicon (2000), by Neal Stephenson
- The Mount (2002), by Carol Emschwiller
- Perdido Street Station (2002), by China Mieville
- Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (2003), by Cory Doctorow
- Pattern Recognition (2003), by William Gibson
- Newton's Wake (2004), by Ken MacLeod
- Glasshouse (2006), by Charles Stross
Author Comments:
This list is courtesty of io9:
http://io9.com/361597/the-twenty-science-fiction-novels-that-will-change...
Which ones of these have you read? I haven't heard of many of the most recent ones, but I loved the Shelley, Wells, and Lovecraft books, as well as what I've read of Kindred. I, Robot barely qualified as a novel, and seemed more an exercise in logic.
Johnny Waco
I read:
* The Time Machine
* At the Mountains of Madness
* I, Robot
* The Dispossessed
* Wizard
* Consider Phlebas
* A Fire Upon the Deep
* Cryptonomicon
* Perdido Street Station
The last three are quite good although I have to ward you that Perdido Street Station is very unusual.