Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels

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Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels: An English-language selection, 1949–1984 is a 1985 book by the British science fiction editor David Pringle . It contains a chronologically ordered compilation of short essays on 100 science fiction novels that were published between 1949 and 1984. At the Locus Awards 1986 it came in 6th place in the nonfiction / reference category .

The selection is largely subjective and is limited to works by Anglo-Saxon authors (as indicated in the subtitle) with the exclusion of novels that are more likely to be assigned to the genre of fantasy or horror literature. The underlying conception of science fiction also requires that the content and forms of representation are in principle realistic, even if the prerequisites for the narratives are completely speculative. The selection was based on a list of 99 titles published by Pringle in March 1984 in No. 20 of the SF magazine Foundation . In 1988 Pringle wrote a similarly structured book for the field of fantasy.

A continuation of Pringle's compilation for the period from 1985 to 2010 with 101 selected novels was presented in 2012 by Damien Broderick and Paul di Filippo. Pringle wrote a preface to this sequel.

The table below contains the titles presented:

title author year
Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell 1949
Earth Abides George R. Stewart 1949
The Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury 1950
The Puppet Masters Robert A. Heinlein 1951
The Day of the Triffids John Wyndham 1951
limbo Bernard Wolfe 1952
The Demolished Man Alfred Bester 1953
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury 1953
Childhood's End Arthur C. Clarke 1953
The Paradox Men Charles L. Harness 1953
Bring the Jubilee Ward Moore 1953
The Space Merchants Frederik Pohl , CM Kornbluth 1953
Ring around the sun Clifford D. Simak 1953
More than human Theodore Sturgeon 1953
Mission of Gravity Hal Clement 1954
A mirror for observers Edgar Pangborn 1954
The End of Eternity Isaac Asimov 1955
The Long Tomorrow Leigh Brackett 1955
The Inheritors William Golding 1955
The Stars My Destination Alfred Bester 1956
The Death of Grass John Christopher 1956
The City and the Stars Arthur C. Clarke 1956
The Door into Summer Robert A. Heinlein 1957
The Midwich Cuckoos John Wyndham 1957
Non-stop Brian Aldiss 1958
A case of conscience James Blish 1958
Have Space Suit — Will Travel Robert A. Heinlein 1958
Time out of joint Philip K. Dick 1959
Alas, Babylon Pat Frank 1959
A Canticle for Leibowitz Walter M. Miller 1959
The Sirens of Titan Kurt Vonnegut 1959
Rogue Moon Algis Budrys 1960
Venus Plus X Theodore Sturgeon 1960
Hothouse Brian W. Aldiss 1962
The Drowned World James Graham Ballard 1962
A clockwork orange Anthony Burgess 1962
The Man in the High Castle Philip K. Dick 1962
Journey Beyond Tomorrow Robert Sheckley 1963
Way station Clifford D. Simak 1963
Cat's Cradle Kurt Vonnegut 1963
Greybeard Brian W. Aldiss 1964
Nova Express William S. Burroughs 1964
Martian Time slip Philip K. Dick 1964
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch Philip K. Dick 1964
The Wanderer Fritz Leiber 1964
Norstrilia Cordwainer Smith 1964-1968
Dr Bloodmoney Philip K. Dick 1965
Dune Frank Herbert 1965
The Crystal World James Graham Ballard 1966
Make Room! Make Room! Harry Harrison 1966
Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes 1966
The Dream Master Roger Zelazny 1966
Stand on Zanzibar John Brunner 1968
nova Samuel R. Delany 1968
Do Android's Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick 1968
Camp Concentration Thomas M. Disch 1968
The Final Program Michael Moorcock 1968
Pavane Keith Roberts 1968
Heroes and Villains Angela Carter 1969
The Left Hand of Darkness Ursula K. Le Guin 1969
The Palace of Eternity Bob Shaw 1969
Bow Jack Barron Norman Spinrad 1969
Rope zero Poul Anderson 1970
Downward to the Earth Robert Silverberg 1970
The Year of the Quiet Sun Wilson Tucker 1970
334 Thomas M. Disch 1972
The Fifth Head of Cerberus Gene Wolfe 1972
The Dancers at the End of Time Michael Moorcock 1972-1976
Crash James Graham Ballard 1973
Looking Backward, From the Year 2000 Mack Reynolds 1973
The embedding Ian Watson 1973
Walk to the End of the World Suzy McKee Charnas 1974
The Centauri Device M. John Harrison 1974
The Dispossessed Ursula K. Le Guin 1974
Inverted World Christopher Priest 1974
High rise James Graham Ballard 1975
Galaxies Barry N. Malzberg 1975
The Female Man Joanna Russ 1975
Orbitsville Bob Shaw 1975
The alteration Kingsley Amis 1976
Woman on the Edge of Time Marge Piercy 1976
Man plus Frederik Pohl 1976
Michaelmas Algis Budrys 1977
The Ophiuchi hotline John Varley 1977
Miracle Visitors Ian Watson 1978
Engine buzzer John Crowley 1979
On wings of song Thomas M. Disch 1979
The Walking Shadow Brian Stableford 1979
Juniper Time Kate Wilhelm 1979
Timescape Gregory Benford 1980
The Dreaming Dragons Damien Broderick 1980
Wild Seed Octavia E. Butler 1980
Riddley Walker Russell Hoban 1980
Roderick and Roderick at Random John Sladek 1980-1983
The Book of the New Sun Gene Wolfe 1980-1983
The Unreasoning Mask Philip José Farmer 1980
Oath of Fealty Larry Niven , Jerry Pournelle 1981
No Enemy But Time Michael Bishop 1982
The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica John Calvin Batchelor 1983
Neuromancer William Gibson 1984

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ David Pringle in the Science Fiction Awards + Database
  2. ^ David Pringle: Ninety-Nine SF Novels: The Best in English since 1949. Foundation # 30 (March 1984).
  3. ↑ David Pringle: Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels. Grafton, 1988, ISBN 0-246-13420-8 .
  4. ^ Damien Broderick, Paul di Filippo: Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels 1985-2010. Nonstop Press 2012, ISBN 978-1-933065-44-1 .