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This page is meant to cover the basics works and stellar pieces of science fiction literature. While the bulk of Science Fiction is trashy genre-work there are genuine masterpieces. The purpose of this article is to illustrate those masterpieces as best as possible. As always however, this list is imperfect and always growing. If there is anything missing please add to | This page is meant to cover the basics works and stellar pieces of science fiction literature. While the bulk of Science Fiction is trashy genre-work there are genuine masterpieces. The purpose of this article is to illustrate those masterpieces as best as possible. As always however, this list is imperfect and always growing. If there is anything missing please add to it.<br /> | ||
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===Isaac Asimov=== | ===Isaac Asimov=== | ||
===Arthur C. Clarke=== | ===Arthur C. Clarke=== | ||
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| style="text-align: center;"|2001: A Space Odyssey | | style="text-align: center;" |2001: A Space Odyssey | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Arthur C. Clarke | | style="text-align: center;" |Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |It's 2001. I shouldn't have to give an introduction | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|320 | | style="text-align: center;" |320 | ||
|[[File:2001.jpg|center|100px]] | |[[File:2001.jpg|center|100px]] | ||
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| style="text-align: center;"|Childhood's End | | style="text-align: center;" |Childhood's End | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Arthur C. Clarke | | style="text-align: center;" |Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Story regarding the future of mankind after the advent of | | style="text-align: center;" |Story regarding the future of mankind after the advent of an alien race appears and offers them a golden era of prosperity. | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|256 | | style="text-align: center;" |256 | ||
|[[File:ChildhoodsEnd(1stEd).jpg|center|100px]] | |[[File:ChildhoodsEnd(1stEd).jpg|center|100px]] | ||
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| style="text-align: center;"|The Collected Short Stories of Arthur C. Clarke | | style="text-align: center;" |The Collected Short Stories of Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Arthur C. Clarke | | style="text-align: center;" |Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|A Collection of nearly every short story Arthur Clarke has ever published tallying at over 100. Includes: The Nine Billions Names of God, The Sentinel, and his flash fiction "God said, 'Cancel Program GENESIS.' The universe ceased to exist." | | style="text-align: center;" |A Collection of nearly every short story Arthur Clarke has ever published tallying at over 100. Includes: The Nine Billions Names of God, The Sentinel, and his flash fiction "God said, 'Cancel Program GENESIS.' The universe ceased to exist." | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|976 | | style="text-align: center;" |976 | ||
|[[File:Collected_shorts.jpg|center|100px]] | |[[File:Collected_shorts.jpg|center|100px]] | ||
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| style="text-align: center;"|The Fountains of Paradise | | style="text-align: center;" |The Fountains of Paradise | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Arthur C. Clarke | | style="text-align: center;" |Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" | | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|332 | | style="text-align: center;" |332 | ||
|[[File:Fountains_copy.jpg|center|100px]] | |[[File:Fountains_copy.jpg|center|100px]] | ||
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|Rendevous with Rama | |Rendevous with Rama | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Arthur C. Clarke | | style="text-align: center;" |Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Classic book featuring mankind's encounter with the alien vessel Rama. | | style="text-align: center;" |Classic book featuring mankind's encounter with the alien vessel Rama. | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|274 | | style="text-align: center;" |274 | ||
|[[File:Rama_copy.jpg|center|100px]] | |[[File:Rama_copy.jpg|center|100px]] | ||
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| style="text-align: center;"|Friday | | style="text-align: center;" |Friday | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Robert Heinlein | | style="text-align: center;" |Robert Heinlein | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|The tale of a genetically modified female, designed to be superior physically, and mentally to normal human beings. The story follows her struggles with the prejudice against artificial humans and her attempts to assimilate. | | style="text-align: center;" |The tale of a genetically modified female, designed to be superior physically, and mentally to normal human beings. The story follows her struggles with the prejudice against artificial humans and her attempts to assimilate. | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|368 | | style="text-align: center;" |368 | ||
|[[File:Friday82.jpg|center|100px]] | |[[File:Friday82.jpg|center|100px]] | ||
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| style="text-align: center;"|Have Space Suit - Will Travel | | style="text-align: center;" |Have Space Suit - Will Travel | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Robert Heinlein | | style="text-align: center;" |Robert Heinlein | ||
| | |boy wins space suit in a lottery, goes to space and has adventures. | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|256 | | style="text-align: center;" |256 | ||
|[[File:Have_spacesuit.jpg|center|100px]] | |[[File:Have_spacesuit.jpg|center|100px]] | ||
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| style="text-align: center;"|Methuselah's Children | | style="text-align: center;" |Methuselah's Children | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Robert Heinlein | | style="text-align: center;" |Robert Heinlein | ||
| | | | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|183 | | style="text-align: center;" |183 | ||
|[[File:Methuselahs.jpg|center|100px]] | |[[File:Methuselahs.jpg|center|100px]] | ||
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| style="text-align: center;"|The Moon is a Harsh Mistress | | style="text-align: center;" |The Moon is a Harsh Mistress | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Robert Heinlein | | style="text-align: center;" |Robert Heinlein | ||
| | |The moon is a penal colony declaring independence from Earth, with a spontaneously self aware computer to help. Lots of philosophy of government, alternate social organism, alternate marriage arrangements. | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|384 | | style="text-align: center;" |384 | ||
|[[File:The_Moon_Is_A_Harsh_Mistress_(book).jpg|center|100px]] | |[[File:The_Moon_Is_A_Harsh_Mistress_(book).jpg|center|100px]] | ||
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| style="text-align: center;"|Orphans of the Sky | | style="text-align: center;" |Orphans of the Sky | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Robert Heinlein | | style="text-align: center;" |Robert Heinlein | ||
| | | | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|224 | | style="text-align: center;" |224 | ||
|[[File:Orphans_of_the_Sky_-_Front_Cover.jpg|center|100px]] | |[[File:Orphans_of_the_Sky_-_Front_Cover.jpg|center|100px]] | ||
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| style="text-align: center;"|Starship Troopers | | style="text-align: center;" |Starship Troopers | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Robert Heinlein | | style="text-align: center;" |Robert Heinlein | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|One of Heinlein's most famous pieces of science fiction, Starship Troopers follows the eyes of a human soldier going through the ranks in an alien war. | | style="text-align: center;" |One of Heinlein's most famous pieces of science fiction, Starship Troopers follows the eyes of a human soldier going through the ranks in an alien war. | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|263 | | style="text-align: center;" |263 | ||
|[[File:Startroop.jpg|center|100px]] | |[[File:Startroop.jpg|center|100px]] | ||
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| style="text-align: center;"|Stranger in a Strange Land | | style="text-align: center;" |Stranger in a Strange Land | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Robert Heinlein | | style="text-align: center;" |Robert Heinlein | ||
| | |Boy raised by Martians theoretically owns Mars, has strange powers due to his upbringing. Grok that. | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|528 | | style="text-align: center;" |528 | ||
|[[File:Stranger-in-a-strange-land2.jpg|center|100px]] | |[[File:Stranger-in-a-strange-land2.jpg|center|100px]] | ||
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| style="text-align: center;"|Time for the Stars | | style="text-align: center;" |Time for the Stars | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Robert Heinlein | | style="text-align: center;" |Robert Heinlein | ||
| | |sup light interstellar travel and consequences, plus mental telegraphy and other odd ideas. | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|256 | | style="text-align: center;" |256 | ||
|[[File:Time_for_the_stars.jpg|center|100px]] | |[[File:Time_for_the_stars.jpg|center|100px]] | ||
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| style="text-align: center;"|20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | | style="text-align: center;" |20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Verne, Jules | | style="text-align: center;" |Verne, Jules | ||
| | | | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|426 | | style="text-align: center;" |426 | ||
|[[File:20000.jpg|center|100px]] | |[[File:20000.jpg|center|100px]] | ||
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| style="text-align: center;"|A Journey to the Center of the Earth | | style="text-align: center;" |A Journey to the Center of the Earth | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Verne, Jules | | style="text-align: center;" |Verne, Jules | ||
| | | | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|256 | | style="text-align: center;" |256 | ||
|[[File:JourneyToCE_cover.jpg|center|100px]] | |[[File:JourneyToCE_cover.jpg|center|100px]] | ||
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| style="text-align: center;"|A Voyage to Arcturus | | style="text-align: center;" |A Voyage to Arcturus | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Lindsay, David | | style="text-align: center;" |Lindsay, David | ||
| | | | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|274 | | style="text-align: center;" |274 | ||
|[[File:JourneytoArcturus.jpg|center|100px]] | |[[File:JourneytoArcturus.jpg|center|100px]] | ||
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| style="text-align: center;"|Frankenstein | | style="text-align: center;" |Frankenstein | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Shelley, Mary | | style="text-align: center;" |Shelley, Mary | ||
| | | | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|328 | | style="text-align: center;" |328 | ||
|[[File:Frankenstein.jpg|center|100px]] | |[[File:Frankenstein.jpg|center|100px]] | ||
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| style="text-align: center;"|The Invisible Man | | style="text-align: center;" |The Invisible Man | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Wells, H.G. | | style="text-align: center;" |Wells, H.G. | ||
| | | | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|208 | | style="text-align: center;" |208 | ||
|[[File:The_invisible_man.jpg|center|100px]] | |[[File:The_invisible_man.jpg|center|100px]] | ||
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| style="text-align: center;"|The Island of Dr. Moreau | | style="text-align: center;" |The Island of Dr. Moreau | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Wells, H.G. | | style="text-align: center;" |Wells, H.G. | ||
| | | | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|160 | | style="text-align: center;" |160 | ||
|[[File:Drmoreau.jpg|center|100px]] | |[[File:Drmoreau.jpg|center|100px]] | ||
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| style="text-align: center;"|The Last Man | | style="text-align: center;" |The Last Man | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Shelley, Mary | | style="text-align: center;" |Shelley, Mary | ||
| | | | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|352 | | style="text-align: center;" |352 | ||
|[[File:Shelley_Last_Man_001.jpg|center|100px]] | |[[File:Shelley_Last_Man_001.jpg|center|100px]] | ||
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| style="text-align: center;"|True History | | style="text-align: center;" |True History | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Lucian of Samosata | | style="text-align: center;" |Lucian of Samosata | ||
| | | | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|44 | | style="text-align: center;" |44 | ||
|[[File:Lucian.jpg|center|100px]] | |[[File:Lucian.jpg|center|100px]] | ||
|- | |- | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Micromegas | | style="text-align: center;" |Micromegas | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Voltaire | | style="text-align: center;" |Voltaire | ||
| | | | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|48 | | style="text-align: center;" |48 | ||
|[[File:Micromegas.jpg|center|100px]] | |[[File:Micromegas.jpg|center|100px]] | ||
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| style="text-align: center;"|The Time Machine | | style="text-align: center;" |The Time Machine | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Wells, H.G. | | style="text-align: center;" |Wells, H.G. | ||
| | | | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|104 | | style="text-align: center;" |104 | ||
|[[File:Time_machine.jpg|center|100px]] | |[[File:Time_machine.jpg|center|100px]] | ||
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| style="text-align: center;"|The War of the Worlds | | style="text-align: center;" |The War of the Worlds | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Wells, H.G. | | style="text-align: center;" |Wells, H.G. | ||
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| style="text-align: center;"|138 | | style="text-align: center;" |138 | ||
|[[File:War-of-the-worlds-hg-wells.jpg|center|100px]] | |[[File:War-of-the-worlds-hg-wells.jpg|center|100px]] | ||
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! scope="col"|Author | ! scope="col" |Author | ||
! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Description | ! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Description | ||
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| style="text-align: center;"|A Princess of Mars | | style="text-align: center;" |A Princess of Mars | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Burroughs, Edgar Rice | | style="text-align: center;" |Burroughs, Edgar Rice | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" | | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|160 | | style="text-align: center;" |160 | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|[[File:A_princess_of_mars.jpg|center|100px]] | | style="text-align: center;" |[[File:A_princess_of_mars.jpg|center|100px]] | ||
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| style="text-align: center;"|The Big Time | | style="text-align: center;" |The Big Time | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Leiber, Fritz | | style="text-align: center;" |Leiber, Fritz | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" | | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|152 | | style="text-align: center;" |152 | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|[[File:The_big_time.jpg|center|100px]] | | style="text-align: center;" |[[File:The_big_time.jpg|center|100px]] | ||
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| style="text-align: center;"|The Day of the Triffids | | style="text-align: center;" |The Day of the Triffids | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Wyndham, John | | style="text-align: center;" |Wyndham, John | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" | | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|256 | | style="text-align: center;" |256 | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|[[File:The_Day_Of_The_Triffids.jpg|center|100px]] | | style="text-align: center;" |[[File:The_Day_Of_The_Triffids.jpg|center|100px]] | ||
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| style="text-align: center;"|The Demolished Man | | style="text-align: center;" |The Demolished Man | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Bester, Alfred | | style="text-align: center;" |Bester, Alfred | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" | | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|256 | | style="text-align: center;" |256 | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|[[File:DemolishedMan.jpg|center|100px]] | | style="text-align: center;" |[[File:DemolishedMan.jpg|center|100px]] | ||
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| style="text-align: center;"|Dorsai! | | style="text-align: center;" |Dorsai! | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Dickson, | | style="text-align: center;" |Dickson, Gordon R. | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" | | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|288 | | style="text-align: center;" |288 | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|[[File:Dorsai.jpg|center|100px]] | | style="text-align: center;" |[[File:Dorsai.jpg|center|100px]] | ||
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| style="text-align: center;"|The Martian Chronicles | | style="text-align: center;" |The Martian Chronicles | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Bradbury, Ray | | style="text-align: center;" |Bradbury, Ray | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" | | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|288 | | style="text-align: center;" |288 | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|[[File:Martian_chronicles.jpg|center|100px]] | | style="text-align: center;" |[[File:Martian_chronicles.jpg|center|100px]] | ||
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| style="text-align: center;"|Mission of Gravity | | style="text-align: center;" |Mission of Gravity | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Clement, Hal | | style="text-align: center;" |Clement, Hal | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |good hard science about being on the surface of a 300 gravity world. | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|203 | | style="text-align: center;" |203 | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|[[File:Mission_of_gravity.jpg|center|100px]] | | style="text-align: center;" |[[File:Mission_of_gravity.jpg|center|100px]] | ||
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| style="text-align: center;"|Out of the Silent Planet | | style="text-align: center;" |Out of the Silent Planet | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Lewis, C.S. | | style="text-align: center;" |Lewis, C.S. | ||
| | | | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|160 | | style="text-align: center;" |160 | ||
|[[File:Out_of_the_silent_planet.jpg|center|100px]] | |[[File:Out_of_the_silent_planet.jpg|center|100px]] | ||
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| style="text-align: center;"|Slan | | style="text-align: center;" |Slan | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|van Vogt, A.E. | | style="text-align: center;" |van Vogt, A.E. | ||
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| style="text-align: center;"|272 | | style="text-align: center;" |272 | ||
|[[File:Slan.jpg|center|100px]] | |[[File:Slan.jpg|center|100px]] | ||
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| style="text-align: center;"|Star Maker | | style="text-align: center;" |Star Maker | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Stapledon, Olaf | | style="text-align: center;" |Stapledon, Olaf | ||
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| style="text-align: center;"|232 | | style="text-align: center;" |232 | ||
|[[File:Star_maker.jpg|center|100px]] | |[[File:Star_maker.jpg|center|100px]] | ||
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| style="text-align: center;"|Stars My Destination | | style="text-align: center;" |Stars My Destination | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Bester, Alfred | | style="text-align: center;" |Bester, Alfred | ||
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| style="text-align: center;"|272 | | style="text-align: center;" |272 | ||
|[[File:Starsmydestination.jpg|center|100px]] | |[[File:Starsmydestination.jpg|center|100px]] | ||
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| style="text-align: center;"|To Your Scattered Bodies Go | | style="text-align: center;" |To Your Scattered Bodies Go | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Farmer, Philip Jóse | | style="text-align: center;" |Farmer, Philip Jóse | ||
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| style="text-align: center;"|184 | | style="text-align: center;" |184 | ||
|[[File:To_your_scattered_bodies.jpg|center|100px]] | |[[File:To_your_scattered_bodies.jpg|center|100px]] | ||
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| style="text-align: center;"|Triplanetary | | style="text-align: center;" |Triplanetary | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Smith, Edward E. | | style="text-align: center;" |Smith, Edward E. | ||
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| style="text-align: center;"|240 | | style="text-align: center;" |240 | ||
|[[File:Triplanetary.jpg|center|100px]] | |[[File:Triplanetary.jpg|center|100px]] | ||
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| style="text-align: center;"|The Voyage of the Space Beagle | | style="text-align: center;" |The Voyage of the Space Beagle | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|van Vogt, A.E. | | style="text-align: center;" |van Vogt, A.E. | ||
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| style="text-align: center;"|224 | | style="text-align: center;" |224 | ||
|[[File:VoyageOfTheSpaceBeagle1.jpg|center|100px]] | |[[File:VoyageOfTheSpaceBeagle1.jpg|center|100px]] | ||
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| style=" | | style="text-align: center;" |Who? | ||
| style="text-align: center;" |Budrys, Algis | |||
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Who? | | style="text-align: center;" |158 | ||
| style=" | |[[File:Who.jpg|center|100px]] | ||
Budrys, Algis | |||
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| style="text-align: center;"|Who Goes There | | style="text-align: center;" |Who Goes There | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Campbell Jr., John W. | | style="text-align: center;" |Campbell Jr., John W. | ||
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| style="text-align: center;"|168 | | style="text-align: center;" |168 | ||
|[[File:Whogoesthere.jpg|center|100px]] | |[[File:Whogoesthere.jpg|center|100px]] | ||
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| style="text-align: center;"|The World of Null-A | | style="text-align: center;" |The World of Null-A | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|van Vogt, A.E. | | style="text-align: center;" |van Vogt, A.E. | ||
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| style="text-align: center;"|272 | | style="text-align: center;" |272 | ||
|[[File:The_world_of.jpg|center|100px]] | |[[File:The_world_of.jpg|center|100px]] | ||
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! scope="col"|Description | ! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Description | ||
! scope="col"|Book Cover | ! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Pages | ||
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| style="text-align: center;"|A Fire Upon the Deep | | style="text-align: center;" |A Fire Upon the Deep | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Vernor | | style="text-align: center;" |Vinge, Vernor | ||
| | |Three tiers of galactic civilization face a common threat from a malicious, sentient super-AI. Hard to describe. Basically a must read. | ||
| style="text-align: center;" |624 | |||
|[[File:A_Fire_Upon_The_Deep.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="text-align: center;" |A Time of Changes | |||
| style="text-align: center;" |Silverberg, Robert | |||
| | | | ||
| style="text-align: center;" |304 | |||
|[[File:A_Time_Of_Changes.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="text-align: center;" |The Algebraist | |||
| style="text-align: center;" |Banks, Iain M. | |||
|Guy looks for secret formula to unlock wormhole travel in a varied and imaginitive universe. | |||
| style="text-align: center;" |434 | |||
|[[File:The_Algebraist.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Babel-17 | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Delany, Samuel R. | ||
| | |language determines the thoughts and ideas that can be conveyed efficiently. | ||
| | | style="text-align: center;" |158 | ||
|[[File:Babel-17.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Behold the Man | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Moorcock, Michael | ||
| | | | ||
| style="text-align: center;" |124 | |||
|[[File:Behold_The_Man.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Beyond Apollo | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Malzberg, Barry N. | ||
| | | | ||
| style="text-align: center;" |156 | |||
|[[File:Beyond_Apollo.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Bill, the Galactic Hero | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Harrison, Harry | ||
| | |Anti-War Military Satire and the cafeteria tray problem. | ||
| | | style="text-align: center;" |208 | ||
|[[File:Bill_The_Galactic_Hero.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Blood Music | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Bear, Greg | ||
| | |Hard science-fiction microbiology about a strange microorganism that a guy creates and willingly infects himself with. | ||
| | | style="text-align: center;" |294 | ||
|[[File:Blood_Music.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Camouflage | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Haldeman, Joe | ||
| | | | ||
| style="text-align: center;" |304 | |||
|[[File:Camouflage.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Consider Phlebas | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Banks, Iain M. | ||
| | | | ||
| style="text-align: center;" |544 | |||
|[[File:Consider_Phleabas.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Cryptonomicon | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Stephenson, Neal | ||
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| style="text-align: center;" |1168 | |||
|[[File:Cryptonomicon.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Darwin's Radio | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Bear, Greg | ||
| | |Hard science-fiction. Hard to get into if you don't know anything about molecular biology, but this makes it awesome. Retrovirus based disease changes the genetic code of sex cells in women. | ||
| | | style="text-align: center;" |544 | ||
|[[File:Darwins_Radio.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |The Dispossessed | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Le Guin, Ursula K. | ||
| | | | ||
| style="text-align: center;" |400 | |||
|[[File:The_Dispossessed.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Doomsday Book | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Willis, Connie | ||
| | | | ||
| style="text-align: center;" |592 | |||
|[[File:Doomsday_Book.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Downbelow Station | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Cherryh, C.J. | ||
| | |the Alliance/Union space and a station with resource problems on its associated planet, Downbelow, and its inhabetants. | ||
| | | style="text-align: center;" |352 | ||
|[[File:Downbelow_Station.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Dune | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Herbert, Frank | ||
| | |Fueding families fight over a precious resource that is only avaliable on a single planet. This resource, spice, is essential to galactic civilisation. Spice must flow. Classic. | ||
| | | style="text-align: center;" |544 | ||
|[[File:Dune.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Dying Inside | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Silverberg, Robert | ||
| | | | ||
| style="text-align: center;" |304 | |||
|[[File:Dying_Inside.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Ender's Game | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Card, Orson Scott | ||
| | |Young boy selected for military service to fight off an invading force of alien ant like creatures. Must read. | ||
| | | style="text-align: center;" |352 | ||
|[[File:Ender's_Game.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |The Faded Sun Trilogy | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Cherryh, C.J. | ||
| | | | ||
| style="text-align: center;" |784 | |||
|[[File:The_Faded_Sun.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Fire time | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Anderson, Poul | ||
| | | | ||
| style="text-align: center;" |288 | |||
|[[File:Fire_Time.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Flowers for Algernon | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Keyes, Daniel | ||
| | | | ||
| style="text-align: center;" |324 | |||
|[[File:Flowers_For_Algernon.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Footfall | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Niven, Larry & Pournelle, Jerry | ||
| | | | ||
| style="text-align: center;" |524 | |||
|[[File:Footfall.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |The Forever War | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Haldeman, Joe | ||
| | |Preachy anti-war vietnam era science fiction about an interesting facet of slower-than-lightspeed intergalactic warfare. | ||
| | | style="text-align: center;" |384 | ||
|[[File:The_Forever_War.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |The Forge of God | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Bear, Greg | ||
| | | | ||
| style="text-align: center;" |480 | |||
|[[File:The_Forge_Of_God.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Gateway | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Pohl, Frederik | ||
| | |An abandoned alien space station is discovered that contains many capsules that go to random locations in the galaxy. | ||
| | | style="text-align: center;" |288 | ||
|[[File:Gateway.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Halcyon Drift | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Stableford, Brian | ||
| | | | ||
| style="text-align: center;" |175 | |||
|[[File:Halcyon_Drift.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Adams, Douglas | ||
| | | | ||
| style="text-align: center;" |272 | |||
|[[File:Hitchiker's_Guide_To_The_Galaxy.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Hyperion | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Simmons, Dan | ||
| | |A group of people are drawn to a planet, which links them all together. Heavy on the backstory. | ||
| | | style="text-align: center;" |481 | ||
|[[File:Hyperion.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Ellison, Harlan | ||
| | |I have no words and I must describe. | ||
| | | style="text-align: center;" |20 | ||
|[[File:I_Have_No_Mouth_And_I_Must_Scream.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Ilium | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Dan | | style="text-align: center;" |Simmons, Dan | ||
| | | | ||
| style="text-align: center;" |752 | |||
|[[File:Ilium.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |The Illuminatus! Trilogy | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Shea, Robert & Wilson, Robert Anton | ||
| | | | ||
| style="text-align: center;" |805 | |||
|[[File:Illuminatus.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Kiln People | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Brin, David | ||
| | | | ||
| style="text-align: center;" |336 | |||
|[[File:Kiln_People.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="text-align: center;"|The | | style="text-align: center;" |The Left Hand of Darkness | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Le Guin, Ursula K. | ||
| | | | ||
| style="text-align: center;" |320 | |||
|[[File:The_Left_Hand_Of_Darkness.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Lord Valentine's Castle | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Silverberg, Robert | ||
| | | | ||
| style="text-align: center;" |528 | |||
|[[File:Lord_Valentine's_Castle.png|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Lord of Light | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Zelazny, Roger | ||
| | |A starship breaks down and the on board in stasis passengers are decanted on to the planet below. The crew contends with the planet inhabitants to allow the humans to prevail then sets up Karma machines to control longevity, becoming a pantheon of god like powerful very old humans. | ||
| | |||
Sam starts the revolution. | |||
| style="text-align: center;" |304 | |||
|[[File:Lord_Of_Light.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style=" | | style="vertical-align: top;" |Make Room! Make Room! | ||
| style=" | | style="vertical-align: top;" |Harry Harrison | ||
| | | style="vertical-align: top;" |Soylent was neither green nor made of people in this book, which is quite a bit different (better) than the movie it spawned. This story is basically a murder mystery set in an overpopulated world. The tone of the novel paints a slightly goofy (but always sympathetic) portrait of humanity. | ||
| | | style="vertical-align: top;" | | ||
| style="vertical-align: top;" |[[File:Make_Room!_Make_Room!.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Man Plus | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Pohl, Frederik | ||
| | |Superhuman project for Mars colonisation. | ||
| | | style="text-align: center;" |320 | ||
|[[File:Man_Plus.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="text-align: center;"|Man | | style="text-align: center;" |The Man Who Melted | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Dann, Jack | ||
| | | | ||
| style="text-align: center;" |274 | |||
|[[File:The_Man_Who_Melted.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="text-align: center;"|The Man Who | | style="text-align: center;" |The Man Who Folded Himself | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Gerrold, David | ||
| | |Ever wondered what would happen if you abused the everloving shit out of time travel? | ||
| | | style="text-align: center;" |144 | ||
|[[File:The_Man_Who_Folded_Himself.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="text-align: center;"|The | | style="text-align: center;" |The Mote in God's Eye | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Niven, Larry & Pournelle, Jerry | ||
| | |Mankind discovers alien race with an extremely different method of using resources. | ||
| | | style="text-align: center;" |592 | ||
|[[File:The_Mote_In_God's_Eye.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Moving Mars | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Bear, Greg | ||
| | |Something about rebellious students making a big fuss about losing their freedoms or some shit. | ||
| | | style="text-align: center;" |448 | ||
|[[File:Moving_Mars.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Old Man's War | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Scalzi, John | ||
| | |Earth is a backwater and the only way off is a one-way ticket off-planet with the Colonial Defense Force- the catch is they only take retirement age geezers to serve. The main character, John Perry, takes that deal and faces the consequences. | ||
| | | style="text-align: center;" |320 | ||
|[[File:Old_Man's_War.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |The Peace War | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Vinge, Vernor | ||
| | |Post-war. A war that was ended thanks to the invention of an encapsulating technology, and now the populace lead a life monitored by an anti-technology faction. | ||
| | | style="text-align: center;" |304 | ||
|[[File:The_Peace_War.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Rainbow's End | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Vernor | | style="text-align: center;" |Vinge, Vernor | ||
| | |Cyber-space avatar worlds clash with a real world developing increasingly deadly bioweapons. | ||
| | | style="text-align: center;" |368 | ||
|[[File:Rainbow's_End.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Raft | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Baxter, Stephen | ||
| | |Book 1 in the engaging "Xeelee sequence". A creative world where the laws of the universe are different, and life prevails. | ||
| | | style="text-align: center;" |264 | ||
|[[File:Raft.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="text-align: center;"|Red Mars | | style="text-align: center;" |Red Mars | ||
|Kim Stanley | | style="text-align: center;" |Robinson, Kim Stanley | ||
| | | | ||
| style="text-align: center;" |592 | |||
|[[File:Red_Mars.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="text-align: center;"|Revelation Space | | style="text-align: center;" |Revelation Space | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Reynolds, Alastair | ||
| | | | ||
| style="text-align: center;" |576 | |||
|[[File:Revelation_Space.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="text-align: center;"|Ringworld | | style="text-align: center;" |Ringworld | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Larry | | style="text-align: center;" |Niven, Larry | ||
| | |Trip to the ringworld. | ||
| | | style="text-align: center;" |352 | ||
|[[File:Ringworld.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="text-align: center;"|Rite of Passage | | style="text-align: center;" |Rite of Passage | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Alexei | | style="text-align: center;" |Panshin, Alexei | ||
| | |Coming of age on a generational starship. A young girl finds out what her real ambition is. A great read. | ||
| | | style="text-align: center;" |260 | ||
|[[File:Rite_Of_Passage.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="text-align: center;"|River of Gods | | style="text-align: center;" |River of Gods | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Ian | | style="text-align: center;" |McDonald, Ian | ||
| | | | ||
| style="text-align: center;" |599 | |||
|[[File:Rivers_Of_Gods.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="text-align: center;"|Singularity Sky | | style="text-align: center;" |Singularity Sky | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Charles | | style="text-align: center;" |Stross, Charles | ||
| | | | ||
| style="text-align: center;" |352 | |||
|[[File:Singularity_Sky.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="text-align: center;"|Slaughterhouse Five | | style="text-align: center;" |Slaughterhouse Five | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Kurt | | style="text-align: center;" |Vonnegut Jr., Kurt | ||
| | |A soldier with a time-travel problem survives a bombing, is abducted by aliens, and has a fat wife that he doesn't really care about. Makes you think a little about time and free will. | ||
| | | style="text-align: center;" |288 | ||
|[[File:Slaughterhouse_Five.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="text-align: center;"|The Snow Queen | | style="text-align: center;" |The Snow Queen | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Joan D. | | style="text-align: center;" |Vinge, Joan D. | ||
| | | | ||
| style="text-align: center;" |448 | |||
|[[File:The_Snow_Queen.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="text-align: center;"|Solaris | | style="text-align: center;" |Solaris | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Stanislaw | | style="text-align: center;" |Lem, Stanislaw | ||
| | | | ||
| style="text-align: center;" |204 | |||
|[[File:Solaris.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="text-align: center;"|The Sparrow | | style="text-align: center;" |The Sparrow | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Mary Doria | | style="text-align: center;" |Russell, Mary Doria | ||
| | | | ||
| style="text-align: center;" |408 | |||
|[[File:The_Sparrow.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="text-align: center;"|Spin | | style="text-align: center;" |Spin | ||
|Robert Charles | | style="text-align: center;" |Wilson, Robert Charles | ||
| | | | ||
| style="text-align: center;" |464 | |||
|[[File:Spin.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="text-align: center;"|Sundiver | | style="text-align: center;" |Sundiver | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|David | | style="text-align: center;" |Brin, David | ||
| | |Stars + explorers = sundivers. | ||
| | | style="text-align: center;" |352 | ||
|[[File:Sundiver.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="text-align: center;"|Tau Zero | | style="text-align: center;" |Tau Zero | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Poul | | style="text-align: center;" |Anderson, Poul | ||
| | | | ||
| style="text-align: center;" |190 | |||
|[[File:Tau_Zero.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="vertical-align: top;"|Think Like a Dinosaur and Other Stories | | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;" |Think Like a Dinosaur and Other Stories | ||
| style="vertical-align: top;"|James Patrick | | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;" |Kelley, James Patrick | ||
| style="vertical-align: top;"| | | style="vertical-align: top;" | | ||
| style="vertical-align: top;"| | | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;" |275 | ||
| style="vertical-align: top;" |[[File:Think_Like_A_Dinosaur.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|This Immortal / ...And Call Me Conrad | | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;" |This Immortal / ...And Call Me Conrad | ||
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Roger | | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;" |Zelazny, Roger | ||
| style="vertical-align: top;"| | | style="vertical-align: top;" | | ||
| style="vertical-align: top;"| | | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;" |176 | ||
| style="vertical-align: top;" |[[File:This_Immortal.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Timescape | | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;" |Timescape | ||
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Gregory | | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;" |Benford, Gregory | ||
| style="vertical-align: top;"| | | style="vertical-align: top;" | | ||
| style="vertical-align: top;"| | | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;" |512 | ||
| style="vertical-align: top;" |[[File:Timescape.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|The Time Ships | | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;" |The Time Ships | ||
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Stephen | | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;" |Baxter, Stephen | ||
| style="vertical-align: top;"| | | style="vertical-align: top;" |Time travel. Time machines powered by flubber or kryptonite or something travel into massively distant futures. | ||
| style="vertical-align: top;"| | | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;" |544 | ||
| style="vertical-align: top;" |[[File:The_Time_Ships.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Troika | | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;" |The Troika | ||
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Stepan | | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;" |Chapman, Stepan | ||
| style="vertical-align: top;"| | | style="vertical-align: top;" | | ||
| style="vertical-align: top;"| | | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;" |256 | ||
| style="vertical-align: top;" |[[File:The_Troika.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Ubik | | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;" |Ubik | ||
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Philip K. | | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;" |Dick, Philip K. | ||
| style="vertical-align: top;"| | | style="vertical-align: top;" | | ||
| style="vertical-align: top;"| | | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;" |224 | ||
| style="vertical-align: top;" |[[File:Ubik.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Vurt | | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;" |Vurt | ||
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Jeff | | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;" |Noon, Jeff | ||
| style="vertical-align: top;"| | | style="vertical-align: top;" | | ||
| style="vertical-align: top;"| | | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;" |342 | ||
| style="vertical-align: top;" |[[File:Vurt.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|World of | | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;" |World of Ptavvs | ||
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Larry | | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;" |Niven, Larry | ||
| style="vertical-align: top;"| | | style="vertical-align: top;" | | ||
| style="vertical-align: top;"| | | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;" |192 | ||
| style="vertical-align: top;" |[[File:World_Of_Ptavvs.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
|} | |} | ||
==Cyberpunk== | ==Cyberpunk== | ||
{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" | {| class="fandom-table" border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" | ||
! scope="col"|Title | ! scope="col" |Title | ||
! scope="col"|Author | ! scope="col" |Author | ||
! scope="col"|Description | ! scope="col" |Description | ||
! scope="col"|Book Cover | ! | ||
! scope="col" |Book Cover | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Accelerando | | style="text-align: center;" |Accelerando | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Charles Stross | | style="text-align: center;" |Charles Stross | ||
| | | | ||
|448 | |||
|[[File:Accelerando.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Altered Carbon | | style="text-align: center;" |Altered Carbon | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Richard K. Morgan | | style="text-align: center;" |Richard K. Morgan | ||
| | |Planets are colonized and people's minds are digital. Intelligent soldier-turned-criminal is bailed out of mental prison and sent to Earth to investigate a murder. Of course, there are those who don't like him investigating. | ||
| | |544 | ||
|[[File:Altered_Carbon.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|The Diamond Age | | style="text-align: center;" |The Diamond Age | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Neal Stephenson | | style="text-align: center;" |Neal Stephenson | ||
| | | | ||
|512 | |||
|[[File:The_Diamond_Age.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Philip K. Dick | ||
| | |the book Blade Runner was made from. | ||
| | |208 | ||
|[[File:Do_Androids_Dream_Of_Electric_Sheep.png|thumb|98px]] | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Islands in the Net | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Bruce Sterling | ||
| | | | ||
|448 | |||
|[[File:Islands_In_The_Net.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Neuromancer | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |William Gibson | ||
| | |The beginning of cyberpunk, the invention of the words cyberspace, an many of the memes of the Internet, plus AI and some of the consequences of an insane AI. | ||
| | |320 | ||
|[[File:Neuromancer.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Permutation City | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Greg Egan | ||
| | | | ||
|384 | |||
|[[File:Permutation_City.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style=" | | style="vertical-align: top;" |The Shockwave Rider | ||
| style=" | | style="vertical-align: top;" |John Brunner | ||
| | | style="vertical-align: top;" | | ||
| | |320 | ||
| style="vertical-align: top;" |[[File:The_Shockwave_Rider.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Snow Crash | | style="text-align: center;" |Snow Crash | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Neal Stephenson | | style="text-align: center;" |Neal Stephenson | ||
| | | | ||
|448 | |||
|[[File:Snow_Crash.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Software | | style="text-align: center;" |Software | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Rudy Rucker | | style="text-align: center;" |Rudy Rucker | ||
| | | | ||
|167 | |||
|[[File:Software.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
|} | |} | ||
==Post Apocalyptic== | ==Post Apocalyptic== | ||
{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" | {| class="fandom-table" border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" | ||
! scope="col"|Title | ! scope="col" |Title | ||
! scope="col"|Author | ! scope="col" |Author | ||
! scope="col"|Description | ! scope="col" | | ||
! scope="col"|Book Cover | Description | ||
! | |||
! scope="col" |Book Cover | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|A Canticle for Leibowitz | | style="text-align: center;" |A Canticle for Leibowitz | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Walter M. Miller, Jr. | | style="text-align: center;" |Walter M. Miller, Jr. | ||
| | | | ||
Humanity fucks itself with nukes and decides that knowledge is evil. Order of Catholic monks decides to preserve knowledge until humanity unfucks itself. Contains three shorter stories. One taking place in Dark Ages II, Renaissance II and the build up to WWIV. Also Latin. | |||
|334 | |||
|[[File:A_Canticle_For_Leibowitz.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|A Wrinkle in Time | | style="text-align: center;" |A Wrinkle in Time | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Madeleine L'Engle | | style="text-align: center;" |Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| | | | ||
|288 | |||
|[[File:A_Wrinkle_In_Time.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|The Chrysalids | | style="text-align: center;" |The Chrysalids | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|John | | style="text-align: center;" |John Wyndham | ||
| | | | ||
|224 | |||
|[[File:The_Chrysalids.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Cloud Atlas | | style="text-align: center;" |Cloud Atlas | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|David Mitchell | | style="text-align: center;" |David Mitchell | ||
| | | | ||
|530 | |||
|[[File:Cloud_Atlas.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|The Deep | | style="text-align: center;" |The Deep | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|John Crowley | | style="text-align: center;" |John Crowley | ||
| | | | ||
|192 | |||
|[[File:The_Deep.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Dies the Fire | | style="text-align: center;" |Dies the Fire | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|S.M. | | style="text-align: center;" |S.M. Stirling | ||
| | | | ||
|592 | |||
|[[File:Dies_The_Fire.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Dr. Bloodmoney | | style="text-align: center;" |Dr. Bloodmoney | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Philip K. Dick | | style="text-align: center;" |Philip K. Dick | ||
| | | | ||
|272 | |||
|[[File:Dr_Bloodmoney.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Dreamsnake | | style="text-align: center;" |Dreamsnake | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Vonda M. McIntyre | | style="text-align: center;" |Vonda M. McIntyre | ||
| | | | ||
|288 | |||
|[[File:Dreamsnake.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|The Dying Earth | | style="text-align: center;" |The Dying Earth | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Jack Vance | | style="text-align: center;" |Jack Vance | ||
| | | | ||
|157 | |||
|[[File:The_Dying_Earth.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Earth Abides | | style="text-align: center;" |Earth Abides | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|George R. Stewart | | style="text-align: center;" |George R. Stewart | ||
| | | | ||
|320 | |||
|[[File:Earth_Abides.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|The Elfin Ship | | style="text-align: center;" |The Elfin Ship | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|James Blaylock | | style="text-align: center;" |James Blaylock | ||
| | | | ||
| | | | ||
|[[File:The_Elfin_Ship.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|I Am Legend | | style="text-align: center;" |I Am Legend | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Richard Matheson | | style="text-align: center;" |Richard Matheson | ||
| | | | ||
|160 | |||
|[[File:I_Am_Legend.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Lucifer's Hammer | | style="text-align: center;" |Lucifer's Hammer | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle | | style="text-align: center;" |Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle | ||
| | |A comet strike, and its aftermath in California. | ||
| | |640 | ||
|[[File:Lucifer's_Hammer.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|The Mount | | style="text-align: center;" |The Mount | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Carol Emshwiller | | style="text-align: center;" |Carol Emshwiller | ||
| | | | ||
|242 | |||
|[[File:The_Mount.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|The Nightland | | style="text-align: center;" |The Nightland | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|William Hope Hodgson | | style="text-align: center;" |William Hope Hodgson | ||
| | | | ||
|246 | |||
|[[File:The_Night_Land.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|The Planet of the Apes | | style="text-align: center;" |The Planet of the Apes | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Pierre Boulle | | style="text-align: center;" |Pierre Boulle | ||
| | | | ||
|208 | |||
|[[File:The_Planet_Of_The_Apes.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|The Postman | | style="text-align: center;" |The Postman | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|David Brin | | style="text-align: center;" |David Brin | ||
| | | | ||
|336 | |||
|[[File:The_Postman.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Ravage | | style="text-align: center;" |Ravage | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Iain Rob Wright | ||
| | | | ||
|24 | |||
|[[File:Ravage.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Riddley Walker | | style="text-align: center;" |Riddley Walker | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Russell Hoban | | style="text-align: center;" |Russell Hoban | ||
| | | | ||
|272 | |||
|[[File:Riddley_Walker.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|The Road | | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;" |The Road | ||
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Cormac McCarthy | | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;" |Cormac McCarthy | ||
| style="vertical-align: top;"| | | style="vertical-align: top;" |A man, foreseeing a freezing winter, and his son traverse a bleak landscape caused by an undescribed disaster. A good gift for your parent. | ||
| style="vertical-align: top;"| | |324 | ||
| style="vertical-align: top;" |[[File:The_Road.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Shadow and Claw | | style="text-align: center;" |Shadow and Claw | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Gene Wolfe | | style="text-align: center;" |Gene Wolfe | ||
| | | | ||
|528 | |||
|[[File:Shadow_And_Claw.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
|- | |||
| style="vertical-align: top;" |The Sheep Look Up | |||
| style="vertical-align: top;" |John Brunner | |||
| style="vertical-align: top;" | | |||
|486 | |||
| style="vertical-align: top;" |[[File:The_Sheep_Look_Up.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|The Tripods Trilogy | | style="text-align: center;" |The Tripods Trilogy | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |John Christopher | ||
| | | | ||
|486 | |||
|[[File:The_Tripods.jpeg|thumb|98px]] | |||
|} | |} | ||
==Dystopian== | ==Dystopian== | ||
{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" | {| class="fandom-table" border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" | ||
! scope="col"|Title | ! scope="col" |Title | ||
! scope="col"|Author | ! scope="col" |Author | ||
! scope="col"|Description | ! scope="col" |Description | ||
! scope="col"|Book Cover | ! | ||
! scope="col" |Book Cover | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|1984 | | style="text-align: center;" |1984 | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|George Orwell | | style="text-align: center;" |George Orwell | ||
| | |Where actions, words, and even thoughts are regulated by a small aristocracy, a man begins to rebel against the enforced social norms. Rather long but a classic dystopian novel. | ||
|336 | |||
|[[File:1984.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
|- | |||
| style="text-align: center;" |A Scanner Darkly | |||
| style="text-align: center;" |Philip K. Dick | |||
| | | | ||
|224 | |||
|[[File:A_Scanner_Darkly.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Brave New World | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Aldous Huxley | ||
| | | | ||
|288 | |||
|[[File:Brave_New_World.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Fahrenheit 451 | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Ray Bradbury | ||
| | |Firemen don't put out fires anymore, they start them to burn books since all books are now illegal. A few shocking events begin to make a fireman question why he does what he does and why his society is like it is. | ||
| | |194 | ||
|[[File:Fahrenheit_451.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Philip K. Dick | ||
| | | | ||
|256 | |||
|[[File:Flow_My_Tears,_The_Policeman_Said.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |The Giver | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Lois Lowry | ||
| | | | ||
|226 | |||
|[[File:The_Giver.gif|thumb|98px]] | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|The | | style="text-align: center;" |The Handmaid's Tale | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Margaret Atwood | ||
| | | | ||
|336 | |||
|[[File:The_Handmaids_Tale.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Logan's Run | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |William F. Nolan & George Clayton Johnson | ||
| | |A twenty-year-old, living in a future-Earth that calls for euthanasia of people at or over twenty-one, hunts down people who, instead, run. Then, when he turns twenty-one, he runs too. | ||
| | |192 | ||
|[[File:Logan's_Run.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |The Man in the High Castle | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Philip K. Dick | ||
| | | | ||
|256 | |||
|[[File:The_Man_in_the_High_Castle.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Stand on Zanzibar | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |John Brunner | ||
| | | | ||
|672 | |||
|[[File:Stand_On_Zanzibar.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |We | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Yevgeny Zamyatin | ||
| | | | ||
|272 | |||
|[[File:We.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Kate Wilhelm | ||
| | | | ||
|256 | |||
|[[File:Where_Late_The_Sweet_Birds_Sang.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |The World Inside | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Robert Silverberg | ||
| | | | ||
|233 | |||
|[[File:The_World_Inside.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |This Perfect Day | ||
| style="text-align: center;"| | | style="text-align: center;" |Ira Levin | ||
| | | | ||
|352 | |||
|[[File:This_Perfect_Day.jpg|thumb|98px]] | |||
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This page is meant to cover the basics works and stellar pieces of science fiction literature. While the bulk of Science Fiction is trashy genre-work there are genuine masterpieces. The purpose of this article is to illustrate those masterpieces as best as possible. As always however, this list is imperfect and always growing. If there is anything missing please add to it.
The Big Three
Isaac Asimov
Arthur C. Clarke
Robert Heinlein
Early and Proto Science Fiction
Golden Age Science Fiction
Modern Science Fiction
Cyberpunk
Post Apocalyptic
Dystopian
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