Science Fiction

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. If there is a work you think is missing, feel free to add it.

The Big Three

Isaac Asimov

Title	Author	Description	Pages	Book Cover
The Caves of Steel	Isaac Asimov	A Science Fiction / mystery novel set on earth some 3 millennia in the future. The overall plot features the dealings of a detective and his highly intelligent android partner.	288
The Complete Robot	Isaac Asimov	A collection of 31 of Isaac Asimov's short stories, they share a theme of the interaction of humans, robots and morality, and put together tell a larger story of Asimov's fictional history of robotics. Includes the story "Runaway" which outlines Asimov's laws of Robotics.	496
The Gods Themselves	Isaac Asimov		304
The Foundation Trilogy	Isaac Asimov		678
The Naked Sun	Isaac Asimov	Another Science Fiction/Mystery Novel that features a protagonist who manages to circumvent the laws of robotics in order to have his wife murdered.	288

Arthur C. Clarke

Title	Author	Description	Pages	Book Cover
2001: A Space Odyssey	Arthur C. Clarke		320
Childhood's End	Arthur C. Clarke	Story regarding the future of mankind after the advent of a "devil-like" alien race appears and offers them a golden era of prosperity.	256
The Collected Short Stories of Arthur C. Clarke	Arthur C. Clarke	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."	976
The Fountains of Paradise	Arthur C. Clarke		332
Rendevous with Rama	Arthur C. Clarke	Classic book featuring mankind's encounter with the alien vessel Rama.	274

Robert Heinlein

Title	Author	Description	Pages	Book Cover
Friday	Robert Heinlein	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.	368
Have Space Suit - Will Travel	Robert Heinlein		256
Methuselah's Children	Robert Heinlein		183
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress	Robert Heinlein		384
Orphans of the Sky	Robert Heinlein		224
Starship Troopers	Robert Heinlein	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.	263
Stranger in a Strange Land	Robert Heinlein		528
Time for the Stars	Robert Heinlein		256

Early and Proto Science Fiction

Title	Author	Description	Pages	Book Cover
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea	Verne, Jules		426
A Journey to the Center of the Earth	Verne, Jules		256
A Voyage to Arcturus	Lindsay, David		274
Frankenstein	Shelley, Mary		328
The Invisible Man	Wells, H.G.		208
The Island of Dr. Moreau	Wells, H.G.		160
The Last Man	Shelley, Mary		352
True History	Lucian of Samosata		44
Micromegas	Voltaire		48
The Time Machine	Wells, H.G.		104
The War of the Worlds	Wells, H.G.		138

Golden Age Science Fiction

Title	Author	Description	Pages	Book Cover
A Princess of Mars	Edgar Rice Burroughs		160
The Big Time	Fritz Leiber		152
The Day of the Triffids	John Wyndham		256
The Demolished Man	Alfred Bester		256
Dorsai!	George R. Dickson		288
The Martian Chronicles	Ray Bradbury		288
Mission of Gravity	Hal Clement		203
Out of the Silent Planet	C.S. Lewis		160
Slan	A.E. nan Vogt		272
Star Maker	Olaf Stapledon		232
Stars My Destination	Alfred Bester		272
To Your Scattered Bodies Go	Philip Jóse Farmer		184
Triplanetary	Edward E. Smith		240
The Voyage of the Space Beagle	A.E. van Vogt		224
Who?	Algis Budrys		158
Who Goes There	John W. Campbell, Jr		168
The World of Null-A	A.E. van Vogt		272

Modern Science Fiction

Title	Author	Description	Book Cover
A Fire Upon the Deep	Vernor Vinge
A Time of Changes	Robert Silverberg
The Algebraist	Iain M. Banks
Babel-17	Samuel R. Delany
Behold the Man	Michael Moorcock
Beyond Apollo	Barry N. Malzberg
Bill, the Galactic Hero	Harry Harrison
Blood Music	Greg Bear
Camouflage	Joe Haldeman
Consider Phlebas	Iain M. Banks
Cryptonomicon	Neal Stephenson
Darwin's Radio	Greg Bear
The Dispossessed	Ursula K. Le Guin
Doomsday Book	Connie Willis
Downbelow Station	C.J. Cherryh
Dune	Frank Hebert
Dying Inside	Robert Silverberg
Ender's Game	Orson Scott Card
The Faded Sun Trilogy	C.J. Cherryh
Fire time	Poul Anderson
Flowers for Algernon	Daniel Keyes
Footfall	Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
The Forever War	Joe Haldeman
The Forge of God	Greg Bear
Gateway	Frederik Pohl
Halcyon Drift	Brian Stableford
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Douglas Adams
Hyperion	Dan Simmons
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream	Harlan Ellison
Ilium	Dan Simmons
The Illuminatus! Trilogy	Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson
Kiln People	David Brin
The Left Hand of Darkness	Ursula K. Le Guin
Lord Valentine's Castle	Robert Silverberg
Lord of Light	Roger Zelazny
Man Plus	Frederik Pohl
The Man Who Metled	Jack Dann
The Man Who Folded Himself	David Gerrold
Mote in God's Eye	Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
Moving Mars	Greg Bear
Old Man's War	John Scalzi
The Peace War	Vernor Vinge
Rainbow's End	Vernor Vinge
Red Mars	Kim Stanley Robinson
Revelation Space	Alistair Reynolds
Ringworld	Larry Niven
Rite of Passage	Alexei Panshin
River of Gods	Ian McDonald
Singularity Sky	Charles Stross
Slaughterhouse Five	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The Snow Queen	Joan D. Vinge
Solaris	Stanislaw Lem
The Sparrow	Mary Doria Russell
Spin	Robert Charles Wilson
Sundiver	David Brin
Tau Zero	Poul Anderson
Think Like a Dinosaur and Other Stories	James Patrick Kelley
This Immortal / ...And Call Me Conrad	Roger Zelazny
Timescape	Gregory Benford
The Time Ships	Stephen Baxter
Troika	Stepan Chapman
Ubik	Philip K. Dick
Vurt	Jeff Noon
World of Ptauus	Larry Niven

Cyberpunk

Title	Author	Description	Book Cover
Accelerando	Charles Stross
Altered Carbon	Richard K. Morgan
The Diamond Age	Neal Stephenson
The Difference Engine	William Gibson & Bruce Sterling
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep	Philip K. Dick
Islands in the Net	Bruce Sterling
Neuromancer	William Gibson
Permutation City	Greg Egan
Snow Crash	Neal Stephenson
Software	Rudy Rucker

Post Apocalyptic

Title	Author	Description	Book Cover
A Canticle for Leibowitz	Walter M. Miller, Jr.
A Wrinkle in Time	Madeleine L'Engle
The Chrysalids	John Wyndam
Cloud Atlas	David Mitchell
The Deep	John Crowley
Dies the Fire	S.M. Sterline
Dr. Bloodmoney	Philip K. Dick
Dreamsnake	Vonda M. McIntyre
The Dying Earth	Jack Vance
Earth Abides	George R. Stewart
The Elfin Ship	James Blaylock
I Am Legend	Richard Matheson
Lucifer's Hammer	Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
The Mount	Carol Emshwiller
The Nightland	William Hope Hodgson
The Planet of the Apes	Pierre Boulle
The Postman	David Brin
Ravage	Rene Barjavel
Riddley Walker	Russell Hoban
The Road	Cormac McCarthy
Shadow and Claw	Gene Wolfe
The Tripods Trilogy	Samuel Youd

Dystopian

Title	Author	Description	Book Cover
1984	George Orwell
A Scanner Darkly	Philip K. Dick
Brave New World	Aldous Huxley
Fahrenheit 451	Ray Bradbury
Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said	Philip K. Dick
The Giver	Lois Lowry
The Handmaid's Tale	Margaret Atwood
Logan's Run	William F. Nolan & George Clayton Johnson
The Man in the High Castle	Philip K. Dick
Stand on Zanzibar	John Brunner
We	Yevgeny Zamyatin
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang	Kate Wilhelm
The World Inside	Robert Silverberg