Science fiction novel - Definition

Some notable science fiction novels, in alphabetical order by title:

• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
• 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
• 334 by Thomas M. Disch
• An Age by Brian Aldiss
• The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
• The Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. Ballard
• Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany
• Barefoot in the Head by Brian Aldiss
• Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard
• Berserker by Fred Saberhagen
• Born With the Dead by Robert Silverberg
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• Bug Jack Barron by Norman Spinrad
• Camp Concentration by Thomas M. Disch
• A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
• A Case of Conscience by James Blish
• The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov
• Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
• City by Clifford Simak
• The City and the Stars by Arthur C. Clarke
• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
• The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
• The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
• Destination: Void by Frank Herbert
• The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
• The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
• Down to a Sunless Sea by David Graham
• The Dosadi Experiment by Frank Herbert
• Dune by Frank Herbert
• Dying Inside by Robert Silverberg
• Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• The Female Man by Joanna Russ
• Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick
• Flowers for Algernon (novel version) by Daniel Keyes
• The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
• Foundation by Isaac Asimov
  • also Second Foundation, Foundation and Empire
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• Gateway by Frederik Pohl
• The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
• The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
• Imperial Earth by Arthur C. Clarke
• Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon
• The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Level 7 by Mordecai Roshwald
• Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper
• Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy
• Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
• Lords of the Starship by Mark S. Geston
• The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Lost World by Michael Crichton
• Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison
• Man Plus by Frederik Pohl
• The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold
• The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
• A Maze of Death by Philip K. Dick
• The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
• Mission Earth by L. Ron Hubbard
• Mission of Gravity by Hal Clement
• The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
• Neuromancer by William Gibson
• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
• Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
• The Patterns of Chaos by Colin Kapp
• Pavane by Keith Roberts
• Permutation City by Greg Egan
• A Plague of Demons by Keith Laumer
• Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut
• Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds
• Ringworld by Larry Niven
• Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
• Roderick and Roderick at Random by John Sladek
• R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) by Karel Čapek
• A Scanner Darkly, by Philip K. Dick
• The Shape of Things to Come, by H. G. Wells
• The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner
• The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
• Tik-Tok by John Sladek
• Slan by A. E. van Vogt
• Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
• The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth
• Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
  
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• Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
• The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
• They Shall Have Stars by James Blish
• This Immortal by Roger Zelazny
• The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
• Titan by John Varley
• Titan by Stephen Baxter
• To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José Farmer
• Tower of Glass by Robert Silverberg
• Treason by Orson Scott Card
• The Truth Machine by James L. Halperin
• The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
• The Weapon Shops of Isher by A. E. van Vogt
• The Wind from Nowhere by J. G. Ballard
• World of Ptavvs by Larry Niven

Please note that fantasy novels and short story collections should not be included here: they have their own lists; novels structured as a set of linked short stories are OK, though.

External links

• http://www.sfwa.org/reading/
• http://www.sfwa.org/awards/archive/pastwin.htm
• http://classics.jameswallaceharris.com/
• http://www.nesfa.org/reading.htm
• http://www.basilisk.on.ca/bdbbits/classicsfpoll-results.html