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Favorite Science Fiction Novels, 2000-2020

  • House of Leaves (2000), by Mark Z. Danielewski
  • Perdido Street Station (2000), by China Miéville
  • The Three-Body Problem (2008), by Liu Cixin
  • The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (2008), by Michael Chabon
  • The Martian (2011), by Andy Weir
  • Ancillary Justice (2013), by Ann Leckie
  • Annihilation (2014), by Jeff VanderMeer

In chronological order.

Complaining about the Guardian’s Top 100 Best Novels

I just saw the new Guardian’s 100 Best Novels of All Time list, created by “170 authors, critics and academics from around the world”, and I was appalled. The top of the list leans heavily toward what might be called “prestige seriousness”: books that are endlessly taught, endlessly written about, and endlessly admired partly because admiring them signals cultural literacy. So you get the almost ritual elevation of Pride and Prejudice, Anna Karenina, and In Search of Lost Time near the summit. Now, are these important novels? Obviously. But “important” and “greatest reading experiences for actual human beings” are not

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Favorite Science Fiction Novels, 1970-1979

  • Tau Zero (1970), by Poul Anderson
  • The Dancers at the End of Time (1972), by Michael Moorcock
  • Time Enough for Love (1973), by Robert A. Heinlein
  • The Forever War (1976), by Joe Haldeman
  • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1979), by Douglas Adams

In chronological order.

Favorite Science Fiction Novels, 1960-1969

  • Solaris (1961), by Stanislaw Lem
  • The Man in the High Castle (1962), by Philip K. Dick
  • Cat’s Cradle (1963), by Kurt Vonnegut
  • La Nuit des Temps (1968), by René Barjavel
  • The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), by Ursula K. Le Guin

In chronological order.

Favorite Science Fiction Novels, 1950-1959

  • The Day of the Triffids (1951), by John Wyndham
  • More Than Human (1952), by Theodore Sturgeon
  • The Demolished Man (1952), by Alfred Bester
  • Fahrenheit 451 (1953), by Ray Bradbury
  • Childhood’s End (1953), by Arthur C. Clarke
  • The End of Eternity (1955), by Isaac Asimov
  • The Stars My Destination (1956), by Alfred Bester
  • A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959), by Walter M. Miller Jr

In chronological order.

Favorite Science Fiction Novels, 1900-1949

  • The Lost World (1912), by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • A Voyage to Arcturus (1920), by David Lindsay
  • Brave New World (1932), by Aldous Huxley
  • At the Mountains of Madness (1936), by H.P. Lovecraft
  • Who Goes There? (1938), by Don A. Stuart
  • The Invention of Morel (1840), by Adolfo Bioy Casares
  • Donovan’s Brain (1942), by Curt Siodmak
  • Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), by George Orwell

In chronological order.

Favorite Science Fiction Novels, 19th century

  • Frankenstein (1818), by Mary Shelley
  • The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838), by E.A. Poe
  • Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1869), by Jules Verne
  • Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), by R.L. Stevenson
  • The Time Machine (1895), by H.G. Wells

In chronological order.

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