From: speterse%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (soren--Ms. Jackson if you're nasty)
Subject: Canonical Genre Fiction:  SF
Date: 19 Aug 92 21:39:11 MDT
Organization: The Erland Cult


Just to prove that I can be as anal retentive as the next guy, I just
typed in three would-be canonical lists of 100 best books.  There's one
list of science fiction books, and two of fantasy books.  All three lists
were inspired by Anthony Burgess's *99 Novels: the Best in English Since
1939*, and were published with essays about each of the choices.

For someone who is looking for an introduction to SF and fantasy, one
could do worse than to use these lists as a guide.  I hope that someone 
or other finds them useful.  

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Science Fiction:  The 100 Best Novels:  An English Language Selection,
    1949-1984
David Pringle

  1. 1984			George Orwell
  2. Earth Abides		George R. Stewart
  3. The Martian Chronicles	Ray Bradbury
  4. The Puppet Masters		Robert A. Heinlein
  5. The Day of the Triffids	John Wyndham
  6. Limbo			Bernard Wolfe
  7. The Demolished Man		Alfred Bester
  8. Farenheit 451		Ray Bradbury
  9. Childhood's End		Arthur C. Clarke
 10. The Paradox Men		Charles L. Harness
 11. Bring the Jubilee		Ward Moore
 12. The Space Merchants	Fred Pohl & C.M. Kornbluth
 13. Ring Around the Sun	Clifford D. Simak
 14. More Than Human		Theodore Sturgeon
 15. Mission of Gravity		Hal Clement
 16. A Mirror for Observers	Edgar Pangborn
 17. The End of Eternity	Isaac Asimov
 18. The Long Tomorrow		Leigh Brackett
 19. The Inheritors		William Golding
 20. The Stars My Destination	Alfred Bester
 21. The Death of Grass		John Christopher
 22. The City and the Stars	Arthur C. Clarke
 23. The Door Into Summer	Robert A. Heinlein
 24. The Midwich Cuckoos	John Wyndham
 25. Non-Stop			Brian Aldiss
 26. A Case of Conscience	James Blish
 27. Have Space-Suit--Will Travel	
				Robert A. Heinlein
 28. Time Out of Joint		Philip K. Dick
 29. Alas, Babylon		Pat Frank
 30. A Canticle for Leibowitz	Walter M. Miller
 31. The Sirens of Titan	Kurt Vonnegut
 32. Rogue Moon			Algis Budrys
 33. Venus Plus X		Theodore Sturgeon
 34. Hothouse			Brian Aldiss
 35. The Drowned World		J.G. Ballard
 36. A Clockwork Orange		Anthony Burgess
 37. The Man in the High Castle	Philip K. Dick
 38. Journey Beyond Tomorrow	Robert Sheckley
 39. Way Station		Clifford D. Simak
 40. Cat's Cradle		Kurt Vonnegut
 41. Greybeard			Brian W. Aldiss
 42. Nova Express		William S. Burroughs
 43. Martian Time-Slip		Philip K. Dick
 44. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
				Philip K. Dick
 45. The Wanderer		Fritz Leiber
 46. Norstrilia			Cordwainer Smith
 47. Dr. Bloodmoney		Philip K. Dick
 48. Dune			Frank Herbert
 49. The Crystal World		J.G. Ballard
 50. Make Room! Make Room!	Harry Harrison
 51. Flowers for Algernon	Daniel Keyes
 52. The Dream Master		Roger Zelazny
 53. Stand on Zanzibar		John Brunner
 54. Nova			Samuel Delany
 55. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
				Philip K. Dick
 56. Camp Concentration		Thomas M. Disch
 57. The Final Program		Michael Moorcock
 58. Pavane			Keith Roberts
 59. Heroes and Villains	Angela Carter
 60. The Left Hand of Darkness	Ursula Le Guin
 61. The Palace of Eternity	Bob Shaw
 62. Bug Jack Barron		Norman Spinrad
 63. Tau Zero			Poul Anderson
 64. Downward to the Earth	Robert Silverberg
 65. The Year of the Quiet Sun	Wilson Tucker
 66. 334			Thomas M. Disch
 67. The Fifth Head of Cerberus	Gene Wolfe
 68. The Dancers at the End of Time
				Michael Moorcock
 69. Crash			J.G. Ballard
 70. Looking Backward, From the Year 2000
				Mack Reynalds
 71. The Embedding		Ian Watson
 72. Walk to the End of the World
				Suzy McKee Charnas
 73. The Centauri Device	M. John Harrison
 74. The Dispossessed		Ursula K. Le Guin
 75. Inverted World		Christopher Priest
 76. High-Rise			J.G. Ballard
 77. Galaxies			Barry N. Malzberg
 78. The Female Man		Joanna Russ
 79. Orbitsville		Bob Shaw
 80. The Alteration		Kingsley Amis
 81. Woman on the Edge of Time	Marge Piercy
 82. Man Plus			Frederik Pohl
 83. Michaelmas			Algis Budrys
 84. The Ophiuchi Hotline	John Varley
 85. Miracle Visitors		Ian Watson
 86. Engine Summer		John Crowley
 87. On Wings of Song		Thomas M. Disch
 88. The Walking Shadow		Brian Stapleford
 89. Juniper Time		Kate Wilhelm
 90. Timescape			Gregory Benford
 91. The Dreaming Dragons	Damien Broderick
 92. Wild Seed			Octavia Butler
 93. Riddley Walker		Russell Hoban
 94. Roderick/Roderick at Random
				John Sladek
 95. The Book of the New Sun	Gene Wolfe
 96. The Unreasoning Mask	Philip Jose Farmer
 97. Oath of Fealty		Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
 98. No enemy But Time		Michael Bishop
 99. The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica
				John Calvin Batchelor
100. Neuromancer		William Gibson

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