Science Fiction Novel Rankings
The 100 greatest science fiction novels of all time, ranked by critical consensus, literary influence, and speculative brilliance.
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Dune β Frank Herbert (1965)β
Neuromancer β William Gibson (1984)β
Foundation β Isaac Asimov (1951)β
The Left Hand of Darkness β Ursula K. Le Guin (1969)β
Hyperion β Dan Simmons (1989)β
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy β Douglas Adams (1979)β
Nineteen Eighty-Four β George Orwell (1949)β
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? β Philip K. Dick (1968)β
Ender's Game β Orson Scott Card (1985)β
Brave New World β Aldous Huxley (1932)β
The Dispossessed β Ursula K. Le Guin (1974)β
Snow Crash β Neal Stephenson (1992)β
Fahrenheit 451 β Ray Bradbury (1953)β
Solaris β StanisΕaw Lem (1961)β
The Stars My Destination β Alfred Bester (1956)β
The Forever War β Joe Haldeman (1974)β
A Canticle for Leibowitz β Walter M. Miller Jr. (1959)β
Childhood's End β Arthur C. Clarke (1953)β
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress β Robert A. Heinlein (1966)β
Frankenstein β Mary Shelley (1818)β
The Three-Body Problem β Cixin Liu (2008)β
Roadside Picnic β Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (1972)β
Slaughterhouse-Five β Kurt Vonnegut (1969)β
The Man in the High Castle β Philip K. Dick (1962)β
Rendezvous with Rama β Arthur C. Clarke (1973)β
Ringworld β Larry Niven (1970)β
Stranger in a Strange Land β Robert A. Heinlein (1961)β
The Time Machine β H.G. Wells (1895)β
The War of the Worlds β H.G. Wells (1898)β
Ubik β Philip K. Dick (1969)β
A Fire Upon the Deep β Vernor Vinge (1992)β
The Martian Chronicles β Ray Bradbury (1950)β
The Demolished Man β Alfred Bester (1953)β
Flowers for Algernon β Daniel Keyes (1966)β
Red Mars β Kim Stanley Robinson (1992)β
Parable of the Sower β Octavia E. Butler (1993)β
Kindred β Octavia E. Butler (1979)β
The Shadow of the Torturer β Gene Wolfe (1980)β
The Diamond Age β Neal Stephenson (1995)β
2001: A Space Odyssey β Arthur C. Clarke (1968)β
Starship Troopers β Robert A. Heinlein (1959)β
The Sirens of Titan β Kurt Vonnegut (1959)β
Cat's Cradle β Kurt Vonnegut (1963)β
Stand on Zanzibar β John Brunner (1968)β
I, Robot β Isaac Asimov (1950)β
The Gods Themselves β Isaac Asimov (1972)β
Contact β Carl Sagan (1985)β
The Day of the Triffids β John Wyndham (1951)β
The Martian β Andy Weir (2011)β
Children of Time β Adrian Tchaikovsky (2015)β
Ancillary Justice β Ann Leckie (2013)β
Old Man's War β John Scalzi (2005)β
A Scanner Darkly β Philip K. Dick (1977)β
The City and the Stars β Arthur C. Clarke (1956)β
The End of Eternity β Isaac Asimov (1955)β
The Fall of Hyperion β Dan Simmons (1990)β
Speaker for the Dead β Orson Scott Card (1986)β
Altered Carbon β Richard K. Morgan (2002)β
Blindsight β Peter Watts (2006)β
Revelation Space β Alastair Reynolds (2000)β
The Player of Games β Iain M. Banks (1988)β
Use of Weapons β Iain M. Banks (1990)β
The Mote in God's Eye β Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle (1974)β
The Lathe of Heaven β Ursula K. Le Guin (1971)β
Gateway β Frederik Pohl (1977)β
Doomsday Book β Connie Willis (1992)β
To Say Nothing of the Dog β Connie Willis (1997)β
Dhalgren β Samuel R. Delany (1975)β
Babel-17 β Samuel R. Delany (1966)β
More Than Human β Theodore Sturgeon (1953)β
Earth Abides β George R. Stewart (1949)β
I Am Legend β Richard Matheson (1954)β
The Chrysalids β John Wyndham (1955)β
The Invisible Man β H.G. Wells (1897)β
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea β Jules Verne (1870)β
Journey to the Center of the Earth β Jules Verne (1864)β
Flatland β Edwin A. Abbott (1884)β
We β Yevgeny Zamyatin (1924)β
Last and First Men β Olaf Stapledon (1930)β
Star Maker β Olaf Stapledon (1937)β
Cryptonomicon β Neal Stephenson (1999)β
Anathem β Neal Stephenson (1998)β
Perdido Street Station β China MiΓ©ville (2000)β
The City & The City β China MiΓ©ville (2009)β
Station Eleven β Emily St. John Mandel (2014)β
All Systems Red β Martha Wells (2017)β
Project Hail Mary β Andy Weir (2021)β
A Deepness in the Sky β Vernor Vinge (1999)β
Green Mars β Kim Stanley Robinson (1993)β
Blue Mars β Kim Stanley Robinson (1996)β
Permutation City β Greg Egan (1994)β
Lord of Light β Roger Zelazny (1967)β
The Space Merchants β Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth (1952)β
Way Station β Clifford D. Simak (1963)β
City β Clifford D. Simak (1952)β
The Cyberiad β StanisΕaw Lem (1965)β
The Female Man β Joanna Russ (1975)β
The Windup Girl β Paolo Bacigalupi (2009)β
Leviathan Wakes β James S.A. Corey (2011)β
Accelerando β Charles Stross (2005)β