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Best Sci-Fi Books
Please submit your own choices to our growing list of the best science fiction literature.
Click on the links to purchase, read reviews, write your own reviews, etc.
Alphabetical Order by AUTHOR
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Douglas Adams:
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide

Richard Adams:
Watership Down

Isaac Asimov:
The Foundation Series
I, Robot (stories)

Wayne Douglas Barlowe:
Barlowe's Inferno (art)

Peter S. Beagle:
The Last Unicorn
The Innkeeper's Song
A Fine and Private Place
Immortal Unicorn (stories)

Greg Bear:
Darwin's Radio (new)
Blood Music
Eon
Eternity
Foundation and Chaos

Alfred Bester:
The Stars My Destination
The Demolished Man

Ray Bradbury:
The Martian Chronicles
Vintage Bradbury (self-chosen)
The Illustrated Man
Fahrenheit 451

Marion Zimmer Bradley:
Darkover Landfall

David Brin:
Uplift War Series
Earth
The Postman
Foundation's Triumph (NEW!)

Lois McMaster Bujold:
Mirror Dance

Edgar Rice Burroughs:
Tarzan

William Burroughs:
Naked Lunch

Orson Scott Card:
Ender's Game
Speaker For The Dead
Xenocide
Children of the Mind
Songmaster
Lost Boys
Alvin Maker Series
The Worthing Saga
Pastwatch

C. J. Cherryh:
Cyteen
Downbelow Station
Tripoint

Arthur C. Clarke:
Childhood's End
2001: A Space Odyssey
2010, 2061, 3001
The Fountains of Paradise

Micheal Crichton:
Sphere
Congo (much better than movie)
Lost World

A.K. Dewdney
Planiverse: Computer Contact With a Two-Dimensional World

Philip K. Dick:
The Man in the High Castle

Ralph Ellison:
Invisible Man

Micheal Ende:
The Neverending Story

Madeleine L'Engle:
Wrinkle in Time
A Wind in the Door
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Many Waters

Philip José Farmer:
To Your Scatter Bodies Go

William Gibson:
Neuromancer
Count Zero
Mona Lisa Overdrive
Virtual Light
Idoru
Burning Chrome (stories that form the basis for the screenplay Johnny Mnemonic)

Carolyn Ives Gilman:
Halfway Human

William Golding:
Lord of the Flies

Ursala La Guin:
The Dispossessed
Left Hand of Darkness

Joe Haldeman:
The Forever War
Forever Peace

Elizabeth Hand:
Glimmering

Robert Heinlein:
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Stranger in a Strange Land
Starship Troopers

Frank Herbert:
Dune

Aldous Huxley:
Brave New World

James Patrick Kelly:
Think Like a Dinosaur (stories)

J. Gregory Keyes:
The Age of Unreason series

Nancy Kress:
Beggars in Spain
Beggars and Choosers
Beggars Ride

Julian May:
Metaconcert (Intervention 2)
Galactic Milieu Trilogy

Vonda McIntyre:
The Moon and the Sun

Walter Miller, Jr.:
Canticle for Liebowitz

Pat Murphy:
The Falling Woman

Larry Niven:
The Mote in God's Eye
The Gripping Hand
Ringworld

George Orwell:
1984
Animal Farm

Frederik Pohl:
Gateway

Thomas Pynchon:
Gravity's Rainbow

Ayn Rand:
Atlas Shrugged
Anthem

Kim Stanley Robinson:
Red Mars
Green Mars
Blue Mars

Michael Sanwick:
Jack Faust

Dan Simmons:
Hyperion

Edward E. Smith:
The Lensman Series

Olaf Stapledon
Last and First Men
Star Maker
Odd John
Sirius

Neil Stephenson:
Cryptonomicon (NEW!)
Snow Crash
The Diamond Age
Zodiac

Bruce Sterling:
Distraction (NEW!)
A Good Old-Fashioned Future (New Short Stories)
Holy Fire
Schismatrix Plus
Heavy Weather

George Turner:
Brain Child

Jules Verne:
5 Complete Novels ($12)
Journey to the Center of the Earth

Vernor Vinge:
Fire Upon the Deep

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.:
Slaughterhouse Five
Cat's Cradle
Breakfast of Champions
Galapagos

H. G. Wells:
War of the Worlds
The Time Machine

Kate Wilhelm:
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang

Connie Willis:
The Doomsday Book

Short Stories Collections:
Far Horizons (New!)
Future On Fire (edited by Orson Scott Card)
Best of Science Fiction 1, 2, 3, 4 (edited by David G. Hartwell)

Best Sci-Fi Films
Please submit your own choices to our growing list of the Best Science Fiction movies.
Click on the links to purchase videos, read reviews, list credits, etc.
We have linked to widescreen VHS versions whenever possible;
follow format links to search for DVDs or VHS only.
Alphabetical Order by TITLE
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Armageddon-Criterion Collection DVD
Army of Darkenss (DVD)
Antz (DVD)
Back to the Future
Batman (1989)
Blade (1998)
Blade Runner
Blade Runner (Director's Cut DVD)
Brazil
The Bride of Frankenstein
A Bug's Life (DVD)
Clash of the Titans
Close Encounters
Cocoon
Cocoon 2 - The Return
Day the Earth Stood Still
Die Hard (Trilogy-DVD)
Dracula (1931)
Dracula (Bram Stoker's)
Dune
E.T.
Face/Off
Fantastic Voyage
The Fifth Element
Forbidden Planet
Frankenstein
Ghost Busters
Godzilla series
Goundhog Day
Highlander (Director's Cut DVD)
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Hunchback of Notre Dame
Independence Day
Interview with a Vampire
Island of Dr. Moreau
Johnny Mnemonic
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Jurassic Park
King Kong
Last Action Hero

Lethal Weapon (1987)
Lost in Space (1998)
Lost World
Mars Attacks!
The Matrix (also: Limited Edition)
Men In Black
Mighty Joe Young
Phenomenon
Pi
Planet of the Apes
The Postman
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Solaris
Sleeper
Spaceballs
Star Trek II, III, IV, VI,
Star Trek: First Contact
Star Wars Trilogy
SW1: The Phantom Menace
Strange Days
Swiss Family Robinson
The Time Machine
Tron
The Truman Show
2001: A Space Odyssey
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
12 Monkeys
Willow
The Wizard of Oz (DVD gift set)
Young Frankenstein
Village of the Damned (1960)
War of the Worlds

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StarWars.com
The Star Wars Store
Barlowe's Inferno
Cyber House Publishing

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