The Most Significant SF and Fantasy Books
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The SF Book Club's "The Most Significant SF & Fantasy Books of the Last 50 Years (1953-2002)"
| # | TITLE | AUTHOR |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Lord of the Rings | J. R. R. Tolkien |
| 2 | The Foundation Trilogy | Isaac Asimov |
| 3 | Dune | Frank Herbert |
| 4 | Stranger in a Strange Land | Robert A. Heinlein |
| 5 | A Wizard of Earthsea | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| 6 | Neuromancer | William Gibson |
| 7 | Childhood's End | Arthur C. Clarke |
| 8 | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | Philip K. Dick |
| 9 | The Mists of Avalon | Marion Zimmer Bradley |
| 10 | Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury |
| 11 | The Book of the New Sun | Gene Wolfe |
| 12 | A Canticle for Leibowitz | Walter M. Miller Jr. |
| 13 | The Caves of Steel | Isaac Asimov |
| 14 | Children of the Atom | Wilmar Shiras |
| 15 | Cities in Flight | James Blish |
| 16 | The Colour of Magic | Terry Pratchett |
| 17 | Dangerous Visions | Harlan Ellison |
| 18 | Deathbird Stories | Harlan Ellison |
| 19 | The Demolished Man | Alfred Bester |
| 20 | Dhalgren | Samuel R. Delany |
| 21 | Dragonflight | Anne McCaffrey |
| 22 | Ender's Game | Orson Scott Card |
| 23 | The First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever | Stephen R. Donaldson |
| 24 | The Forever War | Joe Haldeman |
| 25 | Gateway | Frederik Pohl |
| 26 | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | J.K. Rowling |
| 27 | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams |
| 28 | I Am Legend | Richard Matheson |
| 29 | Interview with the Vampire | Anne Rice |
| 30 | The Left Hand of Darkness | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| 31 | Little, Big | John Crowley |
| 32 | Lord of Light | Roger Zelazny |
| 33 | The Man in the High Castle | Philip K. Dick |
| 34 | Mission of Gravity | Hal Clement |
| 35 | More Than Human | Theodore Sturgeon |
| 36 | The Rediscovery of Man | Cordwainer Smith |
| 37 | On the Beach | Nevil Shute |
| 38 | Rendezvous with Rama | Arthur C. Clarke |
| 39 | Ringworld | Larry Niven |
| 40 | Rogue Moon | Algis J. Budrys |
| 41 | The Silmarillion | J. R. R. Tolkien |
| 42 | Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut |
| 43 | Snow Crash | Neal Stephenson |
| 44 | Stand on Zanzibar | John Brunner |
| 45 | The Stars My Destination | Alfred Bester |
| 46 | Starship Troopers | Robert A. Heinlein |
| 47 | Stormbringer | Michael Moorcock |
| 48 | The Sword of Shannara | Terry Brooks |
| 49 | Timescape | Gregory Benford |
| 50 | To Your Scattered Bodies Go | Philip Jose Farmer |