The Greatest Science Fiction Novels of All Time
These are the best science fiction novels ever written, as ranked by the votes and lists of the crowd. Anyone can add their picks to this list of sci-fi books, making it an accurate, real-time ranking of the best in the genre by the people who live and breathe Asimov, Heinlein, Bradbury and Clarke. Vote for the books that you think best represent the greatest science fiction books ever written. If you see a book that's missing, add it. Vote for your faves. And for maximum impact, make your own list, ranked your own way, and add it to the crowd.
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- 1Up 167Down 49
Frank Herbert - 2Up 173Down 47
Douglas Adams - 3Up 197Down 33
George Orwell - 4Up 121Down 17
Isaac Asimov - 5Up 145Down 27
Orson Scott Card - 6Up 89Down 22
H. G. Wells, Leon E. Stover, Lennart Peterson More - 7Up 110Down 33 Aldous Huxley
- 8Up 95Down 25 Arthur C. Clarke
- 9Up 107Down 20 Isaac Asimov
- 10Up 89Down 20 H. G. Wells
- 11Up 81Down 25 Mary Shelley
- 12Up 110Down 20 Ray Bradbury
- 13Up 97Down 22 Robert A. Heinlein
- 14Up 74Down 19 Ray Bradbury
- 15Up 89Down 24 Philip K. Dick
- 16Up 56Down 16 Larry Niven
- 17Up 54Down 19 Arthur C. Clarke
- 18Up 49Down 21 William Gibson
- 19Up 73Down 25 Kurt Vonnegut
- 20Up 48Down 10 Robert A. Heinlein
- 21Up 59Down 18 Jules Verne
- 22Up 70Down 26 Robert A. Heinlein
- 23Up 42Down 18 H. G. Wells
- 24Up 52Down 19 Jules Verne, Pauline Francis
- 25Up 58Down 23 Daniel Keyes
- 26Up 59Down 25 Anthony Burgess
- 27Up 57Down 23 Michael Crichton
- 28Up 59Down 9
The Forever War
Joe Haldeman - 29Up 53Down 19 Madeleine L'Engle
- 30Up 37Down 20 Neal Stephenson
- 31Up 33Down 16 Walter M. Miller, Jr.
- 32Up 25Down 17
Red Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson - 33Up 28Down 14 H. G. Wells
- 34Up 38Down 17 Kurt Vonnegut
- 35Up 35Down 10 Jerry Pournelle, Larry Niven
- 36Up 33Down 14 Carl Sagan
- 37Up 41Down 12 Arthur C. Clarke
- 38Up 38Down 16 Philip K. Dick
- 39Up 36Down 13
The Sirens of Titan
Kurt Vonnegut - 40Up 26Down 21 Cormac McCarthy
- 41Up 14Down 1 Robert Louis Stevensonadded by: midnightq2
- 42Up 33Down 9 Harry Harrison
- 43Up 34Down 13 Stephen King
- 44Up 37Down 19 Dan Simmons
- 45Up 35Down 9 Stanisław Lem
- 46Up 11Down 1 H. P. Lovecraftadded by: midnightq2
- 47Up 22Down 10 Alfred Bester
- 48Up 34Down 12 Michael Crichton
- 49Up 3Down 0
Gods of Riverworld
Philip José Farmeradded by: bojanthebest - 50Up 18Down 10 Robert A. Heinlein
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