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 170Down 51
Frank Herbert - 2Up 181Down 49
Douglas Adams - 3Up 203Down 35
George Orwell - 4Up 122Down 18
Isaac Asimov - 5Up 151Down 29
Orson Scott Card - 6Up 93Down 23
H. G. Wells, Leon E. Stover, Lennart Peterson More - 7Up 114Down 34 Aldous Huxley
- 8Up 97Down 26 Arthur C. Clarke
- 9Up 109Down 21 Isaac Asimov
- 10Up 92Down 20 H. G. Wells
- 11Up 83Down 25 Mary Shelley
- 12Up 114Down 20 Ray Bradbury
- 13Up 99Down 24 Robert A. Heinlein
- 14Up 75Down 20 Ray Bradbury
- 15Up 90Down 25 Philip K. Dick
- 16Up 56Down 17 Larry Niven
- 17Up 55Down 20 Arthur C. Clarke
- 18Up 50Down 22 William Gibson
- 19Up 74Down 26 Kurt Vonnegut
- 20Up 50Down 11 Robert A. Heinlein
- 21Up 60Down 18 Jules Verne
- 22Up 72Down 27 Robert A. Heinlein
- 23Up 43Down 18 H. G. Wells
- 24Up 54Down 19 Jules Verne, Pauline Francis
- 25Up 59Down 24 Daniel Keyes
- 26Up 60Down 24 Michael Crichton
- 27Up 61Down 28 Anthony Burgess
- 28Up 60Down 10
The Forever War
Joe Haldeman - 29Up 56Down 19 Madeleine L'Engle
- 30Up 38Down 21 Neal Stephenson
- 31Up 33Down 17 Walter M. Miller, Jr.
- 32Up 29Down 14 H. G. Wells
- 33Up 25Down 18
Red Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson - 34Up 34Down 14 Carl Sagan
- 35Up 38Down 18 Kurt Vonnegut
- 36Up 35Down 11 Jerry Pournelle, Larry Niven
- 37Up 15Down 1 Robert Louis Stevensonadded by: midnightq2
- 38Up 42Down 13 Arthur C. Clarke
- 39Up 28Down 22 Cormac McCarthy
- 40Up 37Down 14
The Sirens of Titan
Kurt Vonnegut - 41Up 37Down 13 Stephen King
- 42Up 38Down 17 Philip K. Dick
- 43Up 33Down 10 Harry Harrison
- 44Up 38Down 20 Dan Simmons
- 45Up 12Down 2 H. P. Lovecraftadded by: midnightq2
- 46Up 35Down 10 Stanisław Lem
- 47Up 22Down 11 Alfred Bester
- 48Up 3Down 1
Gods of Riverworld
Philip José Farmeradded by: bojanthebest - 49Up 34Down 13 Michael Crichton
- 50Up 18Down 11 Robert A. Heinlein
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