Welcome to Frankford Press. We tried to rank the best Science Fiction books of all time. As fans of the genre will know, the concept of time can be tricky. This list excludes ancient and middle age sources (pre-1800). Here’s our attempt.
- Dune, Frank Herbert, 1965
- Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, 1818
- Brave New World, Aldous Huxley, 1932
- Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell, 1949
- Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delaney, 1975
- The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin
- Kindred, Octavia Butler, 1979
- Neuromancer, William Gibson, 1984
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Phillip K. Dick, 1968
- (a.k.a. Blade Runner)
- I Am Legend, Richard Matheson, 1954
- The Road, Cormac McCarthy, 2006
- A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess, 1962
- Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson, 1992
- Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut, 1969
- Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury, 1953
- Hyperion, Dan Simmons, 1989
- Wool, Hugh Howey, 2011
- The Forever War, Joe Haldeman, 1974
- The Diamond Age, Neal Stephenson, 1995
- The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells, 1898
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[…] We at Frankford Publishing love books. So we spent some time developing a top sci-fi book list over the pandemic. Who are we to be this presumptuous? No one, that’s who. Primarily, we were just bored: the top 20. […]
[…] Guin’s “Left Hand of Darkness,” checking in at sixth in the Frankford Publishing Top Science Fiction Books of All-Time. Quick disclaimer, sixth is low. All the authors curated the list, but my vote for this is higher. […]