what are your top 5 favorite SciFi novels?

tb0099 · May 10, 2014

I'm running low on books to read on my nook, so I'm looking for your guys top 5 SciFi. For the sake simplicity, series of books should be listed as one item.

Example. My top 5, in no particular order.

1. The robot novels by Asimov
2. The forever war by Joe Haldeman
3. Ring world by Larry Niven
4. The spin ward fringe series by Randolf lalonde (this is a cheesey space opera but I still love it)
5. Last and first men by Olaf stapledon

williemeikle · May 10, 2014

tb0099 said:
I'm running low on books to read on my nook, so I'm looking for your guys top 5 SciFi. For the sake simplicity, series of books should be listed as one item.

Example. My top 5, in no particular order.

1. The robot novels by Asimov
2. The forever war by Joe Haldeman
3. Ring world by Larry Niven
4. The spin ward fringe series by Randolf lalonde (this is a cheesey space opera but I still love it)
5. Last and first men by Olaf stapledon

The War of the Worlds - H G Wells
The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula Le Guin
Rendezvous With Rama - Arthur C Clarke
Lords of Light - Roger Zelazny
The Einstein Intersection - Samuel Delaney

virtue_summer · May 10, 2014

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (is it cheating to list what's technically a collection of stories?)
The Xenogenesis trilogy by Octavia Butler (although I could have tossed anything by Butler in to this slot)
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card and its sequel Speaker for the Dead

This was actually a hard list to make. Most of the science fiction I read is short form.

milkweed · May 10, 2014

williemeikle said:
The War of the Worlds - H G Wells
The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula Le Guin
Rendezvous With Rama - Arthur C Clarke

virtue_summer said:
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

The Man who Sold the Moon by Robert A. Heinlein and I'll throw in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.

J.S.F. · May 11, 2014

I Sing the Body Electric--Ray Bradbury
Fahreneheit 451--Bradbury
Inferno, Lucifer's Hammer, The Mote in God's Eye, all by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

Lots of others out there. I like Samuel Delany, N.K. Jemison, William Gibson, Frederich Puhl, Ursula Le Guin, and others, but the five above stand out for me.

what are your top 5 favorite SciFi novels?

tb0099

williemeikle

The force is strong in this one.

virtue_summer

Always learning

milkweed

Abuses commas at will.

J.S.F.

Red fish, blue fish...