March 6, 2008

The top sci-fi books

You do not here much about the classic sci-fi books which have in fact spawned a whole host of films some of the same name and some that have a different title entirely, but never the less the some of the actual stories are quite apt to the way that we are living in today.

It would be a great summer read for anyone who has not read one of these classics before:

Frankenstein (1818), by Mary Shelley
The Time Machine (1895), by H.G. Wells
At the Mountains of Madness (1931), by H.P. Lovecraft
I, Robot (1955), by Isaac Asimov
The Dispossessed (1974), by Ursula LeGuin
Kindred (1979), by Octavia Butler
Wizard (1979), by John Varley
Consider Phlebas (1987), by Iain M. Banks
He, She, and It (1991), by Marge Piercy
A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), by Vernor Vinge
The Bohr Maker (1995), by Linda Nagata
The Sparrow (1996), by Mary Doria Russell
Cryptonomicon (2000), by Neal Stephenson
The Mount (2002), by Carol Emschwiller
Perdido Street Station (2002), by China Mieville
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (2003), by Cory Doctorow
Pattern Recognition (2003), by William Gibson
Newton’s Wake (2004), by Ken MacLeod
Glasshouse (2006), by Charles Stross