{"id":8277,"date":"2010-01-19T12:42:14","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T20:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=8277"},"modified":"2022-03-07T09:49:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T17:49:03","slug":"top-100-sci-fifantasy-novels-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2010\/01\/19\/top-100-sci-fifantasy-novels-of-all-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 100 Sci-Fi\/Fantasy Novels of All Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:3538,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/thisrecording.com\\\/today\\\/2010\\\/1\\\/18\\\/in-which-we-count-down-the-100-greatest-science-fiction-or-f.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260206143642\\\/http:\\\/\\\/thisrecording.com\\\/today\\\/2010\\\/1\\\/18\\\/in-which-we-count-down-the-100-greatest-science-fiction-or-f.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-06 20:42:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:436}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-06 20:42:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:436},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Obviously, a <a href=\"http:\/\/thisrecording.com\/today\/2010\/1\/18\/in-which-we-count-down-the-100-greatest-science-fiction-or-f.html\" title=\"This Recording: In Which We Count Down The 100 Greatest Science Fiction or Fantasy Novels of All Time\">list like this one<\/a> is subject to a <em>lot<\/em> of debate due to everyone&#8217;s personal taste. Still, it&#8217;s not a bad list of works. Herewith, in true blog-meme style, the list, with those that I&#8217;ve read in <strong>bold<\/strong>. 35 out of 100. Not bad, but could be better!<\/p>\n<p>(Note: Though this list is numbered 1-100, it should be read as being 100-1. That is, the #100 spot on this list is the #1 spot on the original list. Just a side effect of the HTML list that I don&#8217;t feel like trying to hack around.)<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The Word For World Is Forest by Ursula K. LeGuin<\/li>\n<li>Sorcerer&#8217;s Son by Phyllis Eisenstein<\/li>\n<li>Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress<\/li>\n<li>The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch<\/li>\n<li><strong>Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke<\/li>\n<li>The Company by K.J. Parker<\/li>\n<li>An Evil Guest by Gene Wolfe<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Danny, The Champion of the World by Roald Dahl<\/li>\n<li>Camp Concentration by Thomas Disch<\/li>\n<li>Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner<\/li>\n<li>Song of Kali by Dan Simmons<\/li>\n<li>Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card<\/li>\n<li><strong>A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Sphere by Michael Crichton<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Fevre Dream by George R.R. Martin<\/li>\n<li>The Alteration by Kingsley Amis<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers<\/li>\n<li><strong>Watership Down by Richard Adams<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Griffin&#8217;s Egg by Michael Swanwick<\/li>\n<li>Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan<\/li>\n<li>Free Live Free by Gene Wolfe<\/li>\n<li>Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ringworld by Larry Niven<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Schismatrix by Bruce Sterling<\/li>\n<li>Old Man&#8217;s War by John Scalzi<\/li>\n<li>Maske: Thaery by Jack Vance<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Flow My Tears The Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick<\/li>\n<li>The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The High Crusade by Poul Anderson<\/li>\n<li>A Song for Lya by George R.R. Martin<\/li>\n<li><strong>At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Wildlife by James Patrick Kelly<\/li>\n<li>The Book of Knights by Yves Maynard<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan<\/strong> <em>(Well, I made it up to book six or seven, then decided to wait until he was dead or the series was finished, since there was no end in sight. Now he&#8217;s dead, and I&#8217;m just waiting for the last book to appear in paperback before starting over.)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman<\/li>\n<li>Nightwings by Robert Silverberg<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Cat&#8217;s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut<\/li>\n<li>Gravity&#8217;s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon<\/li>\n<li>The Book of the Short Sun by Gene Wolfe<\/li>\n<li>The Forever War by Joe Haldeman<\/li>\n<li><strong>Foundation by Isaac Asimov<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Wizard Knight by Gene Wolfe<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Demon Princes by Jack Vance<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ender&#8217;s Game by Orson Scott Card<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Alastor by Jack Vance<\/li>\n<li><strong>The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Flatland by Edwin Abbott<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Farmer in the Sky by Robert Heinlein<\/li>\n<li>A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick<\/li>\n<li><strong>Animal Farm by George Orwell<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Lyonesse by Jack Vance<\/li>\n<li><strong>Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>True Names by Vernor Vinge<\/li>\n<li>Ubik by Philip K. Dick<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Citizen of the Galaxy by Robert Heinlein<\/li>\n<li><strong>A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L&#8217;Engle<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge<\/li>\n<li>Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov<\/li>\n<li>More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>1984 by George Orwell<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>I Am Legend by Richard Matheson<\/li>\n<li>The Cadwal Chronicles by Jack Vance<\/li>\n<li>Lost Horizon by James Hilton<\/li>\n<li><strong>Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Fifth Head of Cerebus by Gene Wolfe<\/li>\n<li>A Song of Ice And Fire by George R.R. Martin<\/li>\n<li><strong>Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Fionavar Tapestry by Guy Gavriel Kay<\/li>\n<li>The Master and the Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov<\/li>\n<li>The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick<\/li>\n<li>All My Sins Remembered by Joe Haldeman<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Planet of Adventure by Jack Vance<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dune by Frank Herbert<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess<\/li>\n<li>The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin<\/li>\n<li>The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe<\/li>\n<li>Brave New World by Aldous Huxley<\/li>\n<li><strong>Frankenstein by Mary Shelley<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay<\/li>\n<li>The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin<\/li>\n<li>The Dying Earth by Jack Vance<\/li>\n<li>The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein<\/li>\n<li>The Book of the Long Sun by Gene Wolfe<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obviously, a list like this one is subject to a _lot_ of debate due to everyone&#8217;s personal taste. Still, it&#8217;s not a bad list of works. Herewith, in true blog-meme style, the list, with those that I&#8217;ve read in **bold**.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036],"tags":[1425],"class_list":["post-8277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}