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Searles & Michael Franklin, A Reader's Guide to Science Fiction

science fiction awards database

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The authors provide ~page-long essays about 200 authors and their major works, with suggestions in each case for other authors you might like. Appendices include lists of series titles, awards, and a brief history of SF. Compiled here are 49 titles from the "Suggested Basic Library and/or Reading List" in Part Four.

Ranked: No

Titles Cited: 49

Publication: Avon, 1979, 1979

Brian W. Aldiss, Hothouse (Faber and Faber, 1962)
Poul Anderson, Tau Zero (Doubleday, 1970)
Isaac Asimov, The Foundation Trilogy (series, 1951-1953)
J. G. Ballard, Vermillion Sands (Berkley Medallion, 1971)
Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination (NAL/Signet, 1957)
James Blish, A Case of Conscience (Ballantine, 1958)
Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles (Doubleday, 1950)
John Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar (Doubleday, 1968)
Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (McClurg, 1917)
Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End (Ballantine, 1953)
Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars (Harcourt Brace, 1956)
Hal Clement, Needle (Doubleday, 1950)
Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren (Bantam, 1975)
Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle (Putnam, 1962)
Gordon R. Dickson, Dorsai! (DAW, 1976)
Thomas M. Disch, 334 (MacGibbon & Kee, 1972)
Harlan Ellison, ed., Dangerous Visions (Doubleday, 1967)
M. John Harrison, The Centauri Device (Doubleday, 1974)
Robert A. Heinlein, Citizen of the Galaxy (Scribners, 1957)
Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (Putnam, 1966)
Frank Herbert, Dune (Chilton, 1965)
William Hope Hodgson, The Night Land (Eveleigh Nash , 1912)
Henry Kuttner, The Dark World (Ace, 1965)
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness (Ace Special, 1969)
Fritz Leiber, The Big Time (Ace Double, 1961)
H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness (Astounding, 1936)
A. Merritt, The Moon Pool (Putnam , 1919)
Walter M. Miller, Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz (Lippincott, 1959)
Michael Moorcock, The Cornelius Chronicles (Avon, 1977)
C. L. Moore & Henry Kuttner, Earth's Last Citadel (Ace, 1964)
Larry Niven, Ringworld (Ballantine, 1970)
H. Beam Piper, Little Fuzzy (Avon , 1962)
Frederik Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth, The Space Merchants (Ballantine, 1953)
Joanna Russ, And Chaos Died (Ace Special, 1970)
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (Lackington Hughes, 1818)
Cordwainer Smith, Norstrilia (Ballantine, 1975)
Edward E. Smith, First Lensman (Fantasy Press , 1950)
Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men (Methuen, 1930)
Olaf Stapledon, Odd John (Methuen, 1935)
Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human (Farrar, Straus & Young/Ballantine, 1953)
A. E. van Vogt, The World of Null-A (Simon & Schuster, 1948)
Jack Vance, The Dying Earth (Hillman, 1950)
Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon (J. Hetzel, 1865)
Stanley G. Weinbaum, A Martian Odyssey and Others (Fantasy Press , 1949)
H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (Henry Holt, 1895)
Jack Williamson, The Humanoids (Simon & Schuster , 1949)
S. Fowler Wright, The World Below (W. Collins Sons, 1929)
John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos (Michael Joseph, 1957)
Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light (Doubleday, 1967)

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