The Most Significant SF & Fantasy Books of the Last 50 Years From 1953-2002
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About this list
Science Fiction Book Club, 50 Books
List of the best Science Fiction and Fantasy produced between 1953 and 2002 as composed by the Science Fiction Book Club.
Compiled in late 2002 by SFBC Editor-in-Chief Ellen Asher and Senior Editor Andrew Wheeler to mark the club’s fiftieth anniversary, this list names fifty novels and story collections (top ten ranked; the rest alphabetical) that the editors judged most significant to SF/F published between 1953 and 2002. No external ballot was taken—just two long-time genre editors debating until consensus. The selection later drove the club’s 50th-Anniversary hard-cover reprint series (40 volumes, 2003-2007).
Voter Count: 2
This list was originally published in 2003 and was added to this site almost 2 years ago.
