The 25 Best Science-Fiction Books of All Time

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Timothy Beck Werth, an avid Science Fiction book reader and collector, made a list of The 25 Best Science-Fiction Books of All Time, for Spy.com

This list was originally published in 2020 and was added to this site about 2 years ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
39 Frankenstein Mary Shelley 1818 British English
1453 The Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury 1950 American English
360 Foundation Isaac Asimov 1951 American English
892 Neuromancer William Gibson 1984 American, Canadian English
100 Dune Frank Herbert 1965 American English
361 The Left Hand Of Darkness Ursula K. Le Guin 1969 American English
375 War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1898 British English
954 Journey to the Center of the Earth Jules Verne 1864 French French
2320 The Three-Body Problem Cixin Liu 2006 Chinese Chinese
190 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams 1979 British English
822 I, Robot Isaac Asimov 1950 American English
2603 Ender's Game Orson Scott Card 1985 American English
7563 Speaker for the Dead Orson Scott Card 1986 American English
9493 A Scanner Darkly Philip K. Dick 1977 American English
9780 I Will Fear No Evil Robert A. Heinlein 1970 American English
16562 Orphans Of The Sky Robert A. Heinlein 1941 American English
85 Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut 1969 American English
9349 Leviathan Wakes James S. A. Corey 2011 American English
292 A Wrinkle In Time Madeleine L'Engle 1962 American English
2465 Hyperion Dan Simmons 1989 American English
51 Brave New World Aldous Huxley 1932 British English
808 Watchmen Alan Moore 1986 American, British English
267 Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro 2005 British English
5926 Rendezvous with Rama Arthur C. Clarke 1973 British English
1387 The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins 2008 American English