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 over 2 years ago.
| Rank | Book | Authors | Year | Country | Language | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39 | Frankenstein | Mary Shelley | 1818 | British | English | |
| 1453 | The Martian Chronicles | Ray Bradbury | 1950 | American | English | |
| 361 | Foundation | Isaac Asimov | 1951 | American | English | |
| 893 | Neuromancer | William Gibson | 1984 | American, Canadian | English | |
| 100 | Dune | Frank Herbert | 1965 | American | English | |
| 363 | The Left Hand Of Darkness | Ursula K. Le Guin | 1969 | American | English | |
| 372 | War of the Worlds | H. G. Wells | 1898 | British | English | |
| 926 | Journey to the Center of the Earth | Jules Verne | 1864 | French | French | |
| 2328 | 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 | |
| 2606 | Ender's Game | Orson Scott Card | 1985 | American | English | |
| 7580 | Speaker for the Dead | Orson Scott Card | 1986 | American | English | |
| 9515 | A Scanner Darkly | Philip K. Dick | 1977 | American | English | |
| 9800 | I Will Fear No Evil | Robert A. Heinlein | 1970 | American | English | |
| 16714 | Orphans Of The Sky | Robert A. Heinlein | 1941 | American | English | |
| 84 | Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut | 1969 | American | English | |
| 9371 | Leviathan Wakes | James S. A. Corey | 2011 | American | English | |
| 293 | A Wrinkle In Time | Madeleine L'Engle | 1962 | American | English | |
| 2471 | Hyperion | Dan Simmons | 1989 | American | English | |
| 50 | Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | 1932 | British | English | |
| 808 | Watchmen | Alan Moore | 1986 | American, British | English | |
| 266 | Never Let Me Go | Kazuo Ishiguro | 2005 | British | English | |
| 5938 | Rendezvous with Rama | Arthur C. Clarke | 1973 | British | English | |
| 1388 | The Hunger Games | Suzanne Collins | 2008 | American | English |