PrintSF's Top 100 SF Novels

Survey date: April 11, 2013 

Position	Author	Title
1	Frank Herbert	Dune
5	Isaac Asimov	Foundation
2	Orson Scott Card	Ender's Game
3	Dan Simmons	Hyperion
4	William Gibson	Neuromancer
6	Gene Wolfe	The Book Of The New Sun
7	Neal Stephenson	Snow Crash
9	Robert Heinlein	The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress
10	Neal Stephenson	Anathem
11	Douglas Adams	The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
12	George R. R. Martin	A Song Of Ice And Fire
13	Joe Haldeman	The Forever War
14	Vernor Vinge	A Fire Upon The Deep
15	Arthur C. Clarke	Rendezvous With Rama
16	Arthur C. Clarke	Childhood's End
17	Alfred Bester	The Stars My Destination
18	J. R. R. Tolkien	The Lord Of The Rings
19	Robert Heinlein	Stranger In A Strange Land
20	Robert Heinlein	Starship Troopers
23	Alastair Reynolds	Revelation Space
21	Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson	The Wheel Of Time
22	Kim Stanley Robinson	Mars Trilogy
24	Ursula K. Le Guin	The Dispossessed
25	Orson Scott Card	Speaker For The Dead
26	Neal Stephenson	Cryptonomicon
27	Iain M. Banks	Use Of Weapons
28	Dan Simmons	Hyperion Cantos
29	George Orwell	1984
30	Peter F. Hamilton	Commonwealth Saga
31	Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle	The Mote In God's Eye
32	Isaac Asimov	I, Robot
33	Vernor Vinge	A Deepness In The Sky
34	Roger Zelazny	Lord Of Light
35	Philip K. Dick	Ubik
36	Peter Watts	Blindsight
37	China Mieville	Perdido Street Station
38	Richard Morgan	Altered Carbon
39	Philip K. Dick	Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?
40	Neal Stephenson	The Diamond Age
41	Lois Mcmaster Bujold	Vorkosigan Saga
42	Larry Niven	Ringworld
43	Kurt Vonnegut	The Sirens Of Titan
44	Arthur C. Clarke	2001, A Space Odyssey
45	Walter M. Miller Jr.	A Canticle For Leibowitz
46	Ursula K. Le Guin	The Left Hand Of Darkness
47	Roger Zelazny	Chronicles Of Amber
48	Brandon Sanderson	Mistborn
49	Steven Erikson	Malazan Book Of The Fallen
50	Stephen King	The Dark Tower
51	Philip K. Dick	The Man In The High Castle
52	John Scalzi	Old Man's War
53	Iain M. Banks	Excession
54	Frederik Pohl	Gateway
55	Aldous Huxley	Brave New World
56	Alastair Reynolds	House Of Suns
57	Ray Bradbury	The Martian Chronicles
58	Philip K. Dick	Valis
59	Patrick Rothfuss	The Kingkiller Chronicles
60	Neil Gaiman	American Gods
61	Neal Stephenson	The Baroque Cycle
62	Margaret Atwood	The Handmaid's Tale
63	Kurt Vonnegut	Slaughterhouse-Five
64	Kim Stanley Robinson	Red Mars
65	Jim Butcher	The Dresden Files
66	Iain M. Banks	The Player Of Games
67	Greg Egan	Permutation City
68	China Mieville	The Scar
69	Arkady & Boris Strugatsky	Roadside Picnic
83	Susanna Clarke	Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
88	Philip K. Dick	The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch
70	Timothy Zahn	Heir To The Empire Trilogy
71	Robert Charles Wilson	Spin
72	Patrick Rothfuss	The Name Of The Wind
73	Margaret Atwood	Oryx And Crake
74	Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle	Footfall
75	J. R. R. Tolkien	The Silmarillion
76	David Weber	Honor Harrington
77	China Mieville	Embassytown
78	Alastair Reynolds	Chasm City
79	William Gibson	Sprawl Trilogy
80	Ursula K. Le Guin	Earthsea Cycle
81	Tim Powers	Declare
82	Terry Pratchett	Discworld
84	Stephen King	The Stand
85	Stanislaw Lem	Solaris
86	Ray Bradbury	Something Wicked This Way Comes
87	Philip Pullman	His Dark Materials
89	Philip K. Dick	Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said
90	Philip K. Dick	Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep
91	Philip K. Dick	A Scanner Darkly
92	Peter F. Hamilton	Night's Dawn Trilogy
93	Paolo Bacigalupi	The Windup Girl
94	Orson Scott Card	Ender's Saga
95	Michael Crichton	Jurassic Park
96	Kurt Vonnegut	Cat's Cradle
97	John Steakley	Armor
98	John Crowley	Little, Big
99	Jeff Noon	Vurt
100	James S.A. Corey	Leviathan Wakes

Here is the full result in spreadsheet format for you to sort, categorize etc. to your heart's content!

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