Gollancz's 50 Best SF/F

[ltmurnau]

Yoinked from jeffreyab who got it from.

Gollancz has listed its fifty best science fiction and fantasy novels, The rules are “bold if you’ve read it, italicise if you own it”:

SF:

A Case of Conscience by James Blish
Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan
Brasyl by Ian McDonald
The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Dune by Frank Herbert
Fairyland by Paul McAuley
The Female Man by Joanna Russ
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
Flood by Stephen Baxter
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Gateway by Frederik Pohl
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon
More than Human by Theodore Sturgeon
Pavane by Keith Roberts
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds
Ringworld by Larry Niven
Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
Tau Zero by Poul Anderson
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
The Separation by Christopher Priest
The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
Yellow Blue Tibia by Adam Roberts


Fantasy:

Beauty by Sheri S. Tepper
Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie
Book of the New Sun (Vol 1&2) (Vol 3&4) by Gene Wolfe
The Book of Skulls by Robert Silverberg
Conan Volume One by Robert E. Howard
Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
Elric by Michael Moorcock
Eric by Terry Pratchett
Fevre Dream by George R. R. Martin
The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan
Graceling by Kristin Cashore
Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
Little, Big by John Crowley
Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees
Memoirs of a Master Forger by William Heaney
Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
The Runes of the Earth by Stephen Donaldson
Something Wicked this Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Tales of the Dying Earth by Jack Vance
Viriconium by M. John Harrison
Wolfsangel by M. D. Lachlan

Gollanz are holding a poll in which the winners in each category get republished.
Link to vote: http://www.gollancz50.com/

Plainly, I have been derelict in my reading!

Comments

[lewbasnight.livejournal.com]

Virconium was great, but I think there are better Brunner novels that Zanzibar. And Heart Shaped Box? It was OK, but I wouldn't put it on any 'Best of-' lists.

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

Stand on Zanzibar was good IMO, but The Sheep Look Up was far more affecting. I also enjoyed The Squares of the City, interesting idea.

[dfordoom.livejournal.com]

Pavane is one of the great neglected SF masterpieces. The Chalk Giants is also worth reading.

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

Yes, Pavane is great. For some reason Keith Roberts is hard to find here, I pick up his books and anthologies with his short stories whenever I can.