CLASSICS OF SCIENCE FICTION A selection of classic science fiction titles, from the library’s fiction collection.
Please note: [electronic resource] indicates that a title is available only as an audiobook electronic download. Please see the Reference Desk for assistance with these titles!
1984 : A Novel Brave New World Fahrenheit 451 George Orwell • F ORW Aldous Huxley • F HUX Ray Bradbury • F BRA
20,000 Leagues Under the Childhood’s End Flowers for Algernon Sea [electronic resource] Daniel Keyes • F KEY Jules Verne • F VER Arthur C. Clarke The Forever War A Canticle for Leibowitz Cryptonomicon Joe Haldeman • F HAL Walter M. Miller, Jr • F MIL [electronic resource] Neal Stephenson Foundation and Empire A Clockwork Orange Isaac Asimov • F ASI Anthony Burgess • F BUR The Dispossessed : An Ambiguous Utopia Foundation A Princess of Mars (in the Ursula K. Le Guin • F LEG Isaac Asimov • F ASI collection The Collected John Carter of Mars) Do Androids Dream of Frankenstein Edgar Rice Burroughs • F BUR Electric Sheep? Mary Shelley; with an Philip K. Dick • F DIC introduction and notes by A Wrinkle in Time Karen Karbiener • YA SHE Madeleine L’Engle • J LE Dune Newbery Frank Herbert • F HER The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Ender’s Game Douglas Adams • F ADA Orson Scott Card • YA CAR
Ocean City Free Public Library • 1735 Simpson Avenue • Ocean City NJ • 08226 609-399-2434 • www.oceancitylibrary.org I Am Legend Out of the Silent Planet Stranger in a Strange Land Richard Matheson • F MAT C.S. Lewis • F LEW Robert A. Heinlein • F HEI
The Illustrated Man Pebble in the Sky The Man in the High Castle Ray Bradbury • F BRA Isaac Asimov • F ASI (in the collection Four Novels of the 1960s) Journey to the Center of the Ringworld Philip K. Dick • F DIC Earth [electronic resource] Jules Verne; supplementary Larry Niven The Time Machine materials written by Heather H. G. Wells • F WEL Wilkinson • F VER Second Foundation Isaac Asimov • F ASI Timescape The Light of Other Days Gregory Benford • F BEN [electronic resource] The Sirens of Titan: An Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Original Novel To Your Scattered Bodies Go Baxter by Kurt Vonnegut • F VON [electronic resource] Philip José Farmer The Martian Chronicles Snow Crash Ray Bradbury • F BRA Neal Stephenson • F STE The War of the Worlds H.G. Wells; illustrated by The Moon is a Harsh Mistress The Stand: The Complete & Edward Gorey • YA WEL [electronic resource] Uncut Edition Robert A. Heinlein Stephen King • F KIN We Yevgeny Zamyatin; Neuromancer Starship Troopers translated and with an William Gibson; with an af- Robert A. Heinlein • F HEI introduction by Clarence terword by Jack Womack • Brown • F ZAM YA GIB
This list is compiled from data found at:
1. https://www.worldswithoutend.com/lists_classics_of_sf.asp
2. http://www.abebooks.com/books/features/50-essential-science-fiction-books.shtml
3. http://www.npr.org/2011/08/11/139085843/your-picks-top-100-science-fiction-fantasy-books LS, 2014