4 - Behold the Man Michael Moorcock
SF-Masterworks [4]: From Library JournalTo commemorate the 30th anniversary of Moorcock's Nebula Award-winning novel, Mojo is reissuing the book in a special illustrated edition that incorporates the author's corrections. Moorcock also provides a new...
6 - Bring the Jubilee Ward W. Moore
SF-Masterworks [6]: From the Inside Flap"[WARD MOORE IS] ONE OF THE BEST AMERICAN WRITERS." --Ray Bradbury The United States never recovered from The War for Southern Independence. While the neighboring Confederacy enjoyed the prosperity of the victo...
7 - Ringworld Larry Niven
SF-Masterworks [7]: A new place is being built, a world of huge dimensions, encompassing millions of miles, stronger than any planet before it. There is gravity, and with high walls and its proximity to the sun, a livable new planet that is three mil...
10 - Man Plus Frederik Pohl
SF-Masterworks [10]: Ill luck made Roger Torraway the subject of the Man Plus Programme, but it was deliberate biological engineering which turned him into a monster -- a machine perfectly adapted to survive on Mars. For according to computer predict...
11 - The Space Merchants Frederik Pohl
SF-Masterworks [11]: Review“A novel of the future that the present must inevitably rank as a classic.”—The New York TimesAbout the AuthorFREDERIK POHL’s writing career spans over seventy years. He won the National Book Award in 1980 for his novel Jem...
12 - The Inverted World Christopher Priest
SF-Masterworks [12]: The city is winched along tracks through a devastated land full of hostile tribes. Rails must be freshly laid ahead of the city and carefully removed in its wake. Rivers and mountains present nearly insurmountable challenges to t...
13 - The Prestige Christopher Priest
SF-Masterworks [13]: Two 19th century stage illusionists, the aristocratic Rupert Angier and the working-class Alfred Borden, engage in a bitter and deadly feud; the effects are still being felt by their respective families a hundred years later. Wor...
14 - The Affirmation Christopher Priest
SF-Masterworks [14]: Peter Sinclair is tormented by bereavement and failure. In an attempt to conjure some meaning from his life, he embarks on an autobiography, but he finds himself writing the story of another man in another, imagined, world, whose...
15 - The Female Man Joanna Russ
SF-Masterworks [15]: ReviewAs hard and mean and fine as Flannery O'Connor. . . . I wish that everyone would read Joanna Russ' books. -Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina "Joanna Russ offers a gallery of some of the most interesting fem...
16 - Child Garden Geoff Ryman
SF-Masterworks [16]: Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke and John W. Campbell Memorial Awards."An exuberant celebration of excess set in a resource-poor but defiantly energetic twenty-first century."—The New York Times"A richly absorbing tale—with a marve...
18 - Life During Wartime Lucius Shepard
SF-Masterworks [18]: Richly peopled, highly literate, and brilliantly drawn … [Lucius Shepard is] one of the finest science fiction writers of all time’ Science Fiction Chronicle. In the jungles of Guatemala, David Mingolla is struggling to survive a...
20 - Downward to the Earth Robert Silverberg
SF-Masterworks [20]: Review...An intelligent New Wave classic from the mid-1970s which blends mysticism, world-building and literary references in an inventive mix... ...This is perhaps SF's finest tribute to Joseph Conrad, both in its keen moral sen...
21 - City Clifford D. Simak
SF-Masterworks [21]: The cities of the world are deserted and automation has invaded every aspect of human life. The robots make spaceships, the ants create huge buildings on the remains of old towns and the dogs take over the earth. The award-winnin...
22 - The Rediscovery of Man Cordwainer Smith
SF-Masterworks [22]: Welcome to the strangest, most distinctive future ever imagined by a science fiction writer. An insterstellar empire ruled by the mysterious Lords of the Instrumentality, whose access to the drug stroon from the planet Norstrilia...
25 - Sirius Olaf Stapledon
SF-Masterworks [25]: Sirius is Thomas Trelone's great experiment - a huge, handsome dog with the brain and intelligence of a human being. Raised and educated in Trelone's own family alongside Plaxy, his youngest daughter, Sirius is a truly remarkable...
26 - Star Maker Olaf Stapledon
SF-Masterworks [26]: Widely regarded as one of the true classics of science fiction, Star Maker is a poetic and deeply philosophical work. The story details the mental journey of an unnamed narrator who is transported not only to other worlds but als...
27 - Earth Abides George Franklin Stewart
SF-Masterworks [27]: From the Inside FlapA disease of unparalleled destructive force has sprung up almost simultaneously in every corner of the globe, all but destroying the human race. One survivor, strangely immune to the effects of the epidemic, v...
29 - More Than Human Theodore and Moench Sturgeon
SF-Masterworks [29]: There's Lone, the simpletion who can hear other people's thoughts and make a man blow his brains out just by looking at him. There's Janie, who moves things without touching them, and there are the teleporting twins, who can trav...
30 - Of Men and Monsters William Tenn
SF-Masterworks [30]: Giant, technologically superior aliens have conquered Earth, but humankind survives - even flourishes in a way. Men and women live like mice in burrows in the massive walls of the huge homes of the aliens, scurrying about under t...
31 - Mockingbird Walter Tevis and Jonathan Lethem
SF-Masterworks [31]: Review"A moral tale that has elements of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, Superman, and Star Wars."--Los Angeles Times Book Review"Set in a far future in which robots run a world with a small and declining human population, this ...
33 - The Sirens of Titan Kurt Vonnegut
SF-Masterworks [33]: When Winston Niles Rumfoord flies his spaceship into a chrono-synclastic infundibulum he is converted into pure energy and only materializes when his waveforms intercept Earth or some other planet. As a result, he only gets home ...
35 - The Food of the Gods H. G. Wells
SF-Masterworks [35]: As one of Wells lesser known novels "The Food of the Gods" is often out of print and difficult to find. Despite its obscure status, it represents an early examination of scientific ethics that helped define an important genre in ...
36 - The Island of Dr. Moreau H. G. Wells
SF-Masterworks [36]: H.G. Wells's science fiction classic, The Island of Doctor Moreau, asks the reader to consider the limits of natural science and the distinction between men and beasts. A strange mix of science fiction, romance, and philosophical...
40 - Greybeard Brian Aldiss
SF-Masterworks [40]: Review'Greybeard is one of those hidden gems, a rare find that makes you kick yourself for not discovering it sooner, a masterful piece of literary science fiction and a poignant tale of human mortality.' (5/5 stars) SFBOOK 'bril...
41 - Tau Zero Poul Anderson
SF-Masterworks [41]: For the crew of the Leonora Christine, travelling close to the speed of light on a 30-light-year journey, subjective time slows down. Then buffeting by an interstellar dust cloud damages the ship's deceleration system and it achi...
43 - The Drowned World J. G. Ballard
SF-Masterworks [43]: ReviewThis is a fascinating read, for it prefigures many of the themes that pervade the author's subsequent books: planetary/ecological disaster, entropy, the devolution of human nature, a preoccupation with the roots of violence...
45 - Timescape Gregory Benford
SF-Masterworks [45]: Amazon.com ReviewSuspense builds in this novel about scientists, physics, time travel, and saving the Earth. It's 1998, and a physicist in Cambridge, England, attempts to send a message backward in time. Earth is falling apart, a...
46 - Demolished Man Alfred Bester
SF-Masterworks [46]: Amazon.com ReviewIn a world policed by telepaths, Ben Reich plans to commit a crime that hasn't been heard of in 70 years: murder. That's the only option left for Reich, whose company is losing a 10-year death struggle with rival...
48 - Case of Conscience James Blish
SF-Masterworks [48]: Amazon.com ReviewThe citizens of the planet Lithia are some of the most ethical sentient beings Father Ramon Ruiz-Sanchez has ever encountered. True, they have no literature, no fine arts, and don't understand the concept of recr...
50 - Rogue Moon Algis Budrys
SF-Masterworks [50]: Rogue Moon is a short sf novel by Algis Budrys, published in 1960. It was a 1961 Hugo Award nominee, losing to Walter M. Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz. A novella-length version of the story was included in the anthology The S...
52 - A Fall of Moondust Arthur C. Clarke
SF-Masterworks [52]: EDITORIAL REVIEW: A science fiction novel, last published in 1995, in which time is running out for the passengers and crew of a tourist cruiser that is trapped in a sea of choking lunar dust, and their rescuers are stretched to ...
53 - Childhood's End Arthur C. Clarke
SF-Masterworks [53]: This novel tells the tale of the last generation of mankind on Earth. All man's development in space and travel are stopped by alien "overlords" who take over Earth, establishing a benevolent dictatorship which eliminates poverty...
54 - The City and the Stars Arthur C. Clarke
SF-Masterworks [54]: The City and the Stars: The 10-billion-year-old metropolis of Diaspar is humanity's last home. Alone among immortals, the only man born in 10 million years desperately wants to find what lies beyond the city.
56 - Rendezvous with Rama Arthur C. Clarke
SF-Masterworks [56]: At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is huge, weighing more than ten trillion tons. And it is hurtling through the solar system at inconceivable speed. Then a space probe ...
59 - Dhalgren Samuel Delany
SF-Masterworks [59]: Amazon.com ReviewWhat is Dhalgren? Dhalgren is one of the greatest novels of 20th-century American literature. Dhalgren is one of the all-time bestselling science fiction novels. Dhalgren may be read with equal validity as SF, ma...
60 - A Maze of Death Philip K. Dick
SF-Masterworks [60]: Fourteen strangers came to Delmak-O. Thirteen of them were transferred by the usual authorities. One got there by praying. But once they arrived on that planet whose very atmosphere seemed to induce paranoia and psychosis, the ne...
64 - Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said Philip K. Dick
SF-Masterworks [64]: >On October 11 the television star Jason Taverner is so famous that 30 million viewers eagerly watch his prime-time show. On October 12 Jason Taverner is not a has-been but a never-was -- a man who has lost not only his audien...
65 - The Man in the High Castle Philip K. Dick
SF-Masterworks [65]: It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. the few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some 20 years earlier the United States lost a...
66 - The Penultimate Truth Philip K. Dick
SF-Masterworks [66]: THE LONGEST LIE World War III is raging - or so the millions of people crammed in their underground tanks believe. For fiteen years, subterranean humanity has been fed on daily broadcasts of a never-ending nuclear destruction, su...
67 - The Simulacra Philip K. Dick
SF-Masterworks [67]: Set in the middle of the twenty-first century, The Simulacra is the story of an America where the whole government is a fraud and the President is an android. Against this backdrop Dr. Superb, the sole remaining psychotherapist, ...
68 - The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch Philip K. Dick
SF-Masterworks [68]: For the exiles from a blistering Earth, Mars is a lonely place, made bearable only by drugs, specifically Can-D, which translates those who take in into a shared hallucination of a Barbie-esque world. But the new drug Chew-Z prom...
69 - Time Out of Joint Philip K. Dick
SF-Masterworks [69]: Time Out of Joint is Philip K. Dick's classic depiction of the disorienting disparity between the world as we think it is and the world as it actually is. The year is 1998, although Ragle Gumm doesn't know that. He thinks it's 19...
72 - Valis Philip K. Dick
SF-Masterworks [72]: In 2007, Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s became the fastest selling title in The Library of America’s history. The 2008 companion volume, Five Novels of the1960s & 70s, broke series records for advance sales. Now com...
75 - Arslan M. J. Engh
SF-Masterworks [75]: Review"This is wonderful and terrifying SF—terrifying because its premise, the takeover of the United States by a third-rate world power, is at once so preposterous and yet, in the hands of this highly skilled writer, so stupefyi...
76 - The Body Snatchers Jack Finney
SF-Masterworks [76]: On a quiet fall evening in the small, peaceful town of Mill Valley, California, Dr. Miles Bennell discovered an insidious, horrifying plot. Silently, subtly, almost imperceptibly, alien life-forms were taking over the bodies and ...
77 - The Difference Engine William and Sterling Gibson
SF-Masterworks [77]: 1855: The Industrial Revolution is in full and inexorable swing, powered by steam-driven cybernetic Engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time. And three extra...
78 - The Dispossessed Ursula Le Guin
SF-Masterworks [78]: PerfectBound e-book extra: A Study Guide to The Dispossessed by Paul Brians.Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. he will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred th...
79 - The Lathe of Heaven: A Novel Ursula Le Guin
SF-Masterworks [79]: Amazon.com ReviewUrsula K. Le Guin is one of science fiction's greatest writers. She is also an acclaimed author of powerful and perceptive nonfiction, fantasy, and literary fiction. She has received many honors, including six Ne...
80 - The Forever War Joe Haldeman
SF-Masterworks [80]: Private William Mandella is a hero in spite of himself -- a reluctant conscript drafted into an elite military unit, and propelled through space and time to fight in a distant thousand-year conflict. He never wanted to go to war,...
81 - The Centauri Device M John Harrison
SF-Masterworks [81]: John Truck was to outward appearances just another lowlife spaceship captain. But he was also the last of the Centaurans, or at least half of him was, which meant that he was the only person who could operate the Centauri Device,...
82 - Hellstrom's Hive Frank Herbert
SF-Masterworks [82]: First published in 1973, Frank Herbert's vivid imagination and brilliant view of nature and ecology have never been more evident than in this classic of science fiction.America is a police state, and it is about to be threatened ...
83 - The Shrinking Man Richard Matheson
SF-Masterworks [83]: Amazon.com ReviewSome people will remember The Incredible Shrinking Man as a movie with great special effects and a surprisingly good script, given the ridiculous title. Matheson's classic novella is the reason for that. As Scott...
