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Joel Wilenius

Being relatively new to SF, I'm still working my way through a lot of the classics (and always finding some new favorite that I'm desperate to recommend to others). I've just listed novels (and some linked stories) so far, but they're all pretty much essential reading.
Novels
Brian Aldiss
  • Non-Stop
  • Hothouse
  • Greybeard
  • The Malacia Tapestry
  • Moreau's Other Island
  • Frankenstein Unbound

    J. G. Ballard

  • Crash
  • High-Rise
  • Concrete Island
  • Rushing to Paradise
  • The Kindness of Women
  • The Unlimited Dream Company
  • The Drowned World

    Alfred Bester

  • The Stars My Destination
  • The Demolished Man

    Ray Bradbury

  • The Martian Chronicles
  • Fahrenheit 451
  • Dandelion Wine

    Joe Haldeman

  • The Forever War

    M. John Harrison

  • The Centauri Device

    Frank Herbert

  • Dune
  • Dune Messiah
  • Children of Dune
  • Hellstrom's Hive

    Henry Kuttner

  • Fury
  • Mutant

    Richard Matheson:

  • I Am Legend

    Robert Silverberg:

  • Dying Inside
  • Nightwings
  • Book of Skulls
  • The World Inside
  • Tower of Glass
  • Tom O'Bedlam
  • Thorns

    Olav Stapledon:

  • First and Last Men
  • Starmaker

    Theodore Sturgeon

  • More Than Human
  • The Dreaming Jewels

    Jack Vance

  • Big Planet

    Kurt Vonnegut

  • Slaughterhouse 5
  • Cat's Cradle
  • God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

    H. G. Wells

  • The Island of Dr. Moreau
  • The First Men in the Moon
  • The Time Machine
  • The Invisible Man
  • The War of the Worlds

    Gene Wolfe

  • The Fifth Head of Cerberus



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