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ALL TIME SF NOVEL

1) Dune, Frank Herbert (1965)

2) The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin (1969)

3) Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke (1953)

4) The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Robert A. Heinlein (1966)

5) Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein (1961)

6) The Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov (1953)

7) A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1959)

8) Gateway, Frederik Pohl (1977)

9) Ringworld, Larry Niven (1970)

10) The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester (1956)

11) Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny (1967)

12) More Than Human, Theodore Sturgeon (1953)

13) The Mote in God's Eye, Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle (1974)

14) The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick (1962)

15) The Time Machine, H. G. Wells (1895)

16) Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner (1968)

17) The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin (1974)

18*) The Demolished Man, Alfred Bester (1952)

18*) The Forever War, Joe Haldeman (1974)

20) The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury (1950)

21) Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein (1959)

22) Dying Inside, Robert Silverberg (1972)

23) Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany (1975)

24) Time Enough for Love, Robert A. Heinlein (1973)

25*) Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke (1973)

25*) Way Station, Clifford D. Simak (1963)

27) To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip José Farmer (1971)

28) Earth Abides, George R. Stewart (1949)

29) The Door Into Summer, Robert A. Heinlein (1957)

30) City, Clifford D. Simak (1952)

31) The Witches of Karres, James H. Schmitz (1966)

32) The City and the Stars, Arthur C. Clarke (1956)

33) The Caves of Steel, Isaac Asimov (1953)

34) Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell (1949)

35) Norstrilia, Cordwainer Smith (1975)

36) Mission of Gravity, Hal Clement (1954)

37) Ubik, Philip K. Dick (1969)

38*) 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke (1968)

38*) Timescape, Gregory Benford (1980)

40) Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury (1953)

41) Downbelow Station, C. J. Cherryh (1981)

42) The War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells (1898)

43) Last and First Men, Olaf Stapledon (1930)

44) Double Star, Robert A. Heinlein (1956)

45) Davy, Edgar Pangborn (1964)

ALL TIME FANTASY NOVEL

1) The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien (1955)

2) The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien (1937)

3) A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin (1968)

4) The Shadow of the Torturer, Gene Wolfe (1980)

5) The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle (1968)

6) The Once and Future King, T. H. White (1958)

7) Nine Princes in Amber, Roger Zelazny (1970)

8) The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Stephen R. Donaldson (1977)

9) Dragonflight, Anne McCaffrey (1968)

10) Little, Big, John Crowley (1981)

11) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll (1865)

12) The Gormenghast Trilogy, Mervyn Peake (1950)

13) The Riddle-Master of Hed, Patricia A. McKillip (1976)

14) The Incomplete Enchanter, Fletcher Pratt & L. Sprague de Camp (1941)

15) Watership Down, Richard Adams (1972)

16) The Dying Earth, Jack Vance (1950)

17) Glory Road, Robert A. Heinlein (1963)

18) A Spell for Chameleon, Piers Anthony (1977)

19) Dracula, Bram Stoker (1897)

20) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum (1900)

21) Silverlock, John Myers Myers (1949)

22) Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury (1962)

23*) The Stand, Stephen King (1978)

23*) The White Dragon, Anne McCaffrey (1978)

25) Lord Valentine's Castle, Robert Silverberg (1980)

26) The Chronicles of Narnia, C. S. Lewis (1950)

27) The Shining, Stephen King (1977)

28) Conjure Wife, Fritz Leiber (1953)

29*) Deryni Rising, Katherine Kurtz (1970)

29*) The Worm Ouroboros, E. R. Eddison (1922)

31) Witch World, Andre Norton (1963)

32) 'Salem's Lot, Stephen King (1975)

33) A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle (1962)