20 Science Fiction Novels that Will Change Your Life

The Twenty Science Fiction Novels that Will Change Your Life

1. Frankenstein (1818), by Mary Shelley
2. The Time Machine (1895), by H.G. Wells
3. At the Mountains of Madness (1931), by H.P. Lovecraft
4. I, Robot (1955), by Isaac Asimov
5. The Dispossessed (1974), by Ursula LeGuin
6. Kindred (1979), by Octavia Butler
7. Wizard (1979), by John Varley
8. Consider Phlebas (1987), by Iain M. Banks
9. He, She, and It (1991), by Marge Piercy
10. Sarah Canary (1991), by Karen Joy Fowler
11. A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), by Vernor Vinge
12. The Bohr Maker (1995), by Linda Nagata
13. The Sparrow (1996), by Mary Doria Russell
14. Cryptonomicon (2000), by Neal Stephenson
15. The Mount (2002), by Carol Emschwiller
16. Perdido Street Station (2002), by China Mieville
17. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (2003), by Cory Doctorow
18. Pattern Recognition (2003), by William Gibson
19. Newton’s Wake (2004), by Ken MacLeod
20. Glasshouse (2006), by Charles Stross

I’ve only actually read I, Robot.

via io9.com 

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