Inventing Reality: A Guide to Writing Science Fiction

Looking for a good science fiction book to read? Try one of these classics.

A

Always Coming Home (Ursula Le Guin) 
The Andromeda Strain (Michael Crichton)  
Archives (Doris Lessing)   

B

The Boat of a Million Years (Poul Anderson)  

Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)

C

Canopus in Argos (Doris Lessing)   

A Case of Conscience (James Blish)

Cat's Cradle (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.) 

Childhood’s End (Arthur C. Clarke)
A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)

Count Zero (William Gibson)  

The Crystal World (J.G. Ballard)

Cyborg (Martin Caidin)

D

The Demolished Man (Alfred Bester)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Philip K. Dick)
Dune (Frank Herbert)

E
Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)

F
Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)

Flower for Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
The Forever War (Joe Haldeman)

The Foundation Trilogy (Isaac Asimov)

Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
From the Earth to the Moon (Jules Verne)

G

H
Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)

I
The Invisible Man (H.G. Wells)
I, Robot (Isaac Asimov)

J
Journey to the Center of the Earth (Jules Verne)

Jurassic Park (Michael Crichton)  

L
The Left-Hand of Darkness (Ursula K. Le Guin)

Logan's Run (William F. Nolan)

Looking Backward (Edward Bellamy)

M

The Martian Chronicles (Ray Bradbury)

Mona Lisa Overdrive (William Gibson)  

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (Robert Heinlein)

N

1984 (George Orwell)

Neuromancer (William Gibson)

O
On the Beach (Nevil Shute)
Out of the Silent Planet (C.S. Lewis)

P
Planet of the Apes (Pierre Boulle)

Q 

R
Rendezvous with Rama (Arthur C. Clarke)

Ringworld (Larry Niven)

S

Slan (A.E. van Vogt)

Solaris (Stanislaw Lem)

Starship Troopers (Robert Heinlein)

The Stars My Destination (Alfred Bester)

Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert Heinlein)

T

Tau Zero (Poul Anderson) 

Terraforming Earth (Jack Williamson)

The Time Machine (H.G. Wells)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Arthur C. Clarke)

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne)

U
V 

Vermillion Sands (J.G. Ballard)

W

War of the Worlds (H.G. Wells)
The Word for World is Forest (Ursula Le Guin) 
X
Y
Z