Recommended Reading List
David Gerrold and I came up with a quick and dirty recommended reading list. Here it is.
NOTE: Some of these are short stories or other works that will be found in anthologies.
| Novel (or Work) | Author |
| Have Spacesuit Will Travel | Robert A. Heinlein |
| Stranger in a Strange Land | |
| Starship Troopers | |
| The Door Into Summer | |
| Time for the Stars | |
| Shockwave Rider | John Brunner |
| The Sheep Looked Up | |
| Stand On Zanzibar | |
| Cities in Flight | Jame A. Blish |
| The Man in the High Castle | Philip K. Dick |
| Bug Jack Barron | Norman Spinrad |
| The Left Hand of Darkness | Ursula K. LeGuin |
| The Man Who Folded Himself | David Gerrold |
| Childhood’s End | Arthur C. Clarke |
| Rendezvous with Rama | |
| Ringworld | Larry Niven |
| The Foundation Trilogy | Isaac Asimov |
| “I, Robot” | |
| The Naked Sun | |
| The Caves of Steel | |
| Lord of Light | Roger Zelazny |
| Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury |
| October Country | |
| The Martian Chronicles | |
| Dune | Frank Herbert |
| Ender’s Game | Orson Scott Card |
| Dragonflight | Anne McCaffrey |
| The Ship Who Sang | |
| The Catch Trap | Marion Zimmer Bradley |
| When Gravity Fails | George Alec Effinger |
| More Than Human | Theodore Sturgeon |
| Godbody | |
| Venus Plus X | |
| The Day of the Triffids | John Wyndham |
| The Midwich Cuckoos | |
| The Long Afternoon of Earth | Brian W. Aldiss |
| Dearthworld | Harry Harrison |
| The Stainless Steel Rat | |
| Hospital Station | James White |
| Repent Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman | Harlan Ellison |
| Gateway | Frederick Pohl |
| Not this August | Cyril Kornbluth |
| Alas Babylon | Pat Frank |
| Fear! | L. Ron Hubbard |
| The Warrior’s Apprentice | Lois McMaster Bujold |
| Martians Go Home! | Henry Kutner |
| Who Goes There? | John W. Campbell |
| The Stars My Destination | Alfred W. Bester |
| The Demolished Man | |
| The Martian Odyssey | Stanley G. Weinbaum |
| The Wanderer | Fritz Leiber |
| The Big Tide | |
| Conjure Wife | |
| Earth | David Brin |
| Startide Rising | |
| A Fire Upon the Deep | Vernor Vinge |
| Seven Views of Oldavai Gorge | Michael Resnick |
| Nightwings | Robert Silverberg |
| Macroscope | Piers Anthony |
| Orn | |
| The Door Into Fire | Diane Duane |
| So You Want to be A Wizard | |
| Time Storm | Gordon R. Dickson |
| Dorsai! | |
| Starquake | Robert L. Forward |
| A Mission of Gravity | Hal Clement |
| Needle | |
| Fire Time | Poul Anderson |
| Tau Zero | |
| Titan | John Varley |