Sunday, January 08, 2012

top 100 sci-fi

So I found a torrent for the top 100 sci-fi books of all time on audio book. So I figure I will at least start each of the books and see which one I make it through. The ones that I have seen the movie are going to be tough because I don't like knowing where a book is going (eg. Contact, Jurasic Park, and Starship Troopers)

Count Completed Before 2011: 16
Count Completed 2011: 2
Count Completed 2012: 7
Count Quit 2012: 2
Count Completed 2013: 1
Total Completed/Quit: 29


Title Author Year Comment
Ender's Game [S1] Orson Scott Card 1985 before 2011
Dune [S1] Frank Herbert 1965 before 2011
Foundation [S1-3] Isaac Asimov 1951 before 2011
Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy [S1] Douglas Adams 1979 2011
1984 George Orwell 1949 before 2011
Stranger in a Strange Land Robert A Heinlein 1961 2012
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury 1954 before 2011
2001: A Space Odyssey Arthur C Clarke 1968 2012
[C] I, Robot Isaac Asimov 1950 2012
Starship Troopers Robert A Heinlein 1959 2012
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K Dick 1968 2012
Neuromancer William Gibson 1984 quit in 2012
Ringworld Larry Niven 1970
Rendezvous With Rama Arthur C Clarke 1973  quit in 2012
Hyperion [S1] Dan Simmons 1989 before 2011
The Time Machine H G Wells 1895 before 2011
Brave New World Aldous Huxley 1932 before 2011
Childhood's End Arthur C Clarke 1954
The War of the Worlds H G Wells 1898
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress Robert A Heinlein 1966
The Forever War Joe Haldeman 1974
[C] The Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury 1950
Slaughterhouse Five Kurt Vonnegut 1969 before 2011
Snow Crash Neal Stephenson 1992 2012
The Left Hand of Darkness Ursula K Le Guin 1969 2012
The Mote in God's Eye Niven & Pournelle 1975
Speaker for the Dead [S2] Orson Scott Card 1986 before 2011
Jurassic Park Michael Crichton 1990
The Man in the High Castle Philip K Dick 1962
The Caves of Steel Isaac Asimov 1954
The Stars My Destination Alfred Bester 1956
Lord of Light Roger Zelazny 1967
Gateway Frederik Pohl 1977
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne 1870
Solaris Stanislaw Lem 1961
The Andromeda Strain Michael Crichton 1969
A Wrinkle In Time Madeleine L'Engle 1962 2013
Contact Carl Sagan 1985
The Gods Themselves Isaac Asimov 1972
Cat's Cradle Kurt Vonnegut 1963 before 2011
Aback Philip K Dick 1969
A Fire Upon the Deep Vernor Vinge 1991 2011
The Day of the Triffids John Wyndham 1951
Cryptonomicon Neal Stephenson 1999 before 2011
A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess 1962
Red Mars [S1] Kim Stanley Robinson 1992
Time Enough For Love Robert A Heinlein 1973
A Canticle for Leibowitz Walter M Miller 1959
Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes 1966 before 2011
The End Of Eternity Isaac Asimov 1955
Frankenstein Mary Shelley 1818
Journey to the Center of the Earth Jules Verne 1864 2011
Battlefield Earth L Ron Hubbard 1982
The Dispossessed Ursula K Le Guin 1974
The Diamond Age Neal Stephenson 1995
Player Of Games [S2] Iain M Banks 1988
The Reality Dysfunction [S1] Peter F Hamilton 1996
Startide Rising [S2] David Brin 1983
Ender's Shadow [S1] Orson Scott Card 1999 before 2011
To Your Scattered Bodies Go Philip Jose Farmer 1971
The Sirens of Titan Kurt Vonnegut 1959 before 2011
Eon Greg Bear 1985
A Scanner Darkly Philip K Dick 1977
Lucifer's Hammer Niven & Pournelle 1977
The City and the Stars Arthur C Clarke 1956
The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood 1985
The Demolished Man Alfred Bester 1953
The Stainless Steel Rat [S1] Harry Harrison 1961
Sphere Michael Crichton 1987
The Door Into Summer Robert A Heinlein 1956
The Shadow of the Torturer [S1] Gene Wolfe 1980
Revelation Space [S1] Alastair Reynolds 2000
Citizen Of the Galaxy Robert A Heinlein 1957
The Invisible Man H G Wells 1897
The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch Philip K Dick 1964
Doomsday Book Connie Willis 1992
Ilium Dan Simmons 2003 before 2011
The Puppet Masters Robert A Heinlein 1951
Have Space-Suit - Will Travel Robert A Heinlein 1958
Out of the Silent Planet [S1] C S Lewis 1938
A Princess of Mars [S1] Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912
Altered Carbon [S1] Richard Morgan 2002
The Chrysalids John Wyndham 1955
The Lathe of Heaven Ursula K Le Guin 1971
Old Man's War John Scalzi 2005
Use of Weapons [S3] Iain M Banks 1990
Way Station Clifford Simak 1963
Flatland Edwin A Abbott 1884
The Road Cormac McCarthy 2006
VALIS Philip K Dick 1981
Roadside Picnic Arkady & Boris Strugatsky 1972
Stand on Zanzibar John Brunner 1969
[C] The Cyberiad Stanislaw Lem 1974
The Postman David Brin 1985
The Forge of God Greg Bear 1987
The Many-Colored Land [S1] Julian May 1981
The Fountains of Paradise Arthur C Clarke 1979
The Lost World Arthur Conan Doyle 1912
[C] Cities in Flight James Blish 1955
The Uplift War [S3] David Brin 1987