My favorites:
- George Orwell – 1984
- Peter Watts – Blindsight
Great (5/5):
- Aldous Huxley – Brave New World
- Alfred Bester – The Stars My Destination
- Isaac Asimov – The End of Eternity
- Isaac Asimov – Foundation
- Orson Scott Card – Speaker for the Dead
Good (4/5):
- Alfred Bester – The Demolished Man
- Arthur C. Clarke – 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Arthur C. Clarke – Rendezvous with Rama
- Arthur C. Clarke – Childhood’s End
- Carl Sagan – Contact
- Cixin Liu – The Three-Body Problem
- David Gerrold – The Man Who Has Folded Himself
- Douglas Adams – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- Frederik Pohl – Beyond the Blue Event Horizon
- Greg Egan – Quarantine
- Hannu Rajaniemi – The Quantum Thief
- Hannu Rajaniemi – The Fractal Prince
- Isaac Asimov – Currents of Space
- Isaac Asimov – Foundation’s Edge
- Joe Haldeman – The Forever War
- Lois McMaster Bujold – Shards of Honor & Barrayar
- Philip K. Dick – Ubik
- Philip K. Dick – Valis
- Philip K- Dick – A Scanner Darkly
- Paolo Bacigalupi – Pump Six and Other Stories
- Philip José Farmer – The Fabulous Riverboat
- Poul Anderson – Tau Zero
- Ray Bradbury – Fahrenheit 451
- Robert A. Heinlein – The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
- Stanisław Lem – Solaris
- Stephen Baxter – Manifold: Time
- Theodore Sturgeon – More Than Human
- Vernor Vinge – A Fire Upon the Deep
- Vernor Vinge – A Deepness in the Sky
- Yevgeny Zamyatin – We
Fine (3/5):
- Arthur C. Clarke – The Fountains of Paradise
- Charles Stross – Accelerando
- Clifford D. Simak – All Flesh is Grass
- Dan Simmons – Hyperion
- Dan Simmons – The Rise of Endymion
- Douglas Adams – Life, the Universe, and Everything
- Frank Herbert – Dune
- Frederik Pohl – Gateway
- Frederik Pohl – Heeche Rendezvous
- Greg Bear – Darwin’s Radio
- Gregory Benford – Timescape
- Iain M. Banks – The Player of Games
- Isaac Asimov – I, Robot
- Isaac Asimov – The Caves of Steel
- Isaac Asimov – The Naked Sun
- James P. Hogan – Inherit the Stars
- John Steakley – Armor
- Kim Stanley Robinson – Mars Trilogy
- Larry Niven – Ringworld
- Max Brooks – World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
- Nancy Kress – Beggars in Spain
- Neal Stephenson – Snow Crash
- Neal Stephenson – The Diamond Age
- Orson Scott Card – Ender’s Game
- Philip José Farmer – Riverworld
- Philip José Farmer – The Dark Design
- Philip K. Dick – The Man in the High Castle
- Philip K. Dick – Martian Time-Slip
- Robert A. Heinlein – Stranger in a Strange Land
- Robert A. Heinlein – Starship Troopers
- Robert A. Heinlein – The Door Into Summer
- Robert Charles Wilson – Spin
- Robert J. Sawyer – Hominids
- Stephen Baxter – Manifold: Space
- Ursula K. Le Guin – The Dispossessed
- Walter M. Miller Jr. – A Canticle of Leibowitz
- William Gibson – Count Zero
- William Gibson – Neuromancer
Meh (2/5):
- Alastair Reynolds – Revelation Space
- Alexei Panshin – Rite of Passage
- Arthur C. Clarke – 2010: Odyssey Two
- Barry N. Malzberg – Guernica Night
- C.J. Cherryh – Downbelow Station
- Clifford D. Simak – Way Station
- Dan Simmons – Endymion
- Frederik Pohl – The Annals of the Heechee
- Iain M. Banks – Consider Phlebas
- Isaac Asimov – Nine Tomorrows
- Isaac Asimov – The Stars, Like Dust
- James P. Hogan – The Gentle Giants of Ganymede
- John Scalzi – Old Man’s War
- John Varley – Titan
- John Wyndham – The Day of the Triffids
- Kazuo Ishiguro – Never Let Me Go
- Kim Stanley Robinson – 2312
- Neal Stephenson – Anathem
- Paolo Bacigalupi – The Windup Girl
- Richard K. Morgan – Altered Carbon
- Robert A. Heinlein – Double Star
- Robert A. Heinlein – Time Enough for Love
- Roger Zelazny – Isle of the Dead
Bad (1/5):
- Harry Harrison – The Stainless Steel Rat
- Isaac Asimov – Prelude to Foundation
- Orson Scott Card – Xenocide
Crap (0/5):