Desert Island sci-fi

A personal treasury of great science fiction.

  • Tau Zero (Poul Anderson)
  • Timescape (Gregory Benford)
  • The Stars My Destination (Alfred Bester)
  • Childhood’s End (Arthur C. Clarke)
  • The Fountains of Paradise (Arthur C. Clarke)
  • Rendezvous with Rama (Arthur C. Clarke)
  • Babel-17 (Samuel Delany)
  • A Scanner Darkly (Philip K. Dick)
  • The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (Philip K. Dick)
  • VALIS (Philip K Dick)
  • Diaspora (Greg Egan)
  • Incandescence (Greg Egan)
  • Permutation City (Greg Egan)
  • Schild’s Ladder (Greg Egan)
  • The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (Robert A. Heinlein)
  • Dune (Frank Herbert)
  • Ice (Anna Kavan)
  • The Dispossessed (Ursula Le Guin)
  • The Call of Cthulu (H. P. Lovecraft)
  • A Canticle for Leibowitz (Walter M. Miller)
  • Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell)
  • The Red Mars Trilogy (Kim Stanley Robinson)
  • Contact (Carl Sagan)
  • Anathem (Neal Stephenson)
  • Roadside Picnic (Boris and Arkady Strugatsky)
  • Rainbow’s End (Vernor Vinge)
  • Breakfast of Champions (Kurt Vonnegut)
  • The Chrysalids (John Wyndham)
Written on July 27, 2019