Sixty Books Important to the Development of SF
Best 105 SF Books Since the Invention of the Field in the Twenties
Landmarks in Fictive Images of Technology
Nebula Award Winners for Best SF Novels 1965-1997
SIXTY BOOKS IMPORTANT TO THE
DEVELOPMENT OF SF, PUBLISHED BEFORE
THE NAME WAS INVENTEDcompiled by David G. Hartwell
Note: In those cases where there are two dates, the earlier indicates the original date of publication, the second the first publication in book form. Books in this listing appear in order by earliest date.
*= translation ** = a collection or compilation of earlier works
1. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels (1726).
2. Louis-Sebastien Mercier. Memoirs of the Year 244O (1771).*
3. Jean Cousin de Grainville. The Last Man or Omegarus and Syderia (1805).*
4. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein (1818).
5. Joseph Atterly (pseud. George Tucker). A Voyage to the Moon (1827).
6. Edgar Allan Poe. The Science Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe (ca. 184Os)(1 976).**
7. Fitz-James O'Brien. The SupernaturalTales of Fitz-James O'Brien (ca1860s) (2 vols 1988)
8. Jules Verne. A Journey to the Center of the Earth (1863).*
9. Chrysostom Trueman ("ed."). The History of a Voyage to the Moon (1864).
10. Jules Verne. From the Earth to the Moon (1865) and Around the Moon (1870).*
11. Edward S. Ellis. The Steam Man of the Prairies (1868).
12. Edward Everett Hale. "The Brick Moon" (1869).
13. Jules Verne. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1870).* (See also No.10.)
14. N. Camille Flammarion. Stories of Infinity (ca. 1870s) (1897).***
15. Sir George Chesney. The Battle of Dorking (1871).
16. Edward Bulwer Lytton. The Coming Race (1871).
17. Percy Greg. Across the Zodiac (1880).
18. Edward Bellamy. The Blindman's World and Other Stories (ca.1880s) (1898).**
19. Edward Page Mitchell. The Crystal Man (ca. 1880s) (1973).**
20. Frank R. Stockton. The Science Fiction of Frank R. Stockton (ca. 1880s) (1976).**
21. Albert Robida. Le Vingtieme Siecle (1882) Profuse illustration with text: never translated.
22. Edwin A. Abbott. Flatland (1884).
23. Robert Louis Stevenson. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886).
24. W. H. Hudson. A Crystal Age (1887).
25. Edward Bellamy. Looking Backward (1888).
26. Mark Twain. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889).
27. Ignatius Donnelly. Caesar's Column (1890).
28. H. G.Wells. The Short Stories of H. C. Wells (ca. 1890s) (1927).**
29. N. Camille Flammarion. Omega: The Last Days of the World. (1893-4).*
30. George Griffith. The Angel of the Revolution (1893).
31. Gustavus W. Pope. Journey to Mars (1894).
32. H. G. Wells. The Time Machine (1895).
33. Gabriel Tarde. Underground Man (1896/1904).*
34. H. G. Wells. The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896).
35. Kurd Lasswitz. Two Planets (1897).*
36. H. G. Wells. The War of the Worlds (1898).
37. H. G. Wells. When the Sleeper Wakes (1899).
38. Simon Newcomb. His Wisdom, the Defender (1900).
39. M. P. Shiel. The Purple Cloud (1901).
40. H. G. Wells. The First Men in the Moon (1901).
41. H. G. Wells. A Modern Utopia (1905).
42. J. D. Beresford. The Hampdenshire Wonder (1911).
43. Hugo Gernsback. Ralph 124 C41+ (1911-12/1925).
44. Rudyard Kipling. With The Night Mail (1905/1909) and "As Easy as A.B.C."' (1912).
45. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Lost World (1912).
46. William Hope Hodgson. The Night Land (1912).
47. George Allan England. Darkness and Dawn (1914).
48. Jack London. The Science Fiction of Jack London (ca. 1915) (1975). **
49. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars (1912/1917).
50. A. Merritt. The Moon Pool (1919).
51. Murray Leinster. The Forgotten Planet (1920-53/1954).
52. Karel Capek. R.U.R. (1920).*
53. David Lindsay. A Voyage to Arcturus (1920).
54. George Bernard Shaw. Back to Methuselah (1921).
55. Ray Cummings. The Girl in the Golden Atom (1922).
56. E. V. Odle. The Clockwork Man (1923).
57. Yevgeny Zamiatin. We (1924) *
58. S. Fowler Wright. The World Below (1929).
59. Olaf Stapledon. Last and First Men (1930).
60. Aldous Huxley. Brave New World (1932).
Best 105 SF Books Since the Invention of the Field in the Twenties
As Compiled by David G. Hartwell
1. Brian Aldiss. Starswarm.
2. Poul Anderson. The Boat of a Million Years.
3. Isaac Asimov. The Foundation Trilogy.
4. J.G. Ballard The Crystal World.
5. -The Atrocity Exhibition.
6. Greg Bear. Eon.
7. Gregory Benford. Timescape.
8. Alfred Bester. The Demolished Man.
9. - The Stars My Destination.
10. Michael Bishop. No Enemy but Time.
11. James Blish. A Case of Conscience.
12. - Cities in Flight.
13. Leigh Brackett. The Long Tomorrow.
14. Ray Bradbury. The Martian Chronicles.
15. - Fahrenheit 451.
16. David Brin. Startide Rising.
17. Fredric Brown. The Best of Fredric Brown.
18. John Brunner. Stand on Zanzibar.
19. Edward Bryant. Particle Theory.
20. Algis Budrys. Rogue Moon.
21. Anthony Burgess.A Clockwork Orange.
22. John W. Campbell. Who Goes There?
23. Orson Scott Card. Ender's Came.
24. C. J. Cherryh Cyteen.
25. Arthur C. Clarke. Childhood's End.
26. - The City and the Stars.
27. D. G. Compton. The Unsleeping Eye.
28. Avram Davidson. The Best ofAvram Davidson.
29. L. Sprague de Camp. Lest Darkness Fall.
30. Samuel R. Delany. Nova.
31. - Dhalgren.
32. Philip K. Dick. The Man in the High Castle.
33. - The Collected Stories, Vols. 4-5.
34. Thomas M. Disch. 334.
35. Harlan Ellison. The Essential Ellison.
36. Philip Jose Farmer. To Your Scattered Bodies Go.
37. William Gibson. Neuromancer.
38. Joe Haldeman. The Forever War.
39. Robert A. Heinlein. The Past Through Tomorrow.
40. - Stranger in a Strange Land.
41. Frank Herbert. Under Pressure.
42. - Dune.
43. Gwyneth Jones. Divine Endurance.
44. Damon Knight. The Best ofDamon Knight.
45. C. M. Kombluth. His Share of Glory.
46. Henry Kuttner. The Best of Henry Kuttner.
47. R. A. Lafferty. Nine Hundred Grandmothers.
48. Ursula K. Le Guin. The Left Hand of Darkness.
49. - The Dispossessed.
50. Fritz Leiber. The Leiber Chronicles.
51. Stanislas Lem. Solaris.
52. C. S. Lewis. Out of the Silent Planet.
53. H. P. Lovecraft. At the Mountains of Madness.
54. Vonda N. McIntyre. Dreamsnake.
55. Barry N. Malzberg. Beyond Apollo.
56. Walter M. Miller, Jr. A Canticle for Leibowitz.
57. Michael Moorcock. The Cornelius Chronicles.
58. C. L. Moore. The Best of C. L. Moore.
59. Ward Moore. Bring the Jubilee.
60. Larry Niven. All the Myriad Ways.
61. - Neutron Star.
62. Edgar Pangborn. A Mirror for Observers.
63. Alexei Panshin. Rite ofPassage.
64. Fredenk Pohl. Gateway.
65. and C. M. Kombluth. The Space Merchants.
66. Keith Roberts. Pavane.
67. - The Passing of the Dragons.
68. Joanna Russ. Alyx.
69. - The Female Man.
70. Geoff Ryman. The Child Garden.
71. Hilbert Schenck. At the Eye of the Ocean.
72. Robert Sheckley. The Collected Short Stories of Robert Sheckley (5 vols.).
73. - Dimension ofMiracles.
74. Robert Silverberg. Collected Stories (1992 ff; 4 volumes to date).
75. Clifford D. Simak. City.
76. - Way Station.
77. John T. Sladek. The Best of John Sladek.
78. Cordwainer Smith. The Rediscovery of Man.
79. Norman Spinrad. The Void Captain's Tale.
80. Olaf Stapledon. StarMaker
81. - Odd John.
82. Bruce Sterling. Schismatrix.
83. Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. Roadside Picnic.
84. Theodore Sturgeon. More than Human.
85. - The Collected Stories, Vols. 1-8.
86. William Tenn. OfAll Possible Worlds.
87. Walter Tevis. The Man Who Fell to Earth.
88. James Tiptree, Jr. Her Smoke Rose Up Forever.
89. A. E. Van Vogt. Slan.
90. - The World of Null-A.
91. Jack Vance. The Dying Earth.
92. - The Best of Jack Vance.
93. John Varley. The Persistence of Vision.
94. Kurt Vonnegut. Player Piano.
95. - The Sirens of Titan.
96. - Slaughterhouse Five.
97. Stanley C. Weinbaum. A Martian Odyssey.
98. James White. The Watch Below.
99. Kate Wilhelm. Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang.
100. Jack Williamson. The Humanoids.
101. Gene Wolfe. The Fifth Head of Cerberus.
102. - The Book of the New Sun.
103. - The Island of Dr. Death and Other Stories and Other Stories.
104. Roger Zelazny. This ImmortaL
105. - The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth.
Margaret
Atwood. The Handmaid's Tale.
Marion Zimmer Bradley. The Mists of Avalon.
Thendara House.
The Shattered Chain.
Octavia Butler. Wild Seed.
Parable of the Sower.
Kindred.
Xenogenesis Trilogy: Dawn, Adulthood Rites, Imago.
Suzy McKee Charnas. Walk to the End of the World.
Motherlines.
The Furies.
Suzette Haden Elgin. Native Tongue.
The Judas Rose: Native Tongue II.
"For the Sake of Grace" (copyright 1969 from Fantasy & Science
Fiction; reprinted in Donald Wollheim & Terry Carr's World's Best Science
Fiction: 1970).
Esther Friesner. The Psalms of Herod.
Sally Miller Gearhart. The Wanderground.
Nicola Griffith. Ammonite.
Ursula K. Le Guin. Always Coming Home.
The Left Hand of Darkness.
Tehanu.
The Dispossessed.
Marge Piercy. Woman on the Edge of Time.
He, She, and It.
Joanna Russ. The Female Man
The Adventures of Alyx
The Two of Them
Pamela Sargent. Women of Wonder anthologies.
The Shore of Women.
Joan Slonczewski. A Door Into Ocean.
Nancy Springer. Larque on the Wing.
Starhawk. The Fifth Sacred Thing.
Sheri Tepper. Beauty.
The Gate to Women's Country.
James Tiptree, Jr. "Your Faces, O My Sisters!" in Aurora: Beyond Equality.
"Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" in Aurora: Beyond Equality.
Elisabeth Vonarburg. The Silent City.
In the Mother's Land.
Definitions
of "Fantasy"
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And what do we even mean by "Fantasy"
anyway?
1. First of all, we distinguish between "Science Fiction" and
"Fantasy" in
that "Science Fiction", as defined elsewhere in this page (DEFINITIONS:
what is science fiction?) involves strangeness extrapolated from
science and technology, rather than contrary to natural law.
Fantasy, according to Callois, presumes the unbreakable laws of
nature, as anlyzed by human reason, to be un-naturally or uncannily
violated. "It should be particularly stressed that the fantastic
makes no sense in an out-and-out strange world. To imagine the
fantastic in it is even impossible. In a world full of marvels the
extraordinary loses its power."
-- Roger Callois, "Au couer du fantastique" (Paris: 1965);
"Images, images... Essais sur le role et les pouvoirs de l'imagination"
(Paris: 1966)
2."The fantastic is always a break in the acknowledged order, an irruption of
the inadmissable within the changeless everyday legality."
-- Roger Callois, "Au couer du fantastique" (1965); "Images, images"
(1966)
To Callois, the presence of a unicorn in a garden, or something else strange
into the familiar world, causes "the impression of irreducible strangeness."
3.The fantastic in literature doesn't exist as a challenge to what is
probable, but only there where it can be increased to a challenge of
reason itself: the fantastic in literature consists, when all has
been said, essentially in showing the world as opaque, as
inaccessible to reason on principle. This happens when [the artist] Piranesi
in his imagine prisons [Carceri] depicts a world peopled by other
beings than those for which it was created."
-- Lars Gustafsson "On the Fantastic in Literature", in "Utopier och
andra essaer om 'dikt' och 'Liv'", [Stockholm: 1969]
4.Alternatively, the fantastic is in the text itself, and depends upon the degree to
which the characters in the story are themselves in doubt as to
whether they have experienced the supernatural, or merely an illusion
of their imaginations: "The fantastic occupies the duration of this
uncertainty. Once we choose one answer or the other, we leave the
fantastic for a neighboring genre, the uncanny or the marvellous. The
fantastic is the hesitation experienced by a person who knows only
the laws of nature, confronting an apparently supernatural event."
-- Tzvetan Todorov, in "The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a
Literary Genre", translated by Richard Howard, Ithaca NY: 1975, p.25
5."A fiction evoking wonder and containing a substantial and irreducible
element of supernatural or impossible worlds, beings, or objects with
which the reader or the characters within the story become on at
least familiar terms."
-- C. N. Manlove, "Modern Fantasy: Five Studies", London: 1975, pp.10-11
6."Fantasy is a natural human activity. It certainly does not destroy or
even insult Reason; and it does not either blunt the appetite for,
nor obscure the perception of, scientific verity. On the contrary:
the keener and clearer is the reason, the better fantasy it will
make. If men were ever in a state in which they did not want to know
or could not perceive the truth (facts or evidence), then Fantasy
would languish until they were cured. If they ever got into that
state (it would not seem at all impossible), Fantasy will perish, and
become Morbid Delusion."
-- J. R. R. Tolkien, "On Fairy Stories", in "Tree and Leaf", [London:
1964, New York: 1965]
Technology Chronology:
Imagining Futures, Dramatizing Fears by Daniel Chandler
Landmarks in Fictive Images of Technology
1726 Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels (Academy of Lagado: satirized inventors and
anticipated machine-produced literature)
1818 Mary Shelley: Frankenstein (novel). Sometimes called the first science fiction novel
1872 Samuel Butler: Erewhon (novel): satirical anti-technological utopia
1888 Edward Bellamy: Looking Backwards (novel): naive but popular utopia in which society
seen as a giant factory
1890 William Morris: News From Nowhere (novel): pastoral utopia
1893 Ambrose Bierce: 'Moxon's Master' (story): artificial chess-player kills its maker
1905 H. G. Wells: A Modern Utopia (novel): optimistic view of technologically-
dependent society
1909 E. M. Forster: 'The Machine Stops' (story/novella). First technological dystopia,
highlighting over-dependence on machines
1920 Yevgeny Zamiatin: We (novel), (US translation 1924): dystopian vision of society in
which people treated like machines
1921 Karel Capek: R.U.R. [Rossum's Universal Robots] (Czech play): creation of robots
(actually androids) which develop consciousness but satire on treating people like
machines
1926 Hugo Gernsback founded Amazing Stories (magazine)
Fritz Lang: Metropolis (film): regimented society with people dwarfed by machines
1930 Miles J. Breuer: 'Paradise and Iron' (story): mechanical brain coordinating
technological utopia turns into tyrant
Laurence Manning & Fletcher Pratt: 'City of the Living Dead' (story): machines
simulate real experience for people
1931 Frankenstein (film) with Boris Karloff: nothing like novel but established mad
scientist
1932 Aldous Huxley: Brave New World (novel): dystopian rejection of technological
'progress'
1933 H. G. Wells: The Shape of Things to Come (novel). Last major technologically utopian
novel (film 1936)
J. Storer Clouston: Button Brains (novel): mistaken identity (robot/human)
1934 Harl Vincent: 'Rex' (story): robot Rex takes over the world but commits suicide
1936 Modern Times (film): Charlie Chaplin trying to adapt to the discipline of the machine
1937 John W. Campbell became editor of Astounding (Stories of) Science Fiction, or ASF (US
science fiction magazine)
1939 The Son of Frankenstein (film)
1940 Isaac Asimov: 'Robbie' (story): amiable robot saves child's life
1941 Isaac Asimov: 'Reason' (story): robot becomes curious about own existence
1942 First appearance of Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics:
1943 Robert Bloch: 'It Happened Tomorrow' (story): over-dependence on technology
1944 Theodore Sturgeon: 'Killdozer' (story): parable about machines acting independently
of human control
1945 [DROPPING OF ATOM BOMB]
1946 [FIRST ELECTRONIC COMPUTER: ENIAC]
Isaac Asimov: 'Evidence' (story): robot simulates human
Murray Leinster (as Will F. Jenkins): 'A Logic Named Joe' (story): over- dependence on
technology
1947 Isaac Asimov: 'Little Lost Robot' (story): robot lacks humour
Jack Williamson: 'With Folded Hands' (story): robots prepared to use lobotomies to
'protect' human beings
1949 George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four (novel): dystopia in which technology is used
repressively
1950 Isaac Asimov: 'The Evitable Conflict' (story): optimistic vision of computer-
controlled world government
Clifford D. Simak: 'Skirmish' (story): machines revolt
Kurt Vonnegut: 'EPICAC' (story): computer produces poetry
1951 [FIRST COMMERCIAL COMPUTER - UNIVAC]
Isaac Asimov: 'The Fun They Had' (story): mechanical teacher
Isaac Asimov: 'Satisfaction Guaranteed' (story): mistaken identity (robot/human)
Lord Dunsany: The Last Revolution (novel): revolution of the machines
C. M. Kornbluth: 'With These Hands' (story): mechanical sculpture
A. E. van Vogt: 'Fulfilment' (story): artificial 'Brain' has developed consciousness and
self-determination
1952 Walter Miller: 'Dumb Waiter' (story): we fail to understand and control our tools
Kurt Vonnegut: Player Piano (novel): dystopian vision of automation
1953 Poul Anderson: 'Sam Hall' (story): technology used for state surveillance
Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 (novel, filmed 1966): dystopia in which technology is used
repressively
Arthur C. Clarke: 'The Nine Billion Names of God' (story): computer ends everything
Philip K Dick: 'Second Variety' (story): robot out of control
Philip K Dick: 'Imposter' (story): mistaken identity (robot/human)
Fritz Leiber: 'Bad Day for Sales' (story): blindness of technological systems
1954 Isaac Asimov: 'Caves of Steel' (story)
Fredric Brown: 'The Answer' (story): Computer as God
Frederick Pohl: 'The Midas Plague' (story): blindness of technological systems
Eleanor Cameron: 'Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet' - boys build rocket and fly to
inhabited, undiscovered Earth satellite
1955 [US AND USSR ANNOUNCE INTENTIONS TO BUILD ROCKETS AND TO LAUNCH SATELLITES]
Isaac Asimov: 'Risk' (story): robot test-pilot of spaceship has to be replaced by a human
being
Robert Bloch: 'Comfort Me, My Robot' (story): mistaken identity (robot/human)
Philip K. Dick: 'Autofac' (story): machines can self-reproduce
Walter Miller: 'The Darfsteller' (story): actor made redundant by robot theatre; mistaken
identity (robot/human)
1956 Isaac Asimov: 'The Last Question' (story)
Isaac Asimov: 'The Jokester' (story): computer discovers origin of jokes
Isaac Asimov: The Naked Sun (novel): robot out of control
Robert Silverberg: 'The Macauley Circuit' (story): computers compose music
Clifford D. Simak: 'So Bright the Vision' (story): machine-produced literature
The Forbidden Planet (Film)
1957 [LAUNCH OF SPUTNIK SATELLITE USHERS IN 'THE SPACE AGE']
The Invisible Boy (film): First to depict computer as threat to humanity
1958 Brian Aldiss: 'But Who Can Replace a Man?' (story): human survivor in machine-
governed world discovers that they still obey direct orders
1959 [FIRST INDUSTRIAL COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEM]
1960 [INTEGRATED CIRCUIT]
Philip K. Dick: Vulcan's Hammer (novel): development of computer consciousness
R. C. Phelan: 'Something Invented Me' (story): machine-produced literature
1961 J. G. Ballard: 'Studio 5, The Stars' (story): machine-produced literature
Hal Draper: 'Ms Fnd in a Lbry' (story): indexing system collapses
Fritz Leiber: The Silver Eggheads (novel): machine-produced literature
1963 Dr Who (British SF TV series) began
1964 Philip K. Dick: The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (novel): robotic psychiatrist
Stanislav Lem: The Invincible (novel): machines as autonomous
1965 [COMMERCIAL MINICOMPUTER]
Peter Currell Brown: Smallcreep's Day (novel): surreal satire of automation
Gordon R Dickson: 'Computers Don't Argue' (story): bookclub mix-up and succession of
errors leads to death sentence for kidnap and murder of Robert Louis Stevenson!
Ron Goulart: 'Badinage' (story): blindness of technological systems
1966 Robert Escarpit The Novel Computer (trans. from French): machine-produced literature
Robert Heinlein: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (novel): development of computer
consciousness
Frank Herbert: Destination Void (novel): development of computer consciousness
Olof Johannesson: The Tale of the Big Computer (novel): machines as autonomous;
development of computer consciousness
Keith Roberts: 'Synth' (story): development of computer consciousness
Roger Zelazny: 'For a Breath I Tarry' (story): development of computer consciousness
Star Trek (US SF TV series) began
1967 Harlan Ellison: 'I Have no Mouth and I Must Scream' (story): development of computer
consciousness
Bruce Kawin: 'Form 5640A: Report of a Malfunction' (story): blindness of technological
systems
Stanislav Lem: The Cyberiad (novel): development of computer consciousness
Fred Saberhagen: Berserker series begins (stories and novels): machines as autonomous;
development of computer consciousness; computers seek to wipe out all life in universe
1968 [EARLY INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS]
Richard Brautigan: 'All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace' (poem): elegiac blending
of Nature and Technology or ironic?
Martin Caidin: The God Machine (novel): development of computer consciousness
Philip K. Dick: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (novel): blurred distinction between
life and mechanism
Michael Frayn: A Very Private Life (novel): dystopian vision of automation
Stanley Kubrick: 2001: A Space Odyssey (film): HAL the computer kills crew
Robert Silverberg: 'Going Down Smooth' (story): robotic psychiatrist
John Sladek: The Reproductive System (novel): machines can self-reproduce
1969 [FIRST MANNED MOON LANDING; MICROPROCESSOR]
John Brunner: The Jagged Orbit (novel): over-dependence on technology
Philip K. Dick: 'The Electric Ant' (story): man awakes to discover he's a robot
1970 [POCKET ELECTRONIC CALCULATOR]
D. G. Compton: The Steel Crocodile (novel): benevolent repression with technology
Norman Corwin: 'Belles Lettres, 2272' (story): machine -produced literature
Philip K Dick: We Can Build You (novel): blurred distinction life and mechanism
Ira Levin: This Perfect Day (novel): dystopia
1971 [COMMERCIAL MICROPROCESSOR]
The Andromeda Strain (film, based on novel by Michael Crichton 1969): claustrophobic
vision of scientists dwelling underground, dwarfed by machines
Richard and Nancy Carrigan: The Siren Stars (novel): development of computer consciousness
John Sladek: The Muller-Fokker Effect (novel): computers produce visual art
1972 [EARLY VIDEO GAMES]
David Gerrold: When Harlie Was One (novel): development of computer consciousness
Ira Levin: The Stepford Wives (novel, filmed 1975): women replaced by robots
1973 Westworld (film) with Yul Brynner: robots go out of control
1974 Isaac Asimov: 'That Thou Art Mindful of Him' (story): robot develops judgement
Barrington J Bayley: The Soul of the Robot (novel)
John Carpenter: Dark
Star (film), novelized by Alan Dean Foster: smart bomb on board spaceship has to be
talked out of exploding prematurely
Robert Pirsig: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (novel)
1975 [FIRST MICROCOMPUTERS]
Isaac Asimov: 'The Life and Times of Multivac' (story): computer which runs peaceful
society is shut down by people who feel like slaves
John Brunner: The Shockwave Rider (novel): benevolent repression with technology
1976 Isaac Asimov: 'The Bicentennial Man' (story): robot produces carvings; blurred
distinction life/mechanism as robot becomes more humanlike
1977 George Lucas: Star Wars (film): technological extravaganza
Frederik Pohl: Gateway (novel): robotic psychiatrist
1978 ['PERSONAL COMPUTERS' FIRST RETAILED AS SUCH IN U.K.]
Daniel Chandler
UWA 1995
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Nebula Award Winners for Best SF Novel
1965 Dune----------------------------------Frank Herbert
1966 Flowers for Algernon (tie)----------Daniel Keyes
1966 Babel-17 (tie)------------------------Samuel R. Delany
1967 The Einstein Intersection----------Samuel R. Delany
1968 Rite of Passage----------------------Alexei Panshin
1969 The Left Hand of Darkness---------Ursula K. Le Guin
1970 Ringworld-----------------------------Larry Niven
1971 A Time of Changes-------------------Robert Silverberg
1972 The Gods Themselves---------------Isaac Asimov
1973 Rendezvous with Rama--------------Arthur C. Clarke
1974 The Dispossessed-------------------Ursula K. Le Guin
1975 The Forever War--------------------Joe Haldeman
1976 Man Plus------------------------------Frederik Pohl
1977 Gateway------------------------------Frederik Pohl
1978 Dreamsnake--------------------------Vonda N. McIntyre
1979 The Fountains of Paradise-----------Arthur C. Clarke
1980 Timescape----------------------------Gregory Benford
1981 The Claw of the Conciliator----------Gene Wolfe
1982 No Enemy But Time------------------Michael Bishop
1983 Startide Rising-----------------------David Brin
1984 Neuromancer-------------------------William Gibson
1985 Ender's Game-------------------------Orson Scott Card
1986 Speaker for the Dead----------------Orson Scott Card
1987 The Falling Woman--------------------Pat Murphy
1988 Falling Free------------------------Lois McMaster Bujold
1989 The Healer's War-----------Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
1990 Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea----Ursula K. Le Guin
1991 Stations of the Tide-----------------Michael Swanwick
1992 Doomsday Book-----------------------Connie Willis
1993 Red Mars-----------------------------Kim Stanley Robinson
1994 Moving Mars--------------------------Greg Bear
1995 The Terminal Experiment-----------Robert J. Sawyer
1996 Slow River----------------------------Nicola Griffith
1997 The Moon and the Sun---------------Vonda N. McIntyre