The INTERNET TOP 100 SF/FANTASY
LIST
Edition Number 160; 18th July
1998
1. Lord
of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
2. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
3. Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake
4. The
Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy G. Kay
5. The
Vorkosigan Series by Lois M. Bujold
6. Annals
of the Black Company by Glen Cook
7. Tigana
by Guy G. Kay
8. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
9. Dune
by Frank Herbert
10. The Discworld Series by Terry Pratchett
11. Hyperion
by Dan Simmons
12. Flowers
for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
13. Watership Down by Richard Adams
14. The
Stars my Destination Alfred Bester
15. The
Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
16. The Illuminatus Trilogy by Robert A.
Heinlein
17. Lord
of Light by Roger Zelazny
18. The Wheel of Time Series by Robert
Jordan
19. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
20. The
Intervention by Julian May
21. Feersum Endjinn by Iain M. Banks
22. The
Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
23. The Gap Cycle by Stephen Donaldson
24. True
Names by Vernor Vinge
25. A
Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
26. Doorways in the Sand by Roger Zelazny
27. Way
Station by Clifford Simak
28. The
First Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny
29. Liege
Killer by Christopher Hinz
30. Tales of the Continuing Time by Daniel
Keys Moran
31. The Hobbit by J.R.R.Tolkien
32. The
Anubis Gates by Tim Powers
33. The Princess Bride by William Goldman
34. The Quest of the Riddlemaster by
Patricia McKillip
35. Memory, Sorrow and Thorn by Tad
Williams
36. Ubik
by Philip K. Dick
37. The Last Herald Mage Trilogy by
Mercedes Lackey
38. Something Wicked this Way Comes by Ray
Bradbury
39. The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
40. The
Fionavar Tapestry by Guy G. Kay
41. The
Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
42. 1984 by George Orwell
43. Persistence of Vision by John Varley
44. Expanded Universe by Robert A. Heinlein
45. Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart
46. Dangerous Visions by Harlan Ellison
47. Doors of his Face, Lamps of his Mouth
by Roger Zelazny
48. Dying Inside by Robert Silverberg
49. Tea
with the Black Dragon by R.A.MacAvoy
50. Replay by Ken Grimwood
51. A
Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller
52. The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
53. Neutron Star by Larry Niven
54. Endymion by Dan Simmons
55. Callahan's Crosstime Saloon by Spider
Robinson
56. The Dragon Never Sleeps by Glen Cook
57. The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov
58. Futurological Congress by Stanislaw Lem
59. More
than Human by Theodore Sturgeon
60. Snow
Crash by Neal Stephenson
61. Dorsai! by Gordon Dickson
62. The City and the Stars by Arthur C.
Clarke
47. Player
of Games by Iain M. Banks
48. Lest
Darkness Fall by L. Sprague de Camp (62)
65. Voice of the Whirlwind by Walter Jon
Williams
66. The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem
67. The Once and Future King by T.H. White
68. Startide
Rising by David Brin
69. Palindor by D.R. Evans
70. Green Hills of Earth by Robert A.
Heinlein
71. A
Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin 7.92 (280)
72. A Song for Arbonne by Guy G. Kay
73. Good Omens by Pratchett/Gaiman
74. Vlad the Assassin Series by Steven K.Z.
Brust
75. The Empire Trilogy by R.Feist/J.Wurts
76. Animal Farm by George Orwell
77. Norstrilia
Cordwainer Smith
78. The
Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
79. The Best of Cordwainer Smith by
Cordwainer Smith
80. The Door into Summer by Robert A.
Heinlein
81. The
Lyonesse Trilogy by Jack Vance
82. Chanur's Homecoming by C.J. Cherryh
83. Star Wars : Grand Admiral Trilogy by
Timothy Zahn
84. Permutation City by Greg Egan
85. Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind
86. Picnic on the Roadside by Strugatski
87. Diamond Mask by Julian May
88. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by
Douglas Adams
89. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
90. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
by Philip K. Dick
91. Time For the Stars by Robert A.
Heinlein
92. Speaker
for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
93. The
Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin
94. Quarantine by Greg Egan
95. City by Clifford Simak
96. Gateway
by Frederik Pohl
97. On
Stranger Tides by Tim Powers
98. The Last Unicorn by Peter Beagle
99. Dragonquest by Anne McCaffrey
100. Exile by R.A. Salvatore
Expect to see soon:
The
Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
Cold
Allies by Patricia Anthony
From previous lists:
38 To
Your Scattered Bodies Go Philip J. Farmer
40 Timescape
Gregory Benford
67 The
Saga of the Pliocene Exiles by Julian May
81 The
Forever War Joe Haldeman
87 This
Immortal Roger Zelazny
96 The
Snow Queen Joan Vinge |