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Top Ten Sci-fi Novels/Series

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1. Dune - Frank Herbert, Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
2. The Dark Beyond the Stars by Frank M. Robinson
3. Doomsday Book by Connie Wills
4. Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
5. As On a Darkling Plain by Ben Bova
6. The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
7. Mars/Return to Mars/Jupiter by Ben Bova (The Grand Tour)
8. Raft/Ring/Timelike Infinity by Stephen Baxter (Xeelee)
9. Hidden Empire by Kevin J. Anderson
10. Deepsix by Jack McDevitt
 
No particular ranking.

Dune (didn't care much the sequels)
Foundation series
Robot novels
Rendevous With Rama
Childhood's End
The Ringworld novels
The Forever War
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Stranger in a Strange Land
Lucifer's Hammer
 
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
The Chronicles of Amber
The Forever War
Rendevous with Rama
I, Robot
1632(the series)
The Martian Chronicles
A Canticle For Leibowitz
The Instrumentality of Man(Cordwainer Smith)
Time and Again(Jack Finney)
 
No order here, except that The Forever War is always at the top of this list for me.

The Forever War Joe Haldeman
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress Robert Heinlein
The Mars Trilogy Kim Stanley Robinson
Hyperion Cantos Dan Simmons
Dune Frank Herbert
The Snow Queen/World's End/The Summer Queen Joan Vinge
Rendezvous With Rama Arthur C Clarke
The Lathe of Heaven Ursula K Le Guin
The Dispossessed Ursula K Le Guin
The Years of Rice and Salt Kim Stanley Robinson
 
Bit of a major bias towards recent stuff, just because that's what I've read over the last 15 years (and in most series, more for the early books - but that's almost a given!), but...

Ken McLeod's Fall Revolution series
Stephen Baxter - Voyage
Neal Asher's Polity/Iain Cormac series
Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space series
China Mieville: The Iron Council
John Wyndham: Trouble with Lichen
David Feintuch's Seafort saga
Harry Harrison: early Stainless Steel Rat
Iain Banks: Use of Weapons
Richard Morgan: Altered Carbon

Years of Rice and Salt is almost there; also John Scalzi's Old Man's War is pretty good. For juvenile SF that I stil remember from my youth, James Blishs's The Star Dwellers.
 
diankra said:
David Feintuch's Seafort saga
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Yes! More "Hornblower in Space" than Trek, and among my favorite military SF novels. The others being The Forever War, as mentioned by others; Starship Troopers, better than the movie of course; Ender's Game; and John Scalzi's Old Man War series.

I had the pleasure of meeting David Feintuch and speaking for several minutes on his books and on writing in general. He was an intelligent, thoughtful person. And he signed all of my books. There were rumors that he was working on another Seafort book before his death.
 
Pellucidar Series - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Grand Tour Series - Ben Bova
HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy Series - Douglas Adams
Dune Series - Frank Herbert
Space Odyssey Series - Arthur C. Clarke
Ringworld Series - Larry Niven
Rendezvous with Rama Series - Arthur C. Clarke
Foundation Series - Isaac Asimov
Plague Year & Plague War - Jeff Carlson
The Zombie Survival Guide & World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War - Max Brooks
 
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No particular order:

Dune (novel, rather than series)
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep
Kil'n People
Take Back Plenty
Foundation (series, well, up to Foundation And Earth, anyway)
The Man In The High Castle
Songs Of Distant Earth
Jurassic Park
War Of The Worlds
The Mote In God's Eye (the sequel's rubbish though)
 
I've always been fond of "Double Star," a short little Heinlein throwaway from his magazine days. Likewise "Star Barbarians" by Tom Godwin - I suppose it's a forgettable bit of space opera but I had a particular weakness for the subgenre back in junior high when I was inhaling every sf paperback I could find. ;)

Ah - "The City And The Stars" by Arthur C. Clarke, and "Childhood's End." Also "Last Men, First Men" and "Star Maker" by Stapledon.
 
Dune (original six) - Frank Herbert
The Mote in God's Eye - Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
The Moon is A Harsh Mistress - Robert Heinlein
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
The Last Question - Isaac Asimov
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang - Kate Wilhelm
Ringworld - Larry Niven
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (all five) - Douglas Adams
Nightfall - Isaac Asimov
The Chronicles of Pern - Anne McCaffrey
 
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