Twenty Core Speculative Fiction Works About Science and Scientists Every True SF Fan Should Have On Their Shelves
25 May, 2017
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As with the previous core lists, here are twenty Speculative Fiction Works about Science and Scientists chosen entirely on the basis of merit and significance to the field [1]. No implication is intended that these are the only twenty books you should consider.
- A Woman of the Iron People by Eleanor Arneson
- A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan
- A Whisper of Time by Paula E. Downing
- The Rains of Eridan by H. M. Hoover
- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
- TheSteerswoman by Rosemary Kirstein
- The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin
- “The Snowball Effect” by Katherine MacLean
- Memoirs of a Spacewoman by Naomi Mitchison
- Moon-Flash by Patricia A. McKillip
- The Falling Woman by Pat Murphy
- Usurper of the Sun by Housuke Nojiri
- Under the Canopy by Barbara Paul
- “Omnilingual” by H. Beam Piper
- Outies by J. R. Pournelle
- Cavalcade by Alison Sinclair
- The Color of Distance by Amy Thomson
- Second Nature by Cherry Wilder
- Juniper Time by Kate Wilhelm
- Cards of Grief by Jane Yolen
Persons unfamiliar with one or two of the works, congratulations! You’re one of today’s Ten Thousand!
1: There are two filtering rules:
- Only one work per author per list
- Any given work can appear on only one list