The SF Book Club's The Most Significant SF & Fantasy Books of the Last 50 Years (2002)
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| Rank | Title | Author | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | 1955 |
| 2 | The Foundation Trilogy | ||
| Foundation | Isaac Asimov | 1951 | |
| Foundation and Empire | Isaac Asimov | 1952 | |
| Second Foundation | Isaac Asimov | 1953 | |
| 3 | Dune | Frank Herbert | 1965 |
| 4 | Stranger in a Strange Land | Robert A. Heinlein | 1961 |
| 5 | A Wizard of Earthsea | Ursula K. Le Guin | 1968 |
| 6 | Neuromancer | William Gibson | 1984 |
| 7 | Childhood's End | Arthur C. Clarke | 1953 |
| 8 | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | Philip K. Dick | 1968 |
| 9 | The Mists of Avalon | Marion Zimmer Bradley | 1983 |
| 10 | Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | 1953 |
| 11 | The Book of the New Sun | ||
| The Shadow of the Torturer | Gene Wolfe | 1980 | |
| The Claw of the Conciliator | Gene Wolfe | 1981 | |
| The Sword of the Lictor | Gene Wolfe | 1982 | |
| The Citadel of the Autarch | Gene Wolfe | 1983 | |
| 12 | A Canticle for Leibowitz | Walter M. Miller, Jr. | 1960 |
| 13 | The Caves of Steel | Isaac Asimov | 1954 |
| 14 | Children of the Atom | Wilmar Shiras | 1953 |
| 15 | Cities in Flight | ||
| Earthman Come Home | James Blish | 1955 | |
| They Shall Have Stars | James Blish | 1956 | |
| A Clash of Cymbals | James Blish | 1959 | |
| A Life for the Stars | James Blish | 1962 | |
| 16 | The Colour of Magic | Terry Pratchett | 1983 |
| 17 | Dangerous Liaisons | Pierre Choderlos de Laclos | 1782 |
| 18 | Deathbird Stories | Harlan Ellison | 1975 |
| 19 | The Demolished Man | Alfred Bester | 1953 |
| 20 | Dhalgren | Samuel R. Delany | 1975 |
| 21 | Dragonflight | Anne McCaffrey | 1968 |
| 22 | Ender's Game | Orson Scott Card | 1985 |
| 23 | Lord Foul's Bane | Stephen R. Donaldson | 1977 |
| 24 | The Forever War | Joe Haldeman | 1974 |
| 25 | Gateway | Frederik Pohl | 1977 |
| 26 | Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone | J.K. Rowling | 1997 |
| 27 | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | 1979 |
| 28 | I Am Legend | Richard Matheson | 1954 |
| 29 | Interview with the Vampire | Anne Rice | 1976 |
| 30 | The Left Hand of Darkness | Ursula K. Le Guin | 1969 |
| 31 | Little, Big | John Crowley | 1981 |
| 32 | Lord of Light | Roger Zelazny | 1967 |
| 33 | The Man in the High Castle | Philip K. Dick | 1962 |
| 34 | Mission of Gravity | Hal Clement | 1953 |
| 35 | More Than Human | Theodore Sturgeon | 1953 |
| 36 | The Rediscovery of Man | Cordwainer Smith | 1993 |
| 37 | On the Beach | Nevil Shute | 1957 |
| 38 | Rendezvous with Rama | Arthur C. Clarke | 1972 |
| 39 | Ringworld | Larry Niven | 1970 |
| 40 | Rogue Moon | Algis Budrys | 1960 |
| 41 | The Silmarillion | J. R. R. Tolkien | 1977 |
| 42 | Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut | 1969 |
| 43 | Snow Crash | Neal Stephenson | 1992 |
| 44 | Stand on Zanzibar | John Brunner | 1968 |
| 45 | The Stars My Destination | Alfred Bester | 1956 |
| 46 | Starship Troopers | Robert A. Heinlein | 1959 |
| 47 | Stormbringer | Michael Moorcock | 1965 |
| 48 | The Sword of Shannara | Terry Brooks | 1977 |
| 49 | Timescape | Gregory Benford | 1980 |
| 50 | To Your Scattered Bodies Go | Philip Jose Farmer | 1971 |