David Wingrove, The Science Fiction Sourcebook
science fiction awards database
The central section of this book is a "Consumers' Guide" to SF writers, with representative works ranked in four categories, with zero to five stars in each, for Readability, Characterization, Idea Content, and Literay Merit, with contributors to this section including Brian Aldiss, Maxim Jakubowski, Andrew Sawyer, Brian Stableford, and others.
Ranked: No
Titles Cited: 310
Publication: book, 1984
Compile Notes
Listed here are 104 titles receiving 16 or more points (out of a possible 20). Additional titles are listed here -->.
Ranked: No
Titles Cited: 310
Publication: book, 1984
Compile Notes
Listed here are 104 titles receiving 16 or more points (out of a possible 20). Additional titles are listed here -->.
- Brian W. Aldiss, The Malacia Tapestry (Jonathan Cape, 1976)
- Gregory Benford, Timescape (Simon and Schuster, 1980)
- Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man (Shasta, 1953)
- Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination (NAL/Signet, 1957)
- Michael Bishop, No Enemy But Time (Timescape, 1982)
- Michael Bishop, Transfigurations (Berkley Putnam, 1979)
- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (Ballantine, 1953)
- Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles (Doubleday, 1950)
- Algis Budrys, Michaelmas (Berkley Putnam, 1977)
- Algis Budrys, Rogue Moon (Fawcett Gold Medal, 1960)
- Algis Budrys, Who? (Pyramid, 1958)
- Italo Calvino, Cosmicomics (Harcourt, Brace & World , 1968; Italy 1965)
- Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974; Italy 1972)
- Italo Calvino, Our Ancestors (Secker and Warburg, 1980; Italy 1960)
- Karel Capek, The Absolute at Large (Macmillan, 1927; Czechoslovakia 1922)
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Macmillan, 1865)
- Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (Macmillan, 1871)
- Jack L. Chalker, Midnight at the Well of Souls (Ballantine Del Rey , 1977)
- John Crowley, The Deep (Doubleday, 1975)
- John Crowley, Engine Summer (Doubleday, 1979)
- John Crowley, Little, Big (Bantam, 1981)
- Avram Davidson, Peregrine: Primus (Walker, 1971)
- Samuel R. Delany, Nova (Doubleday, 1968)
- Samuel R. Delany, Tales of Nevèrÿon (Bantam, 1979)
- Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Doubleday, 1968)
- Philip K. Dick, Martian Time-Slip (Ballantine, 1964)
- Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly (Doubleday, 1977)
- Gordon R. Dickson, The Final Encyclopedia (Tor, 1984)
- Thomas M. Disch, On Wings of Song (St Martin's, 1979)
- Stephen R. Donaldson, Lord Foul's Bane (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1977)
- Stephen R. Donaldson, The Wounded Land (Ballantine Del Rey, 1980)
- Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World (Hodder and Stoughton, 1912)
- Lawrence Durrell, Tunc (Faber and Faber, 1968)
- Philip José Farmer, The Lovers (Ballantine, 1961)
- Philip José Farmer, To Your Scattered Bodies Go (Putnam, 1971)
- Anatole France, The Revolt of the Angels (John Lane The Bodley Head, 1914)
- John Gloag, Winter's Youth (Allen and Unwin, 1934)
- William Golding, Darkness Visible (Faber and Faber, 1979)
- William Golding, The Inheritors (Faber and Faber, 1955)
- Alasdair Gray, Lanark: A Life in Four Books (Canongate , 1981)
- Neil M. Gunn, The Green Isle of the Great Deep (Faber and Faber, 1944)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables (Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851)
- Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (Putnam, 1966)
- Frank Herbert, Dune (Chilton, 1965)
- Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969; Switzerland 1943)
- Anna Kavan, Ice (Peter Owen, 1967)
- Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon (Harcourt, Brace and World, 1966)
- Jerzy Kosinski, Being There (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971)
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed (Harper & Row, 1974)
- Ursula K. Le Guin, Earthsea (series, 1971-2001)
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness (Ace Special, 1969)
- Fritz Leiber, Our Lady of Darkness (Berkley-Putnam, 1977)
- C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Geoffrey Bles, 1950)
- C. S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength (The Bodley Head, 1945)
- C. S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces (Geoffrey Bles, 1956)
- David Lindsay, The Violet Apple and the Witch (Chicago Review Press, 1975)
- David Lindsay, A Voyage to Arcturus (Methuen , 1920)
- Richard A. Lupoff, Space War Blues (Dell, 1978)
- George MacDonald, Lilith (Chatto and Windus, 1895)
- George MacDonald, Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women (Smith Elder , 1858)
- Barry N. Malzberg, The Cross of Fire (Ace, 1982)
- Phillip Mann, The Eye of the Queen (Gollancz , 1982)
- Patricia A. McKillip, Harpist in the Wind (Atheneum Argo, 1979)
- Patricia A. McKillip, The Riddle-Master of Hed (Atheneum, 1976)
- Michael Moorcock, The Condition of Muzak (Allison & Busby, 1977)
- Michael Moorcock, Gloriana, or The Unfulfill'd Queen (Allison & Busby, 1978)
- Josef Nesvadba, In the Footsteps of the Abominable Snowman (Gollancz, 1970)
- Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman (MacGibbon & Kee, 1967)
- George Orwell, Animal Farm (Secker & Warburg , 1945)
- George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (Secker & Warburg, 1949)
- P. D. Ouspensky, Strange Life of Ivan Osokin (Faber & Faber, 1947; Russia 1915)
- Edgar Pangborn, A Mirror for Observers (Doubleday, 1954)
- Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan (Eyre & Spottiswoode , 1946)
- Tom Reamy, Blind Voices (Berkley-Putnam, 1978)
- Keith Roberts, Pavane (Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968)
- Joanna Russ, The Female Man (Bantam, 1975)
- Bob Shaw, Night Walk (Banner, 1967)
- Bob Shaw, A Wreath of Stars (Gollancz, 1976)
- Robert Sheckley, Options (Pyramid, 1975)
- Charles Sheffield, Sight of Proteus (Ace, 1978)
- Charles Sheffield, The Web Between the Worlds (Ace, 1979)
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (Lackington Hughes, 1818)
- Robert Silverberg, Lord Valentine's Castle (Harper & Row, 1980)
- Robert Silverberg, Nightwings (Avon, 1969)
- John Sladek, The Müller-Fokker Effect (Hutchinson , 1970)
- Olaf Stapledon, Sirius (Secker & Warburg, 1944)
- Arkady & Boris Strugatsky, The Snail on the Slope (Bantam, 1980; Russia 1972)
- Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels (Benjamin Motte, 1726)
- Emma Tennant, Hotel de Dream (Gollancz, 1976)
- Emma Tennant, Wild Nights (Jonathan Cape, 1979)
- Walter S. Tevis, The Man Who Fell to Earth (Fawcett Gold Medal, 1963)
- D. M. Thomas, The White Hotel (Gollancz, 1981)
- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (series, 1954-1955)
- Jack Vance, The Last Castle (Ace Double, 1967)
- Jack Vance, Trullion: Alastor 2262 (Ballantine, 1973)
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., The Sirens of Titan (Dell, 1959)
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five (Delacorte, 1969)
- Ian Watson, Alien Embassy (Gollancz , 1977)
- H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds (Heinemann, 1898)
- James White, Hospital Station (Ballantine, 1962)
- Gene Wolfe, The Fifth Head of Cerberus (Scribner's, 1972)
- Gene Wolfe, The Sword of the Lictor (Timescape, 1982)
- Roger Zelazny, The Dream Master (Ace, 1966)
- Roger Zelazny, This Immortal (Ace, 1966)
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