Open Syllabus Project, Open Syllabus Explorer
science fiction awards database
This database of online university course syllabi was released in early 2017, with over 1 million syllabi from US universities; the project intends to expand with UK, Canadian, and Australian syllabi. The database was manually queried for several hundred authors of prominent SF/F works, with results shown below for all titles with counts of 20 or more.
Some results are peculiar, with well-known titles displaying smaller counts than lesser-known ones; e.g. Ender's Game with 16, American Gods with 8, and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy with 13 fall below the 20 count cutoff, while Slaughterhouse Five apparently has no count at all. And many prominent SF/F authors have no titles meeting the 20 count cutoff.
Ranked: No
Titles Cited: 243
Publication: http://explorer.opensyllabusproject.org/, 2017
Some results are peculiar, with well-known titles displaying smaller counts than lesser-known ones; e.g. Ender's Game with 16, American Gods with 8, and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy with 13 fall below the 20 count cutoff, while Slaughterhouse Five apparently has no count at all. And many prominent SF/F authors have no titles meeting the 20 count cutoff.
Ranked: No
Titles Cited: 243
Publication: http://explorer.opensyllabusproject.org/, 2017
- Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland (Seeley, 1884) (count: 59)
- Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything (Pan , 1982) (count: 20)
- Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (William Heinemann, 1988) (count: 33)
- Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (Pan , 1984) (count: 27)
- Richard Adams, Shardik (Allen Lane, 1974) (count: 25)
- Richard Adams, Watership Down (Rex Collings, 1972) (count: 120)
- Brian W. Aldiss, Greybeard (Harcourt Brace World, 1964) (count: 45)
- Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel (Doubleday, 1954) (count: 36)
- Isaac Asimov, The Foundation Trilogy (series, 1953) (count: 29)
- Isaac Asimov, The Gods Themselves (Doubleday, 1972) (count: 23)
- Isaac Asimov, I, Robot (Gnome, 1950) (count: 208)
- Isaac Asimov, The Robots of Dawn (Doubleday, 1983) (count: 28)
- Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2000) (count: 88)
- Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale (McClelland and Stewart, 1985) (count: 44)
- Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake (McClelland & Stewart, 2003) (count: 181)
- J. G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition (Jonathan Cape, 1970) (count: 43)
- J. G. Ballard, The Drowned World (Berkley Medallion, 1962) (count: 35)
- J. G. Ballard, Empire of the Sun (Gollancz, 1984) (count: 67)
- J. G. Ballard, High-Rise (Jonathan Cape, 1975) (count: 25)
- J. G. Ballard, Super-Cannes (HarperCollins/Flamingo, 2000) (count: 25)
- Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas (Macmillan, 1987) (count: 37)
- Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Macmillan, 1988) (count: 36)
- Iain M. Banks, Use of Weapons (Orbit, 1990) (count: 21)
- Iain M. Banks, The Wasp Factory (Macmillan, 1984) (count: 58)
- L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (George Hill , 1900) (count: 323)
- Stephen Baxter, Coalescent (Gollancz, 2003) (count: 46)
- Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn (Viking, 1968) (count: 21)
- Greg Bear, Blood Music (Arbor House, 1985) (count: 72)
- Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward 2000-1887 (Ticknor and Company, 1888) (count: 519)
- Gregory Benford, Timescape (Simon and Schuster, 1980) (count: 30)
- Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man (Shasta, 1953) (count: 29)
- Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination (NAL/Signet, 1957) (count: 63)
- Robert Bloch, Psycho (Simon & Schuster, 1959) (count: 46)
- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (Ballantine, 1953) (count: 434)
- Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man (Doubleday, 1951) (count: 35)
- Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles (Doubleday, 1950) (count: 170)
- Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes (Simon & Schuster, 1962) (count: 52)
- Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon (Knopf, 1983) (count: 82)
- David Brin, The Postman (Bantam Spectra, 1985) (count: 34)
- David Brin, Startide Rising (Bantam, 1983) (count: 24)
- John Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar (Doubleday, 1968) (count: 23)
- Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita (Harper & Row, 1967; France 1967) (count: 233)
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Coming Race (William Blackwood, 1871) (count: 34)
- Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange (Heinemann , 1962) (count: 351)
- Edgar Rice Burroughs, Pellucidar (McClurge, 1920) (count: 20)
- Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (McClurg, 1917) (count: 50)
- Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (McClurg, 1914) (count: 131)
- Octavia E. Butler, Bloodchild and Other Stories (Four Walls Eight Windows, 1995) (count: 50)
- Octavia E. Butler, Fledgling (Seven Stories Press, 2005) (count: 24)
- Octavia E. Butler, Imago (Warner, 1989) (count: 20)
- Octavia E. Butler, Kindred (Doubleday, 1979) (count: 275)
- Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower (Four Walls Eight Windows, 1993) (count: 156)
- Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents (Seven Stories Press, 1998) (count: 25)
- Octavia E. Butler, Wild Seed (Doubleday, 1980) (count: 55)
- Orson Scott Card, Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (Tor, 1996) (count: 22)
- Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead (Tor, 1986) (count: 34)
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Macmillan, 1865) (count: 442)
- Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (Macmillan, 1871) (count: 313)
- Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and other stories (Gollancz, 1979) (count: 299)
- Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus (Chatto & Windus , 1984) (count: 131)
- Angela Carter, The Passion of New Eve (Gollancz, 1977) (count: 60)
- C. J. Cherryh, Cyteen (Warner, 1988) (count: 23)
- G. K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday (Arrowsmith, 1908) (count: 63)
- Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (NAL, 1968) (count: 108)
- Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Gollancz, 1973) (count: 31)
- Arthur C. Clarke, The Songs of Distant Earth (Del Rey, 1986) (count: 21)
- Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Bloomsbury, 2004) (count: 97)
- Hal Clement, Mission of Gravity (Doubleday, 1954) (count: 20)
- Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games (Scholastic Press, 2008) (count: 133)
- Michael Crichton, The Andromeda Strain (Knopf , 1969) (count: 69)
- Michael Crichton, Prey (HarperCollins, 2002) (count: 53)
- Michael Crichton, The Terminal Man (Knopf , 1972) (count: 32)
- Michael Crichton, Timeline (Knopf, 1999) (count: 59)
- Samuel R. Delany, Babel-17 (Ace, 1966) (count: 32)
- Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren (Bantam, 1975) (count: 28)
- Samuel R. Delany, Empire Star (Ace Double, 1966) (count: 41)
- Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Doubleday, 1968) (count: 424)
- Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle (Putnam, 1962) (count: 99)
- Philip K. Dick, The Penultimate Truth (Belmont, 1964) (count: 21)
- Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly (Doubleday, 1977) (count: 55)
- Philip K. Dick, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (Doubleday, 1965) (count: 30)
- Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (Chapman and Hall, 1843) (count: 561)
- Cory Doctorow, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (Tor, 2003) (count: 36)
- Cory Doctorow, Little Brother (Tor, 2008) (count: 49)
- Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World (Hodder and Stoughton, 1912) (count: 69)
- Greg Egan, Permutation City (Millennium, 1994) (count: 30)
- Harlan Ellison, ed., Dangerous Visions (Doubleday, 1967) (count: 22)
- Jack Finney, The Body Snatchers (Dell, 1955) (count: 50)
- Jack Finney, Time and Again (Simon & Schuster, 1970) (count: 33)
- Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys (HarperCollins/Morrow, 2005) (count: 39)
- Neil Gaiman, Coraline (HarperCollins, 2002) (count: 80)
- Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book (HarperCollins, 2008) (count: 72)
- Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere (BBC Books, 1996) (count: 60)
- Neil Gaiman, The Sandman (series, 1996) (count: 159)
- Neil Gaiman, Stardust (DC Comics/Vertigo, 1998) (count: 44)
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude (In Spanish, 1967; Harper & Row, 1970) (count: 82)
- John Gardner, Grendel (Knopf , 1971) (count: 183)
- William Gibson, Burning Chrome (Arbor House, 1986) (count: 113)
- William Gibson & Bruce Sterling, The Difference Engine (Gollancz, 1990) (count: 60)
- William Gibson, Idoru (Putnam, 1996) (count: 57)
- William Gibson, Johnny Mnemonic (Ace, 1995) (count: 90)
- William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive (Gollancz, 1988) (count: 67)
- William Gibson, Neuromancer (Ace Special, 1984) (count: 902)
- William Gibson, Pattern Recognition (Putnam, 2003) (count: 130)
- William Gibson, Spook Country (Putnam, 2007) (count: 22)
- William Gibson, Virtual Light (Bantam Spectra, 1993) (count: 46)
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland (The Forerunner, 1915) (count: 396)
- William Golding, The Inheritors (Faber and Faber, 1955) (count: 38)
- William Golding, Lord of the Flies (Faber and Faber, 1954) (count: 517)
- Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows (Thames Methuen, 1908) (count: 180)
- Nicola Griffith, Slow River (Ballantine Del Rey, 1995) (count: 20)
- Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (St. Martin's, 1974) (count: 73)
- M. John Harrison, Nova Swing (Orion/Gollancz, 2006) (count: 25)
- Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (Putnam, 1966) (count: 92)
- Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers (Putnam, 1959) (count: 111)
- Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land (Putnam, 1961) (count: 115)
- Frank Herbert, Dune (Chilton, 1965) (count: 246)
- Russell Hoban, Riddley Walker (Jonathan Cape, 1980) (count: 104)
- Nalo Hopkinson, Brown Girl in the Ring (Warner Aspect, 1998) (count: 22)
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (Chatto & Windus, 1932) (count: 1188)
- Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (Faber and Faber, 2005) (count: 196)
- Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House (Viking, 1959) (count: 89)
- Henry James, The Turn of the Screw (Heinemann, 1898) (count: 686)
- Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis (The Parton Press, 1937; Germany 1915) (count: 1048)
- Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon (Harcourt, Brace and World, 1966) (count: 109)
- Stephen King, Bag of Bones (Hodder & Stoughton, 1998) (count: 23)
- Stephen King, Danse Macabre (Everest, 1981) (count: 28)
- Stephen King, The Dark Tower (series, 2012) (count: 60)
- Stephen King, The Dead Zone (Viking, 1979) (count: 29)
- Stephen King, Different Seasons (Viking, 1982) (count: 58)
- Stephen King, Dolores Claiborne (Viking, 1993) (count: 30)
- Stephen King, The Green Mile (Signet, 1996) (count: 42)
- Stephen King, Pet Sematary (Doubleday, 1983) (count: 20)
- Nancy Kress, Beggars in Spain (Morrow AvoNova, 1993) (count: 57)
- Nancy Kress, Maximum Light (Tor, 1998) (count: 22)
- Ursula K. Le Guin, Always Coming Home (Harper & Row, 1985) (count: 23)
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven (Scribner's, 1971) (count: 24)
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness (Ace Special, 1969) (count: 163)
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Telling (Harcourt, 2000) (count: 27)
- Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (Parnassus Press, 1968) (count: 46)
- Stanislaw Lem, Solaris (Walker, 1970; Poland 1961) (count: 110)
- Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time (Farrar Straus Cudahy, 1962) (count: 22)
- Ira Levin, The Stepford Wives (Random House , 1972) (count: 31)
- C. S. Lewis, The Last Battle (Bodley Head, 1956) (count: 44)
- C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Geoffrey Bles, 1950) (count: 214)
- C. S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Bodley Head, 1938) (count: 68)
- C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters (Geoffrey Bles, 1942) (count: 155)
- C. S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength (The Bodley Head, 1945) (count: 62)
- Jack London, Before Adam (Macmillan, 1906) (count: 40)
- Jack London, The Iron Heel (Macmillan, 1907) (count: 66)
- Jack London, The Star Rover (Macmillan , 1915) (count: 23)
- H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness (Astounding, 1936) (count: 33)
- H. P. Lovecraft, edited by Peter Straub, Tales (Library of America, 2005) (count: 50)
- George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind (Strahan and Co, 1870) (count: 35)
- George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin (Routledge, 1871) (count: 43)
- George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones (HarperCollins Voyager, 1996) (count: 27)
- Richard Matheson, I Am Legend (Fawcett Gold Medal, 1954) (count: 58)
- Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer (Hurst, Robinson, 1820) (count: 46)
- China Miéville, Iron Council (Ballantine Del Rey, 2004) (count: 44)
- Walter M. Miller, Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz (Lippincott, 1959) (count: 154)
- David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas (Sceptre, 2004) (count: 122)
- Richard Morgan, Woken Furies (Orion/Gollancz, 2005) (count: 47)
- William Morris, News from Nowhere, or An Epoch of Rest (Roberts Brothers, 1890) (count: 222)
- James Morrow, Blameless in Abaddon (Harcourt Brace, 1996) (count: 23)
- James Morrow, Towing Jehovah (Harcourt Brace, 1994) (count: 26)
- Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle, Footfall (Ballantine Del Rey, 1985) (count: 21)
- Larry Niven, Ringworld (Ballantine, 1970) (count: 37)
- George Orwell, Animal Farm (Secker & Warburg , 1945) (count: 613)
- George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (Secker & Warburg, 1949) (count: 336)
- Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1950) (count: 49)
- Mervyn Peake, Titus Alone (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1959) (count: 20)
- Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan (Eyre & Spottiswoode , 1946) (count: 31)
- Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time (Knopf , 1976) (count: 202)
- Frederik Pohl, Gateway (St. Martin's, 1977) (count: 35)
- Frederik Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth, The Space Merchants (Ballantine, 1953) (count: 38)
- Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire (Knopf , 1976) (count: 122)
- Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned (Knopf, 1988) (count: 27)
- Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat (Knopf, 1985) (count: 28)
- Anne Rice, The Witching Hour (Knopf, 1990) (count: 22)
- Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars (HarperCollins UK, 1993) (count: 21)
- Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (HarperCollins, 1992) (count: 68)
- Philip Roth, The Plot Against America (Houghton Mifflin, 2004) (count: 101)
- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Bloomsbury, 1998) (count: 84)
- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Books, 2007) (count: 60)
- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Scholastic/Levine, 2000) (count: 73)
- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Scholastic/Levine, 2005) (count: 62)
- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Scholastic/Levine, 2003) (count: 62)
- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Bloomsbury, 1999) (count: 97)
- Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children (Jonathan Cape, 1981) (count: 38)
- Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses (Viking, 1989) (count: 328)
- Joanna Russ, The Female Man (Bantam, 1975) (count: 84)
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (Lackington Hughes, 1818) (count: 2710)
- Mary Shelley, The Last Man (Henry Colburn, 1826) (count: 86)
- Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Doubleday Foundation, 1989) (count: 44)
- Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men (Methuen, 1930) (count: 20)
- Olaf Stapledon, Star Maker (Methuen, 1937) (count: 30)
- Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon (Avon, 1999) (count: 116)
- Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age (Bantam Spectra, 1995) (count: 156)
- Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver (Morrow, 2003) (count: 48)
- Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra, 1992) (count: 345)
- Bruce Sterling, Islands in the Net (Arbor House/Morrow, 1988) (count: 23)
- Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (George Munro, 1886) (count: 990)
- George R. Stewart, Earth Abides (Random House, 1949) (count: 48)
- Mary Stewart, The Crystal Cave (Hodder & Stoughton, 1970) (count: 40)
- Bram Stoker, Dracula (Constable , 1897) (count: 934)
- Peter Straub, Ghost Story (Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1979) (count: 20)
- Charles Stross, Accelerando (Ace, 2005) (count: 24)
- Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human (Farrar, Straus & Young/Ballantine, 1953) (count: 62)
- James Tiptree, Jr., Her Smoke Rose Up Forever (Arkham House, 1990) (count: 20)
- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring (Allen & Unwin , 1954) (count: 125)
- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit (Allen & Unwin , 1937) (count: 391)
- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (series, 1955) (count: 519)
- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King (Allen & Unwin, 1955) (count: 69)
- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion (Houghton Mifflin, 1977) (count: 130)
- Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Webster , 1889) (count: 23)
- Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days (Sampson Low, 1873; France 1872) (count: 59)
- Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon (J. Hetzel, 1865) (count: 52)
- Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth (J. Hetzel, 1864) (count: 76)
- Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island (Sampson Low, 1875; France 1875) (count: 52)
- Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (George Smith, 1873; France 1871) (count: 193)
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Galápagos (Delacorte, 1985) (count: 58)
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Mother Night (Fawcett, 1962) (count: 59)
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Player Piano (Scribner's, 1952) (count: 95)
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., The Sirens of Titan (Dell, 1959) (count: 43)
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Welcome to the Monkey House (Delacorte, 1968) (count: 44)
- H. G. Wells, The First Men in the Moon (Bowen-Merrill, 1901) (count: 33)
- H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man (C. Arthur Pearson, 1897) (count: 99)
- H. G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau (Heinemann , 1896) (count: 255)
- H. G. Wells, A Modern Utopia (Chapman & Hall, 1905) (count: 51)
- H. G. Wells, The Shape of Things to Come (Hutchinson, 1933) (count: 70)
- H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (Henry Holt, 1895) (count: 516)
- H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds (Heinemann, 1898) (count: 333)
- H. G. Wells, When the Sleeper Wakes (Harper and Brothers, 1899) (count: 24)
- H. G. Wells, The World Set Free (Macmillan , 1914) (count: 28)
- T. H. White, The Once and Future King (Collins , 1958) (count: 144)
- T. H. White, The Sword in the Stone (Collins, 1938) (count: 44)
- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Ward, Lock, 1891) (count: 731)
- Connie Willis, Bellwether (Bantam Spectra, 1996) (count: 34)
- Connie Willis, Doomsday Book (Bantam Spectra, 1992) (count: 60)
- John Wyndham, The Chrysalids (Michael Joseph, 1955) (count: 34)
- John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids (Doubleday, 1951) (count: 65)
- John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos (Michael Joseph, 1957) (count: 29)
- Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light (Doubleday, 1967) (count: 21)
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