Genre :: Science Fiction (43 books)

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  #3

  Nineteen Eighty-Four

  by George Orwell

  (69 Reviews)

  946 Points

  "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."

  

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  #13

  Brave New World

  by Aldous Huxley

  (30 Reviews)

  664 Points

  "A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories."

  

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  #34

  Slaughterhouse-Five

  by Kurt Vonnegut

  (29 Reviews)

  358 Points

  "All this happened, more or less."

  

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  #40

  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

  by Douglas Adams

  (28 Reviews)

  344 Points

  "Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million..."

  

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  #50

  The Handmaid’s Tale

  by Margaret Atwood

  (14 Reviews)

  316 Points

  "We slept in what had once been the gymnasium."

  

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  #59

  A Clockwork Orange

  by Anthony Burgess

  (20 Reviews)

  295 Points

  "'What's it going to be then, eh?'"

  

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  #83

  Gravity's Rainbow

  by Thomas Pynchon

  (4 Reviews)

  221 Points

  "A screaming comes across the sky."

  

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  #84

  Frankenstein

  by Mary Shelley

  (31 Reviews)

  219 Points

  "You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.The event on which this fiction is founded has been..."

  

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  #87

  Dune

  by Frank Herbert

  (17 Reviews)

  214 Points

  "A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct. . . . from "Manual of Muad'dib" by the Princess IrulanIn the week before their departure to Arakis, when all..."

  

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  #133

  The War of the Worlds

  by H. G. Wells

  (9 Reviews)

  143 Points

  "No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as..."

  

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