Locus Poll:
All Time Best Science Fiction Novel

Poll was taken in 1987

Rank Author Title
1 Frank Herbert Dune
2 Ursula K. Le Guin The Left Hand of Darkness
3 Arthur C. Clarke Childhood's End
4 Robert A. Heinlein The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
5 Robert A. Heinlein Stranger in a Strange Land
6 Isaac Asimov The Foundation Trilogy
7 Walter M. Miller, Jr. A Canticle for Leibowitz
8 Frederik Pohl Gateway
9 Larry Niven Ringworld
10 Alfred Bester The Stars My Destination
11 Roger Zelazny Lord of Light
12 Theodore Sturgeon More Than Human
13 Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle The Mote in God's Eye
14 Philip K. Dick The Man in the High Castle
15 H.G. Wells The Time Machine
16 John Brunner Stand on Zanzibar
17 Ursula K. Le Guin The Dispossessed
18 Alfred Bester The Demolished Man
Joe Haldeman The Forever War
20 Ray Bradbury The Martian Chronicles
21 Robert A. Heinlein Starship Troopers
22 Robert Silverberg Dying Inside
23 Samuel R. Delany Dhalgren
24 Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love
25 Clifford D. Simak Way Station
26 Arthur C. Clarke Rendezvous With Rama
27 Phiip Jose Farmer To Your Scattered Bodies Go
28 George R. Stewart Earth Abides
29 Robert A. Heinlein The Door Into Summer
30 Clifford D. Simak City
31 James H. Schmitz The Witches of Karres
32 Arthur C. Clarke The City and the Stars
33 Isaac Asimov The Caves of Steel
34 George Orwell 1984
35 Cordwainer Smith Norstrilia
36 Hal Clement Mission of Gravity
37 Philip K. Dick Ubik
38 Gregory Benford Timescape
Arthur C. Clarke 2001: a Space Odyssey
40 Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451
41 C.J. Cherryh Downbelow Station
42 H.G. Wells The War of the Worlds
43 Olaf Stapledon Last and First Men
44 Robert A. Heinlein Double Star
45 Edgar Panborn Davy

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