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So here we have a sub-genre of science fiction that has a cool name, because of which its authors dress in leather jackets and wear mirror shades - at least...

Love Science Fiction? Hate wasting time reading the trash? Then read this definitive guide to the Top 25 Science Fiction Books in the genre. It's been a long time in...

The 1980s and 90s were a time of richness and change in science fiction. The release of Star Wars in the late 70s had triggered a renewed interest in the...

The May 1964 issue of the venerable British science fiction magazine New Worlds had a new editor: Michael Moorcock. Moorcock, still in his early 20s, had already made a name...

Science Fiction and Dystopias go together like Lindsay Lohan and court appearances, but the terms don’t necessarily have to co-exist. Both genres exist independently and are popular on their own. ...

Welcome to the wonderful world of 'the mystery' meets 'science fiction', a blend of genres that, when done right, can produce some of the most compelling Science Fiction reads. You...

Which sub-genre of sci-fi can claim both the literary greats, the grandmasters of science fiction, like Isaac Asimov, Orson Scott Card, and the recently departed Iain M. Banks and the...

It was an extraordinary year for science fiction, with so many books challenging for our attention that any of half a dozen titles could have made the top spot, and...

You might also call this list 'The Best Science Fiction Books of the 21st Century or even 'The Best Science Fiction of the 2000's. Whatever you call this list, it's...

When John W. Campbell took over as editor of Astounding in 1939, he instituted a new regime. Now, he told them, he wanted sound science, with the most formidable antagonist...

On successive days in May 1895 a young writer, previously known only for a couple of textbooks, had two books published. The first, a collection of humorous newspaper articles, sank...

'Proto-Science Fiction' being science fiction books written before HG Wells (pre 1890. Also referred to as the 'really old stuff before science fiction was even a genre. If you value...

Most people find their first science fiction book in a disorganized accident. Picture yourself as a puberty-aged kid forced to go to some family gathering where the house smells of...

Let's face it, most of us read like we eat -- badly. We devour fat, cheesy, pulpy fiction that goes down easy and gives us a fast feeling of satisfaction....

What makes some SF 'great' and other SF less so? Tough call. Still, despite some disputes that sometimes amount to nitpicking, there's some kind of consensus about the books on...

Science fiction can appear to be a very masculine genre, all that technology just makes it seem like toys for the boys. But that is far from the truth. There...

Young adult science fiction is some of the most action packed fiction that exists. Almost every single on this list is a wild ride through a new and interesting world,...

Science fiction opens up a world of possibilities for children from aliens and space travel to robots and time travel and even machines that can do your homework for you....

Are you the type of person that likes your science fiction heavy on the science? Get annoyed by the hand-waving attempts to allow for faster-than-light travel or inter-species breeding? We've...

Big ships, big battles,and many characters are some of the key elements behind space opera. The Space Opera is one of the most popular science fiction sub genres because it's...

If you want to know the most influential science fiction novel of the last thirty-odd years, look no further than William Gibson's Neuromancer. The novel didn't invent cyberpunk; two films...

By the 1990s, the world was changing more rapidly than ever. The digital age foreseen by the cyberpunks was already becoming more complex as writers began pushing the ideas forward...

A novel of startling ideas that influenced a generation of writers and pop culture. Some of the best cyberpunk science fiction out there. Fans of dystopian fiction and cyberpunk will...

We've already included one example of what might be called new wave space opera, and in a sense this is another, but it is a very different novel. The novel...

NOTE: THIS IS #26 on the TOP 100 LIST. The first 1-25 entries are found on THE TOP 25 BEST SCIENCE FICTION LIST. Dhalgren is one of the peculiarities of...

Appleseed dwells in that arena of anime you can call Noir Cyberpunk. It's another OVA and one that is powerful in the use of nihilism. The story of the experimental...

This game is not just one of the greatest sci-fi games of all time, but one of the best games, period. You're thrown into the cyberpunk world under protagonist JC...

This spiritual predecessor to the Bioshock series still manages to captivate gamers with its significant improvements over the first title. It introduces several classic RPG elements with weapon upgrades, stats,...

DC's science fiction line Helix didn't last long, but it gave us two phenomenal titles that can't be ignored. Cyberella was written by the amazing Howard Chaykin with art by...

In the late 1960s stories suddenly started to appear from a writer no-one had heard of before, and no-one had met. But the stories were just too good, too quirky,...

We often tend to slip into the notion that before the advent of writers like Ursula Le Guin and Joanna Russ, science fiction was an exclusively masculine domain. But that...

The best way to start is by diving in at the deep end, and when it comes to posthumanity you won’t find deeper. Uploaded personalities, clones, advanced technologies, extraordinary developments...

Probably the best of Ian Bank's Culture novels. Strong characters and a light-hearted tone to the novel despite the "seriousness" of the actual plot make this an easy, addicting read....

What is a best science fiction list without the inclusion of one of the greatest science fiction writers ever? Yes, I'm talking about Philip K. Dick, a man ignored in...

Marty and his best friend, Luther, have managed to rescue Marty's cousin Grace from the clutches of the nefarious pseudo-naturalist Noah Blackwood, but their most dangerous mission lies ahead of...

The second best of Koontz's novels (the best was 'Strangers') uses time-travel as a device by Adolf Hitler to change the outcome of WW2. (It didn't end too well for...

A sequel to the best-selling Robopocalypse is told through a series of narratives that finds new and former characters fighting to rebuild a war-stricken world under threat of the surviving...

One of the best things that any book about science fiction can do is make you think again about what sf actually is. This book does it to an extraordinary...

Super 8 is the best Steven Spielberg movie JJ Abrams ever made. It feels so much like the kind of film Spielberg would have created in the 80s that I...

Undoubtedly one of the best games of all time, Valve's original Portal instantly captured the attention of gamers across the world with its innovative mechanics. However, it shone not just...