Most of these editions are the ones I read, so some of them are in english and some in german. There is no ranking.
Essential science fiction reading Public
Created by Paranoid Fish
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Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis by Douglas Adams
4 stars
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is the first book in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction …
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The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
5 stars
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down …
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Dune (Penguin Galaxy) by Frank Herbert
5 stars
Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family …
Paranoid Fish says: the first two sequels are also worth reading
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4 stars
Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from …
Paranoid Fish says: This is about time travelling, so it's also historical fiction. More important though, it's also about racism and feminism.
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Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
4 stars
From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat …
Paranoid Fish says: I wouldn't think of Ishiguro as a science fiction writer, but this dystopian novel has some of the themes which good science fiction is made of.
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Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
4 stars
In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey toward a better future.
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Blade Runner by Philip K. Dick
4 stars
It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there, …
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4 stars
Ubik, written in 1966 and published in 1969, is one of Philip K. Dick's masterpieces (The Three Stigmata of Plamer …
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Blumen für Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Die spannende und erschütternde Geschichte des geistig zurückgebliebenen Charlie Gordon, der durch eine Operation eine überragende Intelligenz erlangt, gehört zu …
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Use of Weapons (Culture, #3) by Iain M. Banks
3 stars
The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit …
Paranoid Fish says: This is told in two layers. You will not really know whats going on until you've reached the end of the story.
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2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
4 stars
A novel that proposes an idea about how the human race might have begun and where it might be headed...given …
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Solaris by Stanisław Lem, Stanislaw Lem
5 stars
A classic work of science fiction by renowned Polish novelist and satirist Stanislaw Lem.
When Kris Kelvin arrives at …
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The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
4 stars
Comment by Kim Stanley Robinson, on The Guardian's website: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin …
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Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
4 stars
From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behavior of those …
Paranoid Fish says: Ishiguro's take on AI, seen from a robots perspective. Not a typical science fiction novel, but an important one.
