Rate sci-fi novels/series that you've read out of a score of 10 (from best to worst)

[Connavar]

Originally Posted by iansales

There's a few that I know I've read but I can't remember much of their plots. But since they're usually pretty bad books, I'm not bothered :-) The rest... I can remember most of the stories, although some of the details I might have forgotten.

Yeah the memory is wierd thing, i can remember clearly alot scenes from first Foundation book i read almost a decade ago but i cant remember a scene from bad books i have read this year.

[Dust253]

Originally Posted by iansales

Do you really want me to rate every sf novel I've read? That's going to be a couple of thousand books...

LOL. No, that would take forever. Just list 20-30 books from the top of your head that are really good.

[iansales]

OK, here goes:-

COELESTIS, Paul Park - 9.4
The Book of the New Sun, Gene wolfe - 9.3
SEA-KINGS OF MARS, Leigh Brackett - 9.3
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE, Brian Aldiss - 9.2
LIGHT, M John Harrison - 9.0
KAIROS, Gwyneth Jones - 9.0

THE FIFTH HEAD OF CERBERUS, Gene Wolfe - 8.8
ASH: A SECRET HISTORY, Mary Gentle - 8.7
DHALGREN, Samuel R Delany - 8.5
TAKE BACK PLENTY, Colin Greenland - 8.5
The Mars trilogy, Kim Stanley Robinson - 8.4
The Aleutian trilogy, Gwyneth Jones 8.4
CERES STORM, David Herter - 8.4
WHERE TIME WINDS BLOW, Robert Holdstock 8.2
The Dune series, Frank Herbert -8.1

The Hyperion Cantos, Dan Simmons - 7.7
METROPHAGE, Richard Kadrey - 7.6
ACTS OF CONSCIENCE, William Barton - 7.5
THE DISPOSSESSED, Ursual K Le Guin - 7.4
THE DESTINY MAKERS, George Turner - 7.4
AGAINST A DARK BACKGROUND, Iain M Banks - 7.4
THE STARS MY DESTINATION, Alfred Bester - 7.3
THE RISEN EMPIRE, Scott Westerfeld - 7.3
The Story of the Gardener, Phillip Mann - 7.3
THE SECOND ANGEL, Philip Kerr - 7.3
THE OPHIUCHI HOTLINE, John Varley - 7.2
A FIRE UPON THE DEEP, Vernor Vinge - 7.2
RADIX, AA Attanasio - 7.1
UNDERCOVER ALIENS, AE van Vogt - 7.0

[Spade]

5/5
Dune by Frank Herbert
Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
Dune: House Atreides by Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
Dune: House Harkonnen by Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
Dune: House Corrino by Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
The Dark Beyond the Stars by Frank M. Robinson
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
As On A Darkling Plain by Ben Bova
Orion by Ben Bova
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman


4.5/5
Dune: The Butlerian Jihad by Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
Dune: The Machine Crusade by Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
The Saga of Seven Suns: Hidden Empire by Kevin J. Anderson
The Saga of Seven Suns: A Forest of Stars by Kevin J. Anderson
Captain Nemo by Kevin J. Anderson
Jupiter by Ben Bova
Mars by Ben Bova
Return to Mars by Ben Bova
A Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls by Robert A. Heinlein
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

4/5
Whipping Star by Frank Herbert
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Timeline by Michael Crichton
Nemesis by Isaac Asimov
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

3.5/5
The Prestige by Christopher Priest (movie is better)
Contact by Carl Sagan (movie is better)
Starswarm by Jerry Pournelle
The Rosetta Codex by Richard Paul Russo
Flight of Exiles by Ben Bova

3/5
Prey by Michael Crichton
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Camouflage by Joe Haldeman
Star Watchman by Ben Bova
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
The Stars, My Destination by Alfred Bester
Exiled From Earth by Ben Bova
The Winds of Altair by Ben Bova

[Connavar]

Foundation Triology 10 (the original triology are the best) by Isaac Asimov
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 9.9 by Douglas Adams
Emphyrio by Jack Vance 9.5
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick 9.5
Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein 9.2
Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan 9.0
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card 8.5
Childhood's End by Arthur C Clarke 8.5
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury 8.5
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson 6.5



Not all the SF i have read only the ones i care to rate.