Ranking All the Books from Every Top 15 Sci-Fi List

Case of conscience by blish ... this is him at his at his most masterful ... this is the best religious SF I think that's ever been written ... definitely mixed Impressions on the second half

deepness in the sky I got to put it I'll give it B because what I remember of it there's something about my memory of it that makes me think that I might like it more than this upon reread

I reread this couple weeks back and I had a really rough time with it ... it just didn't age as well as I had hoped ... the quality of the writing is much poorer than I perceived

Beyond Apollo I'm going to keep it at s tier I really like mberg ... it was also really controversial at the time because it was a really ailing look at the space program

blind sight by Peter Watts ... this is still my f my favorite ever hard SF book ... the reveal of its philosophical position about the nature of Consciousness is the most profound thing that I've read in a hard SF book

blood music by Greg bear is still one of my favorite hard SF books ... I think it's fascinating ... this is my favorite Greg bear

childhood's End by Arthur C Clark ... I'm going to put it at C because I don't know that's what my gut tells me to do ... I would probably be slightly tepid on it just based on my track record with Clark

read City by simac a it's a fix up novel about a future ... I think it's really clever and it's really beautiful

this is a science fiction story that's very informed by Heart of Darkness By Conrad or is actually just a retelling of Heart of Darkness By Conrad ... the book is about this guy seeking Absolution for the things that he did while he was in charge excellent

Dune I think it holds its interest it holds its intrigue it's a bit indulgent it's a bit slow and it's campier than I think people remember it being ... I still like it

I read Dune Messiah last year at some point didn't care for it

Expedition by Wayne Barlo ... I love it pretty much just as much now as I did then ... it's just so beautiful ... I just adore it

farewell Earth's Bliss by DG Compton is s tier ... it's an incredibly Bleak book about a penal colony on Mars that picks apart race relations and social class ... his writing is absolutely gorgeous

Frankenstein is considered by a lot of people to be the original science fiction book the first true science fiction book ... it is what people say it is it's a Timeless book it's beautifully written

I think it's one of the best pure exercises in World building that I've read ... there's a hero's quest to save the world it's great ... I still remember it as about a tier

Hyperion by Dan Simmons I will give a b ... my opinion of it has just taken a big hit it's pretty mixed the priest's tale and the Scholar's tale I think are excellent ... truncated ending

Ice by anak cavan s tier ... it's like a float tank hallucination into the hell Universe ... in terms of raw literary merit there's not much in genre lit that can touch this

midworld ... this was one of my favorite books when I was a kid and it just doesn't hold up it's just not that good as it turns out ... the writing itself is pretty weak so unfortunately this is probably the big loser of the bunch

Neuromancer will go to a it's the first of the sprawl books ... there's something about the writing itself that's really special

Australia by cord wayer Smith I will also put it a I really like cord wayer Smith ... it's a fix up of two novelas Planet buyer and the under people

roadside picnic is still s tier ... I will stick to my guns I think it's great

Solaris by LM is Immortal ... so much better than both movies simply must be read to be appreciated the best first Contact novel that I can think of off the top this is a masterpiece

star of The Unborn by France verel ... this is still s tier in my heart personally just emotionally because I'm so attached to ... I think that it is a beautiful book

The dispossessed by leguin ... what I do recall is very positive ... this is my favorite leguin book I think it's a very morally ambiguous portrayal of an anarchist society

the dying Earth by Jack Vance I'm going to give it an a ... I remember it being just atmospheric and gorgeous and unique

I actually just reread this I'll give it a B I have pretty mixed feelings about it ... I still like it more than Starship Troopers in some senses it doesn't age all that well

it's not the smoothest read it is rather didactic it reads like socialist agit prop ... this belongs in B tier actually because the writing is choppy this is really high on my list to reread and I recommend that you read

boting God's eye by n and Pernell is one of those big Baro space operas I'll give it a B ... it's really well done Space Opera ... the aliens are very well conceived

Palace of maternity by Bob Shaw a Space Opera that has a twisty turny plot tons of big shocking surprises ... I think it does more in 200 Pages than a lot of bigger more Baro space operas do in 500 to 1500

my general feelings about book of the new Sun are admiration mixed with exasperation ... it's an interesting read genre bending puzzle box dying Earth far future religious allegory

this gets compared to the sparrow by Mary Doria Russell a book that I really don't like

stars my destination by bester we'll give it a b it's an influential book ... reads like it was written 10 years ago ... I read demolished man recently and I still prefer this one over that one

The Time Machine by Wells has to go s tier because like I said it's tied with War of the Worlds ... I think it's great genre literature

I really like Wells everything that I've read from him ... my read of War of the Worlds is this is a portrayal of England receiving the treatment that Colonial subjects did

the world inside by silverberg I'm going to guess probably as a be ... it is still one of the more interesting dystopias ... my memory of it is still very glowing

I really like Wells everything that I've read from him including Tano bung a non-genre book that I read from him

we are about to by Joanna Russ s tier one of the most hardcore brutal books that I've read I've now read three Joanna Russ books all of them are just about equivalently excellent