THE 25 BEST SCIENCE FICTION BOOKS I'VE EVER READ (PHASE TWO) #sciencefictionbooks #sciencefiction

one of the finest dystopia novels I've ever read it's really important

it's got that wonderful silvery pros and it's all in the name you know this that beautiful silvery pros and muscular construction there's no fat on the work

Keith did a book called Anita in about 1970 which is the stories of a Teenage Witch and that prefigured the Paranormal romance Bloom

it is very jarring and very unusual but it's also very beautiful the way it's written

it changed my life forever and it set the standard for me of what American literally SF should be

there's lots of other ones food of the Gods all seminar

it's more scarless it's more anti-religious it's more inflammatory than the later version and I prefer it and is sort of more clipped and harsh

Gray beard is like that but decades before much better and very beautiful

Al's hot house probably the most imaginative book I've ever read

the great thing about this book is this massive immediacy and that's because it is written entirely in the second person present tense

it's a book which has everything I read it every year and every time I come over something different

whenever I read 1984 I've read it dozens of times I still get something out of it there's so much in it's so rich

this is the best one and what this does this has a double Quantum punch in it has paradigm shift it has conceptual breakthrough it has conceptual breakthrough again and it's also very flavorsome

Pan's fascinating you know if you ever read just one Roberts you should read this it's an alternate history novel

he did that in a book which wasn't published at the time from a few years earlier called plan for chaos which is now available he was doing it in that as well didn't quite come off so well

quatermass and the pit scared me to death

I try and try to pin down which is my favorite book by him and I think it's probably the book of skulls

you'd love it if you like things like Ian B and alista Reynolds except the writing is far better

the chrysalids wonderful book to really if you're a teenager magnificent post-apocalyptic post nuclear thing about mutants

there are seven stories in it's witty it's flashy it has experimental Pros techniques it's sort of wise cracking and quick witted it's stylish and above all it's absolutely fizzes with energy

people talk about Day of the Triffids is great it's Unforgettable

The Invisible Man is the one I'm less keen on

the island of Dr Maro is more important than anybody gives a cred or these days

the cren wakes not quite so much

it's absolutely magnificent this is his best written book as well I think

which is a book I really love and I think it's amazing I read it in one sitting I think it's the finest post-apocalyptic novel ever

his third novel is you know arguably one of the greatest genre SF novels ever but I haven't picked that

there's also the Magnificent closing section where the time travel goes further into the future and there's a vision of apocalyptic strangeness

War the worlds is semal

for a boy and his dog alone I would put this book in my top sort of 15

it's very funny and sexy there's a lot of references to rock and roll and contemporary things it's very cool it's quite camp in parts

this to me was the culmination of priest work and the moment when he moved into something Beyond SF and where he expanded the boundaries

the stories they leap off the page and you just feel the character's feelings and they're often sort of scrubby run down

when the sleeper awakes is important