100 Books
That Built, Changed, and Defined Science Fiction
Every episode of All Your Futures is built around one of these books. 100 novels, novellas, and story collections — spanning 200 years of the genre — chosen because they matter: to the history of science fiction, to the ideas it wrestles with, and to the futures it imagines.
Dune
Frank Herbert · 1965
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley · 1818
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley · 1932
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell · 1949
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury · 1953
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams · 1979
The War of the Worlds
H.G. Wells · 1898
Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card · 1985
Foundation
Isaac Asimov · 1951
The Time Machine
H.G. Wells · 1895
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood · 1985
Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton · 1990
The Martian
Andy Weir · 2011
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas
Jules Verne · 1870
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut · 1969
VALIS
Philip K. Dick · 1981
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick · 1968
Neuromancer
William Gibson · 1984
Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert Heinlein · 1961
The Three-Body Problem
Liu Cixin · 2008
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess · 1962
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson · 1992
I, Robot
Isaac Asimov · 1950
The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin · 1969
2001: A Space Odyssey
Arthur C. Clarke · 1968
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Jules Verne · 1864
Starship Troopers
Robert Heinlein · 1959
The Giver
Lois Lowry · 1993
Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes · 1966
The Road
Cormac McCarthy · 2006
Hyperion
Dan Simmons · 1989
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Robert Heinlein · 1966
Childhood's End
Arthur C. Clarke · 1953
The Invisible Man
H.G. Wells · 1897
Ready Player One
Ernest Cline · 2011
The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin · 1974
Rendezvous with Rama
Arthur C. Clarke · 1973
Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut · 1963
The Stand
Stephen King · 1978
Ringworld
Larry Niven · 1970
Solaris
Stanisław Lem · 1961
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Walter M. Miller Jr. · 1959
The Forever War
Joe Haldeman · 1974
Kindred
Octavia Butler · 1979
Contact
Carl Sagan · 1985
Parable of the Sower
Octavia Butler · 1993
The Man in the High Castle
Philip K. Dick · 1962
The Martian Chronicles
Ray Bradbury · 1950
A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'Engle · 1962
The Andromeda Strain
Michael Crichton · 1969
Red Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson · 1992
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro · 2005
Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood · 2003
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir · 2021
Old Man's War
John Scalzi · 2005
Altered Carbon
Richard K. Morgan · 2002
Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel · 2014
The Stars My Destination
Alfred Bester · 1956
We
Yevgeny Zamyatin · 1924
Roadside Picnic
Arkady & Boris Strugatsky · 1972
The Day of the Triffids
John Wyndham · 1951
Leviathan Wakes
James S.A. Corey · 2011
Ancillary Justice
Ann Leckie · 2013
The Fifth Season
N.K. Jemisin · 2015
Blindsight
Peter Watts · 2006
A Fire Upon the Deep
Vernor Vinge · 1992
The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins · 2008
The Sparrow
Mary Doria Russell · 1996
The Diamond Age
Neal Stephenson · 1995
Speaker for the Dead
Orson Scott Card · 1986
The Player of Games
Iain M. Banks · 1988
Use of Weapons
Iain M. Banks · 1990
The Book of the New Sun
Gene Wolfe · 1980
Doomsday Book
Connie Willis · 1992
Wool
Hugh Howey · 2011
Divergent
Veronica Roth · 2011
World War Z
Max Brooks · 2006
The Children of Men
P.D. James · 1992
Flatland
Edwin Abbott · 1884
The Island of Doctor Moreau
H.G. Wells · 1896
Star Maker
Olaf Stapledon · 1937
The Mote in God's Eye
Niven & Pournelle · 1974
Gateway
Frederik Pohl · 1977
The Demolished Man
Alfred Bester · 1953
Lord of Light
Roger Zelazny · 1967
More Than Human
Theodore Sturgeon · 1953
The Midwich Cuckoos
John Wyndham · 1957
The Body Snatchers
Jack Finney · 1955
Dhalgren
Samuel R. Delany · 1975
Dawn
Octavia Butler · 1987
Seveneves
Neal Stephenson · 2015
The Windup Girl
Paolo Bacigalupi · 2009
Anathem
Neal Stephenson · 2008
Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang · 2002
All Systems Red
Martha Wells · 2017
Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro · 2021
Dark Matter
Blake Crouch · 2016
The Maze Runner
James Dashner · 2009
The Time Traveler's Wife
Audrey Niffenegger · 2003
The Ministry for the Future
Kim Stanley Robinson · 2020
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