Ten modern must-read sci-fi masterpieces
Thursday, November 10, 2011 8:05:24 PM
Josh Tyler, Steve West and Cali Hicks posted their list of 10 modern SF masterpieces at Giant Freakin Robot yesterday. By modern they mean the works published after 1980. Their list is quite different from the Wired list I re-posted here on 23 October. So, as you may already know, being a list afficionado
I just had to re-post this one as well. Ok, here we go again
- The Dark Tower (1982 - 2004), 7 novels by Stephen KING
- Neuromancer (1984) by William GIBSON
- Ender's Game (1985) by Orson Scott CARD
- The Liaden Universe (1988 - 2010), 9 books by Sharon LEE and Steve MILLER
- Hyperion Cantos (1989 - 1997), 4 novels by Dan SIMMONS
- Jurassic Park (1990) by Michael CRICHTON
- On Basilisk Station (1992), the first novel from the Honorverse by David WEBER
- The Time Ships (1995), a follow-up to The Time Machine by H. G. Wells, by Stephen BAXTER
- A Deepness in the Sky (1999) by Vernor VINGE
- Ready Player One (2011) by Ernest CLINE













