ENG 201 Science Fiction Reading & Viewing List
Suggested reading to have broad appeal to both genders.
All books marked with * are in CHSL
As these books are all fiction, you will find them on the shelves under the first 3 letters of
the author’s surname. This is in bold.
Novels:
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Dirk Gently
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the galaxy*
Long dark tea-time of the soul*
Feed*
Foundation*(1st in a series)
Nightfall
Empire series
Robot series*
The Handmaid’s Tale*
Oryx and Crake*
Silverhair* (1st of a series)
Pastworld*
Genesis*
Farenheit 451*
Junk
A Clockwork orange*
Ender’s game*
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Worthing saga
Jurassic Park
Andromeda strain*
Terminal man*
Prey*
State of fear*
Timeline*
The Tripod series*
Time Odyssey series*
Rendezvous with Rama
2001: A Space Odyssey
And another thing*
Starbright and the dream eater*
Ubik*
Blade Runner* [a.k.a. Do Androids
dream of electric sheep]
Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams (1st in a series) (easy read)
Douglas Adams
M. T. Anderson (♀)
Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov (see Short Stories)
Margaret Atwood (Dystopian SciFi) (♀)
Margaret Atwood (♀)
Stephen Baxter
Ian Beck
Bernard Beckett (Junior level)
Ray Bradbury
Melvin Burgess
Anthony Burgess (Senior level)
Orson Scott Card (1st in a series, includes
Shadow saga)
Orson Scott Card
Michael Crichton
Michael Crichton
Michael Crichton
Michael Crichton
Michael Crichton
Michael Crichton (lower level)
John Christopher
Arthur C. Clarke (Books 1-3) (for SF aficionados)
Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke
Eoin Colfer (Junior)
Joy Cowley (Junior)
Philip K Dick
Philip K Dick
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Five Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Little brother*
House of the scorpion*
Complete alien omnibus*
Pip and Flinx adventure series
The silver dream*
Neuromancer*
Metro 2033*
Philip K Dick
Cory Doctorow (Year 11)
Nancy Farmer
Alan D. Foster (Senior content)
Alan D. Foster
Neil Gaiman
William Gibson
Dmitry Glukhovsky (Senior level) (for SF
enthusiasts)
The gone-away world*
Nick Harkaway (Senior level)
Stranger in a strange land
Robert Heinlein (♂)
Starship Troopers
Robert Heinlein
Wool*
Hugh Howey (Dystopian SciFi)
Dune
Frank Herbert (a classic of the genre)
Brave New World*
Aldous Huxley (Dystopian Scifi)
Evil genius*
Catherine Jinks (1st of the series)
Earthsea Quartet*
Ursula Le Guin (SciFi/fantasy crossover) (lower
level)
Left hand of darkness
Ursula Le Guin (♀)
A Wrinkle in Time*
Madeline L’Engle (Junior level)
Legend [1]*
Marie Lu (Easy read)
The sea-wreck stranger*
Anna Mackenzie (1st in series)
Roivan*
Glynne Maclean (Year 11 or lower)
The unidentified*
Rae Mariz (Junior level)
The ennead*
Jan Mark (Lower level)
Bumped*
Megan McCafferty
Shade’s children*
Garth Nix (Junior)
Delirium*
Lauren Oliver
1984*
George Orwell (Dystopian Scifi)
Doppelganger*
Michael Parker
When the wind blows*
James Patterson
Children of Men
Ruth Rendell (Dystopian SciFi)
Red Mars (1st of Mars trilogy)
Kim Robertson
Forty signs of rain*
Kim Stanley Robinson
The death gene*
Malcolm Rose (Year 11)
The female man*
Joanna Russ
The sparrow
Mary Doria Russell (♀)
Contact*
Carl Sagan
The purple cloud*
M. P. Shiel (a classic of the genre)
Journey to the centre of the earth* Jules Verne
Age of miracles*
Karen Thompson Walker
The war of the worlds*
H. G. Wells
The time machine*
H. G. Wells
The invisible man*
H. G. Wells
Food of the gods*
H. G. Wells
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Doomsday Book
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Tanglewreck*
Chocky*
Day of the Triffids*
The Kraken Wakes*
The Chrysalids*
We
Connie Willis (also in Science Fiction Century
collection below) (♀)
Jeanette Winterson
John Wyndham (Lower level)
John Wyndham (Year 11)
John Wyndham (Year 11)
John Wyndham
Yevgeny Zamyatin (high level) (Dystopian Scifi)
Short story collections:
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Bicentennial Man* etc.
under
Best time travel stories of the 20th
century*
Dark alchemy*
Far Horizons*
I have seen the future*
Mammoth book of apocalyptic
science fiction*
The Science Fiction century*
Science Fiction Stories*
Films
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Gattaca
I Robot
Blade runner
Children of men
Source Code
Minority report
Escape from New York
Logan’s run
Alien
Splice
Planet of the apes
2001: A Space odyssey
War of the worlds
Fahrenheit 451
Rollerball
Westworld
Isaac Asimov (includes Robot stories) shelved
ASI in Short Stories
shelved under BES in Short Stories
shelved under DAR in Short Stories (crossover
Fantasy/Scifi)
shelved under FAR in Short Stories
shelved under IHA in Short Stories (lower level)
shelved under MAM in Short Stories
shelved under SCI in Short Stories
shelved under SCI in Short Stories