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SEARLES' BASIC READING LIST IN SCIENCE FICTION
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SEARLES' BASIC READING LIST IN SCIENCE FICTION
Robert Heinlein Isaac Asimov |
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In A Reader's Guide to Science Fiction (1979), the authors, Baird Searles, Martin Last, Beth Meacham and Michael Franklin, provide "A Suggested Basic Library and/or Reading List in Science Fiction." The 50 titles listed are as follows:
| Aldis, Brian | The Long Afternoon of Earth |
| Anderson, Poul | Tau Zero |
| Asimov, Isaac | The Foundation Trilogy |
| Ballard, J.G. | Vermilion Sands |
| Bester, Alfred | The Stars My Destination |
| Blish, James | A Case of Conscience |
| Bradbury, Ray | The Martian Chronicles |
| Brunner, John | Stand on Zanzibar |
| Burroughs, Edgar Rice | A Princess of Mars |
| Clarke, Arthur C. | Childhood's End |
| Clarke, Arthur C. | The City and the Stars |
| Clement, Hal | Needle |
| Delany, Samuel | Dhalgren |
| Dick, Philip K. | The Man in the High Castle |
| Dickson, Gordon | Dorsai ! |
| Disch, Thomas M. | 334 |
| Ellison, Harlon, Ed. | Dangerous Visions |
| Harrison, M. John | The Centauri Device |
| Heinlein, Robert A. | Citizen of the Galaxy |
| Heinlein, Robert A. | The Moon is a Harsh Mistress |
| Herbert, Frank | Dune |
| Hodgson, William Hope | The Night Land |
| Kuttner, Henry | The Dark World |
| Kuttner, H., C.L. Moore | Earth's Last Citadel |
| Le Guin, Ursula K. | The Left Hand of Darkness |
| Leiber, Fritz | The Big Time |
| Lewis, C.S. | The Perelandra Trilogy |
| Lovecraft, H.P. | At the Mountains of Madness |
| Merritt, A. | The Moon Pool |
| Miller, Walter M. | A Canticle for Leibowitz |
| Moorcock, Michael | The Cornelius Chronocles |
| Niven, Larry | Ringworld |
| Piper, H. Beam | Little Fuzzy |
| Pohl, Frederick, C.M. Kornbluth | The Space Merchants |
| Russ, Joanna | And Chaos Died |
| Shelley, Mary | Frankenstein |
| Smith, Cordwainer | Nostrilia |
| Smith, E.E. | First Lensman |
| Stapledon, Olaf | Last and First Men |
| Stapledon, Olaf | Odd John |
| Sturgeon, Theodore | More Than Human |
| Van Vogt, A.E. | The World of Null-A |
| Vance, Jack | The Dying Earth |
| Verne, Jules | From the Earth to the Moon |
| Weinbaum, Stanley | A Martian Odyssey and Others |
| Wells, H.G. | The Time Machine |
| Williamson, Jack | The Humanoids |
| Wright, S. Fowler | The World Below |
| Wyndham, John | The Midwich Cuckoos |
| Zelazny, Roger | Lord of Light |
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