When you hear Sci-Fi, do your normally think of Arthur Conan Doyle, J.R.R. Tolkien, H.G. Wells, Isaac Asimov, Jules Verne, Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury, or George Orwell? Or do some more recent authors come to mind?
Looking for your next sci-fi must-read? We've pulled together some of the favourite science fiction novels. Some are eerily plausible, others are wild trips of the imagination, but all present compelling visions of our possible future. Science fiction quite literally means the literature of change; this includes all the modern day technological and scientific advancements to create an imaginative future.
Some of these are classic tales you will surely know, but others are excellent works of science fiction that may have been flying under the radar.
- George Orwell Nineteen Eighty-Four
- Ray Bradbury A Little Journey
- Ray Bradbury Zero Hour
- Ray Bradbury Morgue Ship
- Ray Bradbury Lazarus Come Forth
- Ray Bradbury Jonah of the Jove-Run
- Ray Bradbury Defense Mech
- Ray Bradbury Rocket Summer
- Ray Bradbury The Monster Maker
- Ray Bradbury Asleep in Armageddon
- Isaac Asimov Youth
- E.M. Forster The Machine Stops
- Robert Louis Stevenson The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Arthur Machen The Great God Pan
- Arthur Conan Doyle The Lost World
- Edwin A. Abbott Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
- Jules Verne A Journey to the Interior of the Earth
- H. G. Wells The Island of Doctor Moreau
- H. G. Wells The Invisible Man
- H. G. Wells Time Machine
- H. G. Wells The War of the Worlds
