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.

1. George Orwell Nineteen Eighty-Four
2. Ray Bradbury A Little Journey
3. Ray Bradbury Zero Hour
4. Ray Bradbury Morgue Ship
5. Ray Bradbury Lazarus Come Forth
6. Ray Bradbury Jonah of the Jove-Run
7. Ray Bradbury Defense Mech
8. Ray Bradbury Rocket Summer
9. Ray Bradbury The Monster Maker
10. Ray Bradbury Asleep in Armageddon
11. Isaac Asimov Youth
12. E.M. Forster The Machine Stops
13. Robert Louis Stevenson The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
14. Arthur Machen The Great God Pan
15. Arthur Conan Doyle The Lost World
16. Edwin A. Abbott Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
17. Jules Verne A Journey to the Interior of the Earth
18. H. G. Wells The Island of Doctor Moreau
19. H. G. Wells The Invisible Man
20. H. G. Wells Time Machine
21. H. G. Wells The War of the Worlds