Eng 201 Science Fiction Reading & Viewing List

ENG 201 Science Fiction Reading & Viewing List

Suggested reading to have broad appeal to both genders.

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.

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  Dirk Gently Douglas Adams
  
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  Hitchhiker’s Guide to the galaxy* Douglas Adams (1^st in a series) (easy read)
  
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  Long dark tea-time of the soul* Douglas Adams
  
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  Feed* M. T. Anderson (♀)
  
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  Foundation*(1^st in a series) Isaac Asimov
  
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  Nightfall Isaac Asimov
  
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  Empire series Isaac Asimov
  
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  Robot series* Isaac Asimov (see Short Stories)
  
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  The Handmaid’s Tale* Margaret Atwood (Dystopian SciFi) (♀)
  
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  Oryx and Crake* Margaret Atwood (♀)
  
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  Silverhair* (1^st of a series) Stephen Baxter
  
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  Pastworld* Ian Beck
  
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  Genesis* Bernard Beckett (Junior level)
  
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  Farenheit 451* Ray Bradbury
  
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  Junk Melvin Burgess
  
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  A Clockwork orange* Anthony Burgess (Senior level)
  
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  Ender’s game* Orson Scott Card (1^st in a series, includes
  

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  Worthing saga Orson Scott Card
  
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  Jurassic Park Michael Crichton
  
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  Andromeda strain* Michael Crichton
  
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  Terminal man* Michael Crichton
  
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  Prey* Michael Crichton
  
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  State of fear* Michael Crichton
  
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  Timeline* Michael Crichton (lower level)
  
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  The Tripod series* John Christopher
  
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  Time Odyssey series* Arthur C. Clarke (Books 1-3) (for SF aficionados)
  
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  Rendezvous with Rama Arthur C. Clarke
  
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  2001: A Space Odyssey Arthur C. Clarke
  
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  And another thing* Eoin Colfer (Junior)
  
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  Starbright and the dream eater* Joy Cowley (Junior)
  
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  Ubik* Philip K Dick
  
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  Blade Runner* [a.k.a. Do Androids
  

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  Five Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch Philip K Dick
  
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  Little brother* Cory Doctorow (Year 11)
  
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  House of the scorpion* Nancy Farmer
  
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  Complete alien omnibus* Alan D. Foster (Senior content)
  
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  Pip and Flinx adventure series Alan D. Foster
  
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  The silver dream* Neil Gaiman
  
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  Neuromancer* William Gibson
  
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  Metro 2033* Dmitry Glukhovsky (Senior level) (for SF
  

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  The gone-away world* Nick Harkaway (Senior level)
  
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  Stranger in a strange land Robert Heinlein (♂)
  
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  Starship Troopers Robert Heinlein
  
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  Wool* Hugh Howey (Dystopian SciFi)
  
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  Dune Frank Herbert (a classic of the genre)
  
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  Brave New World* Aldous Huxley (Dystopian Scifi)
  
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  Evil genius* Catherine Jinks (1^st of the series)
  
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  Earthsea Quartet* Ursula Le Guin (SciFi/fantasy crossover) (lower
  

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  Left hand of darkness Ursula Le Guin (♀)
  
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  A Wrinkle in Time* Madeline L’Engle (Junior level)
  
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  Legend [1]* Marie Lu (Easy read)
  
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  The sea-wreck stranger* Anna Mackenzie (1^st in series)
  
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  Roivan* Glynne Maclean (Year 11 or lower)
  
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  The unidentified* Rae Mariz (Junior level)
  
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  The ennead* Jan Mark (Lower level)
  
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  Bumped* Megan McCafferty
  
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  Shade’s children* Garth Nix (Junior)
  
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  Delirium* Lauren Oliver
  
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  1984* George Orwell (Dystopian Scifi)
  
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  Doppelganger* Michael Parker
  
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  When the wind blows* James Patterson
  
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  Children of Men Ruth Rendell (Dystopian SciFi)
  
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  Red Mars (1st of Mars trilogy) Kim Robertson
  
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  Forty signs of rain* Kim Stanley Robinson
  
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  The death gene* Malcolm Rose (Year 11)
  
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  The female man* Joanna Russ
  
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  The sparrow Mary Doria Russell (♀)
  
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  Contact* Carl Sagan
  
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  The purple cloud* M. P. Shiel (a classic of the genre)
  
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  Journey to the centre of the earth* Jules Verne
  
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  Age of miracles* Karen Thompson Walker
  
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  The war of the worlds* H. G. Wells
  
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  The time machine* H. G. Wells
  
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  The invisible man* H. G. Wells
  
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  Food of the gods* H. G. Wells
  
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  Doomsday Book Connie Willis (also in Science Fiction Century
  

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  Tanglewreck* Jeanette Winterson
  
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  Chocky* John Wyndham (Lower level)
  
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  Day of the Triffids* John Wyndham (Year 11)
  
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  The Kraken Wakes* John Wyndham (Year 11)
  
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  The Chrysalids* John Wyndham
  
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  We Yevgeny Zamyatin (high level) (Dystopian Scifi)
  

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  Bicentennial Man* etc. Isaac Asimov (includes Robot stories) shelved under ASI in Short Stories
  
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  Best time travel stories of the 20^th
  

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  Dark alchemy* shelved under DAR in Short Stories (crossover
  

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  Far Horizons* shelved under FAR in Short Stories
  
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  I have seen the future* shelved under IHA in Short Stories (lower level)
  
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  Mammoth book of apocalyptic
  

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  The Science Fiction century* shelved under SCI in Short Stories
  
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  Science Fiction Stories* shelved under SCI in Short Stories
  

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  Gattaca
  
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  I Robot
  
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  Blade runner
  
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  Children of men
  
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  Source Code
  
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  Minority report
  
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  Escape from New York
  
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  Logan’s run
  
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  Alien
  
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  Splice
  
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  Planet of the apes
  
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  2001: A Space odyssey
  
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  War of the worlds
  
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  Fahrenheit 451
  
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  Rollerball
  
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  Westworld