David Pringle skrev vid mitten av 1980-talet boken Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels, An English-Language Selection, 1949-1984. Den publicerades 1985 av Xanadu med ett förord skrivet av Michael Moorcock. De böcker som fanns med på listan var följande:
- Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell (1949)
- Earth Abides, George R. Stewart (1949)
- The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury (1950)
- The Puppet Masters, Robert A. Heinlein (1951)
- The Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham (1951)
- Limbo, Bernard Wolfe (1952)
- The Demolished Man, Alfred Bester (1953)
- Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury (1953)
- Childhood’s End, Arthur C. Clarke (1953)
- The Paradox Men, Charles L. Harness (1953)
- Bring the Jubilee, Ward Moore (1953)
- The Space Merchants, Frederik Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth (1953)
- Ring Around the Sun, Clifford D. Simak (1953)
- More Than Human, Theodore Sturgeon (1953)
- Mission of Gravity, Hal Clement (1954)
- A Mirror for Observers, Edgar Pangborn (1954)
- The End of Eternity, Isaac Asimov (1955)
- The Long Tomorrow, Leigh Brackett (1955)
- The Inheritors, William Golding (1955)
- The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester (1956)
- The Death of Grass, John Christopher (1956)
- The City and the Stars, Arthur C. Clarke (1956)
- The Door into Summer, Robert A. Heinlein (1957)
- The Midwich Cuckoos, John Wyndham (1957)
- Non-Stop, Brian Aldiss (1958)
- A Case of Conscience, James Blish (1958)
- Have Space Suit—Will Travel, Robert A. Heinlein (1958)
- Time Out of Joint, Philip K. Dick (1959)
- Alas, Babylon, Pat Frank (1959)
- A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1959)
- The Sirens of Titan, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1959)
- Rogue Moon, Algis Budrys (1960)
- Venus Plus X, Theodore Sturgeon (1960)
- Hothouse, Brian Aldiss (1962)
- The Drowned World, J. G. Ballard (1962)
- A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess (1962)
- The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick (1962)
- Journey Beyond Tomorrow, Robert Sheckley (1962)
- Way Station, Clifford D. Simak (1963)
- Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1963)
- Greybeard, Brian Aldiss (1964)
- Nova Express, William S. Burroughs (1964)
- Martian Time-Slip, Philip K. Dick (1964)
- The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Philip K. Dick (1965)
- The Wanderer, Fritz Leiber (1965)
- Norstrilia, Cordwainer Smith (1965)
- Dr. Bloodmoney, Philip K. Dick (1965)
- Dune, Frank Herbert (1965)
- The Crystal World, J. G. Ballard (1966)
- Make Room! Make Room!, Harry Harrison (1966)
- Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes (1966)
- The Dream Master, Roger Zelazny (1966)
- Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner (1968)
- Nova, Samuel R. Delany (1968)
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick (1968)
- Camp Concentration, Thomas M. Disch (1968)
- The Final Programme, Michael Moorcock (1968)
- Pavane, Keith Roberts (1968)
- Heroes and Villains, Angela Carter (1969)
- The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin (1969)
- The Palace of Eternity, Bob Shaw (1969)
- Bug Jack Barron, Norman Spinrad (1969)
- Tau Zero, Poul Anderson (1970)
- Downward to the Earth, Robert Silverberg (1970)
- The Year of the Quiet Sun, Wilson Tucker (1970)
- 334, Thomas M. Disch (1972)
- The Fifth Head of Cerberus, Gene Wolfe (1972)
- The Dancers at the End of Time, Michael Moorcock (1972)
- Crash, J. G. Ballard (1973)
- Looking Backward, from the Year 2000, Mack Reynolds (1973)
- The Embedding, Ian Watson (1973)
- Walk to the End of the World, Suzy McKee Charnas (1974)
- The Centauri Device, M. John Harrison (1974)
- The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin (1974)
- The Inverted World, Christopher Priest (1974)
- High Rise, J.G. Ballard (1975)
- Galaxies, Barry N. Malzberg (1975)
- The Female Man, Joanna Russ (1975)
- Orbitsville, Bob Shaw (1975)
- The Alteration, Kingsley Amis (1976)
- Woman on the Edge of Time, Marge Piercy (1976)
- Man Plus, Frederik Pohl (1976)
- Michaelmas, Algis Budrys (1977)
- The Ophiuchi Hotline, John Varley (1977)
- Miracle Visitors, Ian Watson (1978)
- Engine Summer, John Crowley (1979)
- On Wings of Song, Thomas M. Disch (1979)
- The Walking Shadow, Brian Stableford (1979)
- Juniper Time, Kate Wilhelm (1979)
- Timescape, Gregory Benford (1980)
- The Dreaming Dragons, Damien Broderick (1980)
- Wild Seed, Octavia E. Butler (1980)
- Riddley Walker, Russell Hoban (1980)
- The Complete Roderick, John Sladek (1980)
- The Shadow of the Torturer, Gene Wolfe (1980)
- The Unreasoning Mask, Philip José Farmer (1981)
- Oath of Fealty, Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle (1981)
- No Enemy But Time, Michael Bishop (1982)
- The Birth of the People’s Republic of Antarctica, John Calvin Batchelor (1983)
- Neuromancer, William Gibson (1984)
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