Today (technically, yesterday, which was Friday) at FRED some of us ended-up discussing and debating a list of novels that would make-up the core canon of SF.

My "top three" list, in no particular order:

• Dune by Frank Herbert
• Neuromancer by William Gibson
• Schismatrix by Bruce Sterling

-- Thomas M. Terashima (tom@nucleus.com), May 01, 1999

Answers

Three by Heinlein, in no particular order:

• Time Enough for Love
• Friday
• Expanded Universe (not a novel, but contains a novella)

-- Thomas M. Terashima (root@fullahead.to), May 07, 1999.

As much as it may surprise some, the following are classics that I've actually read and consider true classics:

• The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
• The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth
• Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

-- Thomas M. Terashima (root@fullahead.to), May 07, 1999.