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| Date | Title | Author | Country | Type | |||||||
| 1638 | The Man in the Moone | Francis Godwin | England | Novel | |||||||
| 1657-62 | Other Worlds | Sauvien Cyrano de Bergerac | France | Novel | |||||||
| 1752 | Micromégas | François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire | France | Novel | |||||||
| 1816 | Der Sandmann | E.T.A. Hoffmann | France | Story | |||||||
| 1818 | Frankenstein | Mary Shelley | England | Novel | |||||||
| 1827 | A Voyage to the Moon | Joseph Atterley | USA | Novel | |||||||
| 1835 | The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall | Edgar Allan Poe | USA | Story | |||||||
| 1839 | The Man That Was Used Up | Edgar Allan Poe | USA | Story | |||||||
| 1864 | A Journey to the Centre of the Earth | Jules Verne | France | Novel | |||||||
| 1865 | From the Earth to the Moon | Jules Verne | France | Novel | |||||||
| 1870 | Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea | Jules Verne | France | Novel | |||||||
| 1871 | The Coming Race | Edward Bulwer-Lytton | England | Novel | |||||||
| 1872 | The Novel of the Next Century | Maurus Jokai | Hungary | Novel | |||||||
| 1873 | Around the World in Eighty Days | Jules Verne | France | Novel | |||||||
| 1874 | The Mysterious Island | Jules Verne | France | Novel | |||||||
| 1884 | Flatland | Edwin A. Abbott | England | Novel | |||||||
| 1886 | Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson | Scotland | Novella | |||||||
| 1887 | Les Xipéhus | J.-H. Rosny | France | Novel | |||||||
| 1893 | The Angel of the Revolution | George Griffith | Hungary | Novel | |||||||
| 1893-94 | Omega: The Last Days of the World | Camill Flammarion | France | Novel | |||||||
| 1895 | The Time Machine | H.G. Wells | England | Novel | |||||||
| 1896 | Beyond the Earth | Konstantin Tsiolkovskiy | Russia | Novel | |||||||
| The Island of Doctor Moreau | H.G. Wells | England | Novel | ||||||||
| 1897 | Two Planets | Kurd Lasswitz | Germany | Novel | |||||||
| The Invisible Man | H.G. Wells | England | Novel | ||||||||
| 1898 | The War of the Worlds | H.G. Wells | England | Novel | |||||||
| 1901 | The First Men in the Moon | H.G. Wells | England | Novel | |||||||
| 1902 | Le Surmâlle | Alfred Jarry | France | Novel | |||||||
| 1907 | The Iron Heel | Jack London | USA | Novel | |||||||
| 1912 | The Lost World | Arthur Conan Doyle | England | Novel | |||||||
| 1912-17 | A Princess of Mars | Edgar Rice Burroughs | USA | Novel | |||||||
| 1914-63 | Pellucidar | Edgar Rice Burroughs | USA | Novels | |||||||
| 1920 | R.U.R. | Karel Capek | Czech. | Drama | |||||||
| 1922 | Ayelita | Alexy Tolstoy | Russia | Novel | |||||||
| 1924 | The Land That Time Forgot | Edgar Rice Burroughs | USA | Novel | |||||||
| 1926 | Metropolis | Thea von Harbou | Germany | Novel | |||||||
| 1928 | The Machine Stops | E.M. Forster | England | Novella | |||||||
| The Next Chapter: The War Against the Moon | Andre Maurois | France | Novel | ||||||||
| 1930 | Last and First Men | Olaf Stapledon | England | Novel | |||||||
| 1932 | Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | England | Novel | |||||||
| 1934 | Twilight | John W. Campbell | USA | Story | |||||||
| A Martian Odyssey | Stanley G. Weinbaum | USA | Story | ||||||||
| 1937 | Forgetfulness | John W. Campbell | USA | Novella | |||||||
| Star Maker | Olaf Stapledon | England | Novel | ||||||||
| 1938 | Who Goes There? | John W. Campbell | USA | Novella | |||||||
| Helen O'Loy | Lester del Rey | USA | Story | ||||||||
| 1938-45 | The Space Trilogy | C.S. Lewis | England | Novels | |||||||
| 1940 | The Roads Must Roll | Robert A. Heinlein | USA | Story | |||||||
| 1941 | Nightfall | Isaac Asimov | USA | Story | |||||||
| Universe | Robert A. Heinlein | USA | Novella | ||||||||
| Microcosmic God | Theodore Sturgeon | USA | Story | ||||||||
| 1942 | Nerves | Lester del Rey | USA | Novella | |||||||
| The Weapon Shop | A.E. Van Vogt | USA | Story | ||||||||
| 1943 | The Little Prince | Antoine de Saint-Exupery | France | Novella | |||||||
| Mimsey Were the Borogroves | Lewis Padgett | USA | Story | ||||||||
| 1944 | Arena | Fredric Brown | USA | Story | |||||||
| 1944-51 | City | Clifford D. Simak | USA | Story | |||||||
| 1945 | First Contact | Murray Leinster | USA | Story | |||||||
| 1946 | The Marching Morons | C.M. Kornbluth | USA | Novella | |||||||
| Vintage Season | Henry Kuttner, C.L. Moore | USA | Novella | ||||||||
| The Skylark of Space | E.E. "Doc" Smith | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| Slan | A.E. Van Vogt | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| 1948 | That Only a Mother | Judith Merrill | Canada | Story | |||||||
| Scanners Live in Vain | Cordwainer Smith | USA | Story | ||||||||
| The World of Null-A | A.E. Van Vogt | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| 1949 | Nineteen Eighty-Four | George Orwell | England | Novel | |||||||
| Earth Abides | George R. Stewart | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| 1950 | I, Robot | Isaac Asimov | USA | Stories | |||||||
| The Martian Chronicles | Ray Bradbury | USA | Stories | ||||||||
| Coming Attraction | Fritz Leiber | USA | Story | ||||||||
| The Dying Earth | Jack Vance | USA | Stories | ||||||||
| 1951 | The Day of the Triffids | John Wyndham | England | Novel | |||||||
| The Illustrated Man | Ray Bradbury | USA | Stories | ||||||||
| Rogue Queen | L. Sprague De Camp | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| 1951-93 | Foundation | Isaac Asimov | USA | Novels | |||||||
| 1952 | Surface Tension | James Blish | USA | Story | |||||||
| The Martian Way | Isaac Asimov | USA | Novella | ||||||||
| Baby Is Three | Theodore Sturgeon | USA | Novella | ||||||||
| Limbo | Bernard Wolfe | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| 1953 | Childhood's End | Arthur C. Clarke | England | Novel | |||||||
| The Nine Billion Names of God | Arthur C. Clarke | England | Story | ||||||||
| The Demolished Man | Alfred Bester | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | USA | Stories | ||||||||
| Bring the Jubilee | Ward Moore | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| The Space Merchants | Frederick Pohl, C.M. Kornbluth | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| 1953-54 | Brain Wave | Poul Anderson | USA | Novel | |||||||
| 1954 | The Caves of Steel | Isaac Asimov | USA | Novel | |||||||
| Mission of Gravity | Hal Clement | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| The Cold Equations | Tom Godwin | USA | Story | ||||||||
| I Am Legend | Richard Matheson | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| Untouched by Human Hands | Robert Sheckley | USA | Stories | ||||||||
| With Folded Hands | Jack Williamson | USA | Novella | ||||||||
| 1955 | The Chrysalids | John Wyndham | England | Novel | |||||||
| 1955-62 | Cities in Flight | James Blish | USA | Novels | |||||||
| 1956 | The Stars, My Destination | Alfred Bester | USA | Novel | |||||||
| 1957 | The Midwich Cuckoos | John Wyndham | England | Novel | |||||||
| 1958 | A Case of Conscience | James Blish | USA | Novel | |||||||
| The Big Front Yard | Clifford D. Simak | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| 1959 | Time Out of Joint | Philip K. Dick | USA | Novel | |||||||
| The Sirens of Titan | Kurt Vonnegut | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| 1960 | Rogue Moon | Algis Budrys | USA | Novel | |||||||
| Dorsai! | Gordon R. Dickson | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| A Canticle for Leibowitz | Walter M. Miller | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| 1961 | Solaris | Stanislaw Lem | Poland | Novel | |||||||
| The Moon Moth | Jack Vance | USA | Novella | ||||||||
| The Stainless Steel Rat | Harry Harrison | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| Stranger in a Strange Land | Robert A. Heinlein | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| 1962 | Hothouse | Brian W. Aldiss | England | Novel | |||||||
| The Drowned World | J.G. Ballard | England | Novel | ||||||||
| A Clockwork Orange | Anthony Burgess | England | Novel | ||||||||
| The Man in the High Castle | Philip K. Dick | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| The Ballad of Lost C'mell | Cordwainer Smith | USA | Novella | ||||||||
| 1963 | Monkey Planet | Pierre Boulle | France | Novel | |||||||
| A Rose for Ecclesiastes | Roger Zelazny | USA | Story | ||||||||
| 1964 | The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch | Philip K. Dick | USA | Novel | |||||||
| Simulacron-3 | Daniel F. Galouye | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| The Wanderer | Fritz Leiber | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| 1965 | 'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman | Harlan Ellison | USA | Story | |||||||
| Dune | Frank Herbert | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| 1965-93 | World of Tiers | Philip José Farmer | USA | Novels | |||||||
| 1966 | The Crystal World | J.G. Ballard | England | Novel | |||||||
| The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress | Robert A. Heinlein | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| Flowers for Algernon | Daniel Keyes | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| Neutron Star | Larry Niven | USA | Story | ||||||||
| The Last Castle | Jack Vance | USA | Novella | ||||||||
| 1967 | The Einstein Intersection | Samuel Delaney | USA | Novel | |||||||
| Camp Concentration | Thomas Disch | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream | Harlan Ellison | USA | Story | ||||||||
| 1968 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | Arthur C. Clarke | England | Novel | |||||||
| Stand On Zanzibar | John Brunner | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| Nova | Samuel Delaney | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | Philip K. Dick | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| 1969 | Behold the Man | Michael Moorcock | England | Novel | |||||||
| Ubik | Philip K. Dick | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| A Boy and His Dog | Harlan Ellison | USA | Novella | ||||||||
| Make Room! Make Room! | Harry Harrison | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| The Left Hand of Darkness | Ursula K. Le Guin | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| Bug Jack Baron | Norman Spinrad | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| Slaughterhouse Five | Kurt Vonnegut | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| 1970 | Ringworld | Larry Niven | USA | Novel | |||||||
| 1971-83 | Riverworld | Philip José Farmer | USA | Novels | |||||||
| 1972 | Rendezvous with Rama | Arthur C. Clarke | England | Novel | |||||||
| Roadside Picnic | Arkady and Boris Strugatski | Russia | Story | ||||||||
| The God Themselves | Isaac Asimov | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| The Sheep Look Up | John Brunner | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| 1973 | The Embedding | Ian Watson | USA | Novel | |||||||
| 1974 | Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said | Philip K. Dick | USA | Novel | |||||||
| The Dispossessed | Ursula K. Le Guin | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| Home is the Hangman | Roger Zelazny | USA | Story | ||||||||
| 1975 | Dhalgren | Samuel R. Delaney | USA | Novel | |||||||
| Deathbird Stories | Harlan Ellison | USA | Stories | ||||||||
| 1976 | Man Plus | Frederick Pohl | USA | Novel | |||||||
| 1977 | Stardance | Spider and Jeanne Robinson | Canada | Novel | |||||||
| Gateway | Frederick Pohl | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| 1978 | The Persistence of Vision | John Varley | USA | Story | |||||||
| 1978- | The Dark Tower | Stephen King | USA | Novels | |||||||
| 1979 | Engine Summer | John Crowley | USA | Novel | |||||||
| Enemy Mine | Barry B. Longyear | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| The Walking Shadow | Brian Stableford | England | Novel | ||||||||
| 1979-92 | The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | England | Novels | |||||||
| 1980 | Timescape | Gregory Benford | USA | Novel | |||||||
| Riddley Walker | Russell Hoban | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| Grotto of the Dancing Deer | Clifford D. Simak | USA | Story | ||||||||
| 1980-87 | The Book of the New Sun | Gene Wolfe | USA | Novels | |||||||
| 1981 | Radix | A.A. Attanasio | USA | Novel | |||||||
| VALIS | Philip K. Dick | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| The Unreasoning Mask | Philip José Farmer | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| 1982 | Battlefield Earth | L. Ron Hubbard | USA | Novel | |||||||
| 1984 | Neuromancer | William Gibson | Canada | Novel | |||||||
| PRESS ENTER | John Varley | USA | Story | ||||||||
| 1985 | The Handmaid’s Tale | Margaret Atwood | Canada | Novel | |||||||
| Schismatrix | Bruce Sterling | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| Contact | Carl Sagan | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| 1985-86 | Ender’s Game/Speaker for the Dead | Orson Scott Card | USA | Novels | |||||||
| 1989 | Great Work of Time | John Crowley | USA | Novella | |||||||
| 1989-90 | Hyperion Cantos | Dan Simmons | USA | Novels | |||||||
| 1990 | Use of Weapons | Iain M. Banks | Scotland | Novel | |||||||
| The Difference Engine | William Gibson and Bruce Sterling | Canada and USA | Novel | ||||||||
| 1994 | Mother of Storms | John Barnes | USA | Novel | |||||||
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