{"id":13664,"date":"2019-01-11T21:04:23","date_gmt":"2019-01-12T02:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=13664"},"modified":"2019-01-11T21:04:23","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T02:04:23","slug":"best-science-fiction-novels-by-decade-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/best-science-fiction-novels-by-decade-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Best science fiction novels by decade"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s an update to this<\/a> list.<\/p>\n

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 <\/td>\nWinner<\/strong><\/td>\nRunner Ups<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Decade<\/strong><\/td>\nAuthor<\/strong><\/td>\nTitle<\/strong><\/td>\nAuthor<\/strong><\/td>\nTitle<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2010s<\/td>\nKim Stanley Robinson<\/td>\n2312<\/td>\nBecky Chambers<\/td>\nThe Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\nMatt Haig<\/td>\nThe Humans<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\nWill McIntosh<\/td>\nSoft Apocalypse<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\nAdrian Tchaikovsky<\/td>\nChildren of Time<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2000s<\/td>\nStephen Baxter<\/td>\nEvolution<\/td>\nUrsula K. Le Guin<\/td>\nThe Telling<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\nDouglas Preston<\/td>\nBlasphemy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\nAlastair Reynolds<\/td>\nHouse of Suns<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\nRobert J. Sawyer<\/td>\nHominids<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\nJohn Scalzi<\/td>\nOld Man’s War<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\nKarl Schroeder<\/td>\nVentus<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\nNeal Stephenson<\/td>\nAnathem<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\nConnie Willis<\/td>\nPassage<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\nRobert Charles Wilson<\/td>\nSpin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1990s<\/td>\nNeal Stephenson<\/td>\nSnow Crash<\/td>\nStephen Baxter<\/td>\nThe Time Ships<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\nOrson Scott Card<\/td>\nPastwatch<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\nRobert J. Sawyer<\/td>\nStarplex<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\nVernor Vinge<\/td>\nA Fire Upon the Deep<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\nRobert Charles Wilson<\/td>\nDarwinia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1980s<\/td>\nJoan Slonczewski<\/td>\nA Door Into Ocean<\/td>\nIain M. Banks<\/td>\nThe Player of Games<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\nDavid Brin<\/td>\nThe Uplift War<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\nOrson Scott Card<\/td>\nEnder’s Game<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\nVonda N. McIntyre<\/td>\nStarfarers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\nKim Stanley Robinson<\/td>\nThe Wild Shore<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\nDan Simmons<\/td>\nHyperion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\nVernor Vinge<\/td>\nMarooned in Realtime<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1970s<\/td>\nDouglas Adams<\/td>\nThe Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy<\/td>\nIsaac Asimov<\/td>\nThe Gods Themselves<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\nDavid Gerrold<\/td>\nThe Man Who Folded Himself<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\nUrsula K. Le Guin<\/td>\nThe Dispossessed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\nFrederik Pohl<\/td>\nGateway<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1960s<\/td>\nUrsula K. Le Guin<\/td>\nThe Left Hand of Darkness<\/td>\nPhilip K. Dick<\/td>\nThe Man in the High Castle<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\nHarry Harrison<\/td>\nThe Stainless Steel Rat<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\nFrank Herbert<\/td>\nDune<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\nWalter M. Miller, Jr.<\/td>\nA Canticle for Leibowitz<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1950s<\/td>\nIsaac Asimov<\/td>\nFoundation<\/td>\nAlfred Bester<\/td>\nThe Demolished Man<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\nRay Bradbury<\/td>\nThe Martian Chronicles<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\nArthur C. Clarke<\/td>\nThe City and the Stars<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\nClifford D. Simak<\/td>\nCity<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1940s<\/td>\nGeorge Orwell<\/td>\nNineteen Eighty-Four<\/td>\nL. Sprague de Camp<\/td>\nLest Darkness Fall<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1930s<\/td>\nAldous Huxley<\/td>\nBrave New World<\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s an update to this list.   Winner Runner Ups Decade Author Title Author Title 2010s Kim Stanley Robinson 2312 Becky Chambers The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet       Matt Haig The Humans       Will McIntosh Soft Apocalypse       Adrian Tchaikovsky Children of Time 2000s Stephen Baxter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[7,42,8],"class_list":["post-13664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-thoughts","tag-book","tag-lists","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13665,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13664\/revisions\/13665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}