{"id":9744,"date":"2016-10-24T21:37:01","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T01:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=9744"},"modified":"2018-09-03T18:46:52","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T22:46:52","slug":"best-science-fiction-novels-by-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/best-science-fiction-novels-by-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"Best science fiction novels by decade"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are the best science fiction books by decade. I limited each author to 1 book per decade, but a few authors show up in multiple decades.<\/p>\n

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Neal StephensonAnathem<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
 <\/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>\nStephen Baxter<\/td>\nProxima<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\nWill McIntosh<\/td>\nSoft Apocalypse<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\nJohn Scalzi<\/td>\nRedshirts<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\nJoan Slonczewski<\/td>\nThe Highest Frontier<\/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>\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>\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 are the best science fiction books by decade. I limited each author to 1 book per decade, but a few authors show up in multiple decades. Neal StephensonAnathem   Winner Runner Ups Decade Author Title Author Title 2010s Kim Stanley Robinson 2312 Stephen Baxter Proxima       Will McIntosh Soft Apocalypse     […]<\/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":[7,42,28,8],"class_list":["post-9744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-thoughts","tag-book","tag-lists","tag-novels","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9744","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=9744"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12775,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9744\/revisions\/12775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}