Classic Science Fiction

The genre when it was still deciding what it was. The pulp-to-New-Wave canon — Asimov, Clarke, Le Guin, Butler — where the ideas that everything since is answering were first set down.

On the Science Fiction & the Future shelf.

Books shelved as Classic Science Fiction

• Foundation and Empire — Isaac Asimov
• Roadside Picnic — Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Caves of Steel — Isaac Asimov
• Four Ways to Forgiveness — Ursula K. Le Guin
• Solaris — Steve Cox
• 3001: The Final Odyssey — Arthur C. Clarke / Garrick Hogan
• Magician: Apprentice — Raymond E. Feist
• Necronomicon — H. P. Lovecraft
• Roadside Picnic — Olena Bormashenko
• Rama Revealed — Arthur C. Clarke / Gentry Lee
• 2061: Odyssey Three — Arthur C. Clarke / Scott Brick
• City of Illusions — Ursula K. Le Guin
• Planet of Exile — Ursula K. Le Guin
• Rocannon's World — Ursula K. Le Guin / Stefan Rudnicki
• Foundation's Edge — Isaac Asimov
• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea — Jules Verne
• The Telling — Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Birthday of the World and Other Stories — Ursula K. Le Guin
• 2010: Odyssey Two — Arthur C. Clarke

Related genres

• Science Fiction
• Dystopian
• Space Opera
• Military Science Fiction
• Time Travel
• Post-Apocalyptic
• Apocalyptic
• Speculative Fiction
• Cyberpunk
• First Contact
• Steampunk
• Eco-Fiction
• Alien Invasion
• Hard Science Fiction
• Parallel Worlds
• Pandemic Fiction
• Climate Fiction
• Biopunk

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