IF@AACC Colleague in the Future

Thanks to Rick McGaw for soliciting and organizing these lists from Delta College. Contact: Richard McGaw,  Humanities Division,Chair
Delta College, ramcgaw@delta.edu    

John Augustine, Department of English,
Delta College, jfaugust@delta.edu                                   

John Augustine lists the following as his ten favorites.

• 1984 - George Orwell
• A Canticle for Liebowitz - Walter M. Miller
• Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Philip K. Dick
• Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
• Looking Backward - Edward Bellamy
• Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiquro
• The Island of Dr. Moreau - H.G. Wells
• The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
• Voyage to Arcturus - David Lindsay

Daniel Snyder,  Department of English,
Delta College, drsnyder@delta.edu                                           

Daniel Snyder has provided a numbered list of what he considers to be the tops in Science Fiction.

• 1. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
• 2. Gateway - Fredrick Pohl
• 3. Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
• 4. Neuromancer - William Gibson
• 5. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Philip K. Dick
• 6. Dune - Frank Herbert
• 7. The Forever War - Joe Haldeman
• 8. Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
• 9. The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
• 10. War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells

 Note: Readers who are also film fans should note that both lists include "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" which became the notable Science Fiction film "BladeRunner."

See Futurist Tom Lombardo's Top 20.
Tom Lombardo, Ph.D., resident futurist faculty and chair of psychology, philosophy and religion at Rio Salado College provided the following top twenty science fiction novels, emphasizing more recent novels in the genre. Stop by Tom's website.  He is the author of The Evolution of Future Consciousness and Contemporary Futurist Thought. The latter volume contains an extensive history of science fiction as the mythology of the future. He also writes a column on science fiction and the future for the World Future Society publication Learning Tomorrow.

• 1. Hyperion Series (Hyperion, Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, Rise of Endymion)
  Dan Simmons
• 2. Star Maker Olaf Stapledon
• 3. A Fire Upon the Deep Vernor Vinge
• 4. Accelerando Charles Stross
• 5. Vacuum Diagrams Stephen Baxter
• 6. Mars Trilogy (Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars) Kim Stanley Robinson
• 7. Snow Crash Neal Stephenson
• 8. Queen of Angels Greg Bear
• 9. City Clifford Simak
• 10. The Time Machine H. G. Wells
• 11. The Man in the High Castle Philip Dick
• 12. Manifold Trilogy (Manifold Time, Manifold Space, Manifold Origin)Stephen Baxter
• 13. Behold the Man Michael Moorcock
• 14. A Deepness in the Sky Vernor Vinge
• 15. Earth Abides Charles Stewart
• 16. To Your Scattered Bodies Go Philip Jose Farmer
• 17. Ringworld Larry Niven
• 18. Childhood's End Arthur C. Clarke
• 19. Darwin's Radio Greg Bear
• 20. Last and First Men Olaf Stapledon