( 10 ) The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester +1 ( 8 ) Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
( 4 ) 1984 - George Orwell
( 4 ) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K Dick
( 3 ) Citizen of the Galaxy - Robert A Heinlein
( 3 ) The Cyberiad - Stanislaw Lem
( 3 ) Hyperion - Dan Simmons
( 3 ) Gateway - Frederik Pohl
( 2 ) Dune - Frank Herbert
( 2 ) Neuromancer - William Gibson - 1
#1 Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
#2 The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K Le Guin
#3 Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
#4 Rendezvous With Rama - Arthur C Clarke
#5 Ringworld - Larry Niven
#6 Speaker for the Dead - Orson Scott Card
#7 The Time Machine - H G Wells
#8 Foundation - Isaac Asimov
#9 2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C Clarke
#10 The Caves of Steel - Isaac Asimov
#11 The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
#12 Starship Troopers - Robert A Heinlein
#13 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
#14 Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A Heinlein
#15 Childhood's End - Arthur C Clarke
#16 The Forever War - Joe Haldeman
#17 Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A Heinlein (second elimination)
#18 I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
#19 The War of the Worlds - H G Wells
#20 Cyteen - C.J. Cherryh
#21 Perdido Street Station - China Mieville
#22 Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
#23 The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert A Heinlein
#24 The Last and First Men - Olaf Stapledon
#25 Flowers For Algernon - Daniel Keys
#26 The Demolished Man - Alfred Bester
#27 The Man in the High Castle - Philip K Dick
#28 Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
I'm sad to say some of my favourite ever books have been eliminated, and I am surprised that The Cyberiad and Hyperion are still around.
Surprised because you don't think they belong, or because you didn't expect them to stay that long?
I'm a bit surprised that Cyberiad stayed that long because it is quite difficult to get a hold of in mainstream bookstores, but I think it belongs in the top-10. Hyperion I'm less surprised about; I think, like Dune, it suffers because of its string of lackluster sequels, but it itself is a masterwork.
