Dave Itzkoff, science fiction reviewer for the New York Times, lists his favorite science fiction books, in alphabetical order.

  • A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter J. Miller (1959)
  • Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (1963)
  • A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (1962)
  • The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon (1965)
  • Gun, With Occasional Music: A Novel by Jonathan Letham (1994)
  • Looking for Jake by China Miéville (2005)
  • The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (1962)
  • R is for Rocket by Ray Bradbury (1962)
  • The Twilight Zone Companion by Marc Scott Zicree (1982)
  • Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (1987)

[link via Locus Online]

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