Book Review Index M-Z

Top 100 Sci-Fi Books

M

• Arthur Machen
  • The Great God Pan ***

• George R.R. Martin
  • Tuf Voyaging **
  • Songs of the Dying Earth (ed. with Gardner Dozois) ****
  • Fire & Blood ****
    

• A. Lee Martinez
  • Emperor Mollusk versus the Sinister Brain ***
    

• Cormac McCarthy
  • The Road *****
    

• Jack McDevitt
  • Priscilla Hutchins series
    • The Engines of God ***
    • Chindi ***
      

• Patricia A. McKillip
  • The Changeling Sea ****
  • Ombria in Shadow ****
    

• China Mieville
  • This Census-Taker ***
  • Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories ***½
  • The Last Days of New Paris ***½
    

• A.A. Milne
  • Winnie-the-Pooh ****
  • The House At Pooh Corner ****½

• David Mitchell
  • The Bone Clocks ****

• Michael Moorcock
  • The Elric Saga
    • Elric of Melnibone, The Elric Saga Volume 1 ***½
    • Stormbringer, The Elric Saga Volume 2 ***½

• C.L. Moore
  • Jirel of Joiry ***½

• Richard K. Morgan
  • Thin Air ***

N

• Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
  • The Mote in God’s Eye ****

P

• Ada Palmer
  • Terra Ignota series
    • Too Like the Lightning ****
    • Seven Surrenders *****
    • The Will To Battle ****
    • Perhaps the Stars *****
      

• K.J. Parker
  • Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City *****

• Mervyn Peake
  • The Gormenghast Novels *****
    

• Terry Pratchett
  • Discworld series
    • The Truth ****
    • Thief of Time ****
    • The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents ***½
    • Night Watch ****
    • The Wee Free Men ***½
    • Monstrous Regiment ***½
    • A Hat Full of Sky ****
    • Going Postal ****

• Thomas Pynchon
  • The Crying of Lot 49 **

R

• Alastair Reynolds
  • Revelation Space Series
    • Revelation Space ****
    • Chasm City ***½
    • Redemption Ark ****
    • Absolution Gap ****
    • Galactic North ***½
    • Inhibitor Phase ****
  • Prefect Dreyfus Emergencies
    • Aurora Rising (The Prefect) ***½
    • Elysium Fire ***
  • Terminal World ***½
  • Eversion ****
    
    
• Kim Stanley Robinson
  • 2312 **½
  • Aurora ***½

S

• Brandon Sanderson
  • Tress of the Emerald Sea ***½
  • The Stormlight Archive
    • The Way of Kings ***½
    • Words of Radiance ***½
    • Oathbringer ***
      
      
• Andrzej Sapkowski
  • The Last Wish ***

• Jose Saramago
  • The Elephant’s Journey ***
    
    
• Karl Schroeder
  • Lady of Mazes ****
    
    
• Michael Shea
  • Nifft the Lean **
    
    
• Mary Shelley
  • Frankenstein ***½
    

• Robert Sheckley
  • Untouched by Human Hands ****
  • Citizen in Space ****
  • Dimension of Miracles ****

• Clifford D. Simak
  • Way Station ****
    
    
• Dan Simmons
  • Song of Kali ****
  • Ilium Series
    • Ilium *****
    • Olympos ****

• Clark Ashton Smith
  • The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies ***½

• Cordwainer Smith
  • The Rediscovery of Man ****½

• E.E. ‘Doc’ Smith
  • Lensman series **

• Olaf Stapledon
  • Star Maker & The Last and First Men *****
  • Odd John ****

• Neal Stephenson
  • Cryptonomicon *****
  • Seveneves ****½
  • The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. (with Nicole Galland) ***½
  • Fall or, Dodge in Hell **½
  • Termination Shock ****

• Bram Stoker
  • Dracula ***½

• Arkady & Boris Strugatsky
  • Monday Starts on Saturday ***½

• Michael Swanwick
  • Stations of the Tide ****
  • The Dog Said Bow-Wow ***½
  • The Iron Dragon’s Daughter series
    • The Iron Dragon’s Daughter ****½
    • The Dragons of Babel ****
    • The Iron Dragon’s Mother ****

T

• Adrian Tchaikovsky
  • Elder Race ****
  • Children of Time series
    • Children of Time ****
    • Children of Ruin ***
  • The Final Architecture series
    • Shards of Earth ***½
    • Eyes of the Void ***½
      
      
• Walter Tevis
  • The Man Who Fell To Earth ****
    
    
• J.R.R. Tolkien
  • The Fall of Gondolin ***
    
    
• Dempow Torishima
  • Sisyphean ****

V

• Catherynne M. Valente
  • Radiance ****½
  • Space Opera ***
    
    
• Jack Vance
  • The Dying Earth novels ****½
  • Night Lamp ***
    
    
• Jeff VanderMeer
  • Ambergris Series
    • City of Saints and Madmen ***
    • Shriek: An Afterword ****
    • Finch ****
  • Southern Reach Series
    • Annihilation *****
    • Authority ****
    • Acceptance ****
  • Borne series
    • Borne ****
    • Dead Astronauts ***

• A.E. van Vogt
  • The World of Null-A ***

W

• Peter Watts
  • Blindsight *****
  • The Freeze-Frame Revolution ****
    
    
• Andy Weir
  • Project Hail Mary ***½
    
    
• Martha Wells
  • The Murderbot Diaries
    • All Systems Red ****
    • Artificial Condition ****
      
      
• Oscar Wilde
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray ****½

• Tad Williams
  • The Dragonbone Chair ***

• Gene Wolfe
  • The Book of the Long Sun ****
  • The Book of the Short Sun ****

• John Wyndham
  • The Midwich Cuckoos ***

Z

• Roger Zelazny
  • This Immortal ****
  • Jack of Shadows ***
  • The Chronicles of Amber (books 1-5) ****