Top ten Sci-Fi/Fantasy books

I was having trouble picking my 10 favorite Sci-Fi movies for the previous thread, and realized I'd find it much easier to list good Sci-Fi/Fantasy books than movies...there are a lot more of them :-)

1. [Link removed - login to see] (William Gibson)
2. [Link removed - login to see] (George Orwell)
3. [Link removed - login to see] (aka BladeRunner, Phillip K. Dick)
4. [Link removed - login to see] (William Gibson)
5. [Link removed - login to see] (Stephen King)
6. [Link removed - login to see] (William Goldman)
7. [Link removed - login to see] (Madeleine L'Engle)
8. [Link removed - login to see](Lois Lowry)
9. [Link removed - login to see] (William Gibson)
10. [Link removed - login to see] (Stephen King)

of course, this list is good approximately until i finish my mext book, which looks to be Cryptonomicon...at which point, who knows :-)

The Stars My Destination (Alfred Bester)
The Golden Compass (Philip Pullman)
Lord of Light (Roger Zelazny)
Snowcrash (Neal Stephenson)
The Beasts of Valhalla (George C. Chesbro)
The Eyre Affair (Jasper Fforde)
Guilty Pleasures (Laurell K. Hamilton)
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Ray Bradbury)
Ringworld (Larry Niven)
Starrigger (John Dechancie)

Wow, see this is harder for me than Movies. Lets see

In no particular order

- Star wars hand of thrawn trilogy
- Wheel of time - Eye of the world/The Great hunt
- The Deed of Paksinarion
- Neuromancer
- Blade Runner
- Dune (Book 1)
- Children of Dune
- Lord of the Rings (All three books)
- Enders Game
- Good Omens

Enders Game - Orson Scott Card
Job: A Comedy of Justice - Robert A. Heinlein
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Wizard's First Rule - Terry Goodkind
Her Majesty's Wizard - Christopher Stasheff
The Magic of Recluse - L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
Callahan's Crosstime Saloon - Spider Robinson
Jumper - Steven Gould
Lord Foul's Bane - Stephen R. Donaldson

A quick top ten (including two trilogies and, I think, one two-volume set, which perhaps is cheating):

Greg Bear - Blood Music
Ursula Le Guin - The Dispossessed
Vernor Vinge - Fire Upon the Deep
William Gibson - Neuromancer
William Gibson - Count Zero
J.R.R. Tolkien - Lord of the Rings
Kim Stanley Robinson - Pacific Edge
Janus - Andre Norton
Philip Pullman - His Dark Materials
Ray Bradbury - The Martian Chronicles

The Dark Tower series - Stephen King
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
Outlander series - Diana Gabaldon
His Dark Materials series - Philip Pullman
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde
Lord of the Rings - J.R.R Tolkien
The Hobbit - J.R.R Tolkien
Darkfall series - Isobelle Carmody

Hey,

Supprised that George R R Martin didn't make the lists yet. Here comes mine (not top 10, unless you count individual books after the writer is done writing the series ;-)):

1 - Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
2 - Song of Ice and Fire - G.R.R. Martin
3 - Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

Dune
In Conquest Born
Foundation Series
...for the rest see my list

So far from what I've read, in no real order, and I'm going to count a series as a single entry or else I'd never pick properly :P:

Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
The Old Kingdom trilogy - Garth Nix
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
The Discworld series - Terry Pratchett
The Otherwolrd series - Kelley Armstrong
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series - Douglas Adams
The Darren Shan Saga - Darren Shan (they're short and entertaining)
The Last Vampire series - Christopher Pike
and... errr...The Vampire Chronicles - Anne Rice

I've not read as much science fiction/fantasy as most of you, so this list will probably change by the next book of the genres I read. :P