The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda, #1)

Michael Crichton

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)

Douglas Adams

The Black Company (The Chronicles of the Black Company, #1)

Glen Cook

Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

William Gibson

The Ill-Made Mute (The Bitterbynde, #1)

Cecilia Dart-Thornton

Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)

Garth Nix

The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)

Joe Abercrombie

Gardens of the Moon (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #1)

Steven Erikson

Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)

Robin Hobb

Dune (Dune, #1)

Frank Herbert

Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

Philip K. Dick

Stranger in a Strange Land

Robert A. Heinlein

The Ship Who Sang (Brainship, #1)

Anne McCaffrey

American Gods

Neil Gaiman

Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

Peter Watts

Starship Troopers

Robert A. Heinlein

Daughter of the Empire (The Empire Trilogy, #1)

Raymond E. Feist

Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)

Orson Scott Card

Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)

Dan Simmons

The Many-Coloured Land (Saga of Pliocene Exile, #1)

Julian May

Guardians of the West (The Malloreon, #1)

David Eddings

A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)

Ursula K. Le Guin

Pawn of Prophecy (The Belgariad, #1)

David Eddings

The Dragonbone Chair (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #1)

Tad Williams

Nine Princes in Amber (The Chronicles of Amber, #1)

Roger Zelazny

Magician (The Riftwar Saga, #1-2)

Raymond E. Feist