This page lists science fiction / fantasy books: 1950 – 1969
□ = do not own
1950
I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
Pebble in the Sky – Isaac Asimov
Needle – Hal Clement
The Man Who Sold the Moon – Robert Heinlein □
Gather, Darkness! – Fritz Leiber
Cosmic Engineers – Clifford Simak
The First Lensman – E. E. “Doc” Smith □
The Dreaming Jewels – Theodore Sturgeon □
The Dying Earth – Jack Vance
Masters of Time – A. E. van Vogt
1951
Foundation – Isaac Asimov
The Illustrated Man – Ray Bradbury □
Time and Again – Clifford D. Simak
Gray Lensman – Edward “Doc” Smith
The Weapon Shops of Isher – A. E. van Vogt
The Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
1952
Foundation and Empire – Isaac Asimov
The Currents of Space – Isaac Asimov
The Starmen of Llyrdis – Leigh Brackett
Marooned on Mars – Lester Del Rey
Gunner Cade – C. M. Kornbluth
Takeoff – C. M. Kornbluth □
The Well of the Worlds – Henry Kuttner
Uller Uprising – H. Beam Piper
City – Clifford D. Simak
Destination: Universe! – A. E. van Vogt
Limbo – Bernard Wolfe □
1953
Second Foundation – Isaac Asimov
The Demolished Man – Alfred Bester
Expedition to Earth – Arthur C. Clarke
The Mysterious Planet – Lester Del Rey
Assignment in Eternity – Robert A. Heinlein
The Green Millennium – Fritz Leiber
Star Rangers – Andre Norton □
West of the Sun – Edgar Pangborn
Star 1 – Frederik Pohl (ed.)
More than Human – Theodore Sturgeon □
The Universe Maker – A. E. Van Vogt
1954
Brain Wave – Poul Anderson
Question and Answer – Poul Anderson
The Caves of Steel – Isaac Asimov
Mission of Gravity – Hal Clement
The Explorers – C. M. Kornbluth
The Forgotten Planet – Murray Leinster
The Brain Stealers – Murray Leinster
Search the Sky – Frederik Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth
Shadows in the Sun – Chad Oliver
Untouched by Human Hands – Robert Sheckley
1955
The Big Jump – Leigh Brackett
The Long Tomorrow – Leigh Brackett □
Earthlight – Arthur C. Clarke
This Fortress World – James E. Gunn
Star Bridge – James E. Gunn & Jack Williamson
Tunnel in the Sky – Robert Heinlein □
Hell’s Pavement – Damon Knight
Gladiator-at-Law – C. M. Kornbluth & F. Pohl
Star Guard – Andre Norton
Sargasso of Space – Andre Norton
Citizen in Space – Robert Sheckley
Caviar – Theodore Sturgeon
A Way Home – Theodore Sturgeon
Of All Possible Worlds – William Tenn
Mission to the Stars – A. E. van Vogt
1956
They Shall Have Stars – James Blish
Reach for Tomorrow – Arthur C. Clarke
Nerves – Lester Del Rey
The World Jones Made – Philip K. Dick
Arcturus Landing – Gordon R. Dickson
High Vacuum – Charles Eric Maine □
Plague Ship – Andre Norton
The Crossroads of Time – Andre Norton
Slave Ship – Frederik Pohl
To Live Forever – Jack Vance
One Against the Moon – Donald A. Wollheim □
The Seeds of Time – John Wyndham □
1957
Conquest of Earth – Manly Banister
Cycle of Fire – Hal Clement
Eye in the Sky – Philip K. Dick
First on Mars – Rex Gordon □
Citizen of the Galaxy – Robert Heinlein □
The Planet Explorer – Murray Leinster
The Isotope Man – Charles Eric Maine □
The Shores of Space – Richard Matheson
Doomsday Morning – C. L. Moore □
Star Born – Andre Norton □
Slave Ship – Frederik Pohl
The Shrouded Planet – Robert Randall
Pilgrimage to Earth – Robert Sheckley
The Time Dissolver – Jerry Sohl □
The Synthetic Man – Theodore Sturgeon □
Empire of the Atom – A. E. van Vogt
The Mind Cage – A. E. van Vogt □
Big Planet – Jack Vance
The Secret Visitors – James White
Those Idiots From Earth – Richard Wilson
Who Speaks of Conquest? – Lan Wright □
1958
The Long Way Home – Poul Anderson
Starburst – Alfred Bester
Vor – James Blish □
A Case of Conscience – James Blish
Who? – Algis Budrys □
No Place on Earth – Louis Charbonneau □
Close to Critical – Hal Clement
Deadly Image – Edmund Cooper
The Tower of Zanid – L. Sprague de Camp
The Third Galaxy Reader – H. L. Gold
Station in Space – James E. Gunn
Starmaster’s Gambit – Gerard Klein
The Big Time – Fritz Leiber
The Time Traders – Andre Norton
A Touch of Strange – Theodore Sturgeon
The Languages of Pao – Jack Vance
1959
The Falling Torch – Algis Budrys
Seed of Light – Edmund Cooper □
Day of the Giants – Lester Del Rey
Not in Solitude – Kenneth F. Gantz
The Fourth Galaxy Reader – H. L. Gold
Starship Troopers – Robert Heinlein
Encounter – J. Hunter Holly □
The Silver Eggheads – Fritz Leiber
The Monster from Earth’s End – Murray Leinster
Monsters and Such – Murray Leinster
The Investigation – Stanislaw Lem
Level 7 – Mordecai Roshwald
Immortality, inc. – Robert Sheckley
The War Against the Rull – A. E. van Vogt □
The Secret of the Ninth Planet – Donald A. Wollheim
The Outward Urge – John Wyndham
1960
Galaxies Like Grains of Sand – Brian A. Aldiss
The High Crusade – Poul Anderson
Rogue Moon – Algis Budrys
The Genetic General – Gordon R. Dickson
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen – Alan Garner
The Green Planet – J. Hunter Holly
The Aliens – Murray Leinster
The Wailing Asteroid – Murray Leinster
Twists in Time – Murray Leinster
The Tomorrow People – Judith Merril
Storm Over Warlock – Andre Norton
Agent of Vega – James H. Schmitz
Store of Infinity – Robert Sheckley
Notions: Unlimited – Robert Sheckley
The Status Civilization – Robert Sheckley
The Trouble with Lichen – John Wyndham
1961
Orbit Unlimited – Poul Anderson
The Star Dwellers – James Blish
The Nemesis From Terra – Leigh Brackett
Some Will Not Die – Algis Budys
Moon of Mutiny – Lester Del Rey
Naked to the Stars – Gordon R. Dickson
The Fifth Galaxy Reader – H. L. Gold
The Joy Makers – James Gunn
The Stainless Steel Rat – Harry Harrison
A is For Anything – Damon Knight
This World is Taboo – Murray Leinster
Creatures of the Abyss – Murray Leinster
Catseye – Andre Norton
Time is the Simplest Thing – Clifford Simak □
Not Without Sorcery – Theodore Sturgeon
The Infinite Moment – John Wyndham
1962
Hothouse – Brian W. Aldiss
The Drowned World – J. G. Ballard
A Life for the Stars – James Blish
The Man in the High Castle – Philip K. Dick
Necromancer – Gordon R. Dickson
The Cache – Philip Jose Farmer □
First Through Time – Rex Gordon □
Future Imperfect – James E. Gunn
The Immortals – James E. Gunn
Planet of the Damned – Harry Harrison
The Flying Eyes – J. Hunter Holly □
Operation Terror – Murray Leinster
Talents, Incorporated – Murray Leinster
Little Fuzzy – H. Beam Piper
Telepath – Arthur Sellings
Shards of Space – Robert Sheckley □
Journey Beyond Tomorrow – Robert Sheckley □
Recalled to Life – Robert Silverberg
They Walked Like Men – Clifford D. Simak
All The Traps of Earth and Other Stories – Clifford D. Simak
Hospital Station – James White
1963
Shield – Poul Anderson
Passport to Eternity – J. G. Ballard
Alpha Centauri or Die – Leigh Brackett
Analog 1 – John W. Campbell (ed.)
Podkayne of Mars – Robert Heinlein □
Fifth Planet – F. Hoyle & G. Hoyle
In Deep – Damon Knight
A Trace of Memory – Keith Laumer
Envoy to New Worlds – Keith Laumer
The Million Cities – J. T. McIntosh
Judgment on Janus – Andre Norton
Space Viking – H. Beam Piper
Way Station – Clifford Simak
You Will Never Be The Same – Cordwainer Smith □
Star Surgeon – James White
1964
Three Worlds To Conquer – Poul Anderson □
Time and Stars – Poul Anderson □
The Burning World – J. G. Ballard □
The Dark Side of The Earth – Alfred Bester
Doctor Mirabilis – James Blish □
The Whole Man – John Brunner
New Writings in SF 1 – John Carnell (ed.)
Mutiny In Space – Avram Davidson
Clans of the Alphane Moon – Philip K. Dick
Beyond the Barrier – Damon Knight □
A Pail of Air – Fritz Leiber □
Doctor to the Stars – Murray Leinster
Invaders of Space – Murray Leinster
The Universe Against Her – James H. Schmitz
Two Hundred Million A. D. – A. E. van Vogt
Star King – Jack Vance
The Killing Machine – Jack Vance
1965
Earthworlds – Brian Aldiss
The Corridors of Time – Poul Anderson
Sundog – Brian N. Ball
Star of Danger – Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Squares of the City – John Brunner
The Long Result – John Brunner
The Mightiest Machine – John C. Campbell
Masters of the Maze – Avram Davidson
Dune – Frank Herbert
The Rithian Terror – Damon Knight
Off Center – Damon Knight
Mind Switch – Damon Knight □
The Other Side of Time – Keith Laumer
The Great Time Machine Hoax – Keith Laumer
A Plague of Demons – Keith Laumer
Galactic Diplomat – Keith Laumer
The Cyberiad – Stanislaw Lem
The View from the Stars – Walter M. Miller jr.
The Fireclown – Michael Moorcock □
A Plague of Pythons – Frederik Pohl
The Final Circle of Paradise – Boris Strugatski & Arkadi Strugatski □
Space Opera – Jack Vance
Rogue Ship – A. E. van Vogt
1966
The Crystal World – J. G. Ballard
Worlds for the Taking – Kenneth Bulmer
The Lotus Caves – John Christopher
The Crack in Space – Philip K. Dick
Now Wait for Last Year – Philip K. Dick
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress – Robert Heinlein □
October the First is Too Late – Fred Hoyle
Orbit 1 – Damon Knight (ed.)
Nebula Award Stories 1 – Damon Knight (ed.)
Retief’s War – Keith Laumer
Rocannon’s World – Ursula Le Guin
Planet of Exile – Ursula Le Guin
S.O.S. From Three Worlds – Murray Leinster
Checkpoint Lambda – Murray Leinster
The Flying Saucer Gambit – Larry Maddock
The Shores of Death – Michael Moorcock
Tarnsman of Gor – John Norman
Victory on Janus – Andre Norton
The Star Mill – Emil Petaja
The Furies – Keith Roberts
Mindswap – Robert Sheckley
Quest of Three Worlds – Cordwainer Smith
The Spacehounds of IPC – Edward “Doc” Smith
The Solarians – Norman Spinrad
Starshine – Theodore Sturgeon
The Blue World – Jack Vance
The Eyes of the Overworld – Jack Vance
The Players of Null-A – A. E. van Vogt
The Watch Below – James White
The Dream Master – Roger Zelazny
1967
Nebula Award Stories 2 – Brian W. Aldiss & Harry Harrison (eds.)
A Torrent of Faces – James Blish & Norman Knight
The Coming of the Terrans – Leigh Brackett
The Productions of Time – John Brunner □
The Iron Thorn – Algis Budrys □
New Writings in SF-3 – John Carnell
Down to Earth – Louis Charbonneau □
The Nine Billion Names of God – Arthur C. Clarke
Counter-Clock World – Philip K. Dick □
Soldier, Ask Not – Gordon R. Dickson
Orbit 2 – Damon Knight (ed.) □
Miners in the Sky – Murray Leinster □
The Golden Goddess Gambit – Larry Maddock
The Emerald Elephant Gambit – Larry Maddock
Eight Against Utopia – Douglas R. Mason
The Jewel in the Skull – Michael Moorcock
Operation Time Search – Andre Norton
Berserker – Fred Saberhagen
Night Walk – Bob Shaw
To Open the Sky – Robert Silverberg
The Time Hoppers – Robert Silverberg
Those Who Watch – Robert Silverberg
The Werewolf Principle – Clifford D. Simak
Why Call Them Back from Heaven? – Clifford D. Simak
Agent of Chaos – Norman Spinrad
The Winds of Gath – E. C. Tubb
The Palace of Love – Jack Vance
World’s Best Science Fiction – 3rd series – Donald A. Wollheim & Terry Carr
1968
Catharsis Central – Antony Alban
Time Piece – Brian N. Ball
Black Easter – James Blish
Into the Slave Nebula – John Brunner □
Catch a Falling Star – John Brunner
2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
Synthajoy – D. G. Compton
The Goblin Tower – L. Sprague de Camp
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
A Scourge of Screamers – Daniel F. Galouye – (variant of: The Lost Perception, 1966)
The Sword Swallower – Ron Goulart
Orbit 3 – Damon Knight (ed.)
Orbit 4 – Damon Knight (ed.)
A Wizard of Earthsea – Ursula Le Guin
Ring of Violence – Douglas R. Mason
Dragonflight – Anne McCaffery
SF The Best of the Best – Judith Merrill
The Final Programme – Michael Moorcock
The Right of Passage – Alexei Panshin
The Thurb Revolution – Alexei Panshin
Star Well – Alexei Panshin
The Time Twister – Emil Petaja
Picnic on Paradise – Joanna Russ
Dimension of Miracles – Robert Sheckley
The Masks of Time – Robert Silverberg □
The Reproductive System – John Sladek
The Far Out Worlds of A. E. van Vogt – A. E. van Vogt
City of the Chasch – Jack Vance
All Judgment Fled – James White
Nebula Award Stories 3 – Roger Zelazny □
1969
Intangibles Inc. and Other Stories – Brian Aldiss □
Beyond the Beyond – Poul Anderson
Macroscope – Piers Anthony □
Nightfall and Other Stories – Isaac Asimov
The Face in the Frost – John Bellairs
The Rakehells of Heaven – John Boyd
Double, Double – John Brunner
The Avengers of Carrig – John Brunner
The Jagged Orbit – John Brunner □
Stand on Zanzibar – John Brunner □
Spartan Planet – A. Bertram Chandler
The Lotus Caves – John Christopher
The Phoenix and the Mirror – Avram Davidson
Ubik – Philip K. Dick
Wolfling – Gordon R. Dickson
None But Man – Gordon R. Dickson
The Yellow Fraction – Rex Gordon
Dune Messiah – Frank Herbert
Orbit 5 – Damon Knight (ed.)
The Long Twilight – Keith Laumer
The Androids – Frank Belknap Long
Kavin’s World – David Mason
The Ice Schooner – Michael Moorcock
The Runestaff – Michael Moorcock
The Path Beyond the Stars – Emil Petaja
Armed Camps – Kit Reed
Brother Assassin – Fred Saberhagen
Shadow of Heaven – Bob Shaw
Nightwings – Robert Silverberg
Servants of Wankh – Jack Vance
The Dirdir – Jack Vance
Deathstar Voyage – Ian Wallace □
The 2nd Avon Fantasy Reader – Donald A. Wollheim
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