Best Science Fiction Books

Below are ten of the top science fiction books which inspired the imagination of many scientists and engineers to either embark on a particular project that has proven useful to man or even as a basis for their entire careers. How so? Literature serves as a way to capture the experiences and fantasies of people such that even if present conditions or historical precedent may deem it impossible for man to achieve such feats as the following, the mere act of writing about it puts people in a mindset that it could actually be achieved even in a fictional situation, which became the inspiration of scientists, mathematicians and engineers to work hard until we were actually able to achieve it in the best science fiction books even if it took us years or decades to do so:

If you are a member of a science fiction book club, you know lots of science fiction books. You compare them and the question of which books are the best come to mind. To give you some ideas on which books are the best, here are some which many science fiction book club members nominate and vote.

The Todd Library of the Waubonsee Community College conducted a best fantasy and best science fiction books 2010 and these are some of the top science fiction vote getters.

I grew up reading science fiction in comic books and watching science fiction films and television shows. Now that I am first year university student taking up an undergraduate degree in computer science, I said to myself that I should make my own list of the best science fiction books of all time and post it in my online blog since my friends are also science fiction enthusiasts and they were also doing the same thing in their blogs.

It was a good thing, that even though I did not bring with my collection of books, the library had a good collection of science fiction books so I could read some of them and state my review or reasons in blog on why a particular book is in my list of the best and most popular books in science fiction.

Science fiction is a literary genre for fiction based on imagined future scientific or technological advances and the resulting major social or environmental changes. Its most frequent works portray space or time travel, interaction with extraterrestrial beings, sophisticated machines with human capabilities and life on other planets.

Science fiction books are ideal books for kids to encourage learning in such subjects as astronomy and physics. Although largely based in astronomy, robots and other scientific truths, the sense of wonder and speculation that comes with it makes science fiction books so enduring. Introducing books for kids with comfortable, familiar narratives, character archetypes and settings makes science fiction books an excellent conduit for stimulating the imagination of young minds.