My List of The Best Science Fiction Books of All Time

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.



So my list of the best science fiction books of all time:

• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and A Journey to the Center of the Earth – These two books are the first on my list because my father gave them to me as gifts on my 12th birthday and I became of fan of Jules Verne ever since. Verne was a gifted and prophetic author who described about submarines and diving suits when these things were not yet practically feasible.
• The War of the Worlds – This is the second on my list because I read this book when I was 15 years old and I was blown away by the story and the plot. I just love spaceships, alien invasions, and the war of humanity against aliens with superior technology, but humanity still survives and triumphs against the invading alien force.
• 2001: A Space Odyssey – I read this novel by Stanley Kubrick in my final year in secondary school and the themes of advanced space exploration and travel, artificial intelligence and the story of evolution at the beginning of the novel really made an impact on my love of science fiction. The author's use of surrealism, vague imagery, and symbolism to portray between man and technology represented by the artificial intelligent computer named as HAL 9000.