📚 Science Fiction

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Imagination with a method: futures, machines, and societies run as thought experiments at novel length.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject science fiction in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
The Gods of Mars	Edgar Rice Burroughs	1918	315
Dune	Frank Herbert	1965	155
The Martian Chronicles	Ray Bradbury	1950	138
2001	Arthur C. Clarke	1968	117
Dune Messiah	Frank Herbert	1969	101
I, Robot	Isaac Asimov	1950	99
Foundation	Isaac Asimov	1951	99
Solaris	Stanisław Lem	1961	86
The Illustrated Man	Ray Bradbury	1951	82
The Martian	Andy Weir	2011	74
Ubik	Philip K. Dick	1969	68
The Day of the Triffids	John Wyndham	1951	63
La planète des singes	Pierre Boulle	1963	61
Starship Troopers	Robert A. Heinlein	1959	60
Contact	Carl Sagan	1985	50
三体	刘慈欣	2008	46
2010, odyssey two	Arthur C. Clarke	1982	41
Snow Crash	Neal Stephenson	1992	41
Xenocide	Orson Scott Card	1991	38
The Chrysalids	John Wyndham	1955	37
Artemis	Andy Weir	2017	34
Have Spacesuit--Will Travel	Robert A. Heinlein	1958	32
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame -- Volume One	Robert Silverberg	1970	31
The Mote in God's Eye	Larry Niven	1974	31
The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 2)	刘慈欣	2008	31
Green Mars	Kim Stanley Robinson	1993	30
The Difference Engine	William Gibson	1990	28
The Diamond Age	Neal Stephenson	1995	28
Altered Carbon	Richard K. Morgan	2002	28
Virtual light	William Gibson	1743	26

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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