For more information about this book, you can visit the Yale University Press website which includes its Table of Contents, my introduction, and the author and title indexes.
I also wrote an article about the book for Locus Online which features lists of most frequently quoted works, most frequently quoted authors, and most popular topics. However, I limited the lists to the top fifteen in each category. Presented here for the first time are the complete versions of the lists I compiled, with all works that were quoted at least ten times, all authors who were quoted at least 15 times, and all topics that included at least 25 quotations.
| Most Frequently Quoted Works (10 or more quotations) |
| 1. |
Red Mars (Kim Stanley Robinson) |
37 |
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| 2. |
- The Dispossessed (Ursula K. Le Guin)
- Drowning Towers (George Turner)
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34 |
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| 4. |
Dune (Frank Herbert) |
30 |
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| 5. |
We (Yevgeny Zamiatin) |
28 |
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| 6. |
Pyramids (Terry Pratchett) |
22 |
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| 7. |
The Left Hand of Darkness (Ursula K. Le Guin) |
21 |
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| 8. |
- The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
- Lost Horizon (James Hilton)
- A Canticle for Leibowitz (Walter M. Miller, Jr.)
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20 |
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| 11. |
Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell) |
19 |
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| 12. |
- Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
- Galactic Pot-Healer (Philip K. Dick)
- Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert A. Heinlein)
- Time Enough for Love (Robert A. Heinlein)
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18 |
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| 16. |
The Phantom Tollbooth (Norton Juster) |
17 |
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| 17. |
Neuromancer (William Gibson) |
16 |
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| 18. |
- Stand on Zanzibar (John Brunner)
- The Farthest Shore (Ursula K. Le Guin)
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15 |
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| 20. |
- Naked Lunch (William Burroughs)
- "The Children's Crusade" (Edgar Pangborn)
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14 |
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| 22. |
- A Case of Conscience (James Blish)
- Herland (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)
- Prisoners of Power (Arkady and Boris Strugatsky)
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13 |
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| 25. |
- Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Douglas Adams)
- Looking Backward, 2000-1887 (Edward Bellamy)
- Dawn (Octavia E. Butler)
- The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (Robert A. Heinlein)
- Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
- The Difference Engine (William Gibson and Bruce Sterling)
- Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea (Jules Verne)
- The War of the Worlds (H.G. Wells)
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12 |
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| 33. |
- Life, the Universe and Everything (Douglas Adams)
- Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (Richard Bach)
- The Ganymede Takeover (Philip K. Dick and Ray Nelson)
- Count Zero (William Gibson)
- Macrolife (George Zebrowski)
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11 |
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| 38. |
- The Fountains of Paradise (Arthur C. Clarke)
- Clans of the Alphane Moon (Philip K. Dick)
- Starship Troopers (Robert A. Heinlein)
- Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea (Ursula K. Le Guin)
- The Screwtape Letters (C.S. Lewis)
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10 |
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