Most Popular Science Fiction Books of the 1970s

The Forever War series #1

The Forever War

Joe Haldeman

Science Fiction · Military Science Fiction · Hugo Award · Locus Award · Nebula Award

1974

Heechee Saga #1

Gateway

Frederik Pohl

Science Fiction · Hugo Award · Locus Award · Nebula Award · Prix Apollo

1977

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #1

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams

Science Fiction

1979

Hainish Cycle

The Dispossessed

Ursula K. Le Guin

Science Fiction · Social Science Fiction · Utopia · Hugo Award · Locus Award

1974

A Scanner Darkly

Philip K. Dick

Science Fiction · BSFA Award

1977

The Gods Themselves

Isaac Asimov

Science Fiction · Hugo Award · Locus Award · Nebula Award

1972

Star Wars

Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker

Alan Dean Foster, George Lucas

Science Fiction · Space Opera · Star Wars

1976

The Futurological Congress

Stanislaw Lem

Science Fiction · Translation

1971

The Inverted World

Christopher Priest

Science Fiction · BSFA Award

1974

Rama #1

Rendezvous with Rama

Arthur C. Clarke

Science Fiction · Hard Science Fiction · BSFA Award · Hugo Award · Locus Award

1973

The Wind's Twelve Quarters

Ursula K. Le Guin

Fantasy · Science Fiction · Locus Award · Short Stories

1975

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Robert C. O'Brien

Science Fiction · Young Adult

1971

Ringworld #1

Ringworld

Larry Niven

Science Fiction · Hugo Award · Locus Award · Nebula Award

1970

The Lathe of Heaven

Ursula K. Le Guin

Science Fiction · Locus Award

1971

Of Time and Stars

Arthur C. Clarke

Science Fiction · Short Stories

1972

Oswald Bastable #1

The Warlord of the Air

Michael Moorcock

Science Fiction · Steampunk · Alternate History

1971

Riverworld #1

To Your Scattered Bodies Go

Philip José Farmer

Science Fiction · Hugo Award

1971

The Best of Cordwainer Smith

Cordwainer Smith

Science Fiction · Short Stories

1975

Dreamsnake

Vonda N. McIntyre

Science Fiction · Hugo Award · Locus Award · Nebula Award

1978

The Dancers at the End of Time #1

An Alien Heat

Michael Moorcock

Science Fiction

1972

The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

H. P. Lovecraft

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Weird Fiction · Short Stories

1970

The Stainless Steel Rat #3

The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World

Harry Harrison

Science Fiction

1972

Hard to Be a God

Boris Strugatsky, Arkady Strugatsky

Science Fiction · Translation

1973

The Tales of Viriconium #1

The Pastel City

M. John Harrison

Fantasy · Science Fiction

1971

Elana #1

Enchantress from the Stars

Sylvia Engdahl

Science Fiction · Young Adult

1970

Man Plus

Frederik Pohl

Science Fiction · Nebula Award

1976

Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

Philip K. Dick

Science Fiction

1974

Hainish Cycle

The Word for World Is Forest

Ursula K. Le Guin

Science Fiction

1976

The Fountains of Paradise

Arthur C. Clarke

Science Fiction · Hugo Award · Nebula Award

1979

The Eye of the Heron

Ursula K. Le Guin

Science Fiction

1978

The Dancers at the End of Time #3

The End of All Songs

Michael Moorcock

Science Fiction

1976

The Dancers at the End of Time #2

The Hollow Lands

Michael Moorcock

Science Fiction · British Fantasy Award

1974

The Stainless Steel Rat #2

The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge

Harry Harrison

Science Fiction

1970

Lord Tyger

Philip José Farmer

Science Fiction

1970

The Dragonriders of Pern #2

Dragonquest

Anne McCaffrey

Science Fiction · Dragons

1970

The Harper Hall Trilogy #1

Dragonsong

Anne McCaffrey

Science Fiction · Dragons · Young Adult

1976