Here are some of my favorites

These are some of my favorite short story collections . . .

Angry Candy - Harlan Ellison
The Living Demons – Robert Boch
The Wind From The Sun – Arthur Clarke
Dark Companions – Ramsey Campbell
Wormwood – Poppy Brite
Out of the Everywhere – James Tiptree
Fire Watch – Connie Willis
The October Country – Ray Bradbuy
Tales of Pain and Wonder – Caitlin Kiernan

Jimmy:
Stars My Destination!!!! Yes!
City, They Walked Like Men - Simak
Flowers for Algernon
Little Fuzzy
The War Against The Rull, Slan - VanVogt
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Stranger in a Strange Land, Time Enough for Love - Heinlein
Dune - Herbert
Childhood's End - Clarke

Many more, can't remember them all.

Wow! These are some excellent examples of what makes sf great. Most of these would be on my list also.

A few others of the top of my head, more recent:

The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
Aristoi - Walter Jon Williams
Neuromancer, Count Zero, etc. - William Gibson
To Hold Infinity, Paradox, Context - John Meaney
Revelation Space - Alastair Reynolds


Not anywhere near my library (or my brain) at the moment. Might have to add to this later.

Phillip Jose Farmer- Flesh, Dare, A Woman a Day
Kurt Vonnegut- Player Piano, Galopagos
Spider Robinson- Stardance
Stephen Goldin- Scavenger Hunt (oh how I love schlocky 70s SF)
Robert J. Sawyer- Calculating God, Frameshift
Tim Powers- The Anubis Gates, Expiration Date
Jimmy-Jam Blaylock- Lord Kelvin's Machine

Chris

Lucifer's Hammer - Niven & Pournell
Armor - John Steakley
The Mote in God's Eye - Niven & Pournell
None But Man - Gordon R. Dickson
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert A. Heinlein
Coyote Blue - Christopher Moore
Watchmen - Alan Moore
THhGttG by Douglas Adams
Moon heart - Charles de Lint
The Integral Trees - Larry Niven
Have Spacesuit-Will Travel - Robert A. Heinlein
Midnight at the Well of Souls - Jack L. Chalker
The Xanth Series - Piers Anthony
On a Pale Horse - Piers Anthony
The Magic Goes Away - Larry Niven
Little Fuzzy - Piper
The Forever War - Haldiman
The Unteleported Man
Ringworld - Larry Niven
On Stranger Tides - Tim Powers
The Anubis Gates - Tim Powers
Citizen of the Galaxy - by Robert A. Heinlein
Glory Road - Robert A. Heinlein
Starship Troopers - Robert A. Heinlein
Fallen Angels - Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Michael Flynn
Flatlander - Larry Niven
Protector - Larry Niven
The Door into Summer - Robert A. Heinlein

perhaps my most hated book
Beowulf's Children - Steven Barnes, Jerry Pournelle, Larry Niven
well written, great story, engaging charicters... hate it.

My favorites:

The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
The Demolished Man also by Bester
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller (anyone read the sequel Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Women??)
Angry Candy by Harlan Ellison
Slippage also by Ellison
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
The Cornelius Quartet by Michael Moorcock
Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
Hothouse by Brian W. Aldiss

Looking forward to buying the ff. books to add to my collection

The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
Gloriana also by Moorcock
The Iron Council also by Mieville
Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
Do Androids also Dream about Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

A couple of years ago, when I was trying to reintroduce myself to Science Fiction/Fantasy literature, I found a fantastic website, www.banditos.com, which was started by two Northwestern University students. The site is no longer maintained, but is still available. I have probably read 20 of their recommended readings, and I have been rejuvenated to this genre.

Check it out.