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Top Ten Books Every Fan of Classic SF Should Read

And it is yet another Top Ten Tuesday! If you don't know what that is, it's a weekly meme hosted by the creative girls behind  The Broke and the Bookish . Every week, you get to post your own top ten list, based on their suggestions. I tend to break that rule sometimes, and come up with my own topics, but for the most part I stay true to the theme. When it comes to books, I'm mostly an omnivore. But one genre that will always have a special place on my menu (sorry for the bad pun) is good old classic science fiction. Here are my picks for ten books that I think every fan of classic SF should read. 1. The Martian Chronicles , by Ray Bradbury   No science fiction book list is complete without Bradbury's story about the Red Planet and man's desire to conquer it.    2. Caves of Steel , by Isaac Asimov   The first book in the epic Robot/Foundation series that consists of fifteen books (correct me if ...