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The Top 10 Sci-Fantasy Books Of All Time! 
I am choosing to abstain this time. The only ones I’ve read, though very good, in my opinion don’t fit both categories: Pern is fantasy, the Honorverse is science fiction, and Dune is science fiction.
Afraid I would have to disagree with you that Pern is pure fantasy. They find the space ships that originally brought people to Pern and 3 are still in orbit. Dragons were created by genetically tinkering with fire lizards. Sounds sci-fi to me! Read DragonsDawn for the story of the colonization of Pern.
More even that what Linda said; all of these are either science fiction or fantasy. The only ones that can even be considered science fantasy if you squint hard enough are Darkover and Riverworld.
This list should include Gene Wolfe’s “Book of the New Sun,” which really is science fantasy, and outstanding as well.
On the plus side, this is the first list ever on this site that didn’t include Heinlein’s “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress”!
Mark, I couldn’t agree with you more. Gene Wolfe needs to be on more lists. He is one of my favorite authors.
I would consider Glory Road the one true Science Fantasy here, considering that it has a sword and sorcery or fantasy aspect to it, while at the same time having some of the usual fantasy tropes grounded in science. Of course, YMMV.
What? No Amber series by Roger Zelazny??
A major discrepancy , along with the Foundation Series .
The Darkover series that got me started on Sf sooo long ago and Pern that was such a good read.
I was up in the attic over the garage the other day checking return air ducts. And to my amazement, I discovered where I had put my sci-fi collection started back in the 1960s. Over 1200 volumes – like I had discovered the motherlode of pirate treasures. Seven of the books on the Best Sci-Fantasy Book are in the boxes!
On top of one box was Hugo Gernsback’s ” Ralph 124C 41+.” I kept it as a model of one of the poorest quality of writing I had ever come across, in spite of the themes that have become staples for succeeding generations of sci-fi writing.
I am enamoured of Carl Sagan’s “Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions… a book is proof that humans are capable of working magic!”
Keep on writing, humans! We need your science fictions and fantasies to show the depth and breadth of the human condition.
I realize this is a bit late but Hamilton’s Nights Dawn series should be in this list. Far future, space travel and the evil dead returning. Sci-fantasy at its best
I’ve also always had a soft spot for Bulmer’s ‘Keys’ alternate dimension series as well as Tubb’s Dumarest series. Wouldn’t consider them the top but certainly worth mentioning. (Had to correct my name.)