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Poul Anderson

His novels of the Time Patrol are excellent.

	The Shield of Time
	Annals of the Time Patrol

Isaac Asimov

Best known for his robot novels and his development of the "Laws of Robotics". His Foundation novels eventually integrate all of his robot novels and his entire future history into a single monumental epic. Other authors have written in the universe he created.

	I, Robot
	The Naked Sun
	Foundation
	Foundation and Empire
	The Second Foundation
	Prelude to Foundation

Leigh Brackett

	The Starmen of Llyrdis
	The Long Tomorrow
	The Sword of Rhiannon

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Her Darkover series is a science fiction classic.

John Brunner

	The Whole Man
	Stand on Zanzibar

Arthur C. Clarke

	The Sentinel
	Childhood's End

Mark Clifton

Eight Keys to Eden

Harry Harrison

The Stainless Steel Rat, "Slippery Jim" diGriz is a thoroughly likeable scoundrel and the stories are great fun.

	The Stainless Steel Rat
	A Stainless Steel Rat is Born
	The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted
	The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You!
	The Stainless Steel Rat for President

"To the Stars" trilogy

	Homeworld
	Wheelworld
	Starworld

Robert A. Heinlein

	Stranger in a Strange Land
	The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
	Glory Road
	Starship Troopers
	The Day After Tomorrow
	Beyond This Horizon
	Citizen of the Galaxy
	Double Star
	Job: A Comedy of Justice
	The Door Into Summer
	The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag
	Assignment in Eternity
	I Will Fear No Evil

The Howard Families

These novels tell the story of Lazarus Long, head of the Howard Families and the oldest man alive. His latest books tie all of his novels together into a sort of solipsistic "we make it all up" universe.

	Methusela's Children
	Time Enough For Love
	The Number of the Beast
	The Cat Who Walked Through Walls
	To Sail Beyond the Sunset

Juvenile

	Starman Jones
	Red Planet
	Podkane of Mars
	Between Planets
	Have Spacesuit, Will Travel
	The Rolling Stones

Keith Laumer

His Bolo stories about intelligent battle tanks are interesting. Some of his time travel stories are excellent.

	Bolo
	Rouge Bolo
	Zone Yellow
	Worlds of the Imperium
	The Great Time Machine Hoax
	Timetracks
	The Infinite Cage
	The Star Treasure
	Once There Was a Giant

Retief

Retief is a "diplomat" who doesn't play by the rules -- he actually accomplishes things. The spoof of bureaucracy and protocol is delightful.

Retief in the Ruins

Andre Norton

Andre Norton writes some of the greatest stories involving psychic interaction with animals ever done.

Storm Over Warlock

Witchworld

	Witch World
	Web of the Witch World

Time Agents

	Key Out of Time
	The Defiant Agents

Alan E. Nourse

	The Mercy Man
	The Counterfeit Man

Don Pendelton

The God Makers

Steve Perry

The Matador series is an excellent martial arts / science fiction series about one man who decides to change the course of history.

	The Man Who Never Missed
	Matadora
	The Machiavelli Interface
	The Albino Knife
	Black Steel
	Brother Death
	The 97th Step
	The Omega Cage

Eric Frank Russell

	Sentinels from Space
	Wasp

Clifford D. Simak

	Ring Around the Sun
	Time is the Simplest Thing
	Time & Again
	City

E. E. Doc Smith

The Lensmen series is a classic in science fiction. Some reviewers find it simplistic and naive, but it is great space opera.

	Triplanetary
	Galactic Patrol
	Grey Lensmen
	Second Stage Lensmen
	Children of the Lens
	Masters of the Vortex

The Skylark series is not as good, but still excellent reading

	Skylark
	Skylark Duquesne

A. E. van Vogt

	Voyage of the Space Beagle
	Mission to the Stars
	Children of Tomorrow
	Weapon Shops of Isher
	The Weapon Makers
	The Universe Maker
	The Silkie
	Quest for the Future
	The War Against the Rull
	Null-A
	The World of Null-A
	The Far Out Worlds of A. E. van Vogt
	Empire of the Atom
	Children of the Atom

Jack Vance

The Augmented Agent

Manly Wade Wellman

His short stories are few but very entertaining.

	John the Balladeer
	The Beyonders

Jack Williamson

	The Humanoids
	People Machines