In 1985, David Pringle wrote an excellent book “science fiction: the 100 best novels”. So what's happened since then? Here's my list of the great SF novels of the last couple of decades.
Helliconia Spring, Helliconia Summer, Helliconia Winter
Consider Phlebas, Use Of Weapons, Player of Games, Against a Dark Background
The Alebraist
Enders Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Enders Shadow
Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive
Idoru, Pattern Recognition
The Difference Engine
Altered Carbon, Broken Angels
Ringworld
The Prestige
Revelation Space, Redemption Ark, Absolution Gap
Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars
Snow Crash, Diamond Age, Cryptonomicon,
Baroque Cycle: Quicksilver, The Confusion, The System of the World
Cadwal Chronicles: Araminta Station, Ecce and old Earth, Throy
This is a first draft - sometime soon I plan to improve this with cover shots, links to amazon, and a few lines on each book. Promise.