They Say 'Write What You Know'

And we know sci-fi.

Whenever people assemble a list like, '110 Best Books', there are going to be shortcuts a'plenty. The obligation to include certain important authors trumps any ability to do it properly, which leads to statements like this:

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick

Dick's masterpiece questions what it is that distinguishes us as human, as we follow Rick Deckard on his mission to 'retire' recalcitrant androids. Spawned Ridley Scott's Blade Runner.

Nice try, Telegraph, but you are confusing a great film with a decent book. It is far from the top of the PKD heap.

The rest of their sci-fi 'bests' features another inclusivity-induced lapse (can you spot it?):

Neuromancer - William Gibson
2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
Foundation - Isaac Asimov
The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
1984 - George Orwell
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

That's right, it's Foundation, the ultimate bore if there ever were one. Again, the need to include sci-fi giants outweighs the need to pick their best writing.

And where's one of the most obvious contenders of them all? Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is by one of the all-time heavyweights in the field, an archetypal narrative, plus a halfway decent book to boot!