Great Book of Science Fiction---Yet to be Written?

In our last episode, we encountered Mortimer Adler's definition of what constituted a 'Great Book'. There were three criteria:

TIMELESS: Great Books should be works that are as much of concern to us today as at the time they were written, even if that was centuries ago. They are thus essentially timeless — always contemporary, and not confined to interests that change from time to time or from place to place.INFINITE: The second criterion was their infinite re-readability. Few books are...