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I'd like to be in on at least some of this discussion.
I would also like to propose that some of the titles previously mentioned, and some others yet to be added, be shifted into a category of "Alternate Histories;" this might include books like Gibson's The Difference Engine, but also things like Philip K. Dick'sThe Man In The High Castle, and a crapload of books by Harry Turtledove, including the Worldwar tetralogy, The Guns of the South, and Crosstime Trafficthe "Timeline-191" books; as well as books like Robert Harris' Fatherland, and perhaps Nabokov's Ada, Chabon's Yiddish Policeman's Union, and Roth's The Plot Against America.
BTW, though I love his work fervently, I would not include Tolkien as Science Fiction: I would classify him strictly as Fantasy fiction. Which is also why I haven't suggested Clarke's Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, though it is a fascinating alternate history.
Also btw, when it comes to the Dune books, I agree with Willravel, although I'd include God Emperor, and read it as a tetralogy.
Good idea for a discussion group, though! Sounds like fun!
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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