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[kitsune_zen]

Mostly cause I was curious. Although truth to tell, there are a lot of books on this list that flabberghast me, and others that I wonder that they were left off. Who's the arbiter, anyways? Who makes such lists? Rail against the canon-formation!!

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[kniedzw]

Who's the arbiter, anyways? Who makes such lists? Rail against the canon-formation!!

[snip]

...according to the Science Fiction Book Club.
*whistles*

As to canon-formation, I'm sort of for it.

*rimshot*

[kitsune_zen]

That's an organization of individuals who retain their anonymity through being an organization. I know it was this group, but who are they? Why are those people the organizers? Saying its the SFBC doesn't tell me anything.

[kniedzw]

From their FAQ:BOOKSONLINE.com is the premier direct marketer of general interest and specialty book clubs. With more than 8.5 million members, and over 40 book clubs including Book-of-the-Month Club®, The Literary Guild®, Quality Paperback Book Club®, and Doubleday Book Club®. Created in March 2000, BOOKSONLINE.COM is a partnership between Doubleday Direct, Inc. (owned by Bertelsmann Inc.) and Book-of-the-Month Club Holdings LLC (owned by Time Inc., a unit of AOL Time Warner Inc.).
...which is to say that they are The Man.

C'mon. You won't let me be even a little smarmy? Sheesh. :)

[danielmc]

agreed.
so many not on the list that should be and some i must say QUOI?

[anima_mecanique]

Well, to be fair, it's a list of 'most influential' books, not 'best books', and as far as I can tell The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant is considered something of a classic.

I'm not sure by WHO, since I've never met someone who actually finished the damn book, but. It IS famous.

The list seems heavily weighted towards SciFi instead of fantasy to my eyes, also. You'd think Mercedes Lackey WOULD be on there, since she's pretty much the reigning queen of angsty mediocre fantasy that seems to be designed to appeal to teenage girls, which is a pretty enormous genre these days.

At least there's no Terry Goodkind.

[kniedzw]

At least there's no Terry Goodkind.
Amen to that.

[nekomata]

Haha, you even called her Misty. She writes terrible romance now!

[d_c_m]

Rail against the canon-formation!!
Oh yeah....

And the Hugo goes to...

[kaishakunin]

As for who makes these lists, I'm pretty sure it's taken largely from the Hugo awards