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tinman0

That skiffy book meme

Nov 19, 2006 12:25

This is the Science Fiction Book Club's list of the fifty most significant science fiction/fantasy novels published between 1953 and 2002. Bold the ones you've read, strike-out the ones you hated, italicize those you started but never finished and put an asterisk beside the ones you loved.

Ian McDonald's list is at http://ianmcdonald.livejournal.com ( Read more... )

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And here is my list - Peter Dunn anonymous November 20 2006, 09:30:03 UTC

OK here are mine ( ... )

anonymous November 20 2006, 09:47:37 UTC

Reasonably accurate list - but would have included Voyage of the Space Beagle by van Vogt. Very influential space opera (lifted lock stock and barrel by the writers of 'Alien') and still a cracking read.

1. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
2. The Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov*
3. Dune, Frank Herbert*
4. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein
5. A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin*
6. Neuromancer, William Gibson
7. Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke
8. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick*
9. The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
10. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
11. The Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe* (yes - I've managed to finish this one - worth the slog)
12. A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr.
13. The Caves of Steel, Isaac Asimov
14. Children of the Atom, Wilmar Shiras
15. Cities in Flight, James Blish
16. The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett
17. Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison
18. Deathbird Stories, Harlan Ellison
19. The Demolished Man, Alfred Bester20. Dhalgren, ( ... )