Of a certain era, perhaps? (but even then...)
I did this quiz on FaceBook - 100 Top Sci Fi Books List Challenge - scoring an above average of 54 -
And then the internet ate my posting of it with snarky comment that the reason for this level of success was that it was largely writers who would have been on the shelves of the local public library at the era when I was reading relatively omnivorously in genre and still developing my taste, which took a quite different turn into writers and works that are conspicuously not on that list.*
I.e. it's retro and includes all of 6 women (though more than 1 book by Ursula Le Guin) - dates of birth ranging from 1797 to 1962 (male dobs are, as I reckon, 1828-1966, but I would guess - I am not going to do the checking - that they mostly cluster during the early-mid C20th).
And very pallid, as well.
Sigh.
*Blessed be the names of Fantast (Medway) and its duplicated mail order catalogue, Dark They Were and Golden Eyed and its later incarnations, Forbidden Planet when it was one cramped store on Denmark Street, Fantasy Inn, Fantasy Centre, New Worlds, etc etc This entry was originally posted at http://oursin.dreamwidth.org/2243628.html. Please comment there using OpenID. View
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