SFF book meme from wellinghall

[pellegrina]

The top fifty SF & fantasy books (where from? I don't know). Bold the ones you've read, strike the ones you hated, italicize the ones you couldn't get through. Asterisks for the ones you loved - more asterisks, more love. Plus signs for the ones you own. Pellegrina's added rule: question mark if you can't remember if you read/own it...

Comments

[tree_and_leaf]

I've read surprisingly few of these! Though I have read "Cities in Flight" and "The Man in the High Castle".

[anonymous]

Well, one begins by italicising all of the fantasy titles, whilst wondering how SF, a genre written in and about by Kingsley Amis and other worthwhile authors, could get itself tangled up with such embarrassing dross.

[pellegrina]

I invoke Sturgeon's Law :-) But I am mildly surprised that you have at least made one step further in the right direction:
'SF's no good,' they bellow till we're deaf.
'But this looks good.'--- 'Well then, it's not SF.'
Admitting fantasy to the ranks of speculative fiction (or structural fabulation if you want to get seriously snooty about it) would be a step too far!

[wellinghall]

Is this Sturgeon's second law?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law

[tigerfort]

Yes.