That skiffy book meme
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... )
Ian McDonald's list is at http://ianmcdonald.livejournal.com ( Read more... )
OK here are mine
I ca'nt see a way of easily doing that formating here so I have just listed those I have actually read deleted the rest - asterixed those I loved and put hated beside those I hated
Peter Dunn
1. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien*
2. The Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov*
3. Dune, Frank Herbert* one of my top 5
6. Neuromancer, William Gibson
7. Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke *
8. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick*
12. A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr.
13. The Caves of Steel, Isaac Asimov
15. Cities in Flight, James Blish * wonderful stuff
16. The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett
17. Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison
19. The Demolished Man, Alfred Bester
23. The First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Stephen R.
Donaldson *
24. The Forever War, Joe Haldeman*
25. Gateway, Frederik Pohl*
27. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
30. The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin* what about The Dissposessed???
33. The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick _OK but many other PKDs are better
34. Mission of Gravity, Hal Clement
38. Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke *
39. Ringworld, Larry Niven *
41. The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien HATED
42. Slaughterhouse-5, Kurt Vonnegut
44. Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner* One of my top 5
45. The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester
46. Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein *
47. Stormbringer, Michael Moorcock
50. To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip Jose Farmer - never finished - pretty much hated
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