This Blog's First Meme
I picked up this meme, it might be a little stale, but it is a cool idea:
This is a list of the 50 "most significant" science fiction/fantasy novels, 1953-2002, according to the Science Fiction Book Club. 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.
  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*
 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 Bester*
 20. Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany
 21. Dragonflight, Anne McCaffrey
 22. Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
 23. The First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Stephen R. Donaldson (couldn't get much into book #2)
 24. The Forever War, Joe Haldeman
 25. Gateway, Frederik Pohl
 26. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J.K. Rowling
 27. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams*
 28. I Am Legend, Richard Matheson*
 29. Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
 30. The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin
 31. Little, Big, John Crowley
 32. Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
 33. The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
 34. Mission of Gravity, Hal Clement
 35. More Than Human, Theodore Sturgeon
 36. The Rediscovery of Man, Cordwainer Smith
 37. On the Beach, Nevil Shute
 38. Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke
 39. Ringworld, Larry Niven*
 40. Rogue Moon, Algis Budrys
 41. The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
 42. Slaughterhouse-5, Kurt Vonnegut
 43. Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson*
 44. Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner*
 45. The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester
 46. Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein
 47. Stormbringer, Michael Moorcock
 48. The Sword of Shannara, Terry Brooks
 49. Timescape, Gregory Benford
 50. To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip Jose Farmer*
I'm a great Heinlein fan, but somehow I just haven't gotten to his two books on this list.

 
 
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1 comments:
Have you read Crowley's "Beasts"?
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