| yay. a webmeme that I like.Rules:
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.
*1. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
Great books.
*2. The Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov
Ditto
3. Dune, Frank Herbert
meh. idk. it was alright, I guess
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 Not bad...
10. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
Read it for english class... three times. not too bad
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
The first Discworld book. Not the best, but here's where it started.
17. Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison
18. Deathbird Stories, Harlan Ellison
Actually, I'm not sure if I read these or not. If I did, they can't have been good, or I'd remember them.
19. The Demolished Man, Alfred Bester
20. Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany
*21. Dragonflight, Anne McCaffrey
Good book, but her books later got old, fast.
*22. Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
THE BEST BOOK EVAR!
23. The First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Stephen R. Donaldson Arg. can't get rid of this stupid strike through.
24. The Forever War, Joe Haldeman
25. Gateway, Frederik Pohl
*26. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, J. K. Rowling
The first, and in my opinion, one of the best.
*27. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
Funny, but not worth re-reading.
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 Good book, but you probably wouldn't like it unless you love hard sci-fi
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
Seems good
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 |
