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SF & Fantasy books important to you --
Mar. 28th, 2007 07:49 pmMy turn for the sf/f book meme that's going around. I pinched this from AT Campbell.
Below is a list of the 50 most significant science fiction/fantasy novels, 1953-2002, according to the Science Fiction Book Club. You're supposed to 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.
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Of course, there are authors I feel have been neglected in this list, like McKillip, or Miller & Lee, or Tepper (GRASS is in my top twenty SF books ever!) But tell me -- are there seminal books that you have missed, simply because you hated other books from that author? Or own but still haven't read? I have several Delaneys, but haven't read them. (Something that comes to mind is HOW LATE THE SWEET BIRDS SANG. I was going to read all the Hugo winners -- but something about the subject of this book held me off. Perhaps because I have no biological children, and we don't really have a good way yet to store DNA for cloning. I'm still carrying it around...)
Below is a list of the 50 most significant science fiction/fantasy novels, 1953-2002, according to the Science Fiction Book Club. You're supposed to 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.
( Read more... )
Of course, there are authors I feel have been neglected in this list, like McKillip, or Miller & Lee, or Tepper (GRASS is in my top twenty SF books ever!) But tell me -- are there seminal books that you have missed, simply because you hated other books from that author? Or own but still haven't read? I have several Delaneys, but haven't read them. (Something that comes to mind is HOW LATE THE SWEET BIRDS SANG. I was going to read all the Hugo winners -- but something about the subject of this book held me off. Perhaps because I have no biological children, and we don't really have a good way yet to store DNA for cloning. I'm still carrying it around...)
