Posted on 08/12/2011 5:20:40 PM PDT by DemforBush
More than 5,000 of you nominated. More than 60,000 of you voted. And now the results are in. The winners of NPR's Top 100 Science-Fiction and Fantasy survey are an intriguing mix of classic and contemporary titles...
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Glad to see “Old Man’s War”, by John Scalzi, made the list. This book got me going as a big Scalzi fan. My faviorite of his, not on the list, is “The Android’s Dream”. “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep”, by Philip Dick, did make the list. “Android’s Dream” is a nod to the Philip Dick original as a particular variety of sheep in the story (it gets pretty strange) is called “The Android’s Dream”.
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Only the NPR crowd would put Margaret Atwood on that list.
You knew that an NPR list would never include "The Man in the High Castle."
I didn’t see “Macroscope” by Piers Anthony...this list is BS!
Yeah, that’s definitely one that didn’t make my personal list. Absurd political agenda aside, the book just wasn’t all that well written. Wouldn’t make my top 200, much less the top 25.
17. Stranger In A Strange Land, by Robert Heinlein
nething by Heinlein, I Still feel hopeless, though, thanks, Robert
Glad to see that Robert E. Howard made the list for his Conan stories. I also admire his Solomon Kane stories.
The Passage.
No kidding, Kleon. Where is The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldrich? -- one of the most entertaining novels ever written in any genre.
Almost anything by Phillip K. Dick, Roger Zelazny, Harlan Ellison or Fredrick Poul beats the daylights out of most of the pap in this list. It IS NPR, so whad'ya expect?
I’ve read most of these books, amazingly.
I heartily recommend #26 - Snow Crash. Fun read.
The War of the Worlds deserves much higher billing than #39.
Just a guess: Nightwings. Robert Silverberg
http://www.amazon.com/Nightwings-Robert-Silverberg/dp/0743444744
Thats it! Thanks!
The Forge of God is not on the list.
Glad to see The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, but it should be higher. There should be more Heinlein on there, some of his Boy’s Life books rather than Stranger.
Childhood’s End should be higher.
The Mars Trilogy is an enviro-whacko’s dream.
I hated the Hitchhiker’s Guide, thought is was stupid dreck.
Ender’s Game should be at 1 or 2.
I loved Hal Clements books!
I checked just to make sure that “Stranger In a Strange Land” was on the list.
No Hal Clement. Also no Poul Anderson, no Leigh Brackett, no L Sprague DeCamp, no Gordon Dickson, no Mary Gentle, no Elizabeth Moon, no Edgar Pangborn, no Cordwainer Smith, no David Weber, no John Wyndam.
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