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Haven’t heard of any of them....
The Ice People
Ringworld
Neuromancer
The Andromeda Strain
Fantastic Voyage
...to name a few.
The only two I’ve read were 1984 and Dune-and the Dune sequels totally sucked-I couldn’t get past the first few chapters.
a scary dystopian novel, I like Ira Levin’s This Perfect Day-I’ve read that about once a year since it came out-and I’m a big Heinlein fan, too.
Great little article, thanks for posting it. I read Dune, loved it and read a couple of the sequels, but I don’t think they really measure up.
Read Gravity’s Rainbow, but I’ll just admit right here I don’t think I really grokked it.
I honestly can’t remember if I read Dahlgren or not, I’m guessing not, but Delaney’s a wonderful writer, very eloquent, really so I should probably try it, maybe again.
Some of the others sound really interesting so perhaps I’ll check them out.
And again, I must say I wonder if I’ll ever get to read “A Canticle for Liebowitz”, it’s time for me to try yet again to get my hands on a copy of that book!
Any list that doesn’t include at least one Heinlien is bogus
I first read Dune when it was publish as series in a scifi magazine mid last century. Never read the book version.
I’d add:
“Rendezvous With Rama” - Aurthur C. Clark
“Ringworld” - Larry Niven
...and since we are talking science fiction, “The Communist Manifesto” qualifies.
“The Variable man” is a great short story by Phillip K Dick.
Thank God they Left Stranger in a Strange Land off the list.
Gravity’s Rainbow, like all of Pynchon, sucks.
Pretentious pseudo-intellectual dreck.
Pseudo-intellectuals love to pretend they read it and enjoyed it.
Pynchon is the T. Coraghessan Boyle of SF.
Cryptonomicon is really a masterpiece.
Dune was the best book Herbert wrote.
Foundation is Asimov love it or hate it. I love it.
I read all of Jonathan Strange et al. Kept expecting it to get good—never did.
1984. Prescient; only off by a few decades.
Never heard of the rest. Will look them up. I love old school and hardcore SF.
I’ve read:
Dune
1984
The Long Tomorrow
Foundation provides useful insights into the mindset of social engineers and technocrats.
Others that every Science Fiction reader should own...
The Mote in God’s Eye (A must for “hard” SF readers)
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
A Canticle for Lebowitz.
Forever war (Yes, liberal as hell, but a great book)
The Martian Chronicles
On The Beach (Again, liberal)
Atlas Shrugged
A Clockwork Orange
Rendezvous with Rama
Enders Game
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Brave New World
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell is a new show on BBC America that started a few weeks ago. It looked interesting from the few commercials I’ve seen, but haven’t watched it.
Crighton needs to be somewhere on the list. ? Timeline? or one of his others....
I rank Foundation (+Foundation and Empire, +Second Foundation) with the Lens series, which should have been listed. The Lens series came up second only to Asimov’s Foundation trilogy for the Hugo award for best all time series.
Bill the Galctic Hero, by Harry Harrison
Clockwork Orange
Brave New World is appropriate now in light of Planned Parenthood
work on humans and genetic engineering.