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[rivendellrose]

Gacked from pussreboots and andpuff: Sci-fi/Fantasy Book meme!

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. So... strike out the ones you read and hated, or just the ones you hated? Hmm.


The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien*
The Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov
Dune, Frank Herbert
Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein*
A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin
Neuromancer, William Gibson
Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
The Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe
A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr.
The Caves of Steel, Isaac Asimov
Children of the Atom, Wilmar Shiras
Cities in Flight, James Blish
The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett
Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison
Deathbird Stories, Harlan Ellison
The Demolished Man, Alfred Bester
Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany
Dragonflight, Anne McCaffrey
Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
The First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Stephen R. Donaldson
The Forever War, Joe Haldeman
Gateway, Frederik Pohl
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J.K. Rowling
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams*
I Am Legend, Richard Matheson
Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin*
Little, Big, John Crowley
Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
Mission of Gravity, Hal Clement
More Than Human, Theodore Sturgeon
The Rediscovery of Man, Cordwainer Smith
On the Beach, Nevil Shute
Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke
Ringworld, Larry Niven
Rogue Moon, Algis Budrys
The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
Slaughterhouse-5, Kurt Vonnegut
Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner
The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester
Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein
Stormbringer, Michael Moorcock
The Sword of Shannara, Terry Brooks
Timescape, Gregory Benford
To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip Jose Farmer

I have never read anything by Terry Brooks. I just can't make myself. And I disagree with a lot of choices about this list, while still being ashamed that I haven't read more of it. :P

Comments

[beam-oflight.livejournal.com]

7 have been made into films/tv series I have seen :)

I've only read a few but there are plenty which I am meaning to read on there, I just started Rendezvous with Rama last night.

The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester
*laughs*

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

I read most of those so long ago that I barely remember them, honestly... I devoured a lot of random older sci-fi novels when I was in my very early teens, with little to no retention. Alas.

Yeah, my eye keeps catching on that name, too. Lovely homage on JMS's part, but it's going to make me snicker every time I see that name for... oh, probably the rest of my life, honestly. Yay for a good memory for useless details. :P

[aris-tgd.livejournal.com]

The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester

Though it was The Demolished Man which was the real influence on the Psi Corps and the telepaths of the B5 universe. And originally JMS wasn't going to use the first name, too, but pressure... and there's a bit of a fanwanky discussion of it in the first telepath trilogy book.

... Okay, done now. ;)

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

*Laughs* Fanwanky discussion of Bester's name? Wow. That's an especially silly reason for fanwankery.