ᴥᴕᴥᴥᴕᴥᴥᴕᴥ THE ILX ALL-TIME SPECULATIVE FICTION POLL - NOMINATIONS & DISCUSSION THREAD ᴥᴕᴥᴥᴕᴥᴥᴕᴥ

Thanks!

And sorry for the completely unsubtle hint.

ha no probs, had forgotten about it reckon it should be in the big list.

Plenty of literary stuff, but no Angela Carter. Has she fallen so far?

Also, no Harry Potter!

hp is on there

Oh yeah, wasn't looking at the latest list.

Never retained any important details of any Andre Norton I read besides a vague recollection of the word "Darkover" and the entirety of THE BEASTMASTER, which I think was a bit out of her norm but I liked it very much.

There was a sequel to THE BEASTMASTER, but I don't remember it being as good, or maybe I was just less impressionable by that time.

Lucius Shepard- The Jaguar Hunter, The Ends of the Earth, Life During Wartime
Kim Stanley Robinson- The Wild Shore
Howard Waldrop- All About Strange Monsters of the Recent Past
Connie Willis- Impossible Things

I nominated The Wild Shore as part of the "Three Californias" trilogy, so you get one more.

Here is a list from M. John Harrison: http://ambientehotel.wordpress.com/2009/05/02/some-interesting-science-fiction/

And some additions to it: http://ambientehotel.wordpress.com/2009/05/13/livelier-than-the-average-dragon/

am i too late to use up some of my remaining nominations on the duncton chronicles and the book of silence (each a trilogy) by william horwood?

Always meant to read some of those Horwoods. Hard to come across in U.S. used aisles though. I'm an old Wind-in-the-Willows head and latterday Watership Down zealot...

then i dont hesitate to recommend tho they're significantly darker

Plenty of literary stuff, but no Angela Carter. Has she fallen so far?

Just read her 'Heroes and Villains', the postapocalyptic one, and actually really liked it. But I've already use up all my noms and a fistful of other people's, and that's way more books already than I'll be able to vote for, and I'm already uncertain about which of the precious darlings is going to be abandoned

In my limited Angela Carter experience it seems like her short stories own her novels.

^^^
Completely the case in my experience too.

Most of what I'd written down last week has been put already.

GK Chesterton - The Man who was Thursday
Cynthia Ozick - "Puttermesser and Xanthippe" (part of The Puttermesser Papers)
Stephen King - "The Mist"
Hope Mirrlees - Lud-in-the-mist
A E Van Vogt - Slan (I mean, can't have an SF poll without this. "Fans are slans" etc!)

thoroughly baffled at the respect for that chesterton.

I put LUD-IN-THE-MIST on my reading list like 5 years ago but never actually found it anywhere and then got distracted by a shiny object, I guess. Good reminder!

i have tried to start reading that ~ half a dozen times in the past week and got nowhere, btw

Well, I've had the Gormenghast trilogy under my desk for over a year (I should return that) and got nowhere with IT, either.

Abortions for some, tiny American flags for others.

wrong thread?

What, does no one here watch Futurama?? I must have stumbled on the only thread in all of ILX where that is the case -- ironic that it's the spec fic poll, eh?

i lolled despite not getting the reference tbh

To be honest, I felt a bit unsure whether to nominate Lud. Although it's just five years since I read it, all I can remember at this point is that I enjoyed it a lot. Perhaps not the greatest basis to nominate something, but being a latecomer I find I have nominations to burn in any case.

Can totally understand not liking the Chesterton book -- it's so very silly and religious. The sequence where people reveal who they are is so obvious, but the farce of it is humorous enough for me. The Christianity clearly bothers a lot of people. As luck(?) would have it, I'm too obtuse to be bothered by such things, just having a grand old time with Chesty's fine language and Symes' vigorous romp with the anarchists.

Feel like I should nominate some scandinavian SF, but I don't think I've read any! Always meant to read Karin Boye's _Kallocain_, which is another one of those old dystopian messes.

hmmm to nominate the last of the renshai or not....

As oystein says, more indicative of being late to the party than any real belief in the great quality of the books

Bugger! Have bought Gormenghast, only to find I had actually already bought it about 10 years ago, and never got around to reading it.

THEY'LL MAKE NICE BOOKENDS FOR STUFF YOU'LL ACTUALLY BE ABLE TO WADE THROUGH IMO

holy shit, sorry! i should look up more when typing

ok nominations are closed i will put up a voting thread tomorrow once i figure some things out