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

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