what are ppl's thoughts on this list? http://thisrecording.com/today/2010/1/18/in-which-we-count-down-the-100-greatest-science-fiction-or-f.html
― just sayin, Monday, 18 January 2010 22:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Nearly gave up in disgust circa Ayn Rand (I know a few people will see Ender's Game and Stranger In A Strange Land as libertarian nutjobbery too but I'm fairly happy with their inclusion in an SF list) but there are a few things I hadn't heard of there and would like to check out.
Not much modern stuff, which I can't really complain about as there isn't much on my shelves either. Not sure I'd pick several Dan Simmons books as pretty much my only representative of the 00s, though, but I've only read one of them.
― canna kirk (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 18 January 2010 22:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Don't read the stuff anymore.
I'm as extreme a Gene Wolfe fan as there is, but An Evil Guest doesn't belong there. New Sun > Long Sun.
That appalling crap Flatland made it to 43?
No Sheckley, but his pla weak imitator Douglas Adams makes the list? With both of them gone, can't we sort this out finally?
Pale Fire is fantasy?
― alimosina, Monday, 18 January 2010 22:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Just posted this on the comments for that list...
Interesting list and one that I mostly agree with (well except for Ayn Rand), but I'm actually shocked that neither Brunner's Stand On Zanzibar or The Shockwave Rider didn't make the cut. Both have aged remarkably well - if not better than some of the books that are on the list.Since there isn't a single J.G. Ballard book on the list, I'll simply assume that the compiler is insane. The fact that I'm the first commenter to bring up both Brunner and Ballard makes me fear for the future.January 18, 2010 | Chris Barrus
Since there isn't a single J.G. Ballard book on the list, I'll simply assume that the compiler is insane. The fact that I'm the first commenter to bring up both Brunner and Ballard makes me fear for the future.January 18, 2010 | Chris Barrus
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 18 January 2010 23:39 (fourteen years ago) link
In SF Book Club, we have just been assigned Iain M Banks' "Use of Weapons"
For me the recent hits of SF Book Club have been Jules Verne's "Journey to the Centre of the Earth" and China Mieville's "The Scar". Verne's ability to get drama and excitement without having enemies to fight against is very impressive. "The Scar", while not really SF, is an impressive imaginative work.
― The New Dirty Vicar, Thursday, 21 January 2010 15:48 (fourteen years ago) link