Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 1968

I've read "True Grit" and "Chocky", and possibly "2001" but that was a long time ago. "True Grit" would get my vote, especially for the first half.

PKD 4 Me (Earth as depleted backstreet, where it rains alla time, on junk, some of it running loose, he makes me care, story still developing)

I've only read the SF stuff here, and not all of it: Dick, Le Guin, Clarke, Wyndham, Lem. Le Guin deserves a vote, the first Earthsea book is great but sets the stage for even better things, though I don't know if those are going to show up here as they're not on the wiki 'year in literature' pages. Lem is brilliant, sardonically bleak as noted above, it throws a wrench into the mechanism of typical first contact stories while deftly dealing with physics, psychology, philosophy, politics. Chocky is pretty good fun (or was when I was a kid), the bit where Chocky is a dick about the new car is almost a Lem-like moment for younger readers. (Lem: 'aliens will be incomprehensible'; Wyndham: 'aliens won't like your brand new car'.)

1968: The Year Science Fiction Exploded

I don't know if those are going to show up here as they're not on the wiki 'year in literature' pages

I use the "category: (year) novels" lists, not the year in lit ones.

I want to try and vote for one of the later PKDs but I think it's between that and Nova as the only two I've read (I should pick up The Quest For Christa T. by Christa Wolf as I love Cassandra). PKD it is.

"A Wizard of Earthsea" and "A Fan's Notes" has got to be the starkest contrast yet between novels I really care about appearing in the same year of this poll.

Cancer Ward.

Is Arthur Clarke 2001 a film tie in novelisation or a reissue of the Sentinel tied to the film

It was written concurrently with the film; film and novel are both based on several different Clarke stories, including The Sentinel.

Only a few choices for me, think I'm going for one of the 'read as a kid' ones, probably Chocky.

I should really read House Made of Dawn, as I've taught "The Way to Rainy Mountain" many times and love it more each time I teach it.

House... was Required Reading in an American Studies course I took, and I know or think I know I much enjoyed it, but the PKD forces its way up front in the memory smog, even past Nove.

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Wonder if anyone else would vote for the same thing as me.

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Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 1969