SF book meme

[rabidsamfan]

Bold the ones you've read, strike the ones you hated, italicize the ones you couldn't get through. Asterisks for the ones you loved - more asterisks, more love. Plus signs for the ones you own. Gacked from semyaza.



1. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien ++++ ********
2. The Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov +
3. Dune, Frank Herbert +
4. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein +
5. A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Leguin + *
6. Neuromancer, William Gibson +
7. Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke +
8. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
9. The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley +
10. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury (special note, I love everything else the man has ever written, just not that one)
11. The Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe +
12. A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr +
13. The Caves of Steel, Isaac Asimov +
14. Children of the Atom, Wilmar Shiras
15. Cities in Flight, James Blish +
16. The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett + *******
17. Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison +
18. Deathbird Stories, Harlan Ellison
19. The Demolished Man, Alfred Bester
20. Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany
21. Dragonflight, Anne McCaffrey + **
22. Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card +
23. The First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Stephen R. Donaldson
24. The Forever War, Joe Haldeman +
25. Gateway, Frederik Pohl+
26. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J.K. Rowling + ***
27. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams + ****
28. I Am Legend, Richard Matheson +
29. Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice + *
30. The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin +
31. Little, Big, John Crowley
32. Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
33. The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
34. Mission of Gravity, Hal Clement +
35. More Than Human, Theodore Sturgeon
36. The Rediscovery of Man, Cordwainer Smith
37. On the Beach, Nevil Shute+
38. Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke +
39. Ringworld, Larry Niven +
40. Rogue Moon, Algis Budrys
41. The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien +
42. Slaughterhouse-5, Kurt Vonnegut +
43. Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson +
44. Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner +
45. The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester +
46. Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein +
47. Stormbringer, Michael Moorcock
48. The Sword of Shannara, Terry Brooks
49. Timescape, Gregory Benford +
50. To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip Jose Farmer +

n.b. In my case, if I can't remember how it ended, I put italics, but a lot of those I either read or tried to read a really really really long time ago... And I own a bunch I haven't really started, don't I?

Comments

[semyaza.livejournal.com]

Yes, you do. :D

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

No such thing as too many books. Just not enough time!

[cacopheny.livejournal.com]

They put McCaffrey on here but not McKillip? For shaaaaame. Much better author and every bit as prolific and well-praised....

Ah well. All my favorite authors would never wind up on this list :P

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Considering that most of these books were available when I was in high school and that was decades ago, I think it has a definite slant towards "classics" in the sense of the original author read them when he/she was fifteen...

[lame-pegasus.livejournal.com]

The Sword of Shannara?

*crows with glee*

I read the whole trilogy, absolutely flabbergasted at the extent to which an author is able to copy another one. *snorts*

And I totally agree about McKillip. Read her Harpist-books directly after having read LOTR, and she managed to keep me on the hook from the first to the last page. They are classics (oh dear, was that really thirty years ago?)!