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  • Science Fiction Book Club Meme

    I have been tagged with this meme by the RamblingLibrarian

    Instructions:

    “Below is a Science Fiction Book Club list most significant SF novels between 1953-2006. The meme part of this works like so: Bold the ones you have read, strike through the ones you read and hated, italicize those you started but never finished and put a star* next to the ones you love.”

    OK, mine as follows:
    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. Le Guin
    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
    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*

    I am tagging Barffie, Nadanut, Jesuafreak, Naeboo and Terz

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    6 Comments

    Posted by
    Hans
    23 November 2006 @ 10pm

    Ahh the thin line between SF and fantasy. How do u even tell both apart


    Posted by
    Ivan Chew
    23 November 2006 @ 11pm

    Holy Atoms and Quarks! Wah Piang, that’s alot of books you’ve read from the list. I saw only 2 books not read. Eh, you didn’t like Starship Troopers by Heinlein? I’d thought that would be good (or did you read the movie screenplay? Now that one sucked!)


    Posted by
    nadnut
    24 November 2006 @ 1am

    who is nadanut? no such person.


    Posted by
    herry
    24 November 2006 @ 10am

    OH….you are a sci-fi freak! Salute!


    Posted by
    naeboo
    24 November 2006 @ 6pm

    im illiterate. im sorry


    Posted by
    barffie
    26 November 2006 @ 3am

    WHAT THE FRAKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!


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