theodosia | SF/F Meme

sineala got ahold of the Locus Magazine's top 100 SF/F books, and since I know I'm going to do quite well on this listing, I thought I'd run through them out of sheer morbid interest in sharing with you all how really geeky I am. Excuse me, a sincerely interested student of the genre....

The suggested key is
Bold = read
italic = started to read
underline = intend to read someday

SciFi novels:
Dune, Frank Herbert
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Robert A. Heinlein
The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin
The Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov
Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein
The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester
A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller Jr
Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke
Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
Hyperion, Dan Simmons
Gateway, Frederik Pohl
The Forever War, Joe Haldeman
More Than Human, Theodore Sturgeon
Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
Neuromancer, William Gibson
Startide Rising, David Brin
The Time Machine, H.G. Wells
The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin
Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner
Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
The Demolished Man, Alfred Bester
The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury
Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein
Downbelow Station, C.J. Cherryh
Ringworld, Larry Niven
2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke
The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
The Mote in God's Eye, Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
Way Station, Clifford D. Simak
Star Maker, Olaf Stapledon
Dying Inside, Robert Silverberg
The City and the Stars, Arthur C. Clarke
Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany
Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke
Mission of Gravity, Hal Clement
City, Clifford D. Simak
Cyteen, C.J. Cherryh
Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes
Double Star, Robert A. Heinlein
Earth Abides, George R. Stewart
The Door Into Summer, Robert A. Heinlein
Last and First Men, Olaf Stapledon
Ubik, Philip K. Dick
Norstrilia, Cordwainer Smith
The Witches of Karres, James H. Schmitz
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
Have Space Suit Will Travel, Robert A. Heinlein
Time Enough for Love, Robert A. Heinlein
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
The Gods Themselves, Isaac Asimov
"Riverworld" series, Philip Jose Farmer

Fantasy novels:
The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
The Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe
"Earthsea" series, Ursula K. Le Guin
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
"Gormenghast" series, Mervyn Peake
The Once and Future King, T.H. White
Little, Big, John Crowley
Nine Princes in Amber, Roger Zelazny
"The First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant", Stephen R. Donaldson
Dragonflight, Anne McCaffrey
"The Belgariad", David Eddings
The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis
The Anubis Gates, Tim Powers
"The Dying Earth" series, Jack Vance
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum
Dracula, Bram Stoker
The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle
The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Stand, Stephen King
Watership Down, Richard Adams
The Riddle-Master of Hed, Patricia A. McKillip
The Worm Ouroboros, E.R. Eddison
Glory Road, Robert A. Heinlein
Mythago Wood, Robert Holdstock
"Alvin Maker" series, Orson Scott Card
A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle
Witch World, Andre Norton
"The Fionavar Tapestry", Guy Gavriel Kay
Deryni Rising, Katherine Kurtz
"Discworld" series, Terry Pratchett
"Elric" series, Michael Moorcock
Replay, Ken Grimwood
Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury
"Fafhrd & Gray Mouser" series, Fritz Leiber
The Incomplete Enchanter, Fletcher Pratt & L. Sprague de Camp

I count 88 books listed (presumably, some are multiple volumes) total. I've read 60 of the listed "books" (SF 38, F 22), have started but abandoned 7 (2 SF, 5 F), intend to read 2 (SF 0, F 2) and have avoided (disliked other things by the author or whatever) 19 (SF 13, F 6). Probably a good deal of analysis could go into what I like or dislike and why, but not tonight....

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Wow. There's a hell of a lot of shit I haven't read...and most of it, I really have no intention of reading, either...and some of it, I just haven't managed to get my hands on it (mostly the things that are book one in a long series/world, and never seem to be in stock at the store/library).

I'm going to have to go through this. I'll post over in my journal--it'll be interesting to see where you and I differ and converge.

Yeah, I'm going to do a lot better on this one than I did on the BBC one.

You were able to stop reading Thomas Covenant 1? My experience was that I pretty much hated every single thing about the books, and yet I couldn't put them down for love or money. Read the second set, too, although the very end of the last book is possibly the only time in my entire life where I actually threw a frelling book across the room out of disgust.

DX, I felt much the same way about the Thomas Covenant series, except that I pried myself away from the second trilogy partway through the first book. I had a truly toxic relationship with that series.

I went through the list myself, and marked the books that I'd not only read, but read multiple times.

(BTW, this is Anne W. under another pseud.)

The only series on that list that made me scream louder than sighting Thomas Covenant was the Alvin Maker books.

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