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Dave
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tchernabyelo
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| Posted 7/4/2008 7:19 AM (GMT -4) | | I've read 11 of those.
Not, if I'm to be honest, a very good list in representational terms, with multiple entries from a few authors (how can someone have three William Gibsons yet pay no heed the the man who wrote cyberpunk before most people even knew what a computer was - Alfred Bester? how can someone possibly consider "Animal Farm" as "Science Fiction?) and vast swathes of the genre and its history utterly ignored (Where's Harlan Ellison? Where's Ursula Le Guin? Where's Samuel R Delany?).
But there are some very very good books on there. I imagine Charles Stross will be particularly pleased to appear on the list amongst many of the great names of the past century-and-a-bit.
Brian Dolton
Land Of Wind And Ghosts stories:
"The Box Of Beautiful Things" - IGMS#3
"The Man Who Was Never Afraid" - Abyss and Apex #20
"At Blue Crane Falls" - Abyss and Apex #25 "Where No Wind Blows" - Staffs & Starships #2
"The Gray World" - Every Day Fiction (June 1st 2008) "What The Sea Refuses" - Black Gate (forthcoming)
"What The Heart Bears" - Black Gate (forthcoming)
"Above The Clouds" - Paper Blossoms, Sharpened Steel (forthcoming)
"Three Out Of Four" - Sorcerous Signals Feb-Apr 08
"The Dragon Path" - Fictitious Force #5
"The Last Arrow Of Liang Xi" - Darwin's Evolutions (forthcoming)
Stories in other settings:
"The Unicorn Hunter" - OG's Speculative Fiction #8
"Call Centre" - Necrotic Tissue #1
"When Winter Came" - ASIM #32
"Cold Fire" - Flashing Swords #9, The Age Of Blood And Snow (forthcoming)
"St. Saviour And The Devil's Dandy" - Flashing Swords (forthcoming)
"In This City" - Fantasy Magazine (forthcoming)
"If We Were Briar Roses" - Every Day Fiction (forthcoming) | | Back to Top | | |
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SJHigbee
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Date Joined Mar 2008
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| Posted 7/4/2008 2:01 PM (GMT -4) | | Hm... I can see this one could run and run. But I'm in agreement with Brian on this one - if you only have 32 (and why not 42, or 52??) MUST READ science fiction books - going for more than 1 from an author seems perverse. Other huge names left out... Brian Aldiss, Stephen Baxter, Greg Bear, John Wyndham, Kim Stanley Robinson - and what about some women??? The likes of Pat Cadigan, Nancy Kress, Julian May, C.J. Cherryh, Lois McMaster Bujold, Mary Gentle, Connie Willis... I could go on...
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Jared Evers
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| Posted 7/4/2008 3:35 PM (GMT -4) | | | A decent list, but with some favortism toward certain authors. Not that they don't deserve to be singled out, but there are plenty of authors who deserve the same. Though I do think that, instead of Ringworld, The Mote In God's Eye should've been Niven's (and Pournelle's) contribution to the list. | | Back to Top | | |
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