Most Significant SF & Fantasy Books

[Jasper Fidget]

I'm puzzled by a ranking list that goes alphabetical after #10.  Did
they just get too lazy to judge by then?

On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 13:30 -0800, Dave Monroe wrote:
> The Most Significant SF & Fantasy Books of the Last 50
> Years, 1953-2002
> 
> 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
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