Most Significant SF & Fantasy Book

Michel Ryckx mryc2903 at yahoo.fr
Thu Nov 16 13:48:04 CST 2006


About 30.  No Stanislav Lem, polish (Solaris), no Pierre Boulle (Planet 
of the Apes), french.
Nevil Shute is not really SF, neither is Vonnegut, etc.

And no van Vogt? no Jack Vance?  At least they had real spaceships 
(space yachts!)

Was fun reading all that crap.

Michel.

Monte:
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> 39, testimony to a misspent youth. Note the large proportion from the first
> half of the nominal 50-year span. As someone said recently on James Nicoll's
> LJ, that may simply reflect skittishness about placing laurels on something
> too recent to have built consensus: "Who wants to admit to being president
> of the Flock of Seagulls fan club?"...  
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