Top 100 Science-Fiction, Fantasy Books

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

Another book I miss on this list is "The Possibility of an Island" by 
Michel Houellebecq, who also wrote an illuminating essay on HPL ("H. P. 
Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life").

http://www.houellebecq.info/english.php

(His latest novel - "La Carte et le Territoire" - hasn't been published 
in English yet)

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> No HPL? Only one PKD? Well ...
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> And "Animal Farm" is, imo, neither Fantasy nor SciFi, yet a (cheap) 
> political parable.
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> But while we're at it: Is Ursula Le Guin an author you would 
> recommend? And if so:
> Are "The Dispossessed" and "The Left Hand of Darkness" good books to 
> start with?
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> "The abyss, it seems, had shelving shores of dry land at certain 
> places, but the Old Ones built their new city under water --- no doubt 
> because of its greater certainty of uniform warmth. The depth of the 
> hidden sea appears to have been very great, so that the earth's 
> internal heat could ensure its habitability for an indefinite period. 
> The beings seemed to have no trouble in adapting themselves to 
> part-time --- and eventually, of course, whole-time --- residence 
> under water, since they had never allowed their gill systems to 
> atrophy. There were many sculptures which showed how they had always 
> frequently visited their submarine kinsfolk elsewhere, and how they 
> had habitually bathed on the deep bottom of their great river. The 
> darkness of inner earth could likewise have been no deterrent to a 
> race accustomed to long antarctic nights."
> H.P. Lovecraft: At the Mountains of Madness (online for free at 
> manybooks.net)
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> On 11.08.2011 23:48, Dave Monroe wrote:
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