Top 100 Science-Fiction, Fantasy Books

[jochen stremmel]

This list is kind of a joke (or better, the readers who made it up
lack reading): 1 if not 2 books by Alfred Bester should be under the
best 10, and John Brunner seems also forgotten.

As if you ask for the 100 best crime novels and nobody mentions THE
MALTESE FALCON.

2011/8/13 Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>:
>
> 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)
>
>>
>> No HPL? Only one PKD? Well ...
>>
>> And "Animal Farm" is, imo, neither Fantasy nor SciFi, yet a (cheap)
>> political parable.
>>
>> 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)
>>
>> On 11.08.2011 23:48, Dave Monroe wrote:
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>>> http://www.npr.org/2011/08/09/139248590/top-100-science-fiction-fantasy-books
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