Top 100 Science-Fiction, Fantasy Books

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Stars in my pocket like grains of sand!
A-and yes, that Ursula LeGuin is fab!
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From: Heikki Raudaskoski <hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi>
Sender: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 15:16:43 
To: pynchon -l<pynchon-l at waste.org>
Subject: Re: Top 100 Science-Fiction, Fantasy Books



The Stars My Destination is the best sci-fi novel imo.


On Sat, 13 Aug 2011, jochen stremmel wrote:

> 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?
> >>
> >> "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:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> http://www.npr.org/2011/08/09/139248590/top-100-science-fiction-fantasy-books
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
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