Top 100 Science-Fiction, Fantasy Books

Sat Aug 13 09:48:34 CDT 2011

 > A-and yes, that Ursula LeGuin is fab!

Can you elaborate?

Favorite books; what you like about her style and imaginary worlds.

(& since everything connects: Are there parallels between LeGuin and 
Pynchon?)

On 13.08.2011 16:23, michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com wrote:

> 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>
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> Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 15:16:43
> To: pynchon -l<pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Subject: Re: Top 100 Science-Fiction, Fantasy Books
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> The Stars My Destination is the best sci-fi novel imo.
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> On Sat, 13 Aug 2011, jochen stremmel wrote:
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>> 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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>>>>
>>>>
>>>

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