Top 100 Science-Fiction, Fantasy Books

[Mark Kohut]

Le Guin is another one whose major works, cited, i have wanted to read...but haven't.
 
Speaking of Pynchonian themes: 
 
But, not that long ago I did read an anthologized short story I almost cited here for its
pynchonian themes....pre-industrial wholeness of being, village circle walled gardens, a dying language
which, if lost, lost much of their humanity...etc.
 
and feminism as the life source...

From: Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>
To: michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2011 9:48 AM
Subject: Re: Top 100 Science-Fiction, Fantasy Books



> 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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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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