Top 100 Science-Fiction, Fantasy Books

[James Kyllo]

The books that stand out in my memory are "The Left Hand of Darkness"
and "The Word for World is Forest" (I see there is a novel version of
this - it's the novella, in "Again, Dangerous Visions" that I've
read).  Some of the others don't really transcend their eco-wimmin-sf
genre, but are doubtless still better than the other inhabitant of
that genre which comes to mind - Marge Piercy's "Woman on the Edge of
Time"

J


On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
<lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
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>> 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:
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> Stars in my pocket like grains of sand!
> A-and yes, that Ursula LeGuin is fab!
> Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone, powered by CREDO Mobile.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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
>
>
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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:
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> http://www.npr.org/2011/08/09/139248590/top-100-science-fiction-fantasy-books
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