At 08:54 AM 8/30/01, Rich wrote:
>I think no list would be complete without Greg Egan's collection
>_Axiomatic_, which seems to me to be the best example of true sf
>published in recent years. Most of the other books I'd include have
>already been mentioned, but Aldous Huxley's _Brave New World_ certainly
>belongs on the list, as probably does David Zindell's "A Requiem for
>Homo Sapiens" series, Al Bester's _The Stars My Destination_, William
>Gibson's _Neuromancer_, Mike Swanwick's _Stations of the Tide_, HG
>Wells' _The Time Machine_, Arthur Clarke's _Childhood's End_, Gene
>Wolfe's _The Book of the New Sun_, Iain Banks' _Use of Weapons_, Ursula
>LeGuin's _The Left Hand of Darkness_, Bruce Sterling's _Schismatrix_...
>
>Oops... how many books are we allowed again?
I'm beginning to wonder if we're going to end up with a list of 100
*authors* each of which is represented by multiple books?
And, BTW, except for a single entry in the Hugo winners list, I don't think
anyone has yet mentioned anything by Larry Niven or Ray Bradbury (although
_Fahrenheit 451_ & _The Martian Chronicles_ were on almost every "best
of/must read" list I've ever seen).
And, though they haven't been mentioned yet, do we want to include short
stories, which some say is the literary form that best represents science
fiction?
--Ronn! :)
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