On 31 May 2004, at 11:06 pm, William T Goodall wrote:
Just to make things even more exciting I have calculated this table using a simple trimmed mean where a single 'best' and a single 'worst' rating are excluded and the remainder averaged. Since I'm throwing away two scores for each book each book has to be rated a minimum of five times rather than three.
There are now 1416 book ratings by 23 users. If you forgot where it was:-
That raised a bit of interest! Now 26 users and 1812 book ratings.
http://books.scattersoft.com
So this was then
So this is the SF top ten...
Hyperion, Dan Simmons 1 Foundation, Isaac Asimov =2 Foundation and Empire, Isaac Asimov =2 Second Foundation, Isaac Asimov =2 Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut =3 The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K Le Guin =3 Dune, Frank Herbert =4 Gateway, Frederik Pohl =4 The Fall of Hyperion, Dan Simmons =4 A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M Miller =5 A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge =5 The Man in the High Castle, Philip K Dick =5 A Fire upon the Deep, Vernor Vinge 6 Ringworld, Larry Niven 7 The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, Robert A Heinlein =8 To Your Scattered Bodies, Go Philip Jose Farmer =8 Blood Music, Greg Bear 9 Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson =10 Startide Rising, David Brin =10 The Reality Dysfunction, Peter F Hamilton =10
And now the newest sf chart incorporating all the latest ratings:-
Hyperion, Dan Simmons 1 The Citadel of the Autarch, Gene Wolfe =2 The Claw of the Conciliator, Gene Wolfe =2 The Shadow of the Torturer, Gene Wolfe =2 The Sword of the Lictor, Gene Wolfe =2 The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K Le Guin 3 Foundation and Empire, Isaac Asimov =4 Gateway, Frederik Pohl =4 Schismatrix, Bruce Sterling =5 Tiger! Tiger!, Alfred Bester =5 Use of Weapons, Iain M Banks 6 A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge 7 Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut 8 The Fall of Hyperion, Dan Simmons =9 To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip Jose Farmer =9 1984, George Orwell =10 Dune, Frank Herbert =10 Neutron Star, Larry Niven =10 Permutation City, Greg Egan =10 Second Foundation, Isaac Asimov =10 The Man in the High Castle, Philip K Dick =10 Way Station, Clifford D Simak =10
The highest rated book by David Brin was _Startide Rising_ which was at #11 in the sf chart.
The top ten Brin sf books on the list were:-
Startide Rising, 1 The Uplift War, 2 Otherness, 3 Earth, 4 Glory Season, 5 Heart of the Comet, 6 Kiln People, 7 Brightness Reef, 8 The Postman, =9 The River of Time, =9 Infinity's Shore, 10
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