The ongoing project for brin-l listees to rate books based on the
unproved notion that we might have similar tastes :)
There are now 22 active users (who have rated books). There are
another ten users with accounts who have not rated any books.
There are 819 books in the database of which 660 have been rated and
1965 book ratings so far. The site has been updated so as to not
require cookies to work. This should make things a bit easier for
some people.
http://books.scattersoft.com
Anyone who registered before but forgot their password, just contact
me and I'll sort it out. Any suggestions for books to add to the list
(ones you are going to go and rate highly as soon as I add them) can
be emailed to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
So this is the SF top ten...
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
to be included.
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
Gateway
Frederik
Pohl
4
Foundation and Empire
Isaac
Asimov
5=
Schismatrix
Bruce
Sterling
5=
Tiger! Tiger!
Alfred
Bester
5=
A Deepness in the Sky
Vernor
Vinge
6
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt
Vonnegut
7=
Use of Weapons
Iain M
Banks
7=
The Fall of Hyperion
Dan
Simmons
8
1984
George
Orwell
9=
Dune
Frank
Herbert
9=
Neutron Star
Larry
Niven
9=
Permutation City
Greg
Egan
9=
Second Foundation
Isaac
Asimov
9=
The Man in the High Castle
Philip K
Dick
9=
The Robots of Dawn
Isaac
Asimov
9=
Way Station
Clifford D
Simak
9=
Startide Rising
David
Brin
10
The Fantasy top ten using a similar rating scheme except that each
book needs a minimum of 4 ratings to be included rather than 5.
(Because there aren't enough ratings to make a top ten otherwise.)
The Lord of the Rings
J R R
Tolkien
1
The Subtle Knife
Philip
Pullman
2
The Golden Compass
Philip
Pullman
3=
The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe
C S
Lewis
3=
Watership Down
Richard
Adams
4
The Amber Spyglass
Philip
Pullman
5
A Wizard of Earthsea
Ursula K
Le Guin
6=
The Horse and His Boy
C S
Lewis
6=
Nine Princes in Amber
Roger
Zelazny
7=
Prince Caspian
C S
Lewis
7=
The Farthest Shore
Ursula K
Le Guin
7=
The Tombs of Atuan
Ursula K
Le Guin
7=
The Voyage of The Dawn Treader
C S
Lewis
7=
Good Omens
Terry
Pratchett
8
The Last Battle
C S
Lewis
9
The Silver Chair
C S
Lewis
9
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (4)
J K
Rowling
10
The most popular books by David Brin are:
Startide Rising
1
The Uplift War
2
Earth
3
Otherness
4
Kiln People
5
The Postman
6
Heart of the Comet
7=
The River of Time
7=
Glory Season
8
Brightness Reef
9
Infinity's Shore
10
Bubbling under - the highest rated SF books with between 2 and 4 user
ratings (not eligible for the main top ten) are
The Man Who Folded Himself
David
Gerrold
1
Lest Darkness Fall
L Sprague
de Camp
2
A Scanner Darkly
Philip K
Dick
3
334
Thomas M
Disch
4=
Axiomatic
Greg
Egan
4=
Dying Inside
Robert
Silverberg
4=
Dying of the Light
George R R
Martin
4=
Remnant Population
Elizabeth
Moon
4=
The Golden Age
John C
Wright
4=
The Scar
China
Mieville
4=
The Shockwave Rider
John
Brunner
4=
The Vor Game
Lois McMaster
Bujold
4=
Beggars in Spain
Nancy
Kress
5=
Doomsday Book
Connie
Willis
5=
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William T Goodall
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- Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949
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