NPR Science Fiction list (or, nerd up!)

[Imran Siddiqui]

A pretty crappy list if you ask me... MANY books on that list wouldn't be in my top 100.

Yet, I've read 79 of them, and didn't finish a few others.

Hmmm..

[snoopy369]

I don't know that it's all that bad of a list. Yeah, you could quibble with some inclusions and some exclusions, but it seems to me that it's fairly representative of the works that define spec fic. I think I only really object to two: WWZ and Wicked, both of which are very good but not really likely to become classics.

[PLATO]

I don't know that it's all that bad of a list. Yeah, you could quibble with some inclusions and some exclusions, but it seems to me that it's fairly representative of the works that define spec fic. I think I only really object to two: WWZ and Wicked, both of which are very good but not really likely to become classics.

With 87, does that make you the nerdiest Apolytoner?

[snoopy369]

Apparently so, though I was surprised Ming (and/or rah) didn't surpass me as I'm missing some works I'm sure they've read. More likely I'm just the most well read Apolytoner due to my 6 years working for Borders...

[Felch]

Borders: We don't sell books, we just read them.

[snoopy369]

Borders' booksellers ran rings around BN's both for sales and knowledge/love of books. However the inventory management was so terrible we never had the books in stock to sell

If you want a "better" list, how about http://www.listchallenges.com/hugo-a...s-1946-2012-in ? 51/64 here, not great and missing some important ones, but at least one of those 13 is the Harry Potter novel

[Sava]

One. Star Wars - The Thrawn Trilogy.



Maybe I read 1984 in school. I can't remember. I may have read "I, Robot" and "Contact". But I can't recall for sure.

[Ming]

Apparently so, though I was surprised Ming (and/or rah) didn't surpass me as I'm missing some works I'm sure they've read. More likely I'm just the most well read Apolytoner due to my 6 years working for Borders...

A little too heavy on the fantasy side... I would do FAR better on a pure SF list.

[Dinner]

I notice they didn't include a lot of book series which each have hundreds of books and likely make up a large proportion of total fantasy & scifi book purchases and which are very commonly read. Things like the hundreds of Star Wars books, the hundreds of Star Trek books, the hundreds of D&D books (including the various non-cannon books which are widely read like E. Gary Gygax's Gord the Rogue series), the Robotech & Battletech books, and so many more I can't name them all.

Those worlds are certainly more popular than 3/4ths of the books which did make the list.

[DinoDoc]

I notice they didn't include a lot of book series which each have hundreds of books and likely make up a large proportion of total fantasy & scifi book purchases and which are very commonly read. Things like the hundreds of Star Wars books, the hundreds of Star Trek books, the hundreds of D&D books (including the various non-cannon books which are widely read like E. Gary Gygax's Gord the Rogue series), the Robotech & Battletech books, and so many more I can't name them all.

Those worlds are certainly more popular than 3/4ths of the books which did make the list.

It pains me to say this but I have to give credit where credit is due:

[rah]

Only 54. I surprised Ming was that much higher than my score since we usually read the same books.
I must admit that some of the covers were so different than the originals that I read that I almost missed a few. (and probably did on a few others)
Snoop's score is quite impressive.

[snoopy369]

I notice they didn't include a lot of book series which each have hundreds of books and likely make up a large proportion of total fantasy & scifi book purchases and which are very commonly read. Things like the hundreds of Star Wars books, the hundreds of Star Trek books, the hundreds of D&D books (including the various non-cannon books which are widely read like E. Gary Gygax's Gord the Rogue series), the Robotech & Battletech books, and so many more I can't name them all.

Those worlds are certainly more popular than 3/4ths of the books which did make the list.

Erm, no. First off, this is not a 'popularity' contest. Second, they did include books from two of those series: Zahn's classic Thrawn trilogy for Star Wars and the classic Drizz't series for D&D. There was even Conan in the list.

[Krill]

16.

[C0ckney]

62.

actually super stoked to see "the mote in god's eye" and "lucifer's hammer" on the list, as well as a healthy amount of Asimov.

i thought that too when i saw the mote in god's eye. it was the first proper sci-fi book i read. i must have been 12 or 13 at the time.

anyway, 37, mostly due to my love of dystopian futures rather than fantasy, of which i've read very little.

[Lorizael]

I notice they didn't include a lot of book series which each have hundreds of books and likely make up a large proportion of total fantasy & scifi book purchases and which are very commonly read. Things like the hundreds of Star Wars books, the hundreds of Star Trek books, the hundreds of D&D books (including the various non-cannon books which are widely read like E. Gary Gygax's Gord the Rogue series), the Robotech & Battletech books, and so many more I can't name them all.

Those worlds are certainly more popular than 3/4ths of the books which did make the list.

Most D&D books have no cannons in them.