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  • #31
    Originally posted by Ming View Post
    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..

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    • #32
      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.
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      • #33
        Originally posted by snoopy369 View Post
        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.
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        • #34
          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...
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          • #35
            Borders: We don't sell books, we just read them.
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            • #36
              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
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              • #37
                One. Star Wars - The Thrawn Trilogy.



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                • #38
                  Originally posted by snoopy369 View Post
                  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.
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                  • #39
                    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.
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                    • #40
                      Originally posted by Dinner View Post
                      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.
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                      • #41
                        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.
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                        • #42
                          Originally posted by Dinner View Post
                          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.
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                          • #43
                            16.
                            You just wasted six ... no, seven ... seconds of your life reading this sentence.

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                            • #44
                              Originally posted by self biased View Post
                              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.
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                              • #45
                                Originally posted by Dinner View Post
                                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.
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