Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Top 100 Sci-Fi meme

This is a top 100 Sci-Fi list, which can be found here. I know Celeste will probably win this one, lol, though I would put even odds on Anna winning, except they seem to be very strictly in the Sci-Fi category and have a bias against stuff that leans more towards Fantasy (e.g. is there any Piers Anthony on here at all?). Anyway, copy it, bold the ones you've read!

  1. Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
  2. Frank Herbert, Dune
  3. Isaac Asimov, Foundation
  4. Douglas Adams, Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  5. George Orwell, 1984
  6. Robert A Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
  7. Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
  8. Arthur C Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey
  9. Isaac Asimov, I, Robot
  10. William Gibson, Neuromancer
  11. Robert A Heinlein, Starship Troopers
  12. Larry Niven, Ringworld
  13. Philip K Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
  14. Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
  15. Arthur C Clarke, Rendezvous With Rama
  16. H G Wells, The Time Machine
  17. Robert A Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
  18. Arthur C Clarke, Childhood's End
  19. Dan Simmons, Hyperion
  20. H G Wells, The War of the Worlds
  21. Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
  22. Joe Haldeman, The Forever War
  23. Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
  24. Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
  25. Niven & Pournelle, The Mote in God's Eye
  26. Ursula K Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
  27. Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead
  28. Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel
  29. Philip K Dick, The Man in the High Castle
  30. Frederik Pohl, Gateway
  31. Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park
  32. Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle In Time
  33. Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
  34. Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light
  35. Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination
  36. Stanislaw Lem, Solaris
  37. Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
  38. Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
  39. Robert A Heinlein, Time Enough For Love
  40. Carl Sagan, Contact
  41. Isaac Asimov, The Gods Themselves
  42. Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
  43. John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids
  44. Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
  45. Michael Crichton, The Andromeda Strain
  46. Philip K Dick, UBIK
  47. Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep
  48. Isaac Asimov, The End Of Eternity
  49. Walter M Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz
  50. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
  51. Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars
  52. Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age
  53. Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
  54. L Ron Hubbard, Battlefield Earth
  55. Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth
  56. Iain M Banks, Player Of Games
  57. Niven & Pournelle, Lucifer's Hammer
  58. Ursula K Le Guin, The Dispossessed
  59. Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow
  60. David Brin, Startide Rising
  61. Greg Bear, Eon
  62. Peter F Hamilton, The Reality Dysfunction
  63. Philip Jose Farmer, To Your Scattered Bodies Go
  64. Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man
  65. Harry Harrison, The Stainless Steel Rat
  66. Gene Wolfe, The Shadow of the Torturer
  67. Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
  68. Arthur C Clarke, The City and the Stars
  69. Philip K Dick, The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch
  70. Robert A Heinlein, The Door Into Summer
  71. Connie Willis, Doomsday Book
  72. Robert A Heinlein, Citizen Of the Galaxy
  73. Philip K Dick, A Scanner Darkly
  74. Robert A Heinlein, The Puppet Masters
  75. Robert A Heinlein, Have Space-Suit - Will Travel
  76. C S Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet
  77. Clifford Simak, Way Station
  78. John Wyndham, The Chrysalids
  79. Ursula K Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
  80. Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars
  81. H G Wells, The Invisible Man
  82. Julian May, The Many-Colored Land
  83. Dan Simmons, Ilium
  84. Iain M Banks, Use of Weapons
  85. E E 'Doc' Smith, Grey Lensman
  86. William Gibson, Burning Chrome
  87. Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in KA's Court
  88. Michael Crichton, Sphere
  89. Alastair Reynolds, Revelation Space
  90. David Brin, The Postman
  91. Clifford Simak, City
  92. Arthur C Clarke, The Fountains of Paradise
  93. John Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar
  94. Edwin A Abbott, Flatland
  95. Philip K Dick, VALIS
  96. Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human
  97. Greg Bear, Blood Music
  98. Stanislaw Lem, The Cyberiad
  99. James Blish, Cities in Flight
  100. David Brin, The Uplift War

Yikes, 11 out of 100 for me. I actually really love Sci-Fi, though you wouldn't know it from this list. I just have a tendency to pick up whatever crap I find in used book stores indiscrimintely. So I probably read quite a bit of Sci-Fi that Sci-Fi experts would consider trash. I have quite a few of these in my to read stack and haven't got to them yet, and I know I read one other Heinlen book besides Starship Troopers, but can't remember which one, lol.

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