- 100. The Word For World Is Forest by Ursula K. LeGuin
- 99. Sorcerer's Son by Phyllis Eisenstein
- 98. Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress
- 97. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
- 96. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
- 95. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
- 94. The Company by K.J. Parker
- 93. An Evil Guest by Gene Wolfe
- 92. Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
- 91. Dhalgren by Samuel Delany
- 90. Camp Concentration by Thomas Disch
- 89. Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner
- 88. Song of Kali by Dan Simmons
- 87. Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
- 86. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller
- 85. Sphere by Michael Crichton
- 84. Fevre Dream by George R.R. Martin
- 83. The Alteration by Kingsley Amis
- 82. The Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey
- 81. The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers
- 80. Watership Down by Richard Adams
- 79. Griffin's Egg by Michael Swanwick
- 78. Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan
- 77. Free Live Free by Gene Wolfe
- 76. Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
- 75. Ringworld by Larry Niven
- 74. Schismatrix by Bruce Sterling
- 73. Old Man's War by John Scalzi
- 72. Maske: Thaery by Jack Vance
- 71. The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
- 70. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
- 69. Flow My Tears The Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick
- 68. The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov
- 67. The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
- 66. The High Crusade by Poul Anderson
- 65. A Song for Lya by George R.R. Martin
- 64. At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
- 63. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
- 62. Wildlife by James Patrick Kelly
- 61. The Book of Knights by Yves Maynard
- 60. The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan
- 59. Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman
- 58. Nightwings by Robert Silverberg
- 57. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
- 56. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
- 55. Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
- 54. The Book of the Short Sun by Gene Wolfe
- 53. The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
- 52. Foundation by Isaac Asimov
- 51. The Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin
- 50. The Wizard Knight by Gene Wolfe
- 49. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
- 48. The Demon Princes by Jack Vance
- 47. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
- 46. The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson
- 45. Alastor by Jack Vance
- 44. The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
- 43. Flatland by Edwin Abbott
- 42. Farmer in the Sky by Robert Heinlein
- 41. A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
- 40. Animal Farm by George Orwell
- 39. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- 38. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
- 37. Lyonesse by Jack Vance
- 36. Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
- 35. True Names by Vernor Vinge
- 34. Ubik by Philip K. Dick
- 33. The Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons
- 32. Citizen of the Galaxy by Robert Heinlein
- 31. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
- 30. A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge
- 29. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
- 28. More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon
- 27. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- 26. 1984 by George Orwell
- 25. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
- 24. The Cadwal Chronicles by Jack Vance
- 23. Lost Horizon by James Hilton
- 22. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- 21. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
- 20. The Fifth Head of Cerebus by Gene Wolfe
- 19. A Song of Ice And Fire by George R.R. Martin
- 18. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
- 17. The Fionavar Tapestry by Guy Gavriel Kay
- 16. The Master and the Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
- 15. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
- 14. All My Sins Remembered by Joe Haldeman
- 13. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
- 12. Planet of Adventure by Jack Vance
- 11. Dune by Frank Herbert
- 10. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
- 9. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
- 8. The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
- 7. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- 6. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- 5. Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
- 4. The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin
- 3. The Dying Earth by Jack Vance
- 2. The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein
- 1. The Book of the Long Sun by Gene Wolfe
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Somebody's top 100 SF list
From here; I made some effort to clean up the html. Somebody explain what Ayn Rand is doing here.
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Considering the prevalence of Heinlein (The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress as number 2? Really?), it's a wonder that Rand wasn't higher on this guy's list.
(Card as a person fits in a similar vein, but it didn't really show up in Ender's Game or Speaker for the Dead (barring shades of techno-utopianism which are almost omnipresent in some sci-fi styles). The books he writes that are more openly libertarian, i.e. Empire, are nowhere near as good.)
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