(urth) Round 2 of NPR top 100 sci-fi books of all time

Antonin Scriabin kierkegaurdian at gmail.com
Wed Aug 3 13:29:30 PDT 2011


http://theorangeview.net/2011/08/nprs-flawed-best-scifi-and-fantasy-poll/


Interesting point about the poll ...

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Boy, that was surprisingly hard. I had to make a list and then cross
> off till I had only 10 left, and I might have chosen a couple of
> others on a different day.
>
> I wound up voting for BotNS (of course), the Chronicles of Thomas
> Covenant (it has its problems but it sparked a revolution in "heroic"
> fantasy), Dhalgren (also of course), Doomsday Book, The Female Man,
> Left Hand of Darkness, the Night's Dawn trilogy, Perdido Street
> Station, and the Sandman.
>
> On another day I might have picked Bridge of Birds, Canticle for
> Liebowitz, or Lord of Light.
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Antonin Scriabin
> <kierkegaurdian at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Already have!  I have to say, some of the books on the list are pretty
> > terrible, and shouldn't be considered for best of anything.  There are
> also
> > some excellent candidates that are missing entirely from the list.  Oh
> well.
> >
> > Also, it looks like you can vote multiple times by simply reloading the
> > page.  Not sure if all the votes count, but it seems like it.
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Jordon Flato <jordonflatourth at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Time to participate in the second round of selection folks.  There are
> >> good choices on the list, and you can select 10.  Only 1 Wolfe that I
> >> noticed (BotNS).  Go and vote!
> >>
> >>
> http://www.npr.org/2011/08/02/138894873/vote-for-top-100-science-fiction-fantasy-titles
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