(urth) NPR taking suggestions for The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy works of all time

[Daniel Petersen]

By the way, I think it says 'five at a time', not that you can only choose
five.  You can do multiple posts with five recommendations each.

DOJP

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 4:58 AM, Greg Bates <gregory.a.bates at gmail.com>wrote:

> Bah! The more I think about it the more I regret my choices. Five books is
> not enough to cover science fiction AND fantasy, even if series are counted.
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Lane Haygood <lhaygood at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I added Bakker and Vance for you.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Jun 22, 2011, at 8:08 PM, Greg Bates <gregory.a.bates at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> That was incredibly difficult. I wish it was five fantasy and five sci fi.
>> I ended up picking a couple things just because I really liked them and
>> hadn't seen them mentioned (Blindsight, Jurgen), but I had to narrowly
>> excise R. Scott Bakker and Jack Vance.
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Daniel Petersen <<danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com>
>> danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Done.  Cheers for the heads up.
>>>
>>> DOJP
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Jordon Flato <<jordonflatourth at gmail.com>
>>> jordonflatourth at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Time to spam NPR's website folks.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> <http://www.npr.org/2011/06/20/137249678/best-science-fiction-fantasy-books-you-tell-us#commentBlock>
>>>> http://www.npr.org/2011/06/20/137249678/best-science-fiction-fantasy-books-you-tell-us#commentBlock
>>>>
>>>>  In summer, people like to get away. Some visit the beach, others the
>>>>> mountains. But many of us like to go a little further: to Arrakis<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrakis> perhaps,
>>>>> or Earthsea <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthsea> — or maybe a new
>>>>> dimension entirely. Which is to say, we escape into a fat science fiction or
>>>>> fantasy novel.
>>>>>
>>>>> And so, to help you chart any fantastic voyages you might like to take
>>>>> this vacation season, NPR Books is focusing our annual summer readers' poll
>>>>> on science fiction and fantasy (SF/F to insiders). During the coming weeks,
>>>>> your votes will decide the titles that make our top-100 list of the best
>>>>> SF/F novels ever written.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> So, get on it, go over and nominate Book of the New Sun, pronto. So far,
>>>> I'm the only one who has, and that is frickin' criminal.
>>>>
>>>> What are you waiting for??? NOW! NOW!
>>>>
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