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Top 100 Science Fiction/Fantasy books
NPR ^ | 8/11/11 | NPR

Posted on 08/11/2011 5:46:33 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith

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I didn't know about this until the list of finalists was printed. Unfortunately, I was busy and didn't get to stop by here and ping the list.
1 posted on 08/11/2011 5:46:40 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith
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Enders Game......ug.


2 posted on 08/11/2011 5:48:08 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (Public employee unions are the barbarian hordes of our time.)
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To: Tanniker Smith; 506trooper; aberaussie; Alberta's Child; AQGeiger; arbee4bush; Ax; Brasil; ...
Book club ping.

Please send Freepmail to get on or off this rarely-used list.

3 posted on 08/11/2011 5:48:17 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith (I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
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I’m sure I can say the same about 4 or 5 others.


4 posted on 08/11/2011 5:49:24 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith (I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
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many of these books are crap, but there are some I don’t know about which may be a nice read.


5 posted on 08/11/2011 5:50:29 PM PDT by dila813
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The Lord of the Rings is #1.

As it should be.

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The Lord Of The Rings

by J.R.R. Tolkien

Tolkien’s seminal three-volume epic chronicles the War of the Ring, in which Frodo the hobbit and his companions set out to destroy the evil Ring of Power and restore peace to Middle-earth. The beloved trilogy still casts a long shadow, having established some of the most familiar and enduring tropes in fantasy literature.


6 posted on 08/11/2011 5:50:49 PM PDT by Immerito (Reading Through the Bible in 90 Days)
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I would have added David Weber’s Honor Harrington series and Robert E. Howard’s Conan series to the list. But I’m not an Asimov fan.


7 posted on 08/11/2011 5:51:54 PM PDT by JMS
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To: Psycho_Bunny
Enders Game......ug.

LOVED the first 2 books in that series, but by the 3rd I just couldn't stay focused on it.

8 posted on 08/11/2011 5:52:28 PM PDT by Longbow1969
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“The Mote in God’s Eye” made 61. I would have rated it higher. And,,,, it would make a great movie series!


9 posted on 08/11/2011 5:54:32 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Tanniker Smith

bump.


10 posted on 08/11/2011 5:54:54 PM PDT by ken21 (ruling class dem + rino progressives -- destroying america for 150 years.)
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Forever War & The Mote in Gods Eye are very good.


11 posted on 08/11/2011 5:56:51 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: dila813

I have read more than half of those...

Like eating candy.


12 posted on 08/11/2011 5:57:10 PM PDT by glasseye
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To: Tanniker Smith

I think the top ten is solid except for the omission of Heinlein and the inclusion of the nihilistic Douglas Adams. Considering it’s NPR, the list is not bad at all.

There are a few eyeroll choices, and the descriptions are very tendentious (Starship Troopers is “controversial” yet man-hating The Handmaid’s Tale isn’t “controversial” at all)


13 posted on 08/11/2011 5:58:05 PM PDT by denydenydeny (Rage all you want, looters & moochers, but the gods of the copybook headings are your masters now.)
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How is Starship Troopers controversial?

Oh ya mean the part where citizens have more rights than the leaches.


14 posted on 08/11/2011 5:59:49 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Psycho_Bunny

I read the first book it was good.


15 posted on 08/11/2011 6:00:22 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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Me too, but about half of the ones I did read were crap.

Science fiction for popular consumption and not the Science Fiction enthusiast.


16 posted on 08/11/2011 6:01:05 PM PDT by dila813
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To: Tanniker Smith

I don’t read that many science fiction books anymore (well like 0) but I’ve read 7 of the top 10.


17 posted on 08/11/2011 6:01:41 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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Number 12

The Wheel Of Time Series

by Robert Jordan

At 13 volumes and counting, this sweeping — some would say sprawling – richly imagined epic chronicles the struggle between servants of the Dark One and those of the champion of light known as the Dragon Reborn.

Would probably be in the top 5 if Jordan would have kept the series at his originally planned 5 books. The first 4 books were some of the best fantasy I've read since Lord of the Rings. Unfortunately, under pressure from his publisher to keep a successful series going, Jordan kept agreeing to extend the storyline, first to 7, then to 10, then to 12 books, he actually died before book 11 and another author has taken over, which I believe the new author has agreed to ANOTHER 3 books. (I gave up after #10.) Unfortunately, Jordan's original story line never changed from his original plan, so most of the content from book 6-10 are essentially "fluff" and the core story moves at a snails pace. To put it into context, Imagine if J.K. Rowlings would have agreed to extend the Harry Potter series from 7 to 14 books. However, the story didn't really change, she just "padded" the original 7 books with pages of detailed descriptions of Hogwarts, dozens of characters that are only vaguely related to the story and many pointless story arcs not remotely related to the main plot.

18 posted on 08/11/2011 6:02:44 PM PDT by apillar
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“The Mote in God’s Eye” made 61. I would have rated it higher. And,,,, it would make a great movie series!

Agreed, Just about the only book I have ever read that really seemed to "get right" just what it might be like when humanity made "first contact" with an alien race.

19 posted on 08/11/2011 6:05:33 PM PDT by apillar
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What an outstanding book.

Nothing by Alfred Bester?

20 posted on 08/11/2011 6:06:29 PM PDT by arkady_renko
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