[Tanniker Smith]

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.

[ShadowAce]

After looking through the list, and reading the first 150+ posts, I can't believe no one's mentioned either the "Well World" series or the NecroScope series.

Both are good fantasy.

[DCBryan1]

Wow....what a list. I'd rank DUNE in the top 5, and also add the relatively new book series The Lost Fleet series to it.

[Humbug]

Interesting list but many seem to only be there because of high recognition factor (The Princess Bride, for example) rather than being a truly outstanding work in this category. Of course, that's to be expected with an online vote.

Some of the books i would vote for in a top 20 (let alone a top 100) list that weren't included in the NPR list:

The Golden Age trilogy by John C Wright (of note for Freepers - the author is reputed to be very conservative and it does have a strong conservative current throughout, but that's not why i include this work in my top 20).

Solaris by Lem Stanislaw

Destination Void by Frank Herbert (this doesn't receive high ratings from most readers but i found it fascinating as an exploration of consciousness)

The Dosadi Experiment by Frank Herbert (book 2 in the Whipping Star binary)

Hellstrom's Hive by Frank Herbert (yes i'm a huge Herbert fan)

Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake (book 2 of the Gormenghast trilogy...way too dark for my taste, but i can't deny it's a monumental work in this field)

Hart's Hope / Wyrms by Orson Scott Card (two very good early Card books that are dark but not as dark as Gormenghast)

The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov (i rank this right up there with his original Foundation novels)

[printhead]

Days of Atonement from Walter Jon Williams, Sea and Summer and Brain Child by George Turner are some of my faves.

[GSWarrior]

Haven’t read the list yet, but I am thinking that Tales from the Dying Earth, Ringworld, Mote in Gods Eye, and hopefully a Silverberg book or two—maybe Majipoor Chronicles—will show up.

[GSWarrior]

Some of the most gripping SF I have ever read is Gardner DoZois's short fiction.

George Alec Effinger's Marid Audran series is also very good.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

BTTT

[MNDude]

Hyperion qn Brave new World

[CrazyIvan]

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch.

One of the funniest books I’ve ever read.

[CrazyIvan]

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch.

One of the funniest books I’ve ever read.

[Hoodat]

The Dark Tower series could have made the top ten. But by the sixth book, it became clear that King just wanted to finish it for the sake of finishing it. It completely fell apart by book seven.

There they stood, ranged along the hillsides, met

To view the last of me, a living frame

For one more picture! in a sheet of flame

I saw them and I knew them all. And yet

Dauntless the slug-horn to my lips I set,

And blew "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came."

-Robert Browning-

[yuleeyahoo]

I would have included the following authors:

Andre Norton for the Time Traders or her Solar Queen series.
Keith Laumer for Retief of the CDT
A. Bertram Chandler for John Grimes of the Survey Service.

[dangerdoc]

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