BoTNS makes the Guardian's Top 1000

Tim Walters · 23 Jan 2009, 03:24 · from 2009-January.txt.gz

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From: walters at doubtfulpalace.com (Tim Walters)
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:24:59 -0800 (PST)
Subject: (urth) BoTNS makes the Guardian's Top 1000
Message-ID: <30965.198.1232681099.squirrel at o2.hostbaby.com>

The Guardian (UK) has published a list of 1000 "books that everyone should
read," and BoTNS made the SF section:

http://tinyurl.com/dfk9dz

The list is a bit Anglocentric, and (perhaps for that reason) leaves off
some writers (Disch, Crowley, Le Guin) that I would consider to be
no-brainers; but at least most of the books on it are, in fact, quite
good, which isn't always the case with such lists.

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Tim Walters | http://doubtfulpalace.com

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