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

Greg Bates · 03 Aug 2011, 23:29 · from 2011-August.txt.gz

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From: gregory.a.bates at gmail.com (Greg Bates)
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 19:29:57 -0400
Subject: (urth) Round 2 of NPR top 100 sci-fi books of all time
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I didn't see Thomas Covenant, or else I would've taken off ASOIAF and put it
on. I went with TBoTNS, Dhalgren, Dune, The Left Hand of Darkness, VALIS,
Lord of the Rings, Neuromancer, Perdido Street Station, The Prince of
Nothing, and ASOIAF.

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Antonin Scriabin
<kierkegaurdian at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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