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

Lane Haygood · 04 Aug 2011, 15:47 · from 2011-August.txt.gz

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From: lhaygood at gmail.com (Lane Haygood)
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 10:47:22 -0500
Subject: (urth) Round 2 of NPR top 100 sci-fi books of all time
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Not necessarily. They are classics. I just couldn't get past the cultural context in which they were written. They felt like a 1940s-50s cop show aboard spaceships. Vaguely, unsettlingly sexist/racist, though probably unintentionally so. 

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