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

David Duffy · 04 Aug 2011, 22:52 · from 2011-August.txt.gz

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From: davidD at qimr.edu.au (David Duffy)
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 08:52:06 +1000 (EST)
Subject: (urth) Round 2 of NPR top 100 sci-fi books of all time
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On Thu, 4 Aug 2011, Jerry Friedman wrote:

> /The Worm Ouroboros/ strikes me as as doing a set of cliches as well as they can
> be done, with an unexpected turn to horror leaving a bad taste in my mouth.

I think that it is supposed to be a happy ending, actually ;)

About the top-10 list, I overlap with everyone else, except I included
_The Last Unicorn_
_Riddley Walker_

I think there should be "10 most fun books", as well as "10 most 
significant books".  I wanted to vote for _The Cyberiad_, any Robert 
Sheckley...


Cheers, David Duffy.

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