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Antonin Scriabin · 11 Aug 2011, 15:16 · from 2011-August.txt.gz

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From: kierkegaurdian at gmail.com (Antonin Scriabin)
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 11:16:48 -0400
Subject: (urth) NPR Results
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I agree about the gulags!

Anyways, this list is especially embarrassing since NPR listeners have a
(vague) reputation for being intellectuals, and a cut above the typical
reader.  Guess not.  I see a lot of stuff on the list that I was really into
when I was 8-10 (Terry Brooks, David Eddings, etc.), then quickly outgrew
when I realized that there was vastly superior science fiction and fantasy
out there.  I think a lot of the voting that went into this list was fueled
by the nostalgia of people who never "grew-up" out of the formative junk
that a lot of us cut our sci-fi teeth on as kids.

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Lane Haygood <lhaygood at gmail.com> wrote:

> This has shaken my faith in the correctness of democracy.
>
> I mean, would it be SO terrible to force people into good literature
> gulags? Eighteen hours a day, reading away, lulled to silence by the
> gentle crack of the overseer's whips?
>
> I mean, people put "The Sword of Truth" and those drecky "Forgotten
> Realms" novels ahead of Wolfe and Mieville? They NEED re-education.
>
> LH
>
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Greg Bates <gregory.a.bates at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Well, at least it beat the EU Star Wars tripe. By one spot. :-(
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Antonin Scriabin
> > <kierkegaurdian at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://www.npr.org/2011/08/11/139085843/your-picks-top-100-science-fiction-fantasy-books
> >>
> >> The Book of the New Sun clocked in at #87.  Appalling original list, and
> >> terrible final results, but at the end of the day, maybe people will
> check
> >> out Wolfe after seeing his book listed here.
> >>
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