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[bardiphouka]

NPRs Top 100 Science Fiction-Fantasy Boos

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[keppiehed.livejournal.com]

Thirteen

[urb-banal.livejournal.com]

Thirty-one. Vonnegut is my hero.

[bardiphouka.livejournal.com]

In my case 74, which goes to show I have some reading to do.

[wyyknot.livejournal.com]

60 of 'em

[southerndave.livejournal.com]

I've read 29 of them, for values of 'read' which include 'have read at least one book of' and 'have read a version of, but wasn't it a short story?', but which don't include 'have seen the film of'.

[bluegerl.livejournal.com]

Oooer have only 22 to go!!! But I do read Bradbury and Asimov and Heinlein and.. oh an awful lot of them over and over again! And forever Bradbury, 'dark they were and golden-eyed' ooooh I faint sometimes at his magic.'Silver apples of the sun...' (oh I know that's Yeats as well but who came first, Bradbury or Yeats?)

Smashing collection here. A lot of mind benders! and most of the really WELL written. Thanks for the list Bardi. The Oldies 1984 and Stephen King and Once and future... oh lots to remind me to go back to my cupboards....! byeeee.. xxxxx

[bardiphouka.livejournal.com]

need to get you into my library with some peace and quiet.

[bardiphouka.livejournal.com]

I would be curious to see a Aussi-New Zealand version of the list to see if there would be differences. Or a UK version. I did note that some of the fantasies I have nominated (MacDonald, Dunsany) did not make it.

[bardiphouka.livejournal.com]

And yet there was so much missing too. Do I catch the 100 up..oh wait I have Dunsany to ready.

[keppiehed.livejournal.com]

*laughs* I have access to the rest. Let's just say I ... opted out. :)

[bluegerl.livejournal.com]

Yes missing indeed, I wonder why? But then there wouldbe no room for the newer ones,and there'd have to be the top 1000 not 100. But I am so glad to see so many of the oldies there, the classics. Us who have many summers seen have been able to absorb so many more, and perhaps we had the pleasure of consdiering them New, then. I used to hunt for Asimov and Bradbury and couldn't wait for them to appear. Aaaah those were the days... Thanks for the list, They are an advisory for me!!!!

[southerndave.livejournal.com]

I don't think there'd be any major differences, although the minor differences would be interesting to see. Books (at least those of any quality) seem to travel much better than TV, and a bit better than film... I find it much easier to read American English than to listen to American English; and the first world-class NZ SF or fantasy writer that I can think of (Phillip Mann) seems to get as much attention worldwide as any other writer in English of comparable quality (reasonably high) and output (rather low).