Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > rec.arts.sf.written > #491663

Re: "19 Best Science Fiction Horror Books"

From D B Davis <g@crcomp.net>
Newsgroups rec.arts.sf.written
Subject Re: "19 Best Science Fiction Horror Books"
Date 2018-05-04 03:08 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <20180503d@crcomp.net> (permalink)
References (1 earlier) <4yEGC.104665$mS3.47465@fx04.iad> <pcfvkg$t2p$1@dont-email.me> <XnsA8D7977789136taustingmail@69.16.179.43> <4ff26988-a328-4bca-895a-6b76f7c7996b@googlegroups.com> <pcgahh$oq1$1@dont-email.me>

Show all headers | View raw

Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/3/2018 5:10 PM, Moriarty wrote:
>> On Friday, May 4, 2018 at 7:53:26 AM UTC+10, Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha wrote:
>>> Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote in
>>> news:pcfvkg$t2p$1@dont-email.me:
>>>
>>>> On 5/3/2018 8:56 AM, Scott Lurndal wrote:
>>>>> Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>>> "19 Best Science Fiction Horror Books"
>>>>>>      https://best-sci-fi-books.com/19-best-science-fiction-horro
>>>>>>      r-books/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have read seven of these.  "Leviathan Wakes", "The Andromeda
>>>>>> Strain", "The Girl with all the Gifts", "I am Legend", "I have
>>>>>> no Mouth and I must Scream", "The War Of The Worlds", and "The
>>>>>> Tommyknockers".
>>>>>
>>>>> Wouldn't the top 19 (and perhaps the top 40) be H.P. Lovecraft?
>>>>
>>>> Huh ?  
>>>>
>>> Are you under the impression that Lovecraft didn't write horror?
>>
>> Perhaps it's the narrower category of "Science Fiction Horror" that he's unaware of HPL's
contribution to?
>>
>> "The Colour Out of Space" certainly fits.
>>
>> Why 19 anyway?
>>
>> -Moriarty
>
> He likes 96 dystopian books:
>    https://best-sci-fi-books.com/96-dystopian-science-fiction-books/
>

_Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said_ (PKD) appears on the list. It was
recently read by me. It was my fondest hope for it to be The One, the
most dystopic of them all, according to me. 
    Alas, it turns out that _Cloud Atlas_ (Mitchell) is actually the
worst of them all. It's meta-dystopic with a crapsack supernatural. Even
after you die its dystopic claws don't let loose. It makes Alice Sheldon
look positively Pollyannish in comparison.

 ✍

Thank you,

-- 
Don

Back to rec.arts.sf.written | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

"19 Best Science Fiction Horror Books" Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-05-02 17:28 -0500
  "19 Best Science Fiction Horror Books" Jack Bohn <jack.bohn64@gmail.com> - 2018-05-02 16:40 -0700
    Re: "19 Best Science Fiction Horror Books" D B Davis <g@crcomp.net> - 2018-05-03 03:21 +0000
  Re: "19 Best Science Fiction Horror Books" Moriarty <blues95@ivillage.com> - 2018-05-02 16:45 -0700
  Re: "19 Best Science Fiction Horror Books" "artyw2@yahoo.com" <artyw2@yahoo.com> - 2018-05-02 18:42 -0700
  Re: "19 Best Science Fiction Horror Books" David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2018-05-03 05:22 -0500
  Re: "19 Best Science Fiction Horror Books" scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2018-05-03 13:56 +0000
    Re: "19 Best Science Fiction Horror Books" Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-05-03 16:40 -0500
      Re: "19 Best Science Fiction Horror Books" Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2018-05-03 14:53 -0700
        Re: "19 Best Science Fiction Horror Books" Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-05-03 17:07 -0500
        Re: "19 Best Science Fiction Horror Books" Moriarty <blues95@ivillage.com> - 2018-05-03 15:10 -0700
          Re: "19 Best Science Fiction Horror Books" Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-05-03 19:04 -0500
            Re: "19 Best Science Fiction Horror Books" Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2018-05-04 04:49 -0700
          Re: "19 Best Science Fiction Horror Books" Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-05-03 19:46 -0500
            Re: "19 Best Science Fiction Horror Books" D B Davis <g@crcomp.net> - 2018-05-04 03:08 +0000
              Re: "19 Best Science Fiction Horror Books" Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> - 2018-05-04 15:56 +1200
                Re: "19 Best Science Fiction Horror Books" D B Davis <g@crcomp.net> - 2018-05-04 05:44 +0000
                Re: "19 Best Science Fiction Horror Books" Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> - 2018-05-04 19:38 +1200
                Re: "19 Best Science Fiction Horror Books" D B Davis <g@crcomp.net> - 2018-05-04 19:41 +0000
                Re: "19 Best Science Fiction Horror Books" Lawrence Watt-Evans <misenchantedpress@gmail.com> - 2018-05-04 23:51 -0400
                Re: "19 Best Science Fiction Horror Books" D B Davis <g@crcomp.net> - 2018-05-05 14:12 +0000
                Re: "19 Best Science Fiction Horror Books" Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2018-05-05 10:09 -0700
                Re: "19 Best Science Fiction Horror Books" "Michael F. Stemper" <michael.stemper@gmail.com> - 2018-05-07 14:23 -0500
                Re: "19 Best Science Fiction Horror Books" Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2018-05-04 06:47 -0700
        Re: "19 Best Science Fiction Horror Books" djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-05-03 22:07 +0000
          Re: "19 Best Science Fiction Horror Books" William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> - 2018-05-05 14:11 -0700
        Re: "19 Best Science Fiction Horror Books" Juho Julkunen <giaotanj@hotmail.com> - 2018-05-04 16:48 +0300
    Re: "19 Best Science Fiction Horror Books" David Johnston <davidjohnston29@yahoo.com> - 2018-05-03 20:21 -0600

csiph-web