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Re: The Most Influential Sci-Fi Books Of All Time

From Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Date 2021-10-15 15:16 -0500
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On 10/14/2021 10:48 AM, Tony Nance wrote:
> I just ran across this article about an hour ago - it was published
> two days ago:
> https://bookriot.com/the-most-influential-sci-fi-books-of-all-time/
> 
> I’ve added the full list below for those who don’t want to click/scroll.
> 
> It’s strictly science fiction - so, for example, no Tolkien, or Stoker.
> 
> To me, it’s a pretty well-considered and thorough list, especially through
> the 1970s. There seems to be some recency bias and/or maybe some
> nods to emerging/micro-genres.
> 
> On first blush, I’d say the only significant omissions are Doc Smith
> (surely) and CL Moore (probably). Whether you’d cite Skylark or
> Lensman, I think both were highly influential. Moore (with & without
> Kuttner) had a wide range of influential stuff too, of course.
> 
> I also appreciated the inclusion of the various collections & serials,
> giving a nod both to how influential the authors/works were and to
> how influential short/serialized fiction was and is.
> 
> Full list below,
> Tony
> ———————————————————————————
> Again:  https://bookriot.com/the-most-influential-sci-fi-books-of-all-time/
> The webpage has a 3-4 sentence description of each member of the list,
> including why it’s on the list. The items with a range of years are either
> collections and/or the original material was originally serialized.
> 
> Frankenstein - Mary Shelley (1818)
> Blake, or The Huts of America - Martin R. Delany (1859 - 1862)
> Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne (1869)
> The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)
> The Time Machine - H.G. Wells (1895)
> Of One Blood, or the Hidden Self - Pauline Hopkins (1902-1903)
> A Princess of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs (1912)
> We - Yevgeny Zamyatin (1924)
> Metropolis - Thea von Harbou (1925)
> Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (1932)
> The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (1937-1999)
> The Complete Robot - Isaac Asimov (1939-1977)
> Shadow Over Mars (aka Nemesis from Terra) - Leigh Brackett (1944)
> 1984 - George Orwell (1949)
> Astro Boy - Osamu Tezuka (1952-1968)
> Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury (1953)
> Starship Troopers - Robert A. Heinlein (1959)
> A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller (1959)
> A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L’Engle (1962)
> Dune - Frank Herbert (1965)
> Babel-17 - Samuel R. Delany (1966)
> Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick (1968)
> The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin (1969)
> Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut (1969)
> Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang - Kate Wilhelm (1976)
> The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1979-1992)
> Daughters of a Coral Dawn - Katherine V. Forrest (1984)
> Psion - Joan D. Vinge (1982)
> Vampire Hunter D - Hideyuki Kikuchi (1983 - present)
> Akira - Katsuhiro Otomo (1982-1990)
> Neuromancer - William Gibson (1984)
> The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood (1985)
> Watchmen - Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (1986-1987)
> Lilith’s Brood - Octavia E. Butler (1987-1989)
> Ghost in the Shell: Deluxe Complete Box Set - Masamune Shriow (1989-1997)
> Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton (1990)
> Ring - Koji Suzuki (1991)
> Pretty Guardian Sailor moon - Naoko Takeuchi (1991-1997)
> The Thrawn Trilogy - Timothy Zahn (1991-1993)
> Ammonite - Nicola Griffith (1992)
> The Children of Men - PD James (1992)
> Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson (1992)
> Doomsday Book - Connie Willis (1992)
> Uzumaki - Junji Ito (1998-1999)
> A Civil Campaign - Lois McMaster Bujold (1999)
> Battle Royale - Koushun Takami (1999)
> Midnight Robber - Nalo Hopkinson (2000)
> Dark Matter: A Centruy of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora - ed. by Sheree Renee Thomas (2000)
> The Three-Body Problem - Cixin Liu (2008)
> Leviathan Wakes - James S.A. Corey (2011)
> Cinder - Marissa Meyer (2012)
> The Imperial Radch Trilogy - Ann Leckie (2013-2016)
> Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel (2014)
> Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy - Jeff Vandermeer (2014)
> 
>  From here, the article’s author predicts some works from 2015 & later
> that may well become influential. I didn’t add those works here.

The fact that the list does not mention Perry Rhodan, David Weber, or 
John Ringo makes the list very suspect in my mind.

Lynn

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