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| From | Chris Buckley <alan@sabir.com> |
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| Newsgroups | rec.arts.sf.written |
| Subject | Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? |
| Date | 2016-05-02 01:45 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <slrnnidclo.4ge.alan@video.sabir.com> (permalink) |
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On 2016-05-01, David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> wrote: > On 2016-05-01, lal_truckee <lal_truckee@yahoo.com> wrote: >> On 5/1/16 11:26 AM, Chris Buckley wrote: >>> On 2016-05-01, lal_truckee <lal_truckee@yahoo.com> wrote: >>>> specifically I indicate James Wallace Harris' list >>>> <http://classics.jameswallaceharris.com/ByRank.php> >>> >>> That (to me) is an excellent list; it's much better than the typical >>> list I see. It's science fiction only (not fantasy), it has a very >>> strong bias for older works (and seems to be old itself - nothing in >>> the past 23 years), and emphasizes British works a bit much. But it >>> still does a very nice job overall. > > Agreed. Reading it, and I'm only down to about 40, has put me in my happy > place. Why, it might even cheer Terry up! > ... > ... I am VERY glad to see that _Flowers for Algernon_ ranks so far below > _More Than Human_, _City_, _Ringworld_, _Childhood's End_, and _The Stars My > Destination_, for personal-taste reasons. This guy is obviously well-read > (extremely so) in the field, so hasn't fallen prey to the 'the few SF classics > that 'literature' has embraced are obviously the Very Best Ones Evar' fallacy. My reading of the list is that it's a compilation list - he's combined a large number of other people's lists of classic science fiction and sorted the books by the number of lists each occurs on. (Thus a very strong bias for older works since some of his lists are undoubtedly older.) > Dave, wait, Cordwainer Smith is -80-? HERESYYYY > > ps: I see what you mean about British-tilted... > > pps: I find it amusing that the best work of Kornbluth is the _The Best of C.M. > Kornbluth_ collection. Actually, Kornbluth also made number 12 for _The Space Merchants_ (with Pohl). I happened to re-read it (and _Gladiator at Law_) just last week. It definitely deserves its place as a classic, and it pretty definitely couldn't get published today (its then trail-blazing themes are now much too trite.) Chris
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How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? lal_truckee <lal_truckee@yahoo.com> - 2016-05-01 09:56 -0700
Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2016-05-01 13:27 -0400
Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? lal_truckee <lal_truckee@yahoo.com> - 2016-05-01 11:05 -0700
Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Jack Bohn <jack.bohn64@gmail.com> - 2016-05-04 06:41 -0700
Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2016-05-04 13:03 -0400
Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Jack Bohn <jack.bohn64@gmail.com> - 2016-05-05 06:19 -0700
Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Chris Buckley <alan@sabir.com> - 2016-05-01 18:26 +0000
Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? lal_truckee <lal_truckee@yahoo.com> - 2016-05-01 13:42 -0700
Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2016-05-01 18:44 -0500
Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Chris Buckley <alan@sabir.com> - 2016-05-02 01:45 +0000
Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-05-01 22:06 -0700
Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2016-05-02 16:55 +0000
Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2016-05-02 10:07 -0700
Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-05-03 10:13 -0700
Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2016-05-07 16:05 +0000
Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-05-07 10:33 -0700
Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2016-05-02 08:26 -0700
Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2016-05-02 12:41 -0400
Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Shawn Wilson <ikonoqlast@gmail.com> - 2016-05-02 11:28 -0700
Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2016-05-03 21:12 -0600
Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2016-05-05 16:34 -0500
Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Jack Bohn <jack.bohn64@gmail.com> - 2016-05-05 15:20 -0700
Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2016-05-05 17:39 -0500
Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2016-05-05 17:46 -0500
Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> - 2016-05-05 16:00 -0700
Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2016-05-05 18:12 -0500
Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Robert Bannister <robban@clubtelco.com> - 2016-05-06 10:19 +0800
Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> - 2016-05-05 20:10 -0700
Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@sff.net> - 2016-05-06 01:56 -0400
Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu (David Goldfarb) - 2016-05-06 05:51 +0000
Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-05-06 13:47 -0700
Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu (David Goldfarb) - 2016-05-07 01:08 +0000
Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-05-06 19:25 -0700
Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> - 2016-05-06 20:43 -0700
Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Juho Julkunen <giaotanj@hotmail.com> - 2016-05-06 16:00 +0300
Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2016-05-06 13:06 -0400
Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2016-05-06 13:03 -0500
Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2016-05-06 22:51 +0000
Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Moriarty <blues95@ivillage.com> - 2016-05-05 16:24 -0700
Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2016-05-05 21:10 -0600
Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2016-05-06 13:05 -0500
Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2016-05-06 16:58 -0400
Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Ahasuerus <ahasuerus@email.com> - 2016-05-05 17:00 -0700
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