Fifty SF Books Meme

[sdelmonte]

It must be a slow day, given that I'm posting again.

This is the meme where you indicate which of fifty significant SF and fantasy novels (from a list I've seen attributed to Time.com) you've read, or enjoyed, or hated, or never finished. I can't say I hated anything on this list but did leave two unfinished (in italics.) The ones I've read are in bold, and the ones I particularly love has asterisks.

The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien*
The Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov*
Dune, Frank Herbert
Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein
A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin
Neuromancer, William Gibson
Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
The Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe
A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr.
The Caves of Steel, Isaac Asimov*
Children of the Atom, Wilmar Shiras
Cities in Flight, James Blish
The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett*
Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison
Deathbird Stories, Harlan Ellison
The Demolished Man, Alfred Bester
Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany
Dragonflight, Anne McCaffrey
Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card*
The First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Stephen R. Donaldson
The Forever War, Joe Haldeman
Gateway, Frederik Pohl
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J.K. Rowling
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams*
I Am Legend, Richard Matheson
Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin
Little, Big, John Crowley
Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
Mission of Gravity, Hal Clement
More Than Human, Theodore Sturgeon
The Rediscovery of Man, Cordwainer Smith
On the Beach, Nevil Shute
Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke
Ringworld, Larry Niven
Rogue Moon, Algis Budrys
The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
Slaughterhouse-5, Kurt Vonnegut
Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner
The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester
Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein
Stormbringer, Michael Moorcock
The Sword of Shannara, Terry Brooks
Timescape, Gregory Benford
To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip Jose Farmer

What's really funny, BTW, is that I haven't heard of many of the books I've never read.

Comments

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

The list is from the SFBC:

http://www.sfbc.com/doc/content/sitelets/FSE_Sitelet_Theme_2.jhtml?SID=nmsfctop50

[mbarr.livejournal.com]

You've never read potter? and how did you love colour of magic but not read it :-)

Either way, if you don't *hate* military, read Starship Troopers. I need to take the list and just go down the books, making sure i've read them all- i've heard of many, and if the rest are as good as the company, i'll enjoy them, or at least should know I *didn't* enjoy them.

[sdelmonte]

Colours of Magic was a typo. I haven't read it, and have been told that as PTerry goes, it's actually not that good. I probably will get around to it someday.

And yes, I've never read the HP books. Batya read me some bits of the first book long ago, and it left me cold. And nothing I've heard since, or seen in the movies, interests me.