[Uncle Erik]

NPR Books is running a poll for the top-100 science-fiction/fantasy books (no registration required) and you get to vote for your top ten.  There are lots of readers and sci-fi/fantasy fans here, so vote and post your lists!  And feel free to comment on what was left off the list or what shouldn't be on there.  
 
Here are my choices:
 
Animal Farm, by George Orwell
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson
Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
The Foundation Trilogy, by Isaac Asimov
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
The Illuminatus! Trilogy, by Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson
The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy, by J.R.R. Tolkien
Ubik, by Philip K. Dick
 
I would have liked a few more votes and didn't nominate any author more than once.  I've read and loved multiple books by each of these authors, though.
 
Also, I'm not happy that H.P. Lovecraft missed the list.  Maybe he got grouped into horror, but then again, Stephen King made the list.

 

[pigmode]

Dune
The Lord Of The Rings
I Robot
 Journey To The Center Of The Earth
The Odyssey
Stranger In A Strange Land
Frankenstein
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
Lord Of Light
????
 

 

[rroseperry]

The Book of the New Sun, by Gene Wolfe
The Culture Series, by Iain M. Banks
The Diamond Age, by Neil Stephenson
The Dispossesed, by Ursula Le Guin
Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card (but the original novella, not the bloated book and certainly not any of his stuff after this)
Little, Big, by John Crowley
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert Heinlein
Pattern Recognition, by William Gibson (a better book, though Neuromancer is more important probably)
A Scanner Darkly, by Phillip K. DIck
The Stars My Destination, by Alfred Bester


I'm not sure Gravity's Rainbow belongs on the list, though it's one of the best books of the last century.

I would have voted for
American Gods, by Neil Gaiman
The Female Man, by Joanna Russ
The Foundation Trilogy, by Isaac Asimov
Grass, by Sheri S. Tepper
The Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Jonathan Strange and Mr, Norrell, by Susanna Clarke
The Last Unicorn, by Peter Beagle,
The Prestige, by Christopher Priest

But the list makers are ignoramuses, "Small Gods" is not a Discworld novel. I am the ignoramus; I was thinking of the Gaiman/Pratchett collaboration, "Good Omens", which is a better book, imo than "Small Gods."

And where was Charlie Stross?

 

[ocswing]

My list:
 
Dune by Frank Herbert
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
The Hitchhiker's Guide by Douglas Adams
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Rendevous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
Slaughter-House Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn (more of a favorite than actually the best)
 
Kind of an odd list they have up. I mean looking at it I was sad at how many books are still on my "to read" list, but there were also some newer ones that I wouldn't think of considering as well as some omissions.
 

 

[MorbidToaster]

I literally can't make this list, so I'll contribute this (and it totally shows a few of my favorites).
 
I'm strongly considering getting 2 full sleeve tattoos done. One would involve a story from Bradbury's 'The Illustrated Man' called The Fox and the Forest, and the other would be based on Jules Verne's 20,000 League Under the Sea. 
 
I want to end both tattoos at my wrist with cuffs that display the signatures of both authors.
 
I'll keep trying to complete a top 10 list, but I'm not sure if I could ever decide.

 

[wuwhere]

From that list, I read:
 
The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant, The Unbeliever, by Stephen R. Donaldson
A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
The Conan The Barbarian Series, by R.E. Howard
The Dune Chronicles, by Frank Herbert
Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
I, Robot, by Isaac Asimov
The Illustrated Man, by Ray Bradbury
2001: A Space Odyssey, by Arthur C. Clarke
 
This was awhile back. There was also this science fiction book I read about "Jaunting", teleporting in space and time.
I can't remember the title/author any longer.

 

[rroseperry]

From that list, I read:
 
The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant, The Unbeliever, by Stephen R. Donaldson
A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
The Conan The Barbarian Series, by R.E. Howard
The Dune Chronicles, by Frank Herbert
Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
I, Robot, by Isaac Asimov
The Illustrated Man, by Ray Bradbury
2001: A Space Odyssey, by Arthur C. Clarke
 
This was awhile back. There was also this science fiction book I read about "Jaunting", teleporting in space and time.
I can't remember the title/author any longer.

That's from "The Stars, My Destination" by Alfred Bester, great book.

 

[MrQ]

From the list...
 
The Dune Chronicles - Frank Herbert
Neuromancer - William Gibson
1984 - George Orwell
 
My additions...
 
Use Of Weapons - Iain M Banks
Foundation novels - Asimov
Spares - Michael Marshall Smith
 
As they have included Moore's Watchmen...
 
Akira -  Katsuhiro Otomo
Transmetropolitan -  Warren Ellis
The Invisibles - Grant Morrision
Ghost In The Shell - Masamune Shirow

 

[Costia]

the hobbit
thief of time
anything by douglas adams
1984
i robot
the alchemist

 

[Maxvla]

Too many to list. First would be Ender's Game and subsequent sequels, all of them. Amazing journey.

 

[wuwhere]

Quote:

That's from "The Stars, My Destination" by Alfred Bester, great book.

Yea, that's the one. There was one thing that he could do that nobody else can, jaunt across space (not time).
The movie Jumper reminded me of that book.

 

[gilency]

I read the Foundation Trilogy as a child and have read them several times since. My all time favorite.
The Robot series by Asimov (all of them!).
Dune ( and all the follow ups) are strong runner ups
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein.
The End of Eternity by Asimov is also an all time favorite.
Lord of the Rings by Tolkien, one of the very best.
I voted (for the ones in their list anyway).
 

 

[wink]

I used to have over 200 SciFi/fantasy books back in the 70's.
Amongst the usual authors there was
The Lensman Series   E. E. Doc Smith
The Skylark Series. E. E. Doc Smith.
 
 
Authors:-
Roger Zelazny
Philip K. Dick
Cordwainer Smith
Arthur C. Clark
Robert Heinlein
 
 
What started me off was my father brought home  and gave me The Chessmen Of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Yes, the Author of Tarzan.

 

[grokit]

Love the Douglas Adams Hitchhiker series, but my favorite will always be Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land. Big props for Steven King's Dark Tower series. Honorable mention for Alan Moore's Watchmen books. Those are the ones that stand out the most for me, but there are many others worth mentioning from Wells, Vonnegut, Herbert, Gibson, Gaiman and Bradbury. I also really enjoy everything I have read by Tom Robbins, notably Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas. Don't especially enjoy Tolkien, and Orwell is too real for me to put in this category. Jimmy Buffett's Where is Joe Merchant is a fun read in the Robbins' style. Oh yeah can't forget Cormac McCarthy's The Road, I found that to be riveting.

 

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