NPR's guide to the top 100 scifi/fantasy books
NPR's guide to the top 100 scifi/fantasy books
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Im quietly impressed with myself at how many of these Ive read already.
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"Like a little time travel with your love story?"
-"No"
-"Tough"Lmao
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Does anyone know, if there's more guides like this? Maybe with a little different point of view?
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Not sure if I would say Forever War is about "Man versus Alien". Sort of analogous to saying Slaughterhouse Five is about fighting Nazis.
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For anyone on Memmy, link to an archive jpg that you can view in landscape. :) https://archive.org/download/NPRFlowchart/NPRFlowchart.jpg
edit: Correct me if I’m wrong, but I am disappointed at least one of Harlan Ellison’s works didn’t make the list.
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Damn if it's true...
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My only complaint would be the sword of truth does not deserve to be there among the likes of the wheel of time, stormlight, and Lord of the rings.
I would have liked to see one of David Weber's series over on the sci-fi side, either Honor or Safehold, but pretty comprehensive all in all.
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I loved Wizard's First Rule, but it was all downhill from there. Also, I bet if I was to read it again now many years later and knowing how the rest of the series went, I doubt I would love it still XD
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I remember reading Wizards First Rule in high school and being riveted. It was unlike any fantasy novel I had read to that point and it felt dark and exciting (although the Mord Sith torture sequence nearly lost me as a reader). I too drifted off at the sequels. It was like he didn’t know what else to say.
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Hmm...while I like a ton of the books on this list, I feel like a lot of it falls under the usual failing of such lists where they ignore the fact that books have been made after the year 2000.
There's some exceptions on there, but it very much is a "greatest hits" list without acknowledging that a lot of those books have been usurped with better modern writing.
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sorry i dont read what feds tell me to
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Really cool. I wish they would have included more modern sci-fi series though. As nice as the classics are there are some amazing contemporary authors. Peter F Hamilton, Adrian Tchaikovsky, and Alastair Reynolds come to mind.