The SF Book Club's "The Most Significant SF & Fantasy Books of the Last 50 Years (1953-2002)" on Lists of Bests

GabeGrey

From the source... — 3 years ago

I made a personal list from the source, I won’t make any changes :)

http://www.listsofbests.com/list/54759

Aug 10, 02:04AM | 0 comments | Reply to this

hollyroger

Where's Stranger in a Strange Land? — 3 years ago

That’s one of my all-time favorite SF books. It’s entertianing, well written, and like the best SF stories, has startling significance to our society and lives. It deserves to be here!

Mar 01, 11:43AM | 1 comment | Reply to this

Debaserr

Slaughterhouse Five — 4 years ago

A masterpiece of a book,but its no Sci-Fi. Read it anyway.

Jul 28, 06:55AM | 1 comment | Reply to this

Jason

The Sword of Shannara was terrible — 4 years ago

I own it and I can’t even finish the first 10 pages or so. Terrible sentence structure, run-on’s, fragments, it needs a good editor badly, and that’s just for starters

i think the list might be a little more useful if the sets of books were listed idividually so people could check them as they finish them. Good list over all though

May 21, 07:59AM | 0 comments | Reply to this

buocl

Corrections — 5 years ago

Someone decided to add a bunch of new stuff to this list, which I deleted. This is a definitive list, if you want to have different books on it, make your own list.

Dec 02, 11:58AM | 0 comments | Reply to this

JudithKD

sf has two components to its readership: — 5 years ago

one are the people who read it to be entertained. The other are the people who read it to be entertained and want it to also have literary content.

Both componets have the entertainment requirement. How people are entertained doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with the type of writing.

Sword of Shannara was written to entertain. If you want your fantasy to be literary as well, read George Martin, Tolkien, or some such. But both are valid, whatever your particular taste may be.

Everyone doesn’t have to have the same taste or standards. If we did, sf probably wouldn’t exist as a genre at all!

jkd

Sep 05, 05:44PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

photopoppy

Stormbringer — 5 years ago

I can’t take anything seriously as a best of anything with lines like:

“It was now a yellow morass of molten rock that, though cool, rolled about with a purposeful air.”

Rock? Rolling about with a purposeful air? What?

Apr 12, 03:31PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

Sevenx

Kind of a weak list... — 5 years ago

I have problems with this list… it’s lacking in many, many regards.

Authors that are missing: George RR Martin, Glen Cook, Steven Eriksson. The list goes on and on.

-Erik.

Mar 28, 01:46PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

Prince Mu-Chao

Disappointing... — 5 years ago

No Lem?

Mar 27, 09:08PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

JudithKD

I've looked at or skimmed all of these... — 5 years ago

I was an sf bookseller for a long while, after all. The ones that I checked that I’ve read but have not graded “worthwhile” or “not” I am certain I read, but not what I thought of them.

Mostly, this means I haven’t reread them in the past 10 years or so.

jkd

Mar 19, 05:38PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

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The SF Book Club's "The Most Significant SF & Fantasy Books of the Last 50 Years (1953-2002)"

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