jeffpaulsen

This is a list of the 50 most significant science fiction/fantasy novels, 1953-2002, according to the Science Fiction Book Club. Bold the ones you've read, strike-out the ones you hated, italicize those you started but never finished and put an asterisk beside the ones you loved.



Note: The Stars My Destination and The Man in the High Castle are both on my "in progress" stack, so I theoretically will finish them, unlike Foundation.

The book on this list, which I have read, which I think is not read by enough SF fans, is The Rediscovery of Man by Cordwainer Smith. There are better books on this list, but that's the most neglected, I think.

I've always thought of myself as more of a hard-sf guy (Mission of Gravity, Ringworld) but this list shows that I've been reading a pretty reasonable cross-section of the classics.

Got the new John Scalzi book The Android's Dream, and read it over the weekend. It's fine, but doesn't have the kind of important feel that Old Man's War did. You could probably wait for the paperback.