{"id":1222,"date":"2007-03-11T20:11:13","date_gmt":"2007-03-11T20:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/03\/11\/significant-sf\/"},"modified":"2007-03-11T20:11:13","modified_gmt":"2007-03-11T20:11:13","slug":"significant-sf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/03\/11\/significant-sf\/","title":{"rendered":"Significant SF"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everybody and their brother<\/a> is doing the “which Significant SF books have you read?” thing today, so I might as well play along. The list is below, and just because I’m lazy, I’ve opted to strike out the ones I haven’t<\/strong> read, rather than bolding the ones I have. It’s less typing that way.<\/p>\n

There are two things about this that are sort of striking: First, that while I may be the only ScienceBlogs person who regularly attends SF conventions, and yet, I’ve read fewer of these books than most of the other people who have responded. Second, that there really aren’t any books on the unread list that I feel all that bad about not reading. I have a copy of Dhalgren<\/cite>, and I read enough of it to know that I don’t care to finish it, and I may get to Cities in Flight<\/cite> one of these days, but really, I’m just not going to lose any sleep over not having read Starship Troopers<\/cite>, when there’s so much new stuff that I’m sure I’ll like better.<\/p>\n

Life is just too short, you know?<\/p>\n

Anyway, the list:<\/p>\n

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  1. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien<\/li>\n
  2. The Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov<\/li>\n
  3. Dune, Frank Herbert<\/li>\n
  4. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein<\/li>\n
  5. A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin<\/li>\n
  6. Neuromancer, William Gibson<\/li>\n
  7. Childhood’s End, Arthur C. Clarke<\/li>\n
  8. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick<\/li>\n
  9. The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley<\/li>\n
  10. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury<\/li>\n
  11. The Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe<\/li>\n
  12. A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr.<\/li>\n
  13. The Caves of Steel, Isaac Asimov<\/li>\n
  14. Children of the Atom, Wilmar Shiras<\/s><\/li>\n
  15. Cities in Flight, James Blish<\/s><\/li>\n
  16. The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett<\/li>\n
  17. Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison<\/li>\n
  18. Deathbird Stories, Harlan Ellison<\/s><\/li>\n
  19. The Demolished Man, Alfred Bester<\/li>\n
  20. Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany<\/s><\/li>\n
  21. Dragonflight, Anne McCaffrey<\/li>\n
  22. Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card<\/li>\n
  23. The First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Stephen R. Donaldson<\/li>\n
  24. The Forever War, Joe Haldeman<\/li>\n
  25. Gateway, Frederik Pohl<\/li>\n
  26. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, J.K. Rowling<\/li>\n
  27. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams<\/li>\n
  28. I Am Legend, Richard Matheson<\/S><\/li>\n
  29. Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice<\/li>\n
  30. The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin<\/li>\n
  31. Little, Big, John Crowley<\/li>\n
  32. Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny<\/li>\n
  33. The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick<\/li>\n
  34. Mission of Gravity, Hal Clement<\/li>\n
  35. More Than Human, Theodore Sturgeon<\/li>\n
  36. The Rediscovery of Man, Cordwainer Smith<\/s><\/li>\n
  37. On the Beach, Nevil Shute<\/s><\/li>\n
  38. Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke<\/li>\n
  39. Ringworld, Larry Niven<\/li>\n
  40. Rogue Moon, Algis Budrys<\/li>\n
  41. The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien<\/li>\n
  42. Slaughterhouse-5, Kurt Vonnegut<\/li>\n
  43. Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson<\/li>\n
  44. Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner<\/s><\/li>\n
  45. The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester<\/li>\n
  46. Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein<\/s><\/li>\n
  47. Stormbringer, Michael Moorcock<\/li>\n
  48. The Sword of Shannara, Terry Brooks<\/li>\n
  49. Timescape, Gregory Benford<\/s><\/li>\n
  50. To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip Jose Farmer<\/s><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Everybody and their brother is doing the “which Significant SF books have you read?” thing today, so I might as well play along. The list is below, and just because I’m lazy, I’ve opted to strike out the ones I haven’t read, rather than bolding the ones I have. It’s less typing that way. There… Continue reading Significant SF<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-sf","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}