Science Fiction I've Read or Not

[chrishansenhome]

Thanks, serene. I've read 29. I decided not to further characterise them. I will not read anything by Orson Scott Card, ever, and as much as I think Sir Terry Pratchett is a great person, I tried to read some of his stuff and absolutely couldn't stand it, sadly.

Have read

1. The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy, by J.R.R. Tolkien
2. The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
3. Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card
4. The Dune Chronicles, by Frank Herbert
5. A Song Of Ice And Fire Series, by George R. R. Martin
6. 1984, by George Orwell
7. Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
8. The Foundation Trilogy, by Isaac Asimov
9. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
10. American Gods, by Neil Gaiman
11. The Princess Bride, by William Goldman
12. The Wheel Of Time Series, by Robert Jordan
13. Animal Farm, by George Orwell
14. Neuromancer, by William Gibson
15. Watchmen, by Alan Moore
16. I, Robot, by Isaac Asimov
17. Stranger In A Strange Land, by Robert Heinlein
18. The Kingkiller Chronicles, by Patrick Rothfuss
19. Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
20. Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
21. Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?, by Philip K. Dick
22. The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood
23. The Dark Tower Series, by Stephen King
24. 2001: A Space Odyssey, by Arthur C. Clarke
25. The Stand, by Stephen King
26. Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson
27. The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury
28. Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
29. The Sandman Series, by Neil Gaiman
30. A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
31. Starship Troopers, by Robert Heinlein
32. Watership Down, by Richard Adams
33. Dragonflight, by Anne McCaffrey
34. The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, by Robert Heinlein
35. A Canticle For Leibowitz, by Walter M. Miller
36. The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells
37. 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, by Jules Verne
38. Flowers For Algernon, by Daniel Keys
39. The War Of The Worlds, by H.G. Wells
40. The Chronicles Of Amber, by Roger Zelazny
41. The Belgariad, by David Eddings
42. The Mists Of Avalon, by Marion Zimmer Bradley
43. The Mistborn Series,by Brandon Sanderson
44. Ringworld, by Larry Niven
45. The Left Hand Of Darkness, by Ursula K. LeGuin
46. The Silmarillion, by J.R.R. Tolkien
47. The Once And Future King, by T.H. White
48. Neverwhere, by Neil Gaiman
49. Childhood's End, by Arthur C. Clarke
50. Contact, by Carl Sagan
51. The Hyperion Cantos, by Dan Simmons
52. Stardust, by Neil Gaiman
53. Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson
54. World War Z, by Max Brooks
55. The Last Unicorn, by Peter S. Beagle
56. The Forever War, by Joe Haldeman
57. Small Gods, by Terry Pratchett
58. The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant, The Unbeliever, by Stephen R. Donaldson
59. The Vorkosigan Saga, by Lois McMaster Bujold
60. Going Postal, by Terry Pratchett
61. The Mote In God's Eye, by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
62. The Sword Of Truth, by Terry Goodkind
63. The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
64. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, by Susanna Clarke
65. I Am Legend, by Richard Matheson
66. The Riftwar Saga, by Raymond E. Feist
67. The Shannara Trilogy, by Terry Brooks
68. The Conan The Barbarian Series, by R.E. Howard
69. The Farseer Trilogy, by Robin Hobb
70. The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
71. The Way Of Kings, by Brandon Sanderson
72. A Journey To The Center Of The Earth, by Jules Verne
73. The Legend Of Drizzt Series, by R.A. Salvatore
74. Old Man's War, by John Scalzi
75. The Diamond Age, by Neil Stephenson
76. Rendezvous With Rama, by Arthur C. Clarke
77. The Kushiel's Legacy Series, by Jacqueline Carey
78. The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. LeGuin
79. Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury
80. Wicked, by Gregory Maguire
81. The Malazan Book Of The Fallen Series, by Steven Erikson
82. The Eyre Affair, by Jasper Fforde
83. The Culture Series, by Iain M. Banks
84. The Crystal Cave, by Mary Stewart
85. Anathem, by Neal Stephenson
86. The Codex Alera Series, by Jim Butcher
87. The Book Of The New Sun, by Gene Wolfe
88. The Thrawn Trilogy, by Timothy Zahn
89. The Outlander Series, by Diana Gabaldan
90. The Elric Saga, by Michael Moorcock
91. The Illustrated Man, by Ray Bradbury
92. Sunshine, by Robin McKinley
93. A Fire Upon The Deep, by Vernor Vinge
94. The Caves Of Steel, by Isaac Asimov
95. The Mars Trilogy, by Kim Stanley Robinson
96. Lucifer's Hammer, by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
97. Doomsday Book, by Connie Willis
98. Perdido Street Station, by China Mieville
99. The Xanth Series, by Piers Anthony
100. The Space Trilogy, by C.S. Lewis

Comments

[spwebdesign.livejournal.com]

Is this a meme? If so, is the point just to bold the ones you've read? Do you know who compiled the list?

[spwebdesign.livejournal.com]

Some of the stuff on this list is also decidedly not science fiction, fwiw.

[chrishansenhome.livejournal.com]

I got the meme from Serene, and the caption above Have read means that the bolded ones are the ones I've read. I do realise that some are not science fiction, but if I'd added "and Fantasy" to the title I think that would cover it.

[spwebdesign.livejournal.com]

So, it's a fairly random list, then? I thought it might be some published list from somewhere.

I suppose The Road could be considered science fiction, as it takes place after some unspecified apocalyptic event, but it's usually grouped with the non-genre stuff.

Fwiw, I have read 38.64099099099099 of the books on the list, if you consider books in a series equal fractions of that series.

[zenhiao.livejournal.com]

i am curious as to the origin of this list. is it the result of some readers' poll? or some journalist's/blogger's personal top 100.

looking at your have reads and cross-referencing mine, i suspect there is an age when you were a teen or young adult effect.

i absolutely LOVE Terry Pratchett. The last few have not felt as wonderful as the early discworld titles. but they still wrap up a sharp sting in hilarious humour. I grew up with Asimov and to a lesser extent Heinlein. and nothing contemporary authors come up with can engage me in the same way. But i suspect this has more to do with me not being a teen/young adult anymore than the difference between contemporary and modern authors.

having said that the Game of Thrones TV series is my all time favourite TV viewing.

[chrishansenhome.livejournal.com]

I don't know where the list came from except that it was a meme from a friend.

Maybe I read the wrong Pratchett to begin with (I can't remember which one it was) but I have so much stuff on my plate to read now that putting Pratchett back on my list is not possible. All I know is that the one I read I found profoundly unfunny.

It's also possible that there is a strain of British humour that I just can't tap into. A co-worker in 2001 recommended Spike Milligan's Puckoon as a laugh riot. I read it through, stony-faced, and told him I didn't find it funny. Strange, as I enjoy the Goons.

You're right about the time I was reading the most science fiction. I find a lot of the new stuff a bit much for me.

That being said, I don't watch enough TV these days to judge things like Game of Thrones, which I thought was an online game, not a TV series.