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.
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edit: Correct me if I’m wrong, but I am disappointed at least one of Harlan Ellison’s works didn’t make the list.
Damn if it's true...
Does anyone know, if there's more guides like this? Maybe with a little different point of view?
Im quietly impressed with myself at how many of these Ive read already.
"Like a little time travel with your love story?"
-"No"
-"Tough"
Lmao
Not sure if I would say Forever War is about "Man versus Alien". Sort of analogous to saying Slaughterhouse Five is about fighting Nazis.
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.
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
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.
It very much felt like he wrote it never intending for a sequel, which I can sympathize with, but what came after... The fourth book is to this day the only novel I never finished.
I finished Eoin Colfer's attempt to finish the hitchhikers trilogy.
I finished the driest sci-fi I've ever read where I can't even remember the name anymore.
I finished every animorphs book, no matter how weird they got towards the end.
I even finished the slog that is the middle parts of the wheel of time.
But that book, no that one scene made me put down the whole series.
Damn, what was the one scene? I read the main series (ugh) up to "Confessor", but it was well over a decade ago, and I don't remember much about the later books at all, except they were mostly all excessively preachy Objectivist stuff.
It was years ago at this point, but it was something while he was captured by the dominatrix society, and it just turned my stomach all the way over and I just walked away.
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.
sorry i dont read what feds tell me to
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