thisrecording.com 100 Greatest Science Fiction or Fantasy Novels of All Time

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What to read? It is a question asked mostly by women, who comprise the majority of America's reading public. Males make up some teensy other part. Either sex is challenged by a lack of a path through vis mere difficult material. It is difficult to know what is best. Although many have made a distinction between the fantasy and science fiction fields, I see no reason to arbitrary draw such a lien. The novels I find I most enjoy straddle the boundaries of the two, which is not to say that hard science fiction and pure fantasy don't retain their pleasures, and many books characterized at such found their way to this list. At the nexus of the two genres is where the human imagination begins to reveal frightful and hopeful things about our own society. Sometimes I will come across someone reading what looks to me like a really boring book; e.g. anything by F. Scott Fitzgerald or James Patterson or Bill Bryson. Instead look to the vast store of cheap entertainment found in these immemorial classics of the page. http://thisrecording.com/today/2010/1/18/in-which-we-count-down-the-100-greatest-science-fiction-or-f.html vis mindre
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Nightside the Long Sun (1993) af Gene Wolfe
1.1
Lake of the Long Sun (1994) af Gene Wolfe
1.2
Caldé of the Long Sun (1994) af Gene Wolfe
1.3
Exodus from the Long Sun (1996) af Gene Wolfe
1.4
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (1966) af Robert A. Heinlein
2
The Dying Earth (1950) af Jack Vance
3.1
De udstødte : en socialistisk utopi (1974) af Ursula K. Le Guin
4
Tigana (1990) af Guy Gavriel Kay
5
Frankenstein (1818) af Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
6
Fagre nye verden (1932) af Aldous Huxley
7
Bøddelens skygge (1980) af Gene Wolfe
8.1
Forsonerens klo (1981) af Gene Wolfe
8.2
Liktorens sværd (1981) af Gene Wolfe
8.3
The Citadel of The Autarch (1982) af Gene Wolfe
8.4
Mørkets venstre hånd (1969) af Ursula K. Le Guin
9
A clockwork orange (1962) af Anthony Burgess
10
Klit (1965) af Frank Herbert
11
Planet of Adventure (1980) af Jack Vance
12
Ringenes herre (1954) af J. R. R. Tolkien
13
All My Sins Remembered (1977) af Joe Haldeman
14
Manden i den store fæstning (1962) af Philip K. Dick
15
Mesteren og Margarita (1966) af Mikhail Bulgakov
16
Sommertræet (1984) af Guy Gavriel Kay
17.1
Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) af Robert A. Heinlein
18
Stranger in a Strange Land (Uncut Edition) (1991) af Robert A. Heinlein
18
A Game of Thrones / A Clash of Kings / A Storm of Swords / A Feast of Crows / A Dance with Dragons (1996) af George R. R. Martin
19.1
Kampen om tronen (1996) af George R. R. Martin
19.1
The Fifth Head of Cerberus (1972) af Gene Wolfe
20
Troldmanden fra Oz (1900) af L. Frank Baum
21
Alice i eventyrland (1865) af Lewis Carroll
22
Tabte horisonter (1933) af James Hilton
23
Araminta Station (1987) af Jack Vance
24.1
Jeg er den sidste (1954) af Richard Matheson
25
1984 (1949) af George Orwell
26
Fahrenheit 451 (1953) af Ray Bradbury
27
Jeg er ene - jeg er mange (1953) af Theodore Sturgeon
28
Pale Fire (2011) af Vladimir Nabokov
29
A Fire upon the Deep (1992) af Vernor Vinge
30
A Wrinkle in Time (1962) af Madeleine L'Engle
31
Citizen of the Galaxy (1957) af Robert A. Heinlein
32
Hyperion (1989) af Dan Simmons
33.1
Ubik (1966) af Philip K. Dick
34
True Names and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier (2001) af Vernor Vinge
35
Starship Troopers (1959) af Robert A. Heinlein
36
Lyonesse: Suldrun's Garden (1983) af Jack Vance
37.1
Slagtehal fem eller børnekorstoget (1969) af Kurt Vonnegut
38
Håndbog for vakse galakse-blaffere (1979) af Douglas Adams
39
A Scanner Darkly (1977) af Philip K. Dick
41
Farmer in the Sky (1950) af Robert A. Heinlein
42
Klodernes kamp (1897) af H. G. Wells
44
Alastor (1978) af Jack Vance
45
Quicksilver (2003) af Neal Stephenson
46.1
Ender's strategi : roman (1985) af Orson Scott Card
47
The Killing Machine (1964) af Jack Vance
48
Kun den stærke er fri. Overs. efter den amerikanske originaludg. The fountainhead af Karina Winfeld-Hansen (1943) af Ayn Rand
49
The Knight (2004) af Gene Wolfe
50.1
The Wizard (2004) af Gene Wolfe
50.2
Troldmanden fra Jordhavet (1968) af Ursula K. Le Guin
51.1
Atuans grave (1970) af Ursula K. Le Guin
51.2
The Farthest Shore (1972) af Ursula K. Le Guin
51.3
Stiftelsen (1951) af Isaac Asimov
52
The Forever War (1974) af Joe Haldeman
53
On Blue's Waters (1999) af Gene Wolfe
54.1
In Green's Jungles (2000) af Gene Wolfe
54.2
Return to the Whorl (2001) af Gene Wolfe
54.3
Gravity's Rainbow (1973) af Thomas Pynchon
55
Da verden gik under (1963) af Kurt Vonnegut
56
Hobbitten eller Ud og hjem igen (1937) af J. R. R. Tolkien
57
Nightwings (1969) af Robert Silverberg
58
Forever Peace (1997) af Joe Haldeman
59
The Eye of the World (1990) af Robert Jordan
60
The Book of Knights (1998) af Yves Meynard
61
Wildlife (1994) af James Patrick Kelly
62
Flowers for Algernon (1966) af Daniel Keyes
63
Vanviddets bjerge (1936) af H. P. Lovecraft
64
A Song for Lya [novella] (1974) af George R. R. Martin
65
The High Crusade (1960) af Poul Anderson
66
The Diamond Age (1995) af Neal Stephenson
67
Selv guderne (1972) af Isaac Asimov
68
Strøm mine tårer, sagde politimanden (1970) af Philip K. Dick
69
Krøniker fra Mars (1950) af Ray Bradbury
70
Det glemte land (1982) af Marion Zimmer Bradley
71
Maske: Thaery (1976) af Jack Vance
72
Old Man's War (2005) af John Scalzi
73.1
Schismatrix (1985) af Bruce Sterling
74
Ringverden (1970) af Larry Niven
75
Rendezvous med Rama (1973) af Arthur C. Clarke
76
Free Live Free (1984) af Gene Wolfe
77
Altered Carbon (2002) af Richard K. Morgan
78
Griffin's Egg [short fiction] (1990) af Michael Swanwick
79
Kaninbjerget (1972) af Richard Adams
80
The Anubis Gates (1983) af Tim Powers
81
The Alteration (1976) af Kingsley Amis
83
Feberdrøm (1982) af George R. R. Martin
84
Kuglen (1971) af Michael Crichton
85
En messe for Leibowitz (1955) af Walter M. Miller Jr.
86
Speaker for the Dead (1986) af Orson Scott Card
87
Kalis sang (1985) af Dan Simmons
88
Swordspoint (1987) af Ellen Kushner
89
Camp Concentration (1968) af Thomas M. Disch
90
Danny the Champion of the World (1975) af Roald Dahl
91
Jurassic Park (1990) af Michael Crichton
92
An Evil Guest (2008) af Gene Wolfe
93
The Company (2008) af K. J. Parker
94
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (2004) af Susanna Clarke
95
Snow Crash (1992) af Neal Stephenson
96
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1964) af Philip K. Dick
97
Beggars in Spain (1993) af Nancy Kress
98
Sorcerer's Son (1979) af Phyllis Eisenstein
99
The Word for World Is Forest (1972) af Ursula K. Le Guin
100

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