From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Skiffy Book Club Top 50
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 18:05:47 -0500
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From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <wsfalist at keithlynch.net>
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 1:44 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Skiffy Book Club Top 50

> Normally I'd just post the url (www.sfbc.com) , but the list is quite =
> fascinating
> [Some details as to who picked etc, which you should read before
kvetching,=
> :
> http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2003-03-02-tolkien_x.htm )
>
> The Most Significant SF & Fantasy Books of the Last 50 Years, 1953-2002
>
> 1.The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
> 2.The Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov
> 3.Dune, Frank Herbert
> 4.Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein
> 5.A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin
> 6.Neuromancer, William Gibson
> 7.Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke
> 8.Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
> 9.The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
> 10.Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
> 11.The Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe
> 12.A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr.
> 13.The Caves of Steel, Isaac Asimov
> 14.Children of the Atom, Wilmar Shiras
> 15.Cities in Flight, James Blish
> 16.The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett
> 17.Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison
> 18.Deathbird Stories, Harlan Ellison
> 19.The Demolished Man, Alfred Bester
> 20.Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany
> 21.Dragonflight, Anne McCaffrey
> 22.Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
> 23.The First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Stephen R. =
> Donaldson
> 24.The Forever War, Joe Haldeman
> 25.Gateway, Frederik Pohl
> 26.Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J.K. Rowling
> 27.The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
> 28.I Am Legend, Richard Matheson
> 29.Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
> 30.The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin
> 31.Little, Big, John Crowley
> 32.Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
> 33.The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
> 34.Mission of Gravity, Hal Clement
> 35.More Than Human, Theodore Sturgeon
> 36.The Rediscovery of Man, Cordwainer Smith
> 37.On the Beach, Nevil Shute
> 38.Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke
> 39.Ringworld, Larry Niven
> 40.Rogue Moon, Algis Budrys
> 41.The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
> 42.Slaughterhouse-5, Kurt Vonnegut
> 43.Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
> 44.Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner
> 45.The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester
> 46.Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein
> 47.Stormbringer, Michael Moorcock
> 48.The Sword of Shannara, Terry Brooks
> 49.Timescape, Gregory Benford
> 50.To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip Jose Farmer
>
> Tho I detest Sword of Sha Na Na, it is significant to the genre in what
it =
> unleased: blatant Tolkien clones.

Starting with #11, the list is alphabetical by title.

--Ted White