tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17224228.post4040651043001674613..comments2023-10-25T03:40:54.655-07:00Comments on Neth Space: Guardian's Science Fiction & Fantasy Novels Everyone Must Read: The MemeNethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16963540055415924510noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17224228.post-20004126366570228592009-02-05T09:36:00.000-07:002009-02-05T09:36:00.000-07:00Like you Neth, I don't put much 'weight' behind th...Like you Neth, I don't put much 'weight' behind the lists, but find them interesting anyway. Like most people, I suspect - I haven't read the book selected, but quite a few of the backlist of these authors. <BR/><BR/>Must try Flowers for Algernon ... I remember the film version was pretty good, starring Matthew Modine. Will have to check that one out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17224228.post-62949161990634530072009-02-02T15:46:00.000-07:002009-02-02T15:46:00.000-07:00In all honesty - I don't put much weight in any li...In all honesty - I don't put much weight in any list (even though a few get posted on this blog from time to time).Nethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16963540055415924510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17224228.post-57402475872826791892009-02-02T15:35:00.000-07:002009-02-02T15:35:00.000-07:00I lost all respect for this list when they listed ...I lost all respect for this list when they listed Chronicles of Narnia above LOTR. Now I know everyone's got LOTR fatigue, and will for a while, but man it isn't even close... =)Paul Nileshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13386419731418241127noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17224228.post-85082191015318515892009-01-24T12:45:00.000-07:002009-01-24T12:45:00.000-07:00better than mebetter than meNethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16963540055415924510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17224228.post-73513064966102397502009-01-24T06:16:00.000-07:002009-01-24T06:16:00.000-07:00now 26 ... missed The Famished Road on the listnow 26 ... missed The Famished Road on the listAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17224228.post-33205645091670939922009-01-24T06:10:00.000-07:002009-01-24T06:10:00.000-07:00I can't count! I've managed 25 ... though not much...I can't count! I've managed 25 ... though not much better out of 149.<BR/><BR/>Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979)<BR/>Brian W Aldiss: Non-Stop (1958)<BR/>Isaac Asimov: Foundation (1951)<BR/><B>Margaret Atwood: The Blind Assassin (2000) </B><BR/><B>Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale (1985) </B><BR/>Paul Auster: In the Country of Last Things (1987)<BR/>J.G. Ballard: The Drowned World (1962)<BR/>J.G. Ballard: Crash (1973)<BR/>J.G. Ballard: Millennium People (2003)<BR/>Iain Banks: The Wasp Factory (1984)<BR/>Iain M Banks: Consider Phlebas (1987)<BR/>Clive Barker: Weaveworld (1987)<BR/>Nicola Barker: Darkmans (2007)<BR/>Stephen Baxter: The Time Ships (1995)<BR/>Greg Bear: Darwin's Radio (1999)<BR/><B>William Beckford: Vathek (1786) </B><BR/>Alfred Bester: The Stars My Destination (1956)<BR/>Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 (1953)<BR/>Poppy Z Brite: Lost Souls (1992)<BR/>Charles Brockden Brown: Wieland (1798)<BR/>Algis Budrys: Rogue Moon (1960)<BR/>Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita (1966)<BR/>Edward Bulwer-Lytton: The Coming Race (1871)<BR/>Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange (1960)<BR/>Anthony Burgess: The End of the World News (1982)<BR/>Edgar Rice Burroughs: A Princess of Mars (1912)<BR/>William Burroughs: Naked Lunch (1959)<BR/>Octavia Butler: Kindred (1979)<BR/>Samuel Butler: Erewhon (1872)<BR/>Italo Calvino: The Baron in the Trees (1957)<BR/>Ramsey Campbell: The Influence (1988)<BR/><B>Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) </B><BR/>Lewis Carroll: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871)<BR/><B>Angela Carter: Nights at the Circus (1984) </B><BR/>Angela Carter: The Passion of New Eve (1977)<BR/>Michael Chabon: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (2000)<BR/>Arthur C Clarke: Childhood's End (1953)<BR/>GK Chesterton: The Man Who Was Thursday (1908)<BR/>Susanna Clarke: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell (2004)<BR/>Michael G Coney: Hello Summer, Goodbye (1975)<BR/><B>Douglas Coupland: Girlfriend in a Coma (1998) </B><BR/><B>Mark Danielewski: House of Leaves (2000) </B><BR/>Marie Darrieussecq: Pig Tales (1996)<BR/>Samuel R Delaney: The Einstein Intersection (1967)<BR/>Philip K Dick: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)<BR/>Philip K Dick: The Man in the High Castle (1962)<BR/>Thomas M Disch: Camp Concentration (1968)<BR/>Umberto Eco: Foucault's Pendulum (1988)<BR/>Michel Faber: Under the Skin (2000)<BR/>John Fowles: The Magus (1966)<BR/><B>Neil Gaiman: American Gods (2001) </B><BR/>Alan Garner: Red Shift (1973)<BR/>William Gibson: Neuromancer (1984)<BR/>Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Herland (1915)<BR/><B>William Golding: Lord of the Flies (1954) </B><BR/>Joe Haldeman: The Forever War (1974)<BR/>M John Harrison: Light (2002)<BR/>Nathaniel Hawthorne: The House of the Seven Gables (1851)<BR/>Robert A Heinlein: Stranger in a Strange Land (1961)<BR/><B>Frank Herbert: Dune (1965) </B><BR/>Hermann Hesse: The Glass Bead Game (1943)<BR/>Russell Hoban: Riddley Walker (1980)<BR/>James Hogg: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824)<BR/>Michel Houellebecq: Atomised (1998)<BR/>Aldous Huxley: Brave New World (1932)<BR/>Kazuo Ishiguro: The Unconsoled (1995)<BR/>Shirley Jackson: The Haunting of Hill House (1959)<BR/><B>Henry James: The Turn of the Screw (1898) </B><BR/>PD James: The Children of Men (1992)<BR/>Richard Jefferies: After London; Or, Wild England (1885)<BR/>Gwyneth Jones: Bold as Love (2001)<BR/>Franz Kafka: The Trial (1925)<BR/>Daniel Keyes: Flowers for Algernon (1966)<BR/>Stephen King: The Shining (1977)<BR/>Marghanita Laski: The Victorian Chaise-longue (1953)<BR/><B>CS Lewis: The Chronicles of Narnia (1950-56) (Book 1 at least) </B><BR/>Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: Uncle Silas (1864)<BR/>Stanislaw Lem: Solaris (1961)<BR/><B>Ursula K Le Guin: The Earthsea series (1968-1990) </B><BR/>Ursula K Le Guin: The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)<BR/>Doris Lessing: Memoirs of a Survivor (1974)<BR/>MG Lewis: The Monk (1796)<BR/>David Lindsay: A Voyage to Arcturus (1920)<BR/>Ken MacLeod: The Night Sessions (2008)<BR/>Hilary Mantel: Beyond Black (2005)<BR/>Michael Marshall Smith: Only Forward (1994)<BR/><B>Richard Matheson: I Am Legend (1954) </B><BR/>Charles Maturin: Melmoth the Wanderer (1820)<BR/>Patrick McCabe: The Butcher Boy (1992)<BR/>Cormac McCarthy: The Road (2006)<BR/>Jed Mercurio: Ascent (2007)<BR/>China Miéville: The Scar (2002)<BR/>Andrew Miller: Ingenious Pain (1997)<BR/>Walter M Miller Jr: A Canticle for Leibowitz (1960)<BR/>David Mitchell: Cloud Atlas (2004)<BR/>Michael Moorcock: Mother London (1988)<BR/>William Morris: News From Nowhere (1890)<BR/><B>Toni Morrison: Beloved (1987) </B><BR/>Haruki Murakami: The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (1995)<BR/>Vladimir Nabokov: Ada or Ardor (1969)<BR/><B>Audrey Niffenegger: The Time Traveler's Wife (2003) </B><BR/>Larry Niven: Ringworld (1970)<BR/>Jeff Noon: Vurt (1993)<BR/>Flann O'Brien: The Third Policeman (1967)<BR/>Ben Okri: The Famished Road (1991)<BR/><B>George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-four (1949) </B><BR/>Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club (1996)<BR/>Thomas Love Peacock: Nightmare Abbey (1818)<BR/>Mervyn Peake: Titus Groan (1946)<BR/>Frederik Pohl & CM Kornbluth: The Space Merchants (1953)<BR/>John Cowper Powys: A Glastonbury Romance (1932)<BR/>Terry Pratchett: The Discworld series (1983- ) (A few of them)<BR/>Christopher Priest: The Prestige (1995)<BR/><B>Philip Pullman: His Dark Materials (1995-2000) </B><BR/>François Rabelais: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532-34)<BR/><B>Ann Radcliffe: The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) </B><BR/>Alastair Reynolds: Revelation Space (2000)<BR/>Kim Stanley Robinson: The Years of Rice and Salt (2002)<BR/><B>JK Rowling: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997) </B><BR/>Geoff Ryman: Air (2005)<BR/>Salman Rushdie: The Satanic Verses (1988)<BR/>Joanna Russ: The Female Man (1975)<BR/>Antoine de Sainte-Exupéry: The Little Prince (1943)<BR/>José Saramago: Blindness (1995)<BR/>Will Self: How the Dead Live (2000)<BR/><B>Mary Shelley: Frankenstein (1818) </B><BR/>Dan Simmons: Hyperion (1989)<BR/>Olaf Stapledon: Star Maker (1937)<BR/>Neal Stephenson: Snow Crash (1992)<BR/>Robert Louis Stevenson: The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)<BR/><B>Bram Stoker: Dracula (1897) </B><BR/>Rupert Thomson: The Insult (1996)<BR/><B>JRR Tolkien: The Hobbit (1937) </B><BR/><B>JRR Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings (1954-55) </B><BR/>Mark Twain: A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court (1889)<BR/>Kurt Vonnegut: Sirens of Titan (1959)<BR/><B>Horace Walpole: The Castle of Otranto (1764) </B><BR/>Robert Walser: Institute Benjamenta (1909)<BR/>Sylvia Townsend Warner: Lolly Willowes (1926)<BR/>Sarah Waters: Affinity (1999)<BR/>HG Wells: The Time Machine (1895)<BR/>HG Wells: The War of the Worlds (1898)<BR/>TH White: The Sword in the Stone (1938)<BR/>Angus Wilson: The Old Men at the Zoo (1961)<BR/>Gene Wolfe: The Book of the New Sun (1980-83)<BR/>Virginia Woolf: Orlando (1928)<BR/>John Wyndham: Day of the Triffids (1951)<BR/>John Wyndham: The Midwich Cuckoos (1957)<BR/>Yevgeny Zamyatin: We (1924)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17224228.post-53466261472906986382009-01-24T05:40:00.000-07:002009-01-24T05:40:00.000-07:00I always find these type of lists interesting. I'v...I always find these type of lists interesting. <BR/><BR/>I've only managed 19 on that list - a pretty poor showing ...<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the links :o)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com