{"id":89,"date":"2006-10-25T14:46:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-25T14:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=89"},"modified":"2006-10-25T14:46:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-25T14:46:00","slug":"flying-leap-off-the-book-meme-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"Flying Leap off the Book Meme Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=left>\n<p>Gakked from <a href=\"http:\/\/sbweber.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">sbweber<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/annef.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">annef<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more The Most Significant SF & Fantasy Books of the Last 50 Years, 1953-2002--><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#FF0000\">Books I&#8217;ve read are in red.<\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"#00FF00\">Books I <u>tried<\/u> to read and couldn&#8217;t get into are in green.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>1. <font color=\"#FF0000\">The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien<\/font><\/p>\n<p>2. <font color=\"#FF0000\">The Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov<\/font><\/p>\n<p>3. <font color=\"#FF0000\">Dune, Frank Herbert<\/font><\/p>\n<p>4. <font color=\"#FF0000\">Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein<\/font><\/p>\n<p>5. <font color=\"#FF0000\">A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin<\/font><\/p>\n<p>6. Neuromancer, William Gibson<\/p>\n<p>7. Childhood&#8217;s End, Arthur C. Clarke<\/p>\n<p>8. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick<\/p>\n<p>9. <font color=\"#FF0000\">The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley<\/font><\/p>\n<p>10. <font color=\"#FF0000\">Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury<\/font><\/p>\n<p>11. The Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe<\/p>\n<p>12. <font color=\"#00FF00\">A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr. <i>just couldn&#8217;t get into it<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n<p>13. The Caves of Steel, Isaac Asimov<\/p>\n<p>14. Children of the Atom, Wilmar Shiras<\/p>\n<p>15. Cities in Flight, James Blish<\/p>\n<p>16. The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett<\/p>\n<p>17. <font color=\"#FF0000\">Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison<\/font><\/p>\n<p>18. Deathbird Stories, Harlan Ellison<\/p>\n<p>19. The Demolished Man, Alfred Bester<\/p>\n<p>20. <font color=\"#00FF00\">Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany <i>Huh?<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n<p>21. Dragonflight, Anne McCaffrey<\/p>\n<p>22. Ender&#8217;s Game, Orson Scott Card<\/p>\n<p>23. <font color=\"#00FF00\">The First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Stephen R. Donaldson <i>Got as far as the guy rotting away from leprosy&#8230;<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n<p>24. The Forever War, Joe Haldeman<\/p>\n<p>25. Gateway, Frederik Pohl<\/p>\n<p>26. <font color=\"#FF0000\">Harry Potter and the Philosopher&#8217;s Stone, J.K. Rowling<\/font><\/p>\n<p>27. <font color=\"#FF0000\">The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams<\/font><\/p>\n<p>28. <font color=\"#FF0000\">I Am Legend, Richard Matheson<\/font><\/p>\n<p>29. <font color=\"#FF0000\">Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice<\/font><\/p>\n<p>30. <font color=\"#00FF00\">The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin <i>I do want to go back and finish this one<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n<p>31. Little, Big, John Crowley<\/p>\n<p>32. Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny<\/p>\n<p>33. The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick<\/p>\n<p>34. Mission of Gravity, Hal Clement<\/p>\n<p>35. <font color=\"#FF0000\">More Than Human, Theodore Sturgeon<\/font><\/p>\n<p>36. The Rediscovery of Man, Cordwainer Smith<\/p>\n<p>37. <font color=\"#FF0000\">On the Beach, Nevil Shute<\/font><\/p>\n<p>38. Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke<\/p>\n<p>39. <font color=\"#FF0000\">Ringworld, Larry Niven<\/font><\/p>\n<p>40. Rogue Moon, Algis Budrys<\/p>\n<p>41. <font color=\"#FF0000\">The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien<\/font><\/p>\n<p>42. Slaughterhouse-5, Kurt Vonnegut<\/p>\n<p>43. Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson<\/p>\n<p>44. Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner<\/p>\n<p>45. The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester<\/p>\n<p>46. Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein<\/p>\n<p>47. Stormbringer, Michael Moorcock<\/p>\n<p>48. <font color=\"#FF0000\">The Sword of Shannara, Terry Brooks<\/font><\/p>\n<p>49. Timescape, Gregory Benford<\/p>\n<p>50. 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