NPR's Top 100 SFF Books
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( NPR's Top 100 SFF Books )
Off the top of my head, I would've narrowed the list a bit more to print SFF and stuff published within the genre (meaning I'd exclude the likes of Wicked, Outlander, and The Time Traveler's Wife even if I thought they deserved to be there, as well as Watchmen and Sandman, which are greats but not in this industry); while all media crosspollinates and they've all influenced one another, that's true of everything, you could make the same argument of film and fiction, but I'm pretty sure everyone agrees these lists would be impossible to make without any divisons. Aside from that, like so many lists of this nature, this thing has an incredible newness bias -- Patrick Rothfuss, seriously? George R.R. Martin? Susanna Clarke? If you're whapping up Jim Butcher, for God's sake, you might as well include J.K. Rowling for impactfulness -- this list really needs to decide what kind of list it is.
Otherwise, yesterday I went to the Jersey shore for the first time. Today is the Pennsylvania Renfaire, not for the first time. Inbetween I had a complicated dream about a LARP/IF game/virtual reality simulation that turned evil and trapped all the players in but none of the other players would believe it in time -- this was something I discovered in a level that was supposed to be about exorcizing a house haunted by an evil father, but turned out to be possessed by a tainted AI version of the Egyptian god Horus and was far above my level. Then it poisoned all the food and turned all the meat raw. It was the first dreaming simulation of biting into raw chicken I've ever had, I'd rather not repeat it.
themis . Bolded for read, italicized for started, underlined for meaning to read.( NPR's Top 100 SFF Books )
Off the top of my head, I would've narrowed the list a bit more to print SFF and stuff published within the genre (meaning I'd exclude the likes of Wicked, Outlander, and The Time Traveler's Wife even if I thought they deserved to be there, as well as Watchmen and Sandman, which are greats but not in this industry); while all media crosspollinates and they've all influenced one another, that's true of everything, you could make the same argument of film and fiction, but I'm pretty sure everyone agrees these lists would be impossible to make without any divisons. Aside from that, like so many lists of this nature, this thing has an incredible newness bias -- Patrick Rothfuss, seriously? George R.R. Martin? Susanna Clarke? If you're whapping up Jim Butcher, for God's sake, you might as well include J.K. Rowling for impactfulness -- this list really needs to decide what kind of list it is.
Otherwise, yesterday I went to the Jersey shore for the first time. Today is the Pennsylvania Renfaire, not for the first time. Inbetween I had a complicated dream about a LARP/IF game/virtual reality simulation that turned evil and trapped all the players in but none of the other players would believe it in time -- this was something I discovered in a level that was supposed to be about exorcizing a house haunted by an evil father, but turned out to be possessed by a tainted AI version of the Egyptian god Horus and was far above my level. Then it poisoned all the food and turned all the meat raw. It was the first dreaming simulation of biting into raw chicken I've ever had, I'd rather not repeat it.
