I was hoping to see some Iian M Banks, Peter F Hamilton, Stephen Baxter or Alitair Reynolds. Glad to see The Windup Girl got a mention. But anything connected to Harry Potter or the Hunger Games is just oversell.
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Several omissions
Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
Players of Null-A by A.E.Van Vogt
I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison, a seminal 1967 short story that undoubtedly influenced the Terminator franchise.
But for all the rest, Iām glad they included Bester, Gibson, McCaffrey, Herbert,etc.
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Somebody should take this author and translate at least some of the works to English.
As a kid I grew up on the two trilogies.
The world built in 30ās electrical technology and partially crosspolinated by Verne is beautiful.
Some days I think I should read more sf. But then Iād have to read less of the datasheet porn or various whitepapersā¦ Tough choices out thereā¦
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As enjoyable as The Cyberiad is, I donāt think itās as good as Solaris, which tackles an essential problem of science fiction (and humanity, as we search for life).
The only other of his Iāve read was The Futurological Congress; I very highly recommend it, it would be in my top 100 but isnāt well known enough to make this kind of list.
Not sure how recent the tendency is, but agreed.
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The Time Machineās on there, too.
Iād have Steven Erikson on my fantasy list. Definitely ahead of Robert Jordan.
Glad there wasnāt any Terry Goodkind.
No Harry Harrison? Greg Bear?
Donāt forget the faster-than-light antimatter planet missilesā¦
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Blood Music is on the list.
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Man I am blind today. I would go for Dr. Moreau or War Of the Worlds over The Time Machine.
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I donāt know Lemās work well enough to attempt to judge that, but, whatever the novelās comparative merits, itās easy to suspect that Solaris made the cut because there is a movie version. (I imagine it was Soderbergās effort that did the trick, not Tarkovskyās. 
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Probably Do Androids Dreamā¦ made the cut for the same reason. I donāt usually hear that one referred to as being in the top tier of Dickās novels.
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Slaughterhouse Five is on there, at least.
After seeing YA representation with Potter and Hunger Games, I was getting mad, thinking that Cooperās Dark Is Rising series wasnāt on there, too. Thankfully, it was there, just further on near the bottom. That series was pretty profound. Excellent prose, excellent stories. When IMO comparatively second-rate stuff like Potter gets praised and Cooper seems forgotten, I get a little upset; nice to see it represented.
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An entirely fair point. I think Iām just chafing at all the āmovie booksā that are on the list.
I loved The Futurological Congress as well! Perhaps not everyoneās cup of tea, but certainly a fun romp. If you havenāt had the chance, Iād say that Lemās Memoirs Found in a Bathtub is an interesting complement to The Futurological Congress with regards to questioning the nature of reality. I do recommend Fiasco - as it explores many of the same themes in Solaris and personally give the final nod to Fiasco. YMMV obv.
Preach it. Erikson is my go-to recommendation for folks that feel conflicted about fantasy. I bounced off Jordan hard, but I find that I revisit Erikson on a yearly basis with Chain of Dogs being my personal favorite.
I think youāre spot on with that observation. This list feels does feel a bit skewed toward titles which were adapted to movies. And Iām right there with you on feeling unamused with the Soderberg adaption.
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Way too much juvenile fantasy. Susan Cooper, Phillip Pullman, have written great kidsā books but they are for kids.
Whereās the Ray Bradbury, the Issac Asimov?
With you on all except the Windup Girl. Heās technically a decent writer, but the whole trying to be gritty, hard, SF, while having a terrible grasp of science, combined with the crass orientalism, was enough to keep me from even making it halfway through.
No A.E Van Vogt, Frederic Pohl, Doc Smith, H. Beam Piper, Bruce Sterling, Fritz Leiber, off the top of my head, while having a huge amount of extremely formulaic fantasy, the spectrum of which could have been covered with a quarter as many books.
Lots of authors represented only by works that are far from their best:
Gaiman is represented by āAmerican Gods,ā
PKD is represented by āAndroids,ā which barely makes the top ten of his books.
Stephenson is represented by āSnow crashā
To be fair though, more than half of those books belong on a list like this, and more than half of the authors are represented by work thatās among their best.
Am surprised no one has mentioned Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake. It is usually considered Fantasy, mainly because it is hard to classify as anything else.
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Windup Girl was just a fanastic story, I loved it. We have to remember this is an Amazon list focused on selling books though. Gotta be Hardcore to know Hardcore
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I agree with you in Zelazny. Ellison is handicapped if by ābookā they mean ānovelā; I personally might choose āDeathbirdā over āI Have No Mouth and I Must Screamā for a single story, though itās not an easy call. I definitely would wa t to see Gene Wolfeās Book of the New Sun on the list.
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Martian Chronicles was listed, I think
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Sighā¦
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I can proudly say Iāve yet to be done with quitting Discworld after reading the color of magic first.
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I didnāt like it cause the story ending was just ummm, uh, okayā¦ whatever. Really neat world building but the story didnāt hold up as it was going 5 different directions.
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