Saturday, January 9, 2010

1000 Novels to Read - Sci-Fi and Fantasy

From the Guardian's Series: 1000 novels everyone must read

Here are their sci-fi and fantasy entries.

CS Lewis: The Chronicles of Narnia (1950-56)
JRR Tolkien: The Hobbit (1937)
JRR Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings (1954-55)
Philip Pullman: His Dark Materials (1995-2000)
Terry Pratchett: The Discworld series (1983- )
Ursula K Le Guin: The Earthsea series (1968-1990)

Umm, aren't we missing a few things like, Asimov's Foundation series or his Robot series or Robert Heinlein or Dune or...Yeah, yeah, that little list above is just for works that create  "imagined worlds".

Oh, OK, here are links to the entire list of science-fiction and fantasy works:

Wow, one title I did not expect to find here is Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita (finally published in 1966, twenty years after he passed entirely out of the reach of Joe Stalin).


BTW, The Guardian has a book section that is simply smashing, even brilliant!
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