Just a bit of fun for the lounge.
While mowing the lawns, thinking idly of nothing and anything, it occurred to me that of you crossed Baylor and Danny in some sort of teleporting, combining device, much like in The Fly, you'd end up with a (handsome) creature who had read almost all science fiction books.
I then got to mulling this over in a slightly more sensible way and decided that, indeed, if you combined the readership of all the Chronicles Forum members, you'd obtain quite an impressive reading log. Have we read close to all major SF and F works? I'm not talking all short stories published, as there are way too many thousand insignificant works by forgotten authors, but let's say "books" as in collections, anthologies or novels.
I'm quite sure that between us we've read all the books of the big 3 in SF (Heinlein, Asimov, Clarke). I know I've read most, and I know there are others here who've read them all. Likewise, we known J-Sun's read most of Cherryh, and for those few he hadn't read, others doubtless fill in the gaps. Weber? Parson and tobl cover us pretty well. Moorcock - JD's your man. Vance - Connavar. Simak - Dave Wixon, of course. And so on. And we have great diversity - I've read almost no romantic fantasy, but many on here, e.g. Teresa, have read a lot. I know for a fact that there are folk here who have read all of WoT and Malazan and other epic fantasy much less popular. Is there anything we haven't collectively read?
So, in response to this thread, let's see:
(1) General discussion of whether we have read everything, and if not, what percentage have we read? (Because I'm in lock-down and it seemed like a fun hypothesis)
(2) I've set a slightly daft hypothesis up - that between us we've read everything - can you specifically challenge the hypothesis and think of a SFF book we haven't read, or identify an author who is under-read among the whole reading membership?
Okay, so the main problem with this game would be if folk just come up with an extremely obscure book by an extremely obscure author. So if the author is ludicrously obscure (e.g. no wiki page), the book doesn't count, and we're off the hook.
(3) If anyone suggests a book that we've not "collectively read" - can you prove them wrong by revealing you have actually read it?
(4) And if we agree there's a book out there we haven't read, that meets the "mustn't be far to obscure" rule - who will add it to their TBR pile? Let's add it to our collective reading experience!
While mowing the lawns, thinking idly of nothing and anything, it occurred to me that of you crossed Baylor and Danny in some sort of teleporting, combining device, much like in The Fly, you'd end up with a (handsome) creature who had read almost all science fiction books.
I then got to mulling this over in a slightly more sensible way and decided that, indeed, if you combined the readership of all the Chronicles Forum members, you'd obtain quite an impressive reading log. Have we read close to all major SF and F works? I'm not talking all short stories published, as there are way too many thousand insignificant works by forgotten authors, but let's say "books" as in collections, anthologies or novels.
I'm quite sure that between us we've read all the books of the big 3 in SF (Heinlein, Asimov, Clarke). I know I've read most, and I know there are others here who've read them all. Likewise, we known J-Sun's read most of Cherryh, and for those few he hadn't read, others doubtless fill in the gaps. Weber? Parson and tobl cover us pretty well. Moorcock - JD's your man. Vance - Connavar. Simak - Dave Wixon, of course. And so on. And we have great diversity - I've read almost no romantic fantasy, but many on here, e.g. Teresa, have read a lot. I know for a fact that there are folk here who have read all of WoT and Malazan and other epic fantasy much less popular. Is there anything we haven't collectively read?
So, in response to this thread, let's see:
(1) General discussion of whether we have read everything, and if not, what percentage have we read? (Because I'm in lock-down and it seemed like a fun hypothesis)
(2) I've set a slightly daft hypothesis up - that between us we've read everything - can you specifically challenge the hypothesis and think of a SFF book we haven't read, or identify an author who is under-read among the whole reading membership?
Okay, so the main problem with this game would be if folk just come up with an extremely obscure book by an extremely obscure author. So if the author is ludicrously obscure (e.g. no wiki page), the book doesn't count, and we're off the hook.
(3) If anyone suggests a book that we've not "collectively read" - can you prove them wrong by revealing you have actually read it?
(4) And if we agree there's a book out there we haven't read, that meets the "mustn't be far to obscure" rule - who will add it to their TBR pile? Let's add it to our collective reading experience!
