Extollager
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So Chrondom has read all of those books. I thought maybe not all the Stapledon. I should’ve figured they too had been read!
These are major works you’ve read, Baylor?
A definitive (?) list of classic SF
I found this allegedly definitive list of classic SF on line here. The Classics of Science Fiction list, compiled by James Wallace Harris and Anthony Bernardo, is an attempt to create a definitive list of the best Science Fiction books. Harris and Bernardo collected 28 different recommended and...www.sffchronicles.com
Classics of Science Fiction
Classics of Science Fiction identifies the books and short stories that are most remembered based on how often they are cited by awards, best-of-lists, polls, editors, scholars and other sources of recognition.csfquery.com
OK -- thanks, Baylor, for the clarification! I'll bet there are two or three there that nobody else has read. Now that J. D. Worthington is no longer posting here, for example, you might be the only person here who's read the Cline novel.
I think J D. Worthington has read more books then all us put together.
So that means we will have to have read 470 SFFH books each. And that number of books has to be books that no one else has read to fulfill your quest. That is going to be a kicker.
J D reads carefully and thoughtfully, and so is able to remember and discuss what he reads.
Whether this means he has read more books than the rest of us, only he could say.
Yes, agreed, and yes, I was.Yep. But he's been very busy.
I agree with Teresa about omitting graphic novels and comics. Apples and oranges, for one thing. If Chrons adds them to this discussion, then I'll just go ahead and suggest while we're at it that we thrown in lyrics for music. "In the Year 2525" anyone? No. Let's please not go there. The original poster was, I'm pretty sure, thinking solely of regular books.
i was interested in "Cyclonopedia" from various rabbit-holes I went down during lockdown. Read some extracts and it was as you say. Maybe I would have thought the same about "Naked Lunch" tho... Negarestani did a comic that looks interesting but it's out of print, always about to be reissued.Oh, and has anyone actually read Reza Negarestani's Cyclonopedia (2008), praised to the heavens by Jeff Vandermeer? Cyclonopedia: Best Horror Novel You've Never Heard Of - Jeff VanderMeer
I've tried. It reads like crap. And I don't mean the supposedly "theoretical" parts. I mean the narrative exposition, which reads like the most cliché-ridden airport novel you've ever laid eyes on. But it's supposed to be a classic in some circles...
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