500 Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Books You Should Read Before You Die - Members' Version

tegeus-Cromis · Jul 21, 2020

Has anyone listed Jules Verne yet?

Randy M. · Jul 21, 2020

306. Starlight by Alfred Bester
307. The Best of Eric Frank Russell

Another option is another thread: The 500 Short Sf/f/h Stories We Recommend.

Randy M.

hitmouse · Jul 21, 2020

Randy M. said:
306. Starlight by Alfred Bester
307. The Best of Eric Frank Russell

Another option is another thread: The 500 Short Sf/f/h Stories We Recommend.

Randy M.

Is Starlight a ss collection?

Randy M. · Jul 21, 2020

hitmouse said:
Is Starlight a ss collection?

It is. An SFBC compilation of two volumes, The Light Fantastic and Star Light, Star Bright, the complete short fiction (I think) of Alfred Bester, all issued in 1976 and probably not that easy to get hold of now.

Randy M.

hitmouse · Jul 21, 2020

Randy M. said:
It is. An SFBC compilation of two volumes, The Light Fantastic and Star Light, Star Bright, the complete short fiction (I think) of Alfred Bester, all issued in 1976 and probably not that easy to get hold of now.

Randy M.

Thanks. I have the 2 individual collections you mention, and they are superb.

Extollager · Jul 21, 2020

Randy M. said:
Another option is another thread: The 500 Short Sf/f/h Stories We Recommend.

Randy M.

Now that is sn excellent proposal.

Brian G Turner · Jul 21, 2020

Randy M. said:
Another option is another thread: The 500 Short Sf/f/h Stories We Recommend.

How about keeping lists to a more manageable 100?

In fact, I'm tempted to set up new threads for the chrons members top 100 SF and top 100 fantasy novels.

Randy M. · Jul 21, 2020

Brian G Turner said:
How about keeping lists to a more manageable 100?

In fact, I'm tempted to set up new threads for the chrons members top 100 SF and top 100 fantasy novels.

500 is a bigger challenge.

Extollager · Jul 21, 2020

Randy M. said:
306. Starlight by Alfred Bester
307. The Best of Eric Frank Russell

Another option is another thread: The 500 Short Sf/f/h Stories We Recommend.

Randy M.

Your proposal is taken up here, Randy:

Fifty re-readable SFFH stories: your recommendations.

Fifty re-readable SFFH stories: your recommendations. This thread is limited to nominations for short fiction that you suggest others owe it to themselves to try. Short fiction includes short stories (under 17,00 words) and novellas (17,000-40,000 words). Please do not nominate any story here...

www.sffchronicles.com

Extollager · Jul 21, 2020

Brian G Turner said:
How about keeping lists to a more manageable 100?

Right. Five hundred is too many genre books to specify that people owe it to themselves to try. Even 500 short stories is kind of a lot....

When we reach 500 books, it would be good to use the list as the basis for voting on a realistic select list of 100 books.

nixie · Jul 21, 2020

Brian G Turner said:
How about keeping lists to a more manageable 100?

In fact, I'm tempted to set up new threads for the chrons members top 100 SF and top 100 fantasy novels.

@Brian G Turner, thinking about this, some books don't work as a single volume you need the whole series to understand it, others like Gormeghast, Magician etc work well as standalones.

We could have, separate threads,
100 Sci-fi.
100 standalone fantasy.
100 top series.

svalbard · Jul 21, 2020

hitmouse said:
Have we done Iain M Banks?

anyway...
296. Slan AE van Vogt

Slan is at 76.

svalbard · Jul 21, 2020

This is going to get very confusing unless it can be pulled together as a list that can be easily checked without going through pages of posts.

nixie · Jul 21, 2020

svalbard said:
This is going to get very confusing unless it can be pulled together as a list that can be easily checked without going through pages of posts.

Sorry that noise you can here is my brain working on a solution. Its a bit rusty doesnt get used much.

nixie · Jul 21, 2020

The thread is difficult to keep track off.
What if I close it and we have three separate threads as I suggested above. I could then update the first post every day or two.

M. Robert Gibson · Jul 21, 2020

Re: a searchable list
As pointed out to me by @tegeus-Cromis it is possible to do a thread-only search
- Click on the Search link
- Change the option after the search box from Everywhere to This thread

M. Robert Gibson · Jul 21, 2020

tegeus-Cromis said:
Has anyone listed Jules Verne yet?

I've added these two:

142 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
143 Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Jules Verne

tegeus-Cromis · Jul 21, 2020

Let's stick with this 500 book list first, please? Then you all can refine it/cut it down as you wish. But this seems to me a highly worthwhile effort. 100-book lists *never* include all the books I think should be included.

AlexH · Jul 21, 2020

Extollager said:
Short fiction is being terribly shortchanged.....

5 of my 7 are short fiction! Hopefully I started something?