OK, Me Too

This
is from a meme; Tikistitch has put up a list of the " href="http://tikistitch.livejournal.com/570773.html">Most
Significant SF & Fantasy Books of the Last 50 Years".
 I got this from href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2006/08/essential_science_fiction.php">Coturnix,
who got it from href="http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/03/uh_yeah_i_guess_i_do_read_some.php">Myers.
  href="http://scienceblogs.com/evolvingthoughts/2007/03/sf_and_me.php">John
Wilkins has done it, too.  



The idea is to put the ones you've read in boldface.  One
thing I don't like about this is that, to me, it makes no sense to lump
SF and fantasy books together.  To me, that is like conflating
organic chemistry with Harlequin romances.  



The list is below the fold.  Note that I read very little of
either genre now, and I never did go for some of the "classics," such
as Tolkien.



Oh, and by the way, I o not agree at all with the selection of the
"Most Significant."  But who would?

• The
  Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
• The
  Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov
• Dune,
  Frank Herbert
• Stranger
  in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein
• A
  Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin
• Neuromancer,
  William Gibson
• Childhood's
  End, Arthur C. Clarke
• Do
  Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
• The
  Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
• Fahrenheit
  451, Ray Bradbury
• The
  Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe
• A
  Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr.
• The
  Caves of Steel, Isaac Asimov
• Children
  of the Atom, Wilmar Shiras
• Cities
  in Flight, James Blish
• The
  Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett
• Dangerous
  Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison
• Deathbird
  Stories, Harlan Ellison
• The
  Demolished Man, Alfred Bester
• Dhalgren,
  Samuel R. Delany
• Dragonflight,
  Anne McCaffrey
• Ender's
  Game, Orson Scott Card
• The
  First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Stephen R. Donaldson
• The
  Forever War, Joe Haldeman
• Gateway,
  Frederik Pohl
• Harry
  Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J.K. Rowling
• The
  Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
• I
  Am Legend, Richard Matheson
• Interview
  with the Vampire, Anne Rice
• The
  Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin
• Little,
  Big, John Crowley
• Lord
  of Light, Roger Zelazny
• The
  Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
• Mission
  of Gravity, Hal Clement
• More
  Than Human, Theodore Sturgeon
• The
  Rediscovery of Man, Cordwainer Smith
• On
  the Beach, Nevil Shute
• Rendezvous
  with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke
• Ringworld,
  Larry Niven
• Rogue
  Moon, Algis Budrys
• The
  Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
• Slaughterhouse-5,
  Kurt Vonnegut
• Snow
  Crash, Neal Stephenson
• Stand
  on Zanzibar, John Brunner
• The
  Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester
• Starship
  Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein
• Stormbringer,
  Michael Moorcock
• The
  Sword of Shannara, Terry Brooks
• Timescape,
  Gregory Benford
• To
  Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip Jose Farmer