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Torque Control — ... Blatant blog-fodder, but hey: the Guardian is doing a series on 1000 novels everyone must read, and today they reached science fiction and fantasy (and horror). Don’t worry, I’m not going to post the whole list — Martin’s done that, if you’re interested — but here are the links: Part one (Adams to Golding) Part two (Haldeman to Okri) Part three (Palahniuk to Zamyatin) The best dystopias by Michael Moorcock Radical reading by Roz ...

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Torque Control — ... Blatant blog-fodder, but hey: the Guardian is doing a series on 1000 novels everyone must read, and today they reached science fiction and fantasy (and horror). Don’t worry, I’m not going to post the whole list — Martin’s done that, if you’re interested — but here are the links: Part one (Adams to Golding) Part two (Haldeman to Okri) Part three (Palahniuk to Zamyatin) The best dystopias by Michael Moorcock Radical reading by Roz ...

Guardian's Science Fiction & Fantasy Novels Everyone Must Read: The Meme
SF Signal — Guardian has been running a series called 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read and has recently published their 124 science fiction and fantasy picks. (Links to intro. For the list, see Parts One, Two and Three.) They've also listed a couple of interesting articles: The Best Dystopias by Michael Moorcock, Imagined Worlds by Susanna Clarke, and Novels that predicted the future by Andrew Crumey. As if I needed a reminder of how horribly under-read I am in the genre, I thought I'd note ...

Guardian's 1000 novels everyone must read: SF edition
Grasping for the Wind — The Guardian has listed the SF section of the 1000 everyone must read. This bloke has posted the whole list. and Torque Control has all the links, though I have re-posted it here as well. Introduction Part one (Adams to Golding) Part two (Haldeman to Okri) Part three (Palahniuk to Zamyatin) The best dystopias by Michael Moorcock Radical reading by Roz Kaveney Imagined worlds by Susanna Clarke The best gothic novels by Patrick McGrath ...

Guardian's Science Fiction & Fantasy Novels Everyone Must Read: The Meme
Neth Space — ... Guardian has been running a series called 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read and has recently published their 124 science fiction and fantasy picks. (Links to intro. For the list, see Parts One, Two and Three.) They've also listed a couple of interesting articles: The Best Dystopias by Michael Moorcock, Imagined Worlds by Susanna Clarke, and ...

The Guardian and the 1000 novels
Mish Sci Fi Musings — I really enjoyed the lists of novels that the Guardian feels everyone must read. I think it is great that they are promoting reading and providing a place to start in any genre you like. I am including here the list for science fiction and fantasy. They start off with a classic so the list seems very promising. LIST OF NOVELS Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979) Originating as a BBC radio series in 1978, Douglas Adams's inspired melding of hippy-trail guidebook and sci-fi comedy turned its novelisations into a publishing ...

1000 Novels Everyone Must Read
Pat's Fantasy Hotlist — The Guardian is publishing lists of novels everyone should read, and here are their science fiction/fantasy selections: Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979) Brian W Aldiss - Non-Stop (1958) Isaac Asimov - Foundation (1951) Margaret Atwood - The Blind Assassin (2000) Paul Auster - In the Country of Lost Things (1987) JG Ballard - The Drowned World (1962) JG Ballard - Crash (1973) JG Ballard - Millennium People (2003) Iain Banks - The Wasp Factory (1984) Iain M Banks - Consider Phlebas (1987) Clive Barker - ...

Ethics of writing about a "Girlfriend in a Coma"
Marooned: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror books on Mars — ... (1998) with its title. According to The Guardian , a newspaper in the United Kingdom, Coupland's novel is one of the 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read .