On my hate, hate, hate list are Canticle for Leibowitz, Sword of Shannara and Thomas Covenant the Unbelievable Whining Ass.
On my love, love, love list are Snow Crash and Lord of Light, although I loved several others to a lesser extent.
Tons of great books / authors didn't make this cut. No Greg Egan (Distress, Quarantine, Permutation City), Peter Hamilton (Reality Dysfunction, Fallen Dragon, Mindstar Rising), Raymond E. Feist (Magician, Daughter of Empire), Charles Sheffield (the Mind Pool), C.S. Friedman (Black Sun Rising), David Brin (the Uplift War, Startide Rising), Walter Jon Williams (Hard Wired, Aristoi), Robert Jordan (Wheel of Time, for all it's neverendingness, it's quite well-written!), Patricia A McKillip (Forgotten Beasts of Eld), Andre Norton (Witch World novels), Fred Saberhagen (Empire of the East) or Poul Anderson!
I can't believe William Gibson and the Sword of Shannara rip-off made it on to the list. Boring derivative hacks.
I really have to get around to reading I Am Legend before the movie comes out...
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On my hate, hate, hate list are Canticle for Leibowitz, Sword of Shannara and Thomas Covenant the Unbelievable Whining Ass.
On my love, love, love list are Snow Crash and Lord of Light, although I loved several others to a lesser extent.
Tons of great books / authors didn't make this cut. No Greg Egan (Distress, Quarantine, Permutation City), Peter Hamilton (Reality Dysfunction, Fallen Dragon, Mindstar Rising), Raymond E. Feist (Magician, Daughter of Empire), Charles Sheffield (the Mind Pool), C.S. Friedman (Black Sun Rising), David Brin (the Uplift War, Startide Rising), Walter Jon Williams (Hard Wired, Aristoi), Robert Jordan (Wheel of Time, for all it's neverendingness, it's quite well-written!), Patricia A McKillip (Forgotten Beasts of Eld), Andre Norton (Witch World novels), Fred Saberhagen (Empire of the East) or Poul Anderson!
I can't believe William Gibson and the Sword of Shannara rip-off made it on to the list. Boring derivative hacks.
I really have to get around to reading I Am Legend before the movie comes out...