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So apparently I did something with my bank card that the bank peoples deemed suspicious, so I had to go in today and get a new card and make up a new PIN so that I can have access to my money (they of course but me off when I had less than four dollars total on my person). Thankfully it didn't take too long, but it still kinda pisses me off. I liked my PIN. And now I'm going to have to get comfortable with the new one. This will be awkward.

But on the upside tonight I'm having Pizza for dinner because the new place near our house has a deal where a Large Pepperoni is only $5. Yum.


Below are Time’s most significant SF novels between 1953-2006.

The meme part of this works like so: Bold the ones you have read, strike through the ones you read and hated, italicize those you started but never finished, and put a star (*) next to the ones you love.

1. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien*
2. The Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov
3. Dune, Frank Herbert*
4. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein
5. A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin

6. Neuromancer, William Gibson
7. Childhood’s End, Arthur C. Clarke
8. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
9. The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
10. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
11. The Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe
12. A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr.
13. The Caves of Steel, Isaac Asimov
14. Children of the Atom, Wilmar Shiras
15. Cities in Flight, James Blish
16. The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett
17. Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison
18. Deathbird Stories, Harlan Ellison
19. The Demolished Man, Alfred Bester
20. Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany
21. Dragonflight, Anne McCaffrey
22. Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card
23. The First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Stephen R. Donaldson
24. The Forever War, Joe Haldeman
25. Gateway, Frederik Pohl
26. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, J.K. Rowling
27. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
*
28. I Am Legend, Richard Matheson
29. Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice (I read Queen of the Damned, but never got around to the others... Actually, you know, I probably did start this one...)
30. The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin
31. Little, Big, John Crowley
32. Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
33. The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
34. Mission of Gravity, Hal Clement
35. More Than Human, Theodore Sturgeon
36. The Rediscovery of Man, Cordwainer Smith
37. On the Beach, Nevil Shute
38. Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke
39. Ringworld, Larry Niven
40. Rogue Moon, Algis Budrys
41. The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
42. Slaughterhouse-5, Kurt Vonnegut
43. Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
44. Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner
45. The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester
46. Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein
47. Stormbringer, Michael Moorcock
48. The Sword of Shannara, Terry Brooks
49. Timescape, Gregory Benford
50. To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip Jose Farmer

Date: 2007-02-14 11:45 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] jetfx.livejournal.com
I just renamed my blog to the title of #45.

Date: 2007-02-16 02:40 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] sdaha.livejournal.com
Did you notice the author of #45's name? Alfred Bester! Is this another influence for B5? So many of these are primary resources for other stories. Just amazing.

Date: 2007-02-17 02:26 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] hobbitbabe.livejournal.com
Yes, apparently JMS is a fan of Bester the writer and it was intended as a tribute. This makes me leery of the writer.

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