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Our [New Scientist] writers pick their favourite science fiction books of all time (www.newscientist.com)

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This is an interesting list. It's missing some of the true great classics, like Frankenstein, and it has a number of unusual, less well known titles, but there's a lot to like on it. There's certainly a lot for people to disagree about, but it may well have your less often cited favorites, too. What do you think?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Good to see a list not containing just the obvious stuff.

I've read about a third of this list, and the others sound good.

The only one I'm not sure about is flatland.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

It's old, more of an essay, interesting enough.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I've read ten of the twenty one. The fact that it was so different than these types of lists tend to be, without being a bunch of fan fiction or whatever, is why I posted it. Just seemed like an interesting list. Of the ones I've read, I didn't dislike any of them, though there are some I certainly wouldn't have put on an all-time greats list myself.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Flatland is worth reading, though admittedly it was decades ago that I read it (it may even have been high school). It's clever; written in the late 1800s as a commentary on Victorian society and social classes. It's from the POV of characters in a 2D universe, with forays about 1D and 3D universes. As a side note, it has a bit about a potential 4D universe, and it was written before Einstein's relativity theory got people talking about higher dimensions. As I recall, it's fairly short.