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More than 60K NPR users were surveyed to come up with the Top 100 Sci Fi, Fantasy Books of all time. Here’s the Top 10:
1. The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy, by J.R.R. Tolkien
2. The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
3. Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card
4. The Dune Chronicles, by Frank Herbert
5. A Song Of Ice And Fire Series, by George R. R. Martin
6. 1984, by George Orwell
7. Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
8. The Foundation Trilogy, by Isaac Asimov
9. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
10. American Gods, by Neil Gaiman
I’d like to take one moment to express my bitter frustration that Fahrenheit 451 is not number 1. I know that LOTR is every nerd’s obsession, but I can’t understand why the geeks that voted in this poll didn’t recognize the meta-glory of Bradbury’s masterpiece. Nerds typically LOVE anything meta and here they have a chance to put a book about a world in where books are subject to flame-warring destruction, on the top of a list about the best books in the narrative category of “not real life”… it reeks of fail to me.
Otherwise, I agree with 80% of this list. Either way, it’s great to see sci-fi and fantasy get so much attention lately.
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