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eruthrosSo I was being grumpy about that NPR list of the top 100 science fiction and fantasy novels and how boring it was, and then I started wondering what that kind of list would look like if a bunch of fannish people made it instead and if the definition of scifi and fantasy were looser.
And then I decided to do it, more or less on the same model as the NPR list, because why not? At the very least it would mean getting a bunch of interesting recs.
So the general model is:
1) Nomination period: anyone can nominate ten speculative fiction works (in any media).
2) Long list: made up of all the nominations where anyone can vote for their favorites. (Probably divided by media and/or language because the poll might be too big otherwise.) NPR used some NPR folks or an algorithm or something and then a panel of "experts" at this point to narrow things down, but nobody's an expert on all speculative fiction. (And also either the unknown NPR folks or the experts did this.)
3) Short list: a poll of the top two hundred-some things from the long list.
4) Compile the numbers from (3) to make the final list of the top 100.
And this is going to be the nomination post! For nominating things you love. They don't have to be the things that you think of as the absolute objectively best speculative fiction - nominate your favorites or the things you love most or the things you think are best or the things that influenced you the most or however else you define your top ten speculative fiction works.
What counts as speculative fiction?
Anything called "scifi" or "fantasy" or "horror" or "paranormal" or "supernatural" or "magical realism." Anything with vampires or werewolves or zombies or bodyswap or time travel or space travel or aliens or other planets or apocalypses or talking animals or magic swords or angels or demons or fairies or faeries or mystical creatures or other dimensions or futuristic tech or superpowers or wizards or witches or ghosts or blasters or talking trees or sapient rocks or teleportation or elves or A.I. or giant robots or alternate history or about a million other speculative fiction tropes. If you think it's speculative fiction, it's speculative fiction, regardless of what the original creators call it or where it's usually shelved. Young adult and children's speculative fiction counts, too.
The nomination rules:
You can nominate up to ten speculative fiction things from any media. So you could nominate a live action tv show, cartoon, anime, book, book series, short story, album, song, comic series, graphic novel, manga/manhwa/manhua, movie, fanfic, fanart, fanvid, amv, music video, video game, rpg, webcomic, picture, episode of a tv show, etc.
The things you nominate don't have to be English-language sources - any language is okay.
The things you nominate can be things that were on the NPR list - there were many great books on that list!
You can comment using a dreamwidth account, using openID, or anonymously, but if you comment anonymously please include a name/username/pseudonym somewhere in your comment.
Everything anyone nominates will end up on the long list, regardless of how many times it's nominated, so you don't have to worry about making sure enough people nominate it. (But since people can change their nominations later, if you really really want to see it on the poll, you might want to nominate it yourself.)
To nominate your ten things:
Comment here telling me what you'd like to nominate, and what medium it is so I don't have to google it. If you'd like, you can comment on your nominations and recommend them to passerby, or link to them if they're available anywhere online. (And you can comment to other people's nominations if you want to find out more/rejoice at finding someone else who also loves X.)
If you change your mind, reply to your own comment with your updated list.
Nominations will be open for a week, conveniently closing after both my current freelance project and my femslash 11 story are due.
Example nomination:
Book Series:
1. Terry Pratchett - Discworld series
Music:
2. Janelle Monae - Metropolis/The ArchAndroid
TV show:
3. Avatar: The Last Airbender
4. Babylon 5
5. Code Geass
Book:
6. Rosemary Kirstein - The Outskirter's Secret
Fanfic:
7. Your Cowboy Days Are Over by M.
Feel free to signal-boost! More nominations = more interesting polls.
ETA: Here's a browsable spreadsheet listing all of the nominations as of 8/19. Many, many things have been nominated!
ETA2: Oh what the hell, some people have asked for it and why not! You can have +5 additional nominations as long as they're for less-represented speculative fiction media: music (songs, albums, filk, music videos), fanworks (fanfic, fanvids, fanfilms, fanart), theater (plays, musicals), poetry, games (video, rpg, card, board), short films, art (paintings, fanart, digital art), or any medium that's not currently represented on the spreadsheet at all.
ETA3: Nominations are now closed.
And then I decided to do it, more or less on the same model as the NPR list, because why not? At the very least it would mean getting a bunch of interesting recs.
So the general model is:
1) Nomination period: anyone can nominate ten speculative fiction works (in any media).
2) Long list: made up of all the nominations where anyone can vote for their favorites. (Probably divided by media and/or language because the poll might be too big otherwise.) NPR used some NPR folks or an algorithm or something and then a panel of "experts" at this point to narrow things down, but nobody's an expert on all speculative fiction. (And also either the unknown NPR folks or the experts did this.)
3) Short list: a poll of the top two hundred-some things from the long list.
4) Compile the numbers from (3) to make the final list of the top 100.
And this is going to be the nomination post! For nominating things you love. They don't have to be the things that you think of as the absolute objectively best speculative fiction - nominate your favorites or the things you love most or the things you think are best or the things that influenced you the most or however else you define your top ten speculative fiction works.
What counts as speculative fiction?
Anything called "scifi" or "fantasy" or "horror" or "paranormal" or "supernatural" or "magical realism." Anything with vampires or werewolves or zombies or bodyswap or time travel or space travel or aliens or other planets or apocalypses or talking animals or magic swords or angels or demons or fairies or faeries or mystical creatures or other dimensions or futuristic tech or superpowers or wizards or witches or ghosts or blasters or talking trees or sapient rocks or teleportation or elves or A.I. or giant robots or alternate history or about a million other speculative fiction tropes. If you think it's speculative fiction, it's speculative fiction, regardless of what the original creators call it or where it's usually shelved. Young adult and children's speculative fiction counts, too.
The nomination rules:
You can nominate up to ten speculative fiction things from any media. So you could nominate a live action tv show, cartoon, anime, book, book series, short story, album, song, comic series, graphic novel, manga/manhwa/manhua, movie, fanfic, fanart, fanvid, amv, music video, video game, rpg, webcomic, picture, episode of a tv show, etc.
The things you nominate don't have to be English-language sources - any language is okay.
The things you nominate can be things that were on the NPR list - there were many great books on that list!
You can comment using a dreamwidth account, using openID, or anonymously, but if you comment anonymously please include a name/username/pseudonym somewhere in your comment.
Everything anyone nominates will end up on the long list, regardless of how many times it's nominated, so you don't have to worry about making sure enough people nominate it. (But since people can change their nominations later, if you really really want to see it on the poll, you might want to nominate it yourself.)
To nominate your ten things:
Comment here telling me what you'd like to nominate, and what medium it is so I don't have to google it. If you'd like, you can comment on your nominations and recommend them to passerby, or link to them if they're available anywhere online. (And you can comment to other people's nominations if you want to find out more/rejoice at finding someone else who also loves X.)
If you change your mind, reply to your own comment with your updated list.
Nominations will be open for a week, conveniently closing after both my current freelance project and my femslash 11 story are due.
Example nomination:
Book Series:
1. Terry Pratchett - Discworld series
Music:
2. Janelle Monae - Metropolis/The ArchAndroid
TV show:
3. Avatar: The Last Airbender
4. Babylon 5
5. Code Geass
Book:
6. Rosemary Kirstein - The Outskirter's Secret
Fanfic:
7. Your Cowboy Days Are Over by M.
Feel free to signal-boost! More nominations = more interesting polls.
ETA: Here's a browsable spreadsheet listing all of the nominations as of 8/19. Many, many things have been nominated!
ETA2: Oh what the hell, some people have asked for it and why not! You can have +5 additional nominations as long as they're for less-represented speculative fiction media: music (songs, albums, filk, music videos), fanworks (fanfic, fanvids, fanfilms, fanart), theater (plays, musicals), poetry, games (video, rpg, card, board), short films, art (paintings, fanart, digital art), or any medium that's not currently represented on the spreadsheet at all.
ETA3: Nominations are now closed.
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Date: 2011-08-14 04:17 am (UTC)Archer's Goon - Diana Wynne Jones
Woman on the Edge of Time - Marge Piercy
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Liar - Justine Larbalestier
Book Series:
The Moomin series - Tove Janssen
Tomorrow, When the War Began - John Marsden
The Chrestomanci Chronicles - Diana Wynne Jones
Calvin and Hobbes
Movies:
Labyrinth
Related Work:
The Secret Feminist Cabal: A Cultural History of Science Fiction Feminisms - Helen Merrick
Limiting this to 10 was incredibly hard!
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Date: 2011-08-14 08:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-14 09:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-14 12:08 pm (UTC)this was IMPOSSIBLE
Date: 2011-08-14 04:19 am (UTC)1. Alias, Brian Michael Bendis
TV/Movies:
2. Dead Like Me
3. Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles
4. Galaxy Quest (It's a CLASSIC, okay?)
Books/Series:
5. The Tiffany Aching books, Terry Pratchett
6. Young Wizards Series, Diane Duane
7. Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany
8. Stories of Your Life and Others, Ted Chiang
9. Habitation of the Blessed, Catherynne M. Valente
10. Warchild, Karin Lowachee
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Date: 2011-08-14 01:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-14 04:40 am (UTC)1. The Steerswomen Series by Rosemary Kirstein
2. Kino's Journey series by Keiichi Sigsawa
Book:
1. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
2. Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en
Game:
1. Planescape: Torment
Webcomics:
1. Hero
Manga/Anime:
1. Pluto by Naoki Urasawa
2. Gundam Franchise
3. Dennō Coil
4. Hoshin Engi by Ryu Fujisaki
Strictly Science Fiction
Date: 2011-08-14 06:08 am (UTC)Books
There are so many great sci-fi works, but my Top Ten always has to include these four. I've read each of them at least three times and The Witches of Karres around six.
1. The Witches of Karres - James H. Schmitz, 1966
2. The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester, 1956 (orig. "Tyger, Tyger")
3. Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert H. Heinlein, 1961
4. Little Fuzzy - H. Beam Piper, 1962
Movies
5. Carrie, 1976
6. Star Wars (orig), 1977
7. Alien, 1979
8. Them!, 1954 (It may be a "giant mutant bug" movie, but it STILL scares the beejeebers out of me!)
TV
9. The Avengers, 1961-1969 (because of the scientific gadgets -- and ST:TOS has already been nominated) :P
10. Star Trek: The Next Generation, 1987-1994
Re: Strictly Science Fiction
Date: 2011-08-14 08:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-14 06:23 am (UTC)The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
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Date: 2011-08-14 07:11 am (UTC)Print (single works):
1) Ursula K Le Guin - Always Coming Home
2) Peter Beagle - The Last Unicorn
3) China Mieville - Iron Council
Out of the Bas-Lag trilogy The Scar is, perhaps, the better novel, but I'm nominating this one anyway. Because it's bleak and brutal and beautiful, because it is explicitly and unashamedly a novel with a radical political agenda, because it is about resistance and class struggle and the power structures of imperialism and capitalism and the military-industrial complex. Because the action is driven by a revolutionary who is out to find the man he loves as much as he is out to save his city, because the man he loves is named Judah Low, because another protagonist is an illiterate prostitute who starts a fucking revolution. Because there are no heroes and no saviours, but you keep fighting anyway.
4) Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle - The Blazing World
"I am not Covetous, but as Ambitious as ever any of my Sex was, is, or can be; which is the cause, That though I cannot be Henry the Fifth, or Charles the Second; yet, I will endeavour to be, Margaret the First: and, though I have neither Power, Time nor Occasion, to be a great Conqueror, like Alexander, or Cesar; yet, rather than not be Mistress of a World, since Fortune and the Fates would give me none, I have made One of my own."
Along with the fantasy setting, The Blazing World has a kind of a Mary Sue, and it's definitely self-insertion, and it's got cutting-edge science and a pretty queer female friendship - and it was written in 1666. It's brilliant! (Cavendish was a conservative monarchist even for the period, and some parts jar a lot, but it's still brilliant!)
5) Tom Stoppard - Arcadia
I'm not totally sure about including this? But it's so gloriously, unashamedly driven by a love for science, for ideas, for time and maths and the heat death of the universe - I can't not.
Print (series):
6) Ursula K Le Guin - The Hainish Cycle (which kind of feels like cheating, almost. But how else can you get The Dispossessed AND The Day Before The Revolution AND Four Ways to Forgiveness AND Winter's King AND A Fisherman of the Inland Sea AND Dancing to Ganam, and all the rest?)
7) Tanith Lee - Tales from the Flat Earth (Night's Master, Death's Master, Delusion's Master, Delirium's Mistress, Night's Sorceries)
She's written so much, but this is archtypical Tanith Lee for me - fantastical, dark, sexual, grotesque, full of women and queerness and stories that never go quite like you expect.
8) Sheri Tepper - The Arbai Trilogy (Grass, Raising the Stones, Sideshow)
Film:
9) Mononoke Hime/Princess Mononoke
Fic:
10) Rydra Wong's Walked Right Out Of The Machinery
Aliens taking over a host body is such an old sci-fi trope, but I've never seen anything do it quite like this.
5 extra nominations + 1 edit
Date: 2011-08-21 03:18 am (UTC)Five additional nominations:
Poetry:
11) Lord Byron - Darkness. The end of the world.
Vid:
12) Kiki Miserychic - We Are All Connected. The beauty and wonder and terror of the universe. It's so big, and people are so small; but their lives and deaths and the things they make matter anyway.
13) Sweetestdrain - Land. Possibility/inevitability.
Fan film:
14) CVM Productions - Battlestar Redactica.
And I think I'll save the last slot, just in case.
Re: 5 extra nominations + 1 edit
Date: 2011-08-21 04:12 am (UTC)Re: 5 extra nominations + 1 edit
Date: 2011-08-21 06:36 am (UTC)Thank you!
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Date: 2011-08-14 07:39 am (UTC)1. Ursula K LeGuin - the Earthsea books
2. Lois McMaster Bujold - the Vorkosigan books
3. Lois McMaster Bujold - the Chalion trilogy
4. Liz Williams - the Inspector Chen books
5. Joe Abercrombie - the First Law trilogy
6. Karen Traviss - the Wess'har Wars series
7. KJ Parker - the Fencer trilogy
8. Zenna Henderson - the People books
TV show:
9. Fringe
10. Space: Above and Beyond
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Date: 2011-08-14 07:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-14 08:57 am (UTC)1. Patricia McKillip: The Riddlemaster of Hed
2. J.R.R. Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings
3. Isaac Asimov: Nightfall
Novels
4. Robin McKinley: Sunshine
5. Frank Herbert: Dune
6. Margaret Mahy: The Changeover
7. Peter S. Beagle: The Last Unicorn
Short Stories
8. Samuel R. Delany: Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones
Comics
9. Neil Gaiman: Sandman
TV Series
10. Blake's 7
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Date: 2011-08-14 08:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-14 09:08 am (UTC)1. Sarah Connor Chronicles
2. Doctor Who
3. The X-Files
Books
4. Nancy Kress, Brain Rose
5. Patricia Wrightson, The Nargun and the Stars
6. Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
7. Phillip Pullman, His Dark Materials
8. Octavia Butler, Xenogenesis trilogy
Comics
9. Warren Ellis and Colleen Doran, Orbiter
10. Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean and other artists, The Sandman
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Date: 2011-08-14 09:21 am (UTC)In no particular order and I'm sure I'll edit my choices (and I already did take out a few that I'd otherwise name because they've been named often enough that I am confident they will make it into the next round):
1. Pamela Dean, Tam Lin, book
2. Octavia Butler, the Parables duology (Parable of the Sower/Parable of the Talents), book
3. Theodore Sturgeon, "The Man Who Lost The Sea", short story
4. Spider and Jeanne Robinson, the Stardance trilogy (Stardance/Starseed/Starmind), book *
5. Robert Heinlein, "The Man Who Traveled in Elephants", short story
6. Robin McKinley, The Blue Sword/The Hero and the Crown duology, book
7. Star Trek (TOS), "City at the Edge of Forever", tv episode **
8. Shoujo Kakumei Utena/Revolutionary Girl Utena, anime series
9. Marion Zimmer Bradley, the Darkover series, books ***
10. Neal Gaiman, Sandman, comic book/graphic novel series +
* This is a tough one, since it's only the first two that I feel that strongly about and think the third wasn't even in the same zip code of personal-influence; the gap in time of writing showed and did so to extreme detriment. But 1 & 2 are absolutely on the list, and it seems unfair not to nominate the whole trilogy.
** Yes, yes, the whole of Trek TOS is massively influential on the genre, it probably belongs on here as a whole, but really, this episode is the most perfect hour of television ever filmed, and I think it deserves calling-out separately.
*** Problematic in tons of places, so very dated by now, but still hellaciously influential, especially The Forbidden Tower, omg.
+ The most profound statement ever made on the nature of story.
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Date: 2011-08-25 10:37 pm (UTC)I've never known of anyone else who's read it, and I'm tickled that one of my favorite authors thinks as highly of it as I do. /gushing
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Date: 2011-08-26 07:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-14 09:34 am (UTC)1. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
2. 1984 - George Orwell
3. Stand on Zanzibar - John Brunner
4. The Butterfly Kid - Chester Anderson
5. Starship Troopers - Robert A. Heinlein
6. The Stars Our Destination - Alfred Bester
Short Story:
1. Vintage Season - C. L. Moore
2. The Long Watch - Robert A. Heinlein
3. The Ballad of Lost C'Mell - Cordwainer Smith
4. The Little Black Bag - C. M. Kornbluth
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Date: 2011-08-14 10:00 am (UTC)1. Mary Poppins by P. L. Travers
Book:
2. The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
3. A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L’Engle
4. Below the Root by Zilpha Keatley Snyder -- Part of a series, but I’ve only read this one. It’s like secret scifi hiding behind a fantasy aesthetic, a combination I really liked.
5. Half Human, edited by Bruce Coville -- An anthology of short stories (and one or two poems) about different kinds of half-human beings: a centaur, a selkie, a boy with wings, a Medusa-like girl, etc.
Fanfiction:
6. The Shoebox Project by ladyjaida and dorkorific (Harry Potter) -- As someone else sort of said earlier in this post in a slightly different context, the speculativeness is not really the point of this work the way it is very much a point of the works it’s based on. Still, there are werewolves and love potions and flying motorcycles and talking mistletoe and people turning into animals and so on.
7. Goodnight Room by skogkatt/Julia Rios (Goodnight Moon)
TV miniseries/Play:
8. Angels in America -- I can’t speak for the theatrical version, as I’ve never seen it, but I adore the TV version.
Short story/Novella:
9. Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang -- Mysterious aliens, linguistics, nonlinear narrative, and female-character-centricness: practically everything I could possibly ask for.
Webcomic:
10. xkcd by Randall Munroe -- It has people going into some kind of alternate dimension and meeting their doppelgangers, if you’re not convinced it’s scifi enough.
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Date: 2011-08-14 10:33 am (UTC)Tamora Pierce's Tortall series
Ring of Swords - Eleanor Arnason
Fire & Hemlock - Diana Wynne Jones
Jo Walton's Tir Tanagiri series
Sharon Shinn's Samaria novels (canon wingfic!)
Steven Brust's Dragaera novels
Rosemary Kirstein's Steerswoman novels
Ash: a Secret History - Mary Gentle
Jack Campbell's Lost Fleet series (the closest thing I've come across to a gender-neutral space navy - hordes of female characters, none of whom are introduced by or valued on their looks, and a genuinely exciting plot.)
Garth Nix's Old Kingdom series
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Date: 2011-08-14 10:38 am (UTC)1. Sandman by Neil Gaiman
Books:
2. Smith of Wooton Major by JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (yes, I do consider this speculative fiction due to the supernatural elements)
4. The Princess and the Goblin and The Princess and Curdie by George Macdonald
Films:
5. Tron and Tron: Legacy
6. Velvet Goldmine
TV Shows:
7. Firefly
8. Captain Jack Harkness - episode of Torchwood
9. Red Dwarf
10. Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
My nominations today
Date: 2011-08-14 11:48 am (UTC)Comics / Graphic Novels
1. Elfquest (Wendy and Richard Pini)
2. Astro City (Kurt Busiek)
3. Love and Rockets (Los Bros Hernandez)
TV shows:
4. Doctor Who
5. Babylon 5
6. Farscape
Anime:
7. R.O.D. (Read or Die/Read or Dream)
Books:
8. Polar City Blues (Katherine Kerr)
9. Halfway Human (Carolyn Ives Gilman)
10. Johnny Maxwell series (Terry Pratchett) (Only You Can Save Mankind, Johnny and the Dead, Johnny and the Bomb)
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Date: 2011-08-14 12:05 pm (UTC)Manga:
Death Note (Intricate suspense-filled plot about a boy genius who gains the power to kill off people by writing their names in a book, and the battle of wits that ensues between him and the detective trying to catch him)
Fanfic:
Sam Starbuck - Cartographer's Craft (Harry Potter fandom - alternative version of Deathly Hallows)
Lightning on the Wave - Sacrifices series (truly magnificent Harry in Slytherin AU)
Kiril Yeskov - The Last Ringbearer - LOTR as told from the Mordor perspective.
Online Book Series, part way between fanfic and published book series:
Mina De Malfois series (Online series of stories parodying fandom and the people therein)
Book series:
Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn Trilogy (Fabulous story exploring what happens when the Dark Lord wins. Unique magical system, gripping and enthralling plot)
Gail Carriger's Parasol Protectorate series (Steampunk supernatural series in which vampires and werewolves exist, are out and built the British Empire between them. Caught in the middle is Britain's sole preternatural who can turn the supernatural set mortal with a touch. Very funny, well worth reading.)
Books:
Kate Harrad - All Lies and Jest (In which the US has gone fundamentalist and kicked out its entire counter-culture, many of which have gone to live in a UK which is starting to go theocratic itself. One twenty-something from the West Country comes to London to find these interesting people, but ends up meeting vampire blood cults, Christian conspiracy theorists and Otherkin instead.)
Sam Starbuck - Nameless (Sweet and beautiful story involving a shy newcomer in a small town and the local bookstore owner who befriends him. A bit slow-paced but I adored it. Involves masks, magic, friendship and love.)
TV Shows:
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Female-centred kids TV involving bizarrely coloured ponies. And it's brilliant.)
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Date: 2011-08-14 06:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-15 12:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-14 01:48 pm (UTC)1. Kim Harrison's The Hollows (urban sci-fantasy)
Book-
2. The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
3. Kindred by Octavia Butler
4. The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge
TV Series-
5. Battle Star Galatica - v.2
6. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
7. Misfits - (superhero/sci-fi tale about disenfranchized youth - British TV)
Film-
8. Blade Runner
9. Spirited Away
10. Lady Hawk
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Date: 2011-08-14 02:06 pm (UTC)Manga Series:
1) CLAMP - Magic Knight Rayearth. (aforesaid obsession for... running on nine years now. ^^;;;) Because it takes the standard rpg/fantasy tropes, sets them up, then TWISTS things back round on themself, while being also beautifully drawn, a storyline which draws me in populated by characters who do the same, and starring a trio of strong girls. And it's also a wonderfully SHORT series, all things considered. XD
2) Yumi Hotta (writer) and Takeshi Obata (artist) - Hikaru no Go. Which is just ridiculously compelling for a story about a board game, and one of my ultimate comfort reads.
3) CLAMP - Cardcaptor Sakura. Because Sakura is awesome! And it's also endured a whole decade of rereading as a favourite. ^^
Book Series
4) Tamora Pierce - Song of the Lioness Series. (The Alanna books.)
5) Seanan McGuire - The Toby Daye books.
6) Terry Pratchett - Discworld
7) J.R.R. Tolkien - The Lord Of The Rings. (Too obvious, yes, but also too important to me to not include...)
8) Naomi Novik - The Temeraire Series. (Napoleonic wars and dragons: two awesome tastes which go awesomely together. XD Also, a way to reference Bernard Cornwell and Patrick O'Brian on the list though they're completely ineligible!)
9) Jim Butcher - The Codex Alera. Because - discounting the first one-and-a-half books - they have the exact mix of politics, spies, military strategy, and fighting that I never realised before I was craving in my books. They also have some ladies who quite happily fit into the awesome box (Lady Placida ~<3 ) and a spy who'd really rather be reading a book than fighting, but he'll do what he has to (and is rather awesome at it, too. ^^)
Book
10) Diana Wynne Jones - Howl's Moving Castle.
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Date: 2011-08-14 05:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-14 02:33 pm (UTC)So I guess I'm limiting this to the weirdest gayest stuff.
Music:
1. Marc Bolan- The Wizard
2. Zolar X- Timeless
3. BB Boris- Cold Day On Mars
4. Kevin Ayers- Lady Rachel
5. Legendary Pink Dots- The Divide
6. Peggy Seeger & Ewan McColl- Space girl
Films:
7. Renato Zero- Ciao Ni (I guess you could add all the glamrock vanity films, but this one is the most insane: cloning, multiple personalities, people changing sex, impossible space dimensions and so on).
THE REST
Date: 2011-08-14 02:40 pm (UTC)Music:
8. The Hammer- Hitchcock's Lullabye
9. Screemer- Interplanetary Twist
10. A Raincoat- It came in the night (used in Rabbit Moon, even)
Re: THE REST
Date: 2011-08-14 02:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-14 02:36 pm (UTC)Book Series:
Storm Constantine: the Wraeththu trilogy
CJ Cherryh: the Russian books (Rusalka etc)
Jasper Fforde: The Thursday Next series
Barbara Hambly: The Darwath trilogy
Books:
Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman: Good Omens
Reginald Hill: The Stranger House - on the edge of speculative ...
TV series
Blake's 7
The Water Margin
Film
The Sixth Sense
Alien
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Date: 2011-08-14 03:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-19 04:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-19 07:04 pm (UTC)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0227975/
It was narrated by Bert Kwouk, before he joined The Last of the Summer Wine
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Date: 2011-08-14 02:46 pm (UTC)Books
1) Frank Herbert - Dune
Still amazing. Why build a world when you can build a galaxy?
Book series
2) H.M. Hoover – Morrow series (Children of Morrow and Treasures of Morrow)
Probably my introduction to dystopias and post-apocalyptic settings.
3) Sylvia Engdahl – Elana series (Enchantress from the Stars and The Far Side of Evil)
The Prime Directive in action long before Star Trek -- and we're not talking easy choices or lip-service.
4) Robin McKinley – Damar series (The Blue Sword and The Hero and the Crown)
Lawrence of Arabia as a girl.
5) Anne McCaffery – Menolly series (Dragonsong and Dragonsinger)
Yes, I wanted a fire lizard. Anyone who says they didn't is a liar.
Short Stories
6) James H. Schimtz – Telzy Amberdon stories
Telzy had so much agency! And there were some seriously creepy implications to the technology and psi abilities.
Comics
7) Matt Wagner – Mage
8) Matt Wagner - Grendel
Seriously beautiful artwork and mirror-image story-telling -- Mage is all dialogue and tight-focus frames, and Grendel is stained-glass vignettes and text-boxes.
9) Wendy and Richard Pini - Elfquest
Elves! Wolves! Orgies! Stealth sci-fi!
10) Bill Willingham - Elementals
Probably the first non-Marvel, non-DC superhero book I ever read.
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Date: 2011-08-14 02:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-14 02:49 pm (UTC)Book Series:
1. Suzanne collins - Hunger Games series
2. Terry Pratchett - Discworld series
TV show:
3. Avatar: The Last Airbender
4. Buffy
5. Supernatural
6. Being Human (UK version)
Book:
6. Suzanne Collins - Mockingjay
7. JK Rowlings - Order of the Phoenix
Fanfic:
8. Kikimax- Defect
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Date: 2011-08-14 02:55 pm (UTC)1. More than Human Theodore Sturgeon
2. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress Robert A. Heinlein
3. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms N.K. Jemisin
4. The Faded Sun trilogy C.J. Cherryh
Movies
5. Blade Runner
6. Alien
7. Star Wars
TV shows:
8. Avatar: The Last Airbender
9. Farscape
10. Children of Earth
(11. The Middleman - no way could I leave this one off.)
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Date: 2011-08-19 05:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-19 06:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-14 03:11 pm (UTC)1. John Milton - Paradise Lost (ngh. I can't even express how formative that book was for me)
2. Mary Shelley - Frankenstein (I will be the first to admit that it's not very well written, but it is still, as someone else mentioned, the seminal work of sci-fi)
Poetry (Book?):
3. Alfred Tennyson - Idylls of the King (I can't not nominate this. It's King Arthur, okay)
Comic book:
4. Alan Moore - Watchmen (psychological realism and complexity and a giant alien squid)
Anime/Manga:
5. Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood (decidedly not the first anime series)
TV show:
6. Avatar: The Last Airbender
Music:
7. Michael Jackson - Thriller (the song, not the album: although the album is pretty damn good, the song was game-changing, at least in terms of its video. I'm not sure how else to categorise this, actually, considering I nominated it mostly for the video)