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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: 2011-08-13 09:09 pm (UTC)Stargate: SG-1
Stargate: Atlantis
Highlander: TS
Movies:
Highlander
Book series:
Katherine Kurtz: The Deryni Chronicles
Roger Zelazny: Amber books
Terry Brooks: The Sword of Shanarra books
Gillian Bradshaw's Gwalchmai books
Susan R. Matthews' Andrej Koscuisko books
Books:
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Comics:
Elfquest by Wendy and Richard Pini
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Date: 2011-08-13 09:19 pm (UTC)Ring of Swords by Eleanor Arnason
culture clash. humanity and a very alien culture, with
littleno common frames of reference on acceptable behaviorWar for the Oaks by Emma Bull
one of the very earliest of Urban Fantasy, this one still stands out. Minneapolis rocker meets the Fae and becomes embroiled in their battles
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
like her Doomsday Book this involves Oxford time travelers, and covers some of the same ethical ground, but is much lighter - the title is a riff off the excellent Victorian travelogue Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog) by Jerome K. Jerome. it includes trips to 1940 as well as Victorian England, and the search for a bird stump (a fabulous McGuffin).
series:
The Faded Sun trilogy by C.J. Cherryh
another exploration of alien/human interactions, and what happens when there's little common ground
Liaden series by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
a fabulous space opera series, where Terra is just one minor planet among many and Clan Korval of Liaden (specialty - pilots) takes center stage. there are a number of novels and short stories with multiple recurring characters
Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis
more Oxford time travel folks who're studying WW II, but end up trapped and scrambling to survive events instead of being able to return to safety in 2060. Their individual stories eventually intersect - I loved the look at ordinary life in various locales, and the unexpected twists throughout
Foreigner series by C.J. Cherryh
she's the best at creating really *alien* aliens, whose beliefs/behaviors don't depend on human patterns. this long-running series is a look at communicating and creating bridges between two very different peoples, and the problems that arise therein
TV
Primeval (first two seasons)
dinosaurs! a group of scientists/soldiers deal with dinos & other oddities from prehistoric (and future) eras popping through 'anomalies'.
X-Files
conspiracies/aliens/monster-of-the-week - this show had it all. quality veered wildly, but at its best episodes challenged audiences to think "what if".
Eureka
a small town where science is truly weird, and everywhere! we're offered a great 'outsider' POV on the denizens, who are odd in very interesting ways.
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Date: 2011-08-13 10:38 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2011-08-13 09:46 pm (UTC)Books:
1. Maureen F McHugh - China Mountain Zhang
2. Octavia Butler - Kindred
3. Vorkosigan Saga, LM Bujold
4. Connie Willis - Oxford Time Travelers
5. James Tiptree, Jr - Her Smoke Rose Up Forever (NB this is a best-of collection but I can't think of a better way to nominate this hugely amazing author except by individual story, I suppose)
6. Adam Rex - The True Meaning of Smekday
7. Rebecca Stead - When You Reach Me
8. Melanie Rawn - Ruins of Ambrai (This is a weird pick! I picked it because I wanted fairly generic epic fantasy that wasn't Jordan, Brooks or Eddings.)
Movies:
9. 2001: A Space Odyssey
Graphic novel
10. Greg Rucka, Batwoman: Elegy
Glad everyone and her dog nominated ATLA! This was difficult, I hope someone out there noms The Hobbit and Asimov's Robot novels.
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Date: 2011-08-13 09:46 pm (UTC)1. Spock's World by Diane Duane
Because this story had such great world-building, characterization, sprawling history and biology and astronomy, and was so influential that it became canon for the Trek universe.
2. The Tough Guide To Fantasyland by Diana Wynne Jones
Because it mocks sword-and-sorcery tropes (gently) and has real humour and satire and genuine love for the fantasy genre.
3. The Chrestomanci series by Diana Wynne Jones
A favourite of mine as a child. Loved it so much. Loved the way there were flawed characters and unreliable narrators. Loved the way it uses brains rather than brawn to outwit the enemy.
4. Hexwood by Diana Wynne Jones
An excellent brain-bender, with detailed world-building and a rather excellent study of teenagerhood and young female sexuality, and interstellar empires , politics, and corruption of power. Yum.
5. The Dark Lord of Derkholm series by Diana Wynne Jones
Another funny, loving play on Fantasyworld tropes. Loved the family dynamics of siblings from different species.
6. The Power of Three by Diana Wynne Jones
I read this at a young age and have re-read it repeatedly over the years. Young teens face evil, but with a twist: ordinary humans are the aliens here. Again, enemies who have reasons for what they do, rather than simply being evil. Victory through negotiation and compromise rather than main force. Understanding your enemy and forming an alliance with them to 'defeat' them, and avoiding a war as the way to 'win'. Great stuff.
7. The Dark Is Rising series by Susan Cooper
Do I even need to explain this one? The things Cooper does with british mythology are great. And the time-twisting. Mmmm, yeah.
8. The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander
I have such a soft spot for this series, even though it's fairly bog-standard boy-on-a-quest stuff.
9. The Godbond trilogy by Nancy Springer
Quite dark, quite twisted. I'm not entirely happy with the resolution, but I like that the heroine is damaged and still the heroine -- and she still gets her man, who loves her despite her being damaged and trying to nobly give him up.
10. The Dark Horse series by Mary H. Herbert
Another influential series, quite cliched in places, but I like the female heroine, who definitely has a mind of her own. I also like that it follows several generations through the series, and does history and politics, and... yeah. I have a thing for world-building.
Quite a few young-adult books there, but I hate the way male authors and/or boy-on-a-quest stories are classed as 'real' SFF, whereas female authors and/or girl-on-a-quest stories are classed as children's books, young adult or fantasy romance. I mean, I loved Eddings' Belgariad, but really...
ETA: Oooh, thinking of the Belgariad -- can someone else list "David and Leigh Eddings"? Apparently they co-wrote *ALL* the Eddings' books, but the publishers said the books would sell better if they were listed under *his* name only! It's unjust that Leigh Eddings doesn't get any credit for the books she wrote with her husband.
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Date: 2011-08-13 10:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2011-08-13 09:47 pm (UTC)Books
The Red Tree by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Let Me In by John Ajvide Lindqvist (though, tbh, the movie should be right up there, too!)
Book Series
The Ghatti's Tale by Gayle Greeno
The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor
The Elric Saga by Michael Moorcock
(I would nominate The Strain Trilogy by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan, The Inheritance Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin, and The Newsflesh Trilogy by Mira Grant, but I get weird about nominating trilogies that aren't finished yet. -shrug- WHAT IF THE LAST BOOK SUUUUUCKS?! -flail-)
Television
Babylon 5
Angel (Buffy may have been the basis for the spin-off, but the spin-off is much better, imo.)
Western Comics
The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard, and Cliff Rathburn.
The X-Men franchise
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Date: 2011-08-13 10:28 pm (UTC)1) Discworld - Terry Pratchett (Light-hearted and deep-cutting all at once.)
2) Enchanted Forest Chronicles - Patricia C. Wrede (This series taught me what fantasy could be, when the princesses didn't wait on the princes to do everything.
3) The Foundation Trilogy - Isaac Asimov (I know this was on the original list, but it is some seriously kickass political sci-fi.)
Books:
4) Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett (How was this not on the original list?! As with Discworld, it makes you tihnk even when you're laughing at it.)
5) To Say Nothing of the Dog - Connie Willis (This is how 'wacky time travel hijinks' should be done.)
6) Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams (This book makes a lot more sense when you know it's based on an unfilmed Doctor Who episode. Even then, every time I read it I have to read it twice to catch everything.)
Movie:
7) Bernard and the Genie (Available on Netflix, possibly as a watch-now. Down-on-his-luck art dealer - bitty Alan Cumming! - ends up with Lenny Henry the genie in his living room; shenanigans ensue. This is one of my feel-good movies.)
TV:
8) Warehouse 13 (This show does nearly everything right. It's not all 'our world of crazy, let us show you it'; there are some really intense cases in among the hijinks, and at its core, it's about the family that the main cast make for each other - wildly atypical family, but family nonetheless.)
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Date: 2011-08-13 10:31 pm (UTC)1: C.J. Cherryh - Cyteen
2: John M. Ford - Growing Up Weightless
3: Diane Duane - Young Wizards series
4: Lois McMaster Bujold - Chalion series
5: Lois McMaster Bujold - Memory (of the Vorkosigan series)
6: C.J. Cherryh - Foreigner series
7: Anne McCaffrey - Harper Hall trilogy (Dragonsong, Dragonsinger, Dragondrums)
8: Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash
9: Mercedes Lackey - Diana Tregarde series
10: Diana Wynne Jones - Deep Secret
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Date: 2011-08-13 10:35 pm (UTC)Book:
1: C.J. Cherryh - Cyteen
2: John M. Ford - Growing Up Weightless
3: Diane Duane - Young Wizards series
4: Lois McMaster Bujold - Chalion series
5: Lois McMaster Bujold - Memory (of the Vorkosigan series)
6: C.J. Cherryh - Foreigner series
7: Anne McCaffrey - Harper Hall trilogy (Dragonsong, Dragonsinger, Dragondrums)
8: Diane Duane - Star Trek Rihannsu series: Spock's World; My Enemy, My Ally; The Wounded Sky; -- and was The Romulan Way hers or with Peter?
9: Philip Pullman - His Dark Materials
10: Diana Wynne Jones - Deep Secret
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Date: 2011-08-13 10:31 pm (UTC)Books:
His Dark Materials (trilogy) - Philip Pullman
Tale of Time City - Diana Wynne Jones
The Singing Stone - O. R. Melling
Film:
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
TV:
Legend of the Seeker
Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles
Fanfic:
The New Atlantean Dictionary of Literary Terms: A Complete Reference in Four Volumes by
Lunch And Other Obscenities by
Fanvid:
Unnatural Selection by
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Date: 2011-08-13 10:56 pm (UTC)Plus you nommed me which is nice! I will have to go figure out in what way that story is scifi. :D
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Date: 2011-08-13 10:37 pm (UTC)9) The Giver - Lois Lowry (ohhhhhhh my god I still love this book. Read it in a day for school, still read it in a day when I reread. There's just so much about this world, I can't even.)
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Date: 2011-08-14 09:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-13 10:45 pm (UTC)Books:
Alfred Bester: The Demolished Man
(I actually like The Stars My Destination better, but I think this one is a better book and more influential. Also, less rape.)
Jonathan Lethem: As She Climbed Across the Table
Roger Zelazny: Roadmarks
Madeline L'Engle: A Wrinkle in Time
Jane Yolen: Sister Light, Sister Dark
Book Series:
Stephen Baxter: Manifold Trilogy
Sergey Lukyanenko: Night Watch series
TV series:
Babylon 5
Movies:
Sleep Dealer
Last Night
Great resource--I'm going to have to read through later!
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Date: 2011-08-13 10:48 pm (UTC)Also, Last Night highfives.
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Date: 2011-08-13 11:05 pm (UTC)L Timmel Duchamp, the Marq'ssan Cycle
Joanna Russ, the Alyx Stories
Vonda McIntyre, the Starfarers Quartet
Suzette Haden Elgin, the Coyote Jones books
Ankaret Wells, the Books of Requite
Books:
Helen S Wright, A Matter of Oaths
Naomi Mitchison, Memoirs of a Spacewoman
Naomi Mitchison, Solution Three
Naomi Mitchison, To the Chapel Perilous (I literally could not pick just one of hers!)
TV series:
Farscape
But it's really difficult to keep it down to ten! I've already thought of other things that could be on my list.
this was hard!
Date: 2011-08-13 11:14 pm (UTC)Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Larklight by Phillip Reeve
A Tale of Time City by Diana Wynne Jones
Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
Series:
Chestomanci series by Diana Wynne Jones
Moving Castle series by Diana Wynne Jones
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Date: 2011-08-13 11:30 pm (UTC)Books:
1. Inherit the Stars by James P. Hogan
2. Voyage of the Basset by James C. Christensen - This was given to me at a very impressionable age, heh.
3. Gil's All Fright Diner by A. Lee Martinez
4. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham - Soooo hard to choose a Wyndham novel! The Kraken Wakes and The Chrysalids are also good.
5. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
6. I, Lucifer by Glen Duncan - The prose in this won me over instantly.
Short stories:
7. Murder Mysteries by Neil Gaiman - Hello favourite Gaiman story.
Television:
8. Disney's Gargoyles - This cartoon was amazing.
Film:
9. Nightmare Before Christmas - I grew up watching tihs every Hallowe'en and Christmas
10. Pleasantville
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Date: 2011-08-13 11:49 pm (UTC)Nightrunner Series by Lynn Flewelling
Myth Series by Robert Asprin
Cold Fire Trilogy by CS Friedman
Books:
The Madness Season by CS Friedman
The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein
TV Series:
Star Trek: TOS
The X-Files
Babylon 5
Movies:
Star Wars (original trilogy)
Soylent Green
The Andromeda Strain
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Date: 2011-08-14 12:31 am (UTC)(I know it tops the official list, but it also tops my fannish list. It IS my OTF)
Book series:
2. The Warlock Series by Christopher Stasheff
3. The Lord Darcy Series by Randall Garrett (continued by Michael Kurland)
4. The Deryni Series by Katherine Kurtz
TV shows:
5. Star Trek (in all its permutations)
6. Doctor Who
7. Beauty and the Beast
8. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Movie:
9. Star Wars: Episode IV (the original first one)
Fan fiction:
10. A Secret Gate by Elanor
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Date: 2011-08-14 01:19 am (UTC)My 10:
Books:
1. The Dragon Prince and Dragon Star trilogies (they're companion trilogies) - Melanie Rawn
2. Anna to the Infinite Power - Mildred Ames
Movies:
3. Sunshine
4. Hancock
TV:
5. Highlander the series
6. MST3K (come on! sci-fi premise!)
Anime:
7. Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Video Games:
8. Metroid Series (except the newest one)
9. Fallout 3
Paintings:
10. The work of Remedios Varo. I don't know if I could narrow it down to a single painting but I'd try if I had to.
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Date: 2011-08-14 02:06 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2011-08-14 01:20 am (UTC)I'm here via
My nominations are a list of well-known works I couldn't bear not to see on the list, and obscure titles that I think deserve to be more widely known:
Book Series:
1. Tanya Huff - Valor series (female Space Marine kicking ass across the galaxy!)
2. Terry Pratchett - Discworld series
3. Julie E. Czerneda - Web Shifters series
4. Julie E. Czerneda - Species Imperative series
5. Cherie Priest - Clockwork Century series
Books:
6. Robert J. Sawyer - Calculating God
7. Neil Gaiman - American Gods
8. Robin McKinley - Sunshine
9. George Orwell - 1984
10. Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
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Date: 2011-08-14 01:22 am (UTC)Book series:
1. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
2. The Darwath trilogy, Barbara Hambly
Books:
3. The Little White Horse, Elizabeth Goudge
4. Pavane, Keith Roberts
5. Tea with the Black Dragon, R.A. McAvoy
6. Doomsday Book, Connie Willis
7. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
8. A Fine and Private Place, Peter Beagle
Movies/TV:
9. La Belle et la Bete (directed by Jean Cocteau)
10. Firefly series & Serenity movie (Joss Whedon)
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Date: 2011-08-14 01:34 am (UTC)TV Series:
Avatar: the Last Airbender
The Slayers (anime)
Puella Magi Madoka Magica (anime)
Revolutionary Girl Utena (anime)
Book Series
Xenogenesis/Lilith's Brood by Octavia Butler
The Edda of Burdens by Elizabeth Bear
Newsflesh by Mira Grant
Dragaera series by Steven Brust*
Movie
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds
Comics
Schlock Mercenary by Howard Tayler
* It could be argued to subdivide this one into the Vlad Taltos books and the Khaavren Romances (with Brokedown Palace on its loansome). While they are set in the same world, and the first two share characters, they are distinct. I await the mods' decision.
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Date: 2011-08-14 02:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-14 01:56 am (UTC)Moribito series - Uehashi Nahoko. The first two books are available in English (Guardian of the Spirit & Guardian of the Darkness). 30-yr-old female bodyguard for hire; smart, mature, highly capable.
The Years of Rice and Salt - Kim Stanley Robinson. What the world would be like if the Black Death has wiped out 99% of the European population.
Anime:
Seirei no Moribito - TV anime adaptation of Guardian of the Spirit.
Manga:
ARMS (anime: Project ARMS) - Minagawa Ryouji & Nanatsuki Kyouichi. Four genetically engineered teenagers take on their creators and his
ebilambitions. Has a mother who single-handedly mows down a cyborg troop (and not just once) and a little girl whose rage literally freezes an entire city.Mobile Police Patlabor - Masami Yuuki. Giant robots in everyday setting; wonderfully written and relatable characters.
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Date: 2011-08-14 02:24 am (UTC)Book Series:
1. Terry Pratchett's Discworld series
2. Cordwainer Smith's Instrumentality of Mankind stories (inc. Norstrilia and The Dead Lady of Clown Town)
3. Andre Norton's Witchworld series (for the teenage me!)
4. Tolkien's Hobbit and Lord of the Rings.
Book:
5. Guy Gavriel Kay (I want to list him in series under 'Fionuvar expanded variations') if I have to pick one...Tigana?
6. Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
7. I wanted to put LeGuin in under series, under 'ansible', but will go with The Left Hand of Darkness. But I want The Dispossessed too!
8. Way Station by Clifford Simak
TV:
9. Highlander (TV Series)
10. Star Trek (TOS)
Must post before I remember more that absolutely can't be left out....oh, dear. Edgar Pangborn. Tiptree. Silverbob. The Avengers (Captain Jack should be jealous of Steed.)
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Date: 2011-08-14 02:15 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2011-08-14 02:48 am (UTC)Thomas M. Disch - The Brave Little Toaster ♥
China Miéville - Perdido Street Station
Colson Whitehead - The Intuitionist. Social studies of science, fictionalized and intersectional with race and gender! Such a great book.
James Tiptree, Jr. - Warm Worlds and Otherwise (collection; I'd prefer to nominate EVERYTHING EVER by her but that is not helpful)
Samuel R. Delany - Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand. If I could, I'd list about seven more Delany works, but this is the best of the best, I think; no other work, novel or theory, has so forced me to rethink gender and logical structures so consistently and powerfully
Film (documentary):
Silvia Casalino, director - No Gravity. It's spec fic, despite also being a doc about female space travel and Haraway's cyborgs, in that it imagines the first human on Mars as a woman and remixes Dr. Mae Jemisin's appearance on ST:TNG.
Anime:
Top o Nerae! aka Gunbuster! (Anno Hideaki, dir.) Giant robots and girl crushes and really conveniently bizarre physics. I love this series like cake and I wish more people (even just two or three) liked it, too.
Book Series:
Lucy M. Boston - Green Knowe series. Time travel, ghosts, evil tree spirits, and lost children finding homes. I think I must have *eaten* these books as a child because they're a part of my cognitive circuitry now.
US comic books:
Guardians of the Galaxy (2008; authors Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning). Space opera done *superbly* well with a motley crew of bickering teammates of various species and sexualities, including a cosmonaut dog, sentient redwood, and a lesbian human cursed by a dragon.
Planet Hulk (2006; author Greg Pak) Hulk gets shot into space, fights for his life on a gladiator planet, helps liberate the planet and becomes king. Then everything goes to hell. It is so good and heartbreaking.
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Date: 2011-08-14 02:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-14 03:00 am (UTC)1. Nnedi Okarafor - Who Fears Death
2. Samuel R. Delaney - Babel 17
3. Victor LaValle - Big Machine
4. Andrea Hairston - Mindscape
5. So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited by Nalo Hopkinson and Uppinder Meehan.
6. Nalo Hopkinson - Brown Girl in the Girl, Midnight Robber
7. OCtavia Butler -Kindred
Short Film
8.Remigration By Barry Jenkins
Book Series:
9. NK Jemisin - The Inheritance Trilogy
10. Octavia Butler - The Parable Series (Parable of the Sower etc.)
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Date: 2011-08-14 03:20 am (UTC)1) The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander. (Actually most of his stuff is great.)
2) Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.
3) Frederik Pohl's entire long career -- pressed for a series I'd offer the Eschaton Sequence.
4) The Tortall books by Tamora Pierce, specifically the Immortals series.
5) The Discworld books by Terry Pratchett.
6) The Ear, The Eye and The Arm by Nancy Farmer.
7) E. Nesbit wrote some great children's fantasy over her career (e. g. Five Children and It).
8) The Inkworld trilogy by Cornelia Funke.
9) Yeah, Harry Potter has to be somewhere on this list, and I didn't notice it in my skim....
10) The Tiger's Apprentice series by Laurence Yep.
TV series (all kinds):
1) Star Trek: TOS
2) Avatar: The Last Airbender
3) Babylon 5
Movies:
1) The Rocky Horror Picture Show
2) The Princess Bride
3) Romancing the Stone (it's meta-fantasy!)
...boy, I don't watch many serious movies, do I?
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Date: 2011-08-14 06:41 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2011-08-14 03:33 am (UTC)1. Puella Magi Madoka Magica
2. Cardcaptor Sakura
BOOK
3. To Say Nothing of the Dog - Connie Willis
4. Graceling - Kristin Cashore
5. Slaughterhouse-five - Kurt Vonnegut
VIDEO GAME
6. Final Fantasy X
WESTERN COMIC
7. Ex Machina (written by Brian K. Vaughan, art by Tony Harris)