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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 03:26 pm (UTC)1) Doctor Who
2) Being Human (UK)
3) Farscape
4) Fringe
5) Dead Like Me
6) Eureka
7) Pushing Daisies
8) Warehouse 13
9) Carnivale
Film:
10) Were the World Mine
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Date: 2011-08-15 05:47 am (UTC)Yet another one I was planning on nominating, but now don't have to. XD
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Date: 2011-08-14 04:09 pm (UTC)Books:
1. Diana Wynne Jones, Time of the Ghost
2. Diana Wynne Jones, Hexwood
3. Diana Wynne Jones, The Tough Guide to Fantasyland
4. Eve Forward, Villains by Necessity
5. Greg Rucka, Batman: No Man's Land (the novel version, not the comics)
Book Series:
6. Tove Jannson, Moomintroll
7. Diane Duane, Tale of the Five/Middle Kingdoms series
8. Mary Borsellino, The Wolf House
Graphic Novel:
9. Mike Carey and Sonny Liew, My Faith in Frankie
Film:
10. Hayao Miyazaki, Spirited Away
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Date: 2011-08-14 04:15 pm (UTC)Books:
1. Spin State/Spin Control by Chris Moriarty (series)
2. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
3. The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov
Games:
4. Portal
Fanfic:
5. Goodnight, Moon by Yahtzee (Joan of Arcadia, but it works without being familiar with the fandom. I'm certainly not.)
Poem:
6. Apple sauce for Eve by Marge Piercy
Music Video:
7. The official video for Dashboard by Modest Mouse
Western Comics:
8. Legion Lost v1 by Dan Abnett, Andy Lanning, Oliver Coipel and other artists
9. the Superman mythos generally, if I can get away with that.
Movies:
10. Independence Day (yes, it is cheesy, but I don't think kid!me watched anything so many times.)
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Date: 2011-08-14 07:56 pm (UTC)Someone else nominated the x-men comics franchise, so I think you can :)
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Date: 2011-08-14 04:48 pm (UTC)Books
1. Stanisław Lem - Solaris
2. Arkady and Boris Strugatsky - Roadside Picnic
TV Shows
3. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
4. Red Dwarf
Movies
5. Blade Runner
6. The Fifth Element
7. Philip K. Dick in general
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Date: 2011-08-15 12:57 am (UTC)omg, how did I forget that?? -lol-
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Date: 2011-08-14 04:53 pm (UTC)Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Cowboy Bebop
Revolutionary Girl Utena
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Books/Manga:
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa
Pluto by Naoki Urasawa/Osamu Tezuka
Comics:
The Sandman by Neil Gaiman
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Date: 2011-08-17 09:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-14 05:27 pm (UTC)Manga:
1. Toward the Terra by Takemiya Keiko
2. They Were Eleven by Hagio Moto
3. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind by Miyazaki Hayao
4. Revolutionary Girl Utena by Saito Chiho (Possibly the anime version should count as a nomination on its own.)
5. Sailor Moon by Takeuchi Naoko
Anime:
6. Legend of the Galactic Heroes by Tanaka Yoshiki (Should probably be nominated under book series too. The politics seem clunky and very Cold War-esque now, but I absolutely love it as a space opera.)
Short stories:
7. Sultana's Dream by Rokheya Shekhawat Hossein (classic Bengali SFF and early feminist SFF too)
Books:
8. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
9. Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delaney (Maybe not his best work, but it had a huge impact on me.)
I may add more as the thought occurs to me!
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Date: 2011-08-14 05:29 pm (UTC)Susanna Clarke - Johnathan Strange & Mr Norrell
TV:
Raumpatrouille
Manga:
Pluto
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Date: 2011-08-14 05:39 pm (UTC)1. The Etched City, by KJ Bishop
2. Watchtower, by Elizabeth A. Lynn
Manga:
3. Amatsuki, by Takayama Shinobu
4. CLOVER, by CLAMP
US Comics:
5. Anya's Ghost, by Vera Brosgol
Anime:
6. Top o Nerae! 2: Diebuster, dir. by Tsurumaki Kazuya & written by Enokido Yoji for Studio GAINAX
7. Princess Tutu, dir. by Koumoto Shogo & mostly written by Yokote Michiko for Hal Film Maker
8. Kino's Journey, dir. Nakamura Ryutaro & written by Murai Sadayuki, adapting the novels by Sigsawa Keiichi for ACGT/Genco/ASCII Media Works
Live-Action Movies:
9. Near Dark, dir. Kathryn Bigelow & written by Kathryn Bigelow & Eric Red
10. A Tale of Two Sisters, dir. & written by Kim Ji-woon
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Date: 2011-08-14 07:00 pm (UTC)Removing Tutu from my noms list and replacing it with this instead:
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Date: 2011-08-14 06:14 pm (UTC)1.- The Foundation by Isaac Asimov(the entire series, formative for me)
2.- Dune by Frank Herbert
3.- The Odyssey the original work
4.- Robert A. Heinlein anything (number of th beast, starship troopers, etc)
5.- Dragon's flight Ann McCaffrey
6.- interview with a vampire and all the others from the series by Ann Rice
comics and mangas
7.- Xmen
8.- Clamp works (XXXHolic and X are the best, but really everything is good beautiful art and very sf and mythological content)
9.- Anime,
Alita
Ghost in the shell
Macross
Evangelion
Tenshimuyo
Helsing
D. Grey Man
10.-movies and series
Star trek movies and series (tos specially)
Tron (80's movie)
farscape
Doctor who
***Please take from the list the things there are not nominated yet :)
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Date: 2011-08-14 07:22 pm (UTC)• Look to Windward, Iain M. Banks
• Tea from an Empty Cup, Pat Cadigan
• Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson
Short Story/Novella/Novelette:
• Lifecycle of Software Objects, Ted Chiang
Fanvid:
• There is Too Much Light in this Bar (Life on Mars), Absolute Destiny
Music:
• The Archandroid, Janelle Monáe
TV Show, Series, Anime, etc. :
• "Wairudo Hōsesu" (ワイルド・ホーセス) Wild Horses, Cowboy Bebop episode 19 // NB. Should be watched in early February with a class of bourbon whiskey, neat. Toast the memory of the Shuttle orbiter Columbia and all who served aboard.
• The Third & the Seventh, Alex Roman, http://vimeo.com/7809605
Comic series, Graphic Novel, Manga/Manhwa/Manhua:
• Finder (Series), Carla Speed McNeel
• Rumble Girls, Lea Hernandez
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Date: 2011-08-14 07:35 pm (UTC)1. Terry Pratchet, Strata, Nation.
Yeah, not Discworld books. They're great, but I think these two belonged more on NPR's list than Going Postal, so I'm nominating them here.
2. E.M. Foster, The Machine Stops.
Predicted the Internet, and the effects it might have on our society, waaay back in 1909.
3. Octavia Butler, Fledging (unless someone nominates something better by her. One way or another, Octavia Butler needs to be on the list).
4. Ursula LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness.
5. Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
6. Greg Bear, Darwin's Radio
And then there's the obvious classics, such as the Narnia series, LoTR, Foundation, Ender's Game etc. Leaving them out because obvious classics are obvious.
Movies
1. Blade Runner
2. Let the Right One In
3. Pan's Labyrinth
4. Star Trek: The Voyage Home
I'm sure I'll think of more, but I have to actually get some writing done today :)
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Date: 2011-08-14 08:12 pm (UTC)And wow, I had a world of trouble limiting myself to ten!
Book:
1. Deep Secret by Diana Wynne Jones
2. The Shadow Speaker by Nnedi Okorafor
3. Agnes Cecilia by Maria Gripe
4. Ronia the Robber's Daughter by Astrid Lindgren
5. Momo by Michael Ende
6. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupéry
7. The Wind on the Moon by Eric Linklater
Book series:
8. The Moomin novels by Tove Jansson
Film:
9. Near Dark
10. Pan's Labyrinth
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Date: 2011-08-14 11:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-14 08:21 pm (UTC)01 Cowboy Bebop.
02 Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex.
03 Revolutionary Girl Utena.
04 Baccano!
05
Anime!BatmanThe Big O.06. Paprika (So hard to choose just one work by Satoshi Kon)
COMICS
07 The Unwritten - Mikey Carey
BOOK SERIES
08 Jim C. Hines - The Princess Series.
FANFICTION/FANVID/FAN FILM.
09/10. Haloid and the Dead Fantasy series. Both by Monty Oum.
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Date: 2011-08-14 11:16 pm (UTC)Doc Sidhe by Aaron Allston
War for the Oaks by Emma Bull
Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold
Blood Rites by Jim Butcher
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner
Jumper by Steven Gould
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin
Tea With the Black Dragon by R.A. MacAvoy
The Machiavelli Interface by Steve Perry
This Immortal by Roger Zelazny
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Date: 2011-08-15 12:39 am (UTC)Connie Willis, The Doomsday Book
Suzette Haden Elgin, Native Tongue Trilogy
Diana Wynne Jones, Fire and Hemlock
Diana Wynne Jones, Archer's Goon
Margaret Mahy, The Changeover
Elizabeth Knox, The Vintner's Luck
Naomi Novik, The Temeraire series
Kristin Cashore, Graceling
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Date: 2011-08-15 01:21 am (UTC)Book: Marge Piercy -Woman on the Edge of Time
Book Series: Michael Moorcock - The Second Ether
Book (short story collection) James Tiptree jr. - Her smoke rose up forever
Book Series: Terry Pratchett - Discworld
Book: Angela Carter - Nights at the Circus
Book Series: Catherynne M Valente - The Orphan's Tales
Book Series: Diana Wynne Jones - Chrestomanci Series
Film: The Princess Bride
Book: Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
I tried to add more films, but I kept thinking of books which knocked them off the list.
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Date: 2011-08-15 01:55 am (UTC)Terry Pratchett - Discworld
Lois McMaster Bujold - Chalion Series
Tamora Pierce - Tortall series
Mercedes Lackey, Dave Freer & Eric Flint - Heirs of Alexandria
Books
Lynn Flewelling - Stalking Darkness
Robin McKinley - The Hero and the Crown
Brain Jacques - Mossflower
Tanya Huff - Summon the Keeper
Nina Kiriki Hoffman- Fall of Light
Video Game
Mass Effect 2
Man, there is all this stuff nominated I've never heard of! It's like a giant Rec list!
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Date: 2011-08-15 02:39 am (UTC)1. Book (Singular)
American Gods -Niel Gaiman
2. Book Series
The Book of the New Sun -Gene Wolfe
3. Young Adult Book Series
The Bartimaeus Trilogy
4. Comic/Graphic Novel (American)
Transmetropolitan -Warren Ellis
5. Manga
One Piece
6. Anime
It would be cheating to put any Miyazaki, but... Kiki's Delivery Service
7. Television Series
Doctor Who
8. Film Series
Toy Story
9. Film (Singular)
The Princess Bride
10. Theater Production
Wicked
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Date: 2011-08-15 03:09 am (UTC)1. Terry Pratchett - Discworld series
2. Michelle West - The Sun Sword series
3. Ilona Andrews - Kate Daniels series
4. C.J. Cherryh - Foreigner series
5. Liz Williams - Detective Inspector Chen series
6. Doris Egan - the Ivory trilogy
7. Sarah Rees Brennan - The Demon's Lexicon trilogy
8. Kate Griffin - Matthew Swift series
9. Martha Wells - The Fall of Ile-Rien series
Books:
10. Sherwood Smith - The Trouble with Kings
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Date: 2011-08-15 04:00 am (UTC)2. Book Series: Ukiah Oregon, Wen Spencer
3. Book Series: The Dresden Files, Jim Butcher
4. Book: Sunshine, Robin McKinley
5. Anime/Manga: Fullmetal Alchemist
6. Book Series: Vorkosigan series, Lois McMaster Bujold
You know, I wasn't this picky until I started reading fanfiction. It's ironic, because some of the worst things I've ever read have been fic...but then, so have most of the best, and most of the really good ones aren't really about the scifi/fantasy element...except for the WIPS, and I kind of feel like I shouldn't be including them. Oh, well. Maybe I'll think of more later?
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Date: 2011-08-15 11:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-15 04:00 am (UTC)Books:
The Chronicles of Narnia, CS Lewis
Dictionary of the Khazars, Milorad Pavić
The Bas-Lag Trilogy, China Miéville
The Parable Series, Octavia Butler
The Riddle-Master Trilogy, Patricia McKillip
The Twelve Kingdoms Series, Ono Fuyumi
Manga:
7Seeds, Tamura Yumi
Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, Ashinano Hitoshi
TV:
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Video Games:
The Suikoden series
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Date: 2011-08-15 05:52 am (UTC)done waiting for everyone else to nom half my list so I don't have to make tough choices
Date: 2011-08-15 05:10 am (UTC)Lucifer - Mike Carey, Sandman spin-off
Tank Girl
V for Vendetta
Books:
Dark Tower series - Stephen King. *
Tripods trilogy - John Christopher. **
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Peter Pan - JM Barrie
*I fell out of love with this hard while waiting for the 5th book, and I still haven't finished the last, but the first three are probably still my most re-read books.
**Teenage boys save the world, and there is an excellent reason for that - capping is an amazing concept, brainwashing that happens at 16 and is completely normalised by society & only the rebellious kids that are scared & run away have any hope of forming a resistance. And they're not great soldiers, & its only a deeply flawed society they could possibly build, and they were some of the first scifi books I ever read, because despite mum reading the hobbit to me before I could read, I got sidetracked with Enid Blighton between the ages of 5 and 11. Damnit, now I have to consider the Faraway Tree.
Fanfic - A Hundred Years Ago by trifles.
Peter Pan fanfic, and one of the most fascinating & poignant stories I've ever read. Wendy tries to neaten up Peter's dreams, & sees the story of one of the Lost Boys. Written quite like Peter Pan, like it should be read aloud, and I would love to see it in print with gorgeous illustrations like the edition of Peter Pan I had growing up.
Vids:
Living Dead Girl by bradcpu - I love the b grade horror genre-ness of this Faith character vid. It's immersed in genre while somehow telling its own story and having an awesome aesthetic.
Handlebars by flummery - Has this been universally declared king of all vids yet? This is mentally subtitled in my head as All Shall Love Me And Despair! because it seems very much the same temptation as Galadriel, of replacing a Dark Lord with a Queen/Doctor. And I know that its not that the Doctor is as full of self-restraint and wisdom as Galadriel, but just that he enjoys adventures more than administration.
Ok. 10. Calling it. Only took me about 36 hours.
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Date: 2011-08-15 09:54 am (UTC)Books:
L.M. Bujold, The Vorkosigan Saga
Ellen Kushner, Swordspoint series
G. R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire
J. R. R. Tolkieb, The Lord of the Rings
(Yeah, I know that the last two were both on the NPR list and are highly problematic texts at that. However, I find them both intriguing - one for creating the epic fantasy genre in its modern form and the other for trying to decosnstruct it, so I'll include them both here.)
Children's lit and YA:
Michael Ende, The Never-Ending Story
Diana Wynne Jones, Fire and Hemlock
Astrid Lindgren, Ronja, the Robber's Daughter
Megan Whalen Turner, The Queen of Attolia
TV:
Farscape
Movies:
Galaxy Quest
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Date: 2011-08-15 03:27 pm (UTC)So I thought instead I'd nominate a few things that perhaps I might not otherwise have thought of, but which I think are awesome nonetheless.
Books
Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
Ursula Le Guin, The Annals of the Western Shore (Gifts, Voices, and, particularly, Powers
Tanith Lee, The Silver Metal Lover
John Christopher, Empty World
William Shakespeare, The Tempest
Doris Lessing, Canopus in Argos
TV shows
Ghostwatch (amazing 1992 faux reality show from the BBC, absolutely terrifying)
Quatermass (especially the last one with John Mills)
Robin of Sherwood
Film
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, A Matter of Life and Death (US original title: Stairway to Heaven)
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Date: 2011-08-15 07:12 pm (UTC)TV:
The Prisoner
Robin of Sherwood (a 3 season BBC show from the 80s that none of the rest of you will ever have heard of)
Books:
Dune, by Frank Herbert (it was on the NPR list too)
Lord Demon and A Night In Lonesome October, both by Roger Zelazny
Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow
Foundation series, by Asimov
Waystation, by Clifford Simak
Dark Is Rising series, by Susan Cooper
Left Hand Of Darkness, Ursula LeGuin
Lammas Night, Katherine Kurtz (although I have political issues with this one)
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams (also IMO deservedly on the NPR list)
Charmed Life, Diana Wynne Jones
The Sheep Look Up and Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner (read with Prozac)
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Date: 2011-08-16 02:48 am (UTC)(no subject)
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