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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: 2011-08-15 08:16 pm (UTC)1. Astrid Lindgren - Mio, my Mio
2. Astrid Lindgren - The brothers Lionheart
3. Karel Capek - War with the Newts
Book series:
4. Ursula K le Guin - Earthsea trilogy
Movie:
5. Metropolis
Movie series:
6. Star Wars - Original trilogy
TV show
7. Il était un fois - l'espace
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Date: 2011-08-21 10:35 am (UTC)Poem:
Harry Martinsson - Aniara
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Date: 2011-08-15 10:54 pm (UTC)BOOKS
C.J. Cherryh Cyteen
C.J. Cherryh Serpent's Reach
Patricia K. McKillip Fool's Run
William Gibson Neuromancer
George R. R. Martin Dying of the Light
Janet Kagan Hellspark
Lois McMaster Bujold The Curse of Chalion
Nicola Griffith Slow River
Stephen King The Stand
BOOK SERIES
Roger Zelazny The Chronicles of Amber
David Drake Hammer's Slammers books
C.J. Cherryh The Faded Sun series
SHORT STORIES
Ursula K. LeGuin The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas
James Tiptree, Jr. (Alice Sheldon) The Girl Who Was Plugged In
George R.R. Martin A Song For Lya
TV
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
MOVIES
John Carpenter's The Thing
Bladerunner
Alien
Aliens
Inception
FANFIC
synecdochic Freedom's Just Another Word For Nothing Left to Lose
Lithiumdoll Out On the Wire
mirabile_dictu I Am Your Image Dressed As the World
fiercelydreamed Unidentified
This is an exercise in torture! Not only is it impossible to narrow it down to lists of ten, now I want to reread/watch all of these and others, plus cherrypick the things everyone else mentions.
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Date: 2011-08-17 04:08 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2011-08-15 11:01 pm (UTC)Ursula K. LeGuin: The Left Hand of Darkness. I loaned my supposedly non-SF-reading mother my copy of this and she refuses to give it back. I had to buy another copy, because I need it in my room as in my life.
Samuel R. Delany: Aye, And Gomorrah, and other stories (short story collection) -- as above. The best introduction to Delany is probably his short stories.
Nicola Griffith: Slow River -- as above.
Nalo Hopkinson: Midnight Robber -- as above.
Nnedi Okorafor: Who Fears Death -- I haven't loaned it to my mother because I know she won't give it back and I'll have to buy another copy. Because I will not go without having a copy of this in my apartment.
Philip K. Dick: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -- better than the movie, which would probably be my eleventh entry on this list.
Book series:
Informal Remarks Towards the Modular Calculus (a.k.a. Trouble on Triton plus the Return to Nevèrÿon series) by Samuel R. Delany -- I want to teach an introductory course on semiotics using these books.
The Patternmaster series by Octavia Butler -- terrifyingly possible, and more so each day.
Music:
Janelle Monae -- Metropolis/The ArchAndroid. (Yes, it was in the intro post, but seriously -- that's some brilliant SF. Especially for those of us who are fans of cyborg/android theory and subversive pop music. And/or those of us who want to play bass for her next project.)
Magma -- the Kobaïan cycle. (French science-fiction prog-rock. They invented their own language for this. Also, search for "Magma misheard lyrics" on YouTube and take the link for "Philosphy War!" by klestgeistzeit. Or just go here if you know and/or can't stand Slavoj Žižek -- I'm in the "and" camp.)
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Date: 2011-08-16 04:03 pm (UTC)Book:
Elizabeth Bunce - StarCrossed: YA novel (with upcoming sequels). In a religious dystopia, our unreliable narrator hides poses as a maid to escape authorities and ends up in a plot involving blackmail, magic, and rebellion.
Scott Westerfeld - Leviathan series: Ongoing YA novel series. In a world where WWI is reimagined as a war between steampunk and biopunk weapons, a crossdressing girl joins the British army and forms an unlikely friendship with Alek Ferdinand, the son of the archduke.
Film:
Lilo & Stitch: Badass, adorable Hawaiian girl meets destructive alien, ohana ensues.
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time: After an accident in a laboratory at school, a girl gains the ability to turn back time by leaping. Gets me emotional every time.
Wall-E: ROBOTS FALLING IN LOVE.
TV:
Keizoku 2: SPEC: Japanese drama that features mismatched buddy cops who fight supernatural crime! It's got interesting antagonists and a really compelling overarching plot.
My Girlfriend is a Gumiho: Korean drama in which a man accidentally releases an age-old fox spirit who justs wants to be PART OF HIS WORLD.
The Legend: Korean drama. Epic historical fantasy in which a king reincarnates to unite all four nations of ancient Korea.
Anime
PlanetES:: In the not so far future, a team of misfits clean up garbage IN SPACE. Essentially, it's hard sci-fi with a squishy emotional center.
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Date: 2011-08-16 08:12 pm (UTC)I also was under-whelmed by the NPR's list because it is so overwhelmingly "English White Dudes", and while many of them awesome and beloved by me, I cannot consider them ULTIMATE TOP 100.
So I'll join the fun and nominate some Russian speculative fiction books. hey are not THE BEST BOOKS EVER, but they are good, they mean a lot to me, and I want them to be nominated.
So here are they:
1) Nikolai Gogol Viy mid 19th century, the scariest story ever.
2) Evgeniy Zamyatin We a pretty well-known dystopia 20s, 20th century
3) Mikhail Bulgakov Dog's heart 20s, 20th century
4) Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Roadside picnic 70s, 20th century
5) Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Monday Begins on Saturday 60s, 20th century
6) Kir Bulychev Alice: The Girl from Earth 70s, 20th century - a childhood favorite of mine and many of my generation
7) Maria Semenova Волкодав(Wolfhound) 90s, 20th century
8) Max Frei (AKA Svetlana Martynchik) Labyrinths of Echo 90s, 20th century
9) Victor Pelevin Chapayev and the Void 90s, 20th century
10) Mariam Petrosyan The House, In Which… 2009
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Date: 2011-08-16 10:50 pm (UTC)Books:
Lord of the Rings trilogy by JRR Tolkien
Solution Three by Naomi Mitchison
Brain Plague by Joan Slonczewski
Dune by Frank Herbert
Beggars in Spain (the novella, NOT the full-length novel) by Nancy Kress
The Green Sky trilogy by Zilpha Keatley Snyder (Below the Root, And All Between, Until the Celebration)
TV:
The X-Files
Star Trek, the original series
Fanfic:
If you want to kiss the sky by siegeofangels
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Date: 2011-08-17 01:26 pm (UTC)Ursula K LeGuin- Earthsea series
Philip Pullman- His Dark Materials series
Terry Pratchett- Discworld series
Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman- Good Omens
CS Lewis- The Chronicles of Narnia
JK Rowlings- Harry Potter series
Graphic novels:
Neil Gaiman- Coraline
Anime:
Cowboy Bebop
Video games:
Final Fantasy series
Kingdom Hearts
Katamari Damacy
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Date: 2011-08-19 05:49 am (UTC)Oresteia by Aeschylus
Yashima by Zeami
Books:
Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
Young Wizards series by Diane Duane
Circle of Magic quartet by Tamora Pierce
Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
Manga:
Claymore by Yagi Norihiro
Anime:
Legend of Galactic Heroes
(Possibly back with more later.)
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Date: 2011-08-20 05:07 am (UTC)Manga:
Cardcaptor Sakura by CLAMP
Anime:
Ghost in the Shell, Second Gig
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Date: 2011-08-19 07:44 pm (UTC)Originally German:
1. Die 13 1/2 Leben des Käpt'n Blaubär (The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear) by Walter Moers
This book is so full of fantastic ideas I felt like it opened my head and let them pour in like rain. Not Ideas about anything, just ideas. Before I read this book I thought that I had read all fantasy in one variation of another, but this book showed me that there is always more to discover, always more ideas to be had.
2. Die Stadt der träumenden Bücher (The City of Dreaming Books) by Walter Moers
This book made me fall in love with books, novels, poetry, and all things written and story-telling all over again, and it did so in the most wonderful way possible: by being an amazing story to read.
3. Die unendliche Geschichte (The Neverending Story) by Michael Ende
The novel, not the film! This is another example of a story so full of ideas it has them to spare, weaving a rich fantasy background unlike any I had seen before. And it has one of my favorite fictional friendships in it.
4. Momo by Michael Ende
A little girl and friendship, time, and the importance of listening. An amazing story.
Originally English:
5. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov – already nominated
So much love for robots (and Susan Calvin!) ever since reading this book. I loved how Asimov postulated his laws of robotics and then wrote books and books about how they don't work. I, Robot is among the best. (Book, not film!)
6. Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
7. The Princess Bride by William Goldman
The movie is good, too, but the book is even better. So good. So much fun.
Film:
8.Spirited Away by Hayao Miyazaki
9. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick
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Date: 2011-08-20 08:58 am (UTC)I can't tell you the number of times I listened to Die unendliche Geschichte as a kid (books on tape). It's one of my favorite beginnings of a book ever. I just loved Bastian hiding in the school attic and getting lost in that story. So amazing. And yes, the movie really just can't compare.
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Date: 2011-08-20 03:38 am (UTC)Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald - Mageworlds Trilogy (Price of the Stars is 1st book)
(The Mage Worlds were crushed after trying to take over the galaxy - but what happens afterward? Lots of points of view. Great space opera.)
Carol Berg - Lighthouse Duology (Flesh and Spirit, Breath and Bone)
Diane Duane -- Tale of Five Series
Frank Herbert - Dune Series
Books:
Diane Duane - Book of Night with Moon
Nina Kiriki Hoffman - A Fistful of Sky
Elizabeth Moon - Speed of Dark
Emma Bull - Territory
TV Show:
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Anime/Manga:
MushiShi by Yuki Urushibara
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Date: 2011-08-20 04:48 am (UTC)"Frank Herbert - Dune Series"
is already mentioned a few times - scratch that out and put:
Book:
Rudolfo Anaya - Bless Me Ultima
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Date: 2011-08-20 04:19 am (UTC)Book:
Fox in Socks, by Dr. Seuss
Raptor Red, by Robert T. Bakker
Anime:
Princess Tutu
Vid:
The Temptation of John Sheppard, by
Film:
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Annnnnnd okay. Well, that's five for now. If I can think of others that I'm afraid other ppl may not have nominated that I know I want on here, and it's before you've closed nominations, I will drop by again. ;)
Adding another:
Date: 2011-08-20 04:49 am (UTC)Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, by Judi and Ron Barrett
Yet another (total now 7)
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Date: 2011-08-20 05:43 am (UTC)1. Monkey Magic
2. Voltron: Defender of the Universe (Lion version)
Video Game:
3. Vagrant Story
Book:
4. The Gate to Women's Country - Sherri S. Tepper
Graphic Novel:
5. Poison Elves - Drew Hayes
Book Series:
6. Bold As Love - Gwyneth Jones
7. Serrano Legacy - Elizabeth Moon
8. Age of Misrule - Mark Chadbourn
9. Jill Kismet - Lilith Saintcrow
Fanfic / RPG
Nocturne Alley (Harry Potter)
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Date: 2011-08-20 05:54 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2011-08-20 07:15 am (UTC)1. Zenna Henderson - The People series; Holding Wonder; The Anything Box.
2. Zilpha Keatley Snyder - Below the Root series.
3. Susan Cooper - The Dark Is Rising series.
4. Terry Pratchett - The Discworld series.
7. Mercedes Lackey - The Valdemar series.
8. Ursula K. LeGuin - The Earthsea series.
9. Lois McMaster Bujold - The Vor series; the Chalion series. (not actually around when I was a kid, but treats complex issues with lots of great plot and adventure, I'd rec to teens.)
Anything by This Author (young adult)
3. Diana Wynne Jones - but especially Dogsbody and The Dark Lord of Derkholm.
Book (young adult)
6. Kenneth Grahme - The Wind in the Willows.
Television series (there are also manga, animated films, novels, games, toys, a live-action film starring Kimura Takuya, etc. etc. - this series is EPIC)
10. 宇宙戦艦ヤマト ("Uchusenkan Yamato" / Space Battleship Yamato / shown on US TV as Starblazers) One of the first major anime series to gain popularity in the US despite crappy editing from the original, it's a mythical quest space opera adventure. This was my first experience of the complex and mature stories animation *could* offer. My husband and I named a kid after a character....
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Date: 2011-08-20 07:35 am (UTC)Babylon 5
Films:
The Lord of the Rings trilogy
Books:
The Dispossessed, by Ursula Le Guin
The Mars trilogy, by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Curse of Chalion, by Lois McMaster Bujold
Speed of Dark, by Elizabeth Moon
Air, by Geoff Ryman
The Sparrow, by Mary Doria Russell
The Discworld series, by Terry Pratchett
Fire and Hemlock, by Diana Wynne Jones
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Date: 2011-08-20 07:45 am (UTC)This movie is about a nearly fearless child that crosses boundaries; about popular, privileged members of a society who come to realize that the foundations of their society are wrong; about fear and how to combat it (with laughter); and it can be seen as being about queer parenting: it's two male characters raising a child together.
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Date: 2011-08-20 06:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-20 08:51 am (UTC)***
Susanna Clarke - Johnathan Strange & Mr Norrell (book)
Tamora Pierce - The Song of the Lioness series (book)
Astrid Lindgren - Ronia the Robber's Daughter (book)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (tv show)
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (1988) (tv show)
Blade (movie)
The Fifth Element (movie)
A Study in Time by
Pierre Christin & Jean-Claude Mézières - Valérian et Laureline (comic)
Esben Hanefelt Kristensen (artist)
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Esben Hanefelt is a Danish painter. He's very prolific, having illustrated the Bible and Saxo Grammaticus as well as made countless original paintings. His style is naivistic, clearly inspired by pointillism, with lots of details. Some of his favorite motifs are fairies, mermaids and Scandinavian-inspired flora and fauna. His work titles are usually small (rhyming) stories in their own right. The Sky Wave, The lion tramples on scaly ground the dragon licks its mouth, The forest opened its mouth and proved there was life in the clearing. More.
I can't believe no one thought of Valérian and Laureline. I've been re-reading them, and they're very much at the roots of hard sci-fi as we know it. In the new L'integrale editions (which might not be published in the UK/US?), there's a comparison chart that's basically saying, "Star Wars stole all its cool stuff from us!" Scan here, which is Danish, but you get the gist.
I see people have nominated the Blade comics. I haven't read them, but I still think that the original Blade movie is cinematic art at its best -- it had such a distinct style, both visuals and audio. Definitely a formative experience for me. Likewise with the BBC production of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. It might have dated quite a lot since I first saw it, but I was deeply fascinated with that visual universe.
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Date: 2011-08-20 05:44 pm (UTC)music video: Lady Gaga - Bad Romance (little monsters hatching from medical pods)
song: Dar Williams - Alleluia (lesbian angels bored in heaven ftw)
poem: Edgar Allan Poe - Dreamland ("Out of SPACE -- out of TIME.")
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Date: 2011-08-20 10:57 am (UTC)Connie Willis - Doomsday Book
TV:
Sapphire and Steel
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Date: 2011-08-20 03:06 pm (UTC)Book:
-Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, by Susanna Clarke
-Candide, by Voltaire
-The Book of A Thousand And One Nights (commonly called The Arabian Nights), by various unknowns (and NO I am not going to specify an English translation because all the extant translations have at least one major dealbreaking flaw, to my heartbreak. So.)
-Nation, by Terry Pratchett
Book Series:
-Protector of the Small, by Tamora Pierce
-League of Peoples, by James Alan Gardner
-Enchanted Forest, by Patricia C Wrede
-Chrestomanci, by Diana Wynne Jones
TV show:
-Doctor Who
Movie:
-Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
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Date: 2011-08-20 03:12 pm (UTC)Poem:
-The Cremation of Sam McGee, by Robert W Service
-Eucatastrophe Poem, by Jo Walton
And to keep my nominations at ten, I remove Chrestomanci and Enchanted Forest from my list, much though this pains me.
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Date: 2011-08-20 04:59 pm (UTC)1.) Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
Films:
2.) My Neighbor Totoro
3.) Les Aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec (The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec)
(Because it is set in 1911, a pterodactyl hatches within the first five minutes, it is something like what would happen if you tried to cross Amélie with Indiana Jones and The Mummy films, it has an awesome female main character, it is a glorious romp, and I am kind of in love with it.)
4.) Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966 - TV)
5.) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Web Mini-series:
6) Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
Music:
7.) Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (album) by David Bowie
Books:
8.) The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (novella)
9.) The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede (series)
TV show:
10.) Farscape
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Date: 2011-08-20 05:47 pm (UTC)And you nominated Calvin and Hobes :D (Which I didn't even, because I'm a bad fan.)
Did you see eruthros has opened the post up for five additional nominations in less represented media? *nudges*
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Date: 2011-08-20 08:14 pm (UTC)2. Book: Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
3. TV: Firefly
4. TV: Doctor Who
5. TV: Farscape
6. Books: Song of the Lioness Series by Tamora Pierce
7. Anime: Hikaru No Go
8. Fanfic: synecdochic Freedom's Just Another Word For Nothing Left to Lose
9. Comic: Transmetropolitan
10. Anime: Naruto Shippuden
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Date: 2011-08-20 08:15 pm (UTC)Manga
Basara by Tamura Yumi
Post-apocalyptic story set long after the apocalypse, when Japan has been rebuilt into a feudal society. In one village, twins were born, and one was prophecied to be the one who would save the world. When those twins are teenagers, the boy, the one everyone assumed to be the savior, is killed, and his sister disguises herself as him so the people don't lose hope. She then goes on to be awesome and save the world. Wikipedia entry
Psyren by Iwashiro Toshiaki
When Ageha's friend Amamiya disappears, he uses a mysterious phone card as a last-ditch bid to find her and ends up getting sucked into another world. Only it turns out that this monster-filled wasteland is not actually another world, but the future, and Ageha, Amamiya, and various allies they meet along the way, must travel back and forth between the present and the future to keep this post-apocalyptic nightmare from becoming reality. Wikipedia entry
Please Save My Earth by Hiwatari Saki
A group of teenagers are having weird, shared dreams, which turn out to be memories of their past lives, as alien scientists on a mission to observe Earth from a base on the moon. Wikipedia entry
20th Century Boys by Urasawa Naoki
A string of deaths and disappearances have one thing in common: a symbol of an eye with a hand inside it that seems somehow familiar to Kenji. When he realises that the symbol is one he and his friends made up as kids, and that current events are following the story they wrote called The Book of Prophecy, he has to figure out which of his old friends is Friend, the mysterious cult leader behind all this, and stop him. Wikipedia entry
Books
Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
Honestly, I don't remember much about this, but it was the first post-apocalyptic novel I read as a kid and got me hooked on the genre. Wikipedia entry
Ugh, gotta go to work. Will choose my final five when I get home if nominations are still open!
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Date: 2011-08-21 06:17 am (UTC)Manga
Tegami Bachi by Asada Hiroyuki
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Psychometrer Eiji by Andou Yuuma & Asaki Masashi
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Angel Sanctuary by Yuki Kaori
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Akazukin Chacha by Ayahana Min
Manga only! The manga is a gag manga about a witch, whereas the anime turns her into a magical girl. Wikipedia entry
TV
Futurama
How has no one nominated this!?
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From:5 vid nominations
Date: 2011-08-20 10:48 pm (UTC)Newkidfan - Compass Points - SGA. Images of space, puddle jumpers, guns turning into trees, time moving forwards and backwards; this vid is experimental and feels like a dream.
Lithium Doll- Big City Life - Dark Angel. The words added in the mirror to get at Max's mental state and inner conflict are a brilliant touch.
Charmax - Space Girl - Multi. Women in SF through the years.
LC (some_stars) - Me and My 424 - Dark Angel. I've written a lot about this vid already-- in short: disability, technology, relationships.
Charmax - Unnatural Selection - multi. Robots, Evolution, Religion.
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Date: 2011-08-20 10:52 pm (UTC)Fanvids:
Grapevine Fires (Star Trek pan-series) by
Cosmic Love (Supernatural) by
Filk:
Ballad of the Lone Centurion (Doctor Who) by
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Date: 2011-08-20 11:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2011-08-21 01:22 am (UTC)1. Butterfly - Circus (Star Trek) Kirk's a "put on a show" kind of girl.
2. Charmax - Destiny Calling (X-Men, Spiderman, Superman, Daredevil, The Incredibles, Fantastic 4, Batman) A smorgasbord of leather and lycra.
3. Charmax - Seven Nation Army (Doctor Who, Sarah Connor, Battlestar Galactica, The Matrix trilogy, Transformers, I Robot) Rainbow Coalition vs. fascist robots.
4. Laura Shapiro - Hurricane (Battlestar Galactica, Farscape) Two pilots walk into a bar.
5. obsessive24 - Climbing Up the Walls (Firefly, Heroes, Supernatural) Siblings. "I am the pick in the ice."
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Date: 2011-08-21 02:13 am (UTC)Books
The Justice cycle (Justice and Her Brothers, Dustland, The Gathering) by Virginia Hamilton
Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was by Angelica Gorodischer
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
The Kappa Child by Hiromi Goto
Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad by Minister Faust
Dark Matter: a century of speculative fiction from the African diaspora edited by Sheree Renee Thomas
Movies
The Matrix
The City of Lost Children
Manga/Graphic novels
Ooku by Fumi Yoshinaga
Hereville by Barry Deutsch
And my 5 from least nominated categories
Short Film
Pumzi (Kenyan sci fi short)
Music Video
Many Moons - Janelle Monae
Music
Parliament Funkadelic
Art/Illustration/Animation/Short Film
Shaun Tan (if I need to pick a particular work then The Arrival (art/graphic novel) and The Lost Thing (short film))
Poetry/Spoken Word
Ego Tripping by Nikki Giovanni
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Date: 2011-08-21 02:40 am (UTC)(no subject)
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