1. Book: Synners by Pat Cadigan. 2. Book: Drinking Sapphire Wine / Don't Bite the Sun by Tanith Lee 3. Book series: The Chronicles of Amber -- Roger Zelazny (especially if there is a way to exclude the second quintology, the Merlin books: they are fun and clever, but not a patch on the Corwin books) 4. Book: Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner. Fantasy without magic :) 5. Book Series: Riddlemaster trilogy -- Patricia McKillip 6. Film Series: Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy -- not because they are perfect, or perfect films-of-book, but because they changed my life (or: hey, should I be nominating the first fic I read because of this film?) 7. Book series: the Wraeththu trilogy by Storm Constantine 8. Book series: The Baroque Cycle, Neal Stephenson 9. Fanvid: Another Sunday, jescaflowne, fab fun sparkly SGA vid 10. Book: Nova, Samuel Delany
Ten really good things
Date: 2011-08-13 02:22 pm (UTC)2. Book: Drinking Sapphire Wine / Don't Bite the Sun by Tanith Lee
3. Book series: The Chronicles of Amber -- Roger Zelazny (especially if there is a way to exclude the second quintology, the Merlin books: they are fun and clever, but not a patch on the Corwin books)
4. Book: Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner. Fantasy without magic :)
5. Book Series: Riddlemaster trilogy -- Patricia McKillip
6. Film Series: Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy -- not because they are perfect, or perfect films-of-book, but because they changed my life (or: hey, should I be nominating the first fic I read because of this film?)
7. Book series: the Wraeththu trilogy by Storm Constantine
8. Book series: The Baroque Cycle, Neal Stephenson
9. Fanvid: Another Sunday,
10. Book: Nova, Samuel Delany