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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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