Via Winchell Chung.

Via Winchell Chung. Like the original poster, I’ve read 11 of these 17, and would definitely include Ancillary Justice in the list (it’s not in there).

Originally shared by Wilhelm Fitzpatrick

I’m 11 out of 17. The article resonates with me because I divide up my own history with SF along before/after lines of books I read that left with me with a overwhelming impression of having encountered something new. For me those books are…

Neuromancer

A Fire Upon the Deep

Snow Crash

Ancillary Justice

http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2016/09/17-science-fiction-books-that-forever-changed-the-genre/

Comments

10 responses to “Via Winchell Chung.”

  1. Charlie Kravetz (charlie-tca) Avatar

    I’ve only read nine of them. I guess I am behind again.

  2. Mike Reeves-McMillan Avatar

    That’s still a good number.

  3. Louis Doggett Avatar

    Two of those I don’t recall seeing.

    Another two I only know of because I have seen them on other lists

  4. Donna Buckles Avatar

    15 of 17 here. Haven’t read Childhood’s End or Neuromancer.

    Would include possibly

    I Robot (Asimov’s Laws)

    Dawn – Octavia Butler set a high bar for alien aliens

  5. Carolyn Priest-Dorman Avatar

    Twelve, most of them long ago.

    I really need to read Dhalgren.

  6. Louis Doggett Avatar

    Carolyn Priest-Dorman

    That is one of the two I don’t recall even seeing even though I probably have.

  7. Winchell Chung Avatar

    15/17 for me

    I’ve been meaning to read Slaughter-House Five for decades.

    Never even heard of Wind-Up Girl

  8. Winchell Chung Avatar

    Donna Buckles as a solitary data point I will say that Clarke’s Childhood’s End is one of my favorite novels

  9. Mike Reeves-McMillan Avatar

    Winchell Chung, Wind-Up Girl is much more recent than any of the others – I was startled to see it there myself.

  10. Garritt VS Avatar

    I’ve read 10 and have 3 more in my library and “pending”.

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