Top 10 Novels / Short Stories

[iansales]

also I can't include my favourite books that I haven't read yet

How do you know they're favourites if you haven't read them yet?

 

[Connavar]

Interesting thread that's been done before. I've posted my top 5 novels somewhere before but never tried a short story list. I'll have to put my thinking cap on for this one...

I like these kind of threads cause they make think hard about your favs books and which ones you think is really the best of them. Which is very hard.

Some books grow on you alot long after you have read them. I sometimes think about a book,replay key scenes in my mind and smile about how good it was,alot better than the first time when you have had to ingest everything all the ideas etc.

Which is why the first 5 books in my list wasnt top 5 in the last of this type of thread only months ago. Plus i hadent read Emphyrio,Moon,TSMD then

 

[gully_foyle]

How do you know they're favourites if you haven't read them yet?

I have a device that can tap into interweaved quantum timelines and transport me into the future.

 

[iansales]

So why do you need to read them then?

 

[gully_foyle]

I can't mess with the timelines. That would disrupt the space-time continuum. It would cause certain doom for the universe.

Besides, if they are that good then I'd probably want to read them again, even though I haven't read them yet.

 

[iansales]

It looks like this might even have happened in real life. Scientists think that their act of observing dark energy might have tipped the universe back into a state in which it could disappear in an instant...

 

[Falsteed]

Read Rant by Chuck Palahniuk, and feel free to mess with time all you want.

 

[avs]

Novels (in no particular order) and not something I am currently obsessed with (so not to cloud my judgment) 9sci-fi/fantasy only) - a lot of good one did not make

Ursula Le Guin - Rocannon's World
Robert Heinlein - Friday
Roger Zelazny - Amber series
J.R.R.Tolkien - LoTR
Strugasky brothers - Hard to be God
Frederick Pohl - Starchild Trilogy
George R.R. Martin - Song of Ice and Fire
George Orwell - 1984
Arthur Clark - The City and the Stars
Stephen King (writing as Richard Bachman) - The Long Walk

Short stoies:
Roger Zelazny - Rose for Ecclestias
Roger Zelazny - This Moment of the Storm
Stephen King - Nona
Isaac Asimov - Runaround
Eric Frank Russel - Amalgoosa
Don't know author - the story about being able to serve time before committing a crime (reduced sentence) and when being able to commit it
Isaac Asimov - Nightfall (?)
Don't know author - the story of insectoid robot who thinks he is human
Don't know author - the story where this robot from future can adjust your personality to the one of the most succesful person who had your personality type
Robert Sheckley - The Monsters

Many great ones did not make it in here....