Top 15 Science Fiction Novels?

Lynn’s got a link to this list, which isn’t a bad one as these things go.  I’ve read rather fewer of them than I might have expected, but that always seem to be the case with these things, no?  Especially since we’re talking books rather than authors.  I haven’t read The Time Machine, though I’ve read other H.G. Wells.  I’ve never read the Lensman books because they were impossible to lay hands on while I was blasting through that part of the canon.  They’ve long been on my list of deficiencies that I need to correct.  Slaughterhouse-Five is more of the whole, “read the author, but never this book,” thing, as is Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?.  Gateway, too, though if I’m not mistaken it’s sitting around here somewhere and just narrowly avoided being read this summer. 

Of course, the entire point of telling you about all of this is to say that first, I’ve never read William Gibson because I am just not interested at all, no matter how often people tell me I should be.  And second?  I’ll never, never read the Dune trilogy in its entirety because it was everything I could do to make it through Dune and I never wish to revisit that torture.  Classic or not, I HATED that book.  Hated, hated, hated.  And every so often it occurs to me that I should give it another chance, but no.  Just. Can’t. Do. It.

Sorry.  Except that I’m not.

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