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Best SF/F books poll @ NPR.org cast your vote for the MBotF

#1 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 21 June 2011 - 03:30 PM

Or don't. It's your choice. Here's the link:

http://www.npr.org/2...oks-you-tell-us

Submit your 5 favorite non-YA sci-fi/fantasy books/series. You have to login in to comment/submit, BUT you can connect with FB/Twitter/Google/Yahoo et al without having to register.

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#2 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 21 June 2011 - 03:31 PM

My picks:

1. Shardik - Richard Adams
2. The Gap Cycle (series) - Stephen R. Donaldson
3. The Malazan Book of the Fallen (series) - Steven Erikson
4. The Acts of Caine (series) - Matthew Stover
5. The Book of the New Sun (series) - Gene Wolfe

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Posted 21 June 2011 - 04:56 PM

I chose

The Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson
The Second Apocalypse by R Scott Bakker
A Song of Ice and Fire by George R R Martin
American gods by Neil Gaiman
The Scar by china Mieville

Note: while I didn't have any doubts for the first four, it was really hard to pick a fifth. Other candidates were: the First Law(Abercrombie),The Terror(Simmons),The Name of the Wind(Rothfuss),Lord of Light(Zelazny) and The Lies of Locke Lamora(Lynch)

Also: Saltman,interesting you put Shardik up there,personally,I found it a rather boring book.

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Posted 21 June 2011 - 07:01 PM

Malazan Book of the Fallen
Prince of Nothing
Way of Kings
Mistborn
Song of Ice and Fire

(i was reluctant to include the entire second apocalypse because it's not finished yet, but i imagine it will easily be one of my all time faves)

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Posted 21 June 2011 - 07:36 PM

1. MBOTF including ICE
2. ASOIF
3. Dresden Files
4. The Black Company
5. Codex Alara

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Posted 21 June 2011 - 08:59 PM

Bauchelain the Evil, on 21 June 2011 - 04:56 PM, said:

Also: Saltman,interesting you put Shardik up there,personally,I found it a rather boring book.

I know a few other people who have had that reaction. It remains my favorite book of all time, strangely moving, set in a rich, well-developed secondary world. And Adams' prose is never better.

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Posted 21 June 2011 - 09:57 PM

NPR is trying to build a top 100 list, so yeah, putting the Malazan books in your top 5 will do good things for Erikson's profile.

I went with:
1) Malazan
2) Book of the New Sun
3) The Scar
4) Dresden Files
5) A Fire in the Sun (George Alec Effinger) - one of the overlooked gems I truly want people to read. Don't bother with the prequel or sequel - they aren't as good or necessary.

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Posted 24 June 2011 - 09:02 AM

The Malazan Book of the Fallen - Steven Erikson
The Prince of Nothing Trilogy - R Scott Bakker
The Scar - China Meiville
Hyperion - Dan Simmons
The Dressden Files - Jim Butcher

Although I admit the last place was a pretty difficult one, runners up including ASOIF, the Takeshi Kovaks trilogy and Mistborn.

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Posted 24 June 2011 - 11:26 PM

Damn it the comments have been closed and I didn't get to post mine. But here it is for shits and giggles:

Malazan Book of the Fallen
The Lord of the RIngs (I include the Silmarillion in this)
Dune
The Dark Tower Series (yes it's Stephen King and they said no Horror but I class this as Fantasy
Usagi Yojimbo

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Posted 25 June 2011 - 11:10 AM

Look like I'm too late for their poll! But I'd probably go with:

The Malazan Book of the Fallen (series) - Steven Erikson
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (series) - Douglas Adams
Prince of Nothing (series) - R. Scott Bakker
The Lord of the Rings (series) - J. R. R. Tolkien
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card

And somewhere close by, despite his already well-recognized status, I would definitely have to include a few of Michael Chrichton's. Sphere, Timeline, Jurassic Park!

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Posted 26 June 2011 - 08:33 PM

My picks.
*.MBOTF excluding ICE
*1st 2 books of the Shannara series Terry Brooks.
*Sailing to Sarantium series and Tigana Guy Gavriel Kay.
*Song of Ice and Fire
*Lord of the rings

These are in no particular order, by the way.

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Posted 03 August 2011 - 12:35 AM

So Malazan is in the final Voting List. Go vote!

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Posted 03 August 2011 - 12:55 AM

Did!

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Posted 03 August 2011 - 10:05 AM

My 10 choices: (in alphabetical order)

Altered Carbon (Richard Morgan)
The Baroque Cycle (Neal Stephenson) (shouldn't be on here, as strictly it's historical fiction, IMO)
The Dune Chronicles (Frank Herbert)
Grass (Sheri S Tepper)
Malaz
The Mote In God's Eye (Niven/Pournelle)
Perdido Street Station (Mieville)
Pliocene Exiles Saga (Julian May)
Tigana (GG Kay)
The Vurt Trilogy (Jeff Noon)

Wow, that was really hard. That's actually a great list.

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