\nYesterday, Paul McAuley put up a list of what he thinks are the fortyeight essential science fiction titles<\/a>. As per usual, I’ve bolded the ones I’ve read and struck through the ones I dislike.\n<\/p>\n \nFrankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus<\/a><\/strong> MARY SHELLEY 1818 \nAn interesting list. You can’t really argue with it, as it is after all a personal list of essential titles. It is very New Wave orientated: Roberts, Ballard, Dick, Priest, Moorcock, Delany, Le Guin, Disch undsoweiter, but with some surprises. I wouldn’t have expected to see Starship Troopers<\/cite> on this list based on what else is on it. On the whole, for anybody who wants to get acquainted with this particular strand of science fiction: literary, somewhat gloomy and less interested in the hard sciences than the soft sciences, this would be a good start.\n<\/p>\n \nIn terms of McAuley’s own writing this list also makes a lot of sense. You can see the influences at work in his own novels and stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday, Paul McAuley put up a list of what he thinks are the fortyeight essential science fiction titles. As per usual, I’ve bolded the ones I’ve read and struck through the ones I dislike. Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus MARY SHELLEY 1818 Journey to the Centre of the Earth JULES VERNE 1863 After London RICHARD […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[520,517],"class_list":["post-868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction","tag-obsessive-list-making","tag-paul-mcauley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":871,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions\/871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nJourney to the Centre of the Earth<\/strong> JULES VERNE 1863
\nAfter London RICHARD JEFFRIES 1885
\nThe Time Machine<\/strong> HG WELLS 1895
\nThe House on the Borderland WILLIAM HOPE HODGSON 1912
\nWe YEVGENY ZAMIATIN 1924
\nBrave New World<\/strong> ALDOUS HUXLEY 1932
\nStar Maker OLAF STAPLEDON 1937
\n1984<\/strong> GEORGE ORWELL 1949
\nI, Robot<\/strong>, ISAAC ASIMOV 1950
\nThe Martian Chronicles RAY BRADBURY 1950
\nThe Dying Earth<\/strong> JACK VANCE 1950
\nChildhood\u2019s End<\/strong><\/strike> ARTHUR C CLARKE 1953
\nThe Space Merchants<\/strong> CM KORNBLUTH & FREDERIK POHL 1953
\nTiger! Tiger!<\/strong> ALFRED BESTER 1956
\nThe Death of Grass JOHN CHRISTOPHER 1956
\nThe Seedling Stars JAMES BLISH 1957
\nThe Midwich Cuckoos JOHN WYNDHAM 1957
\nStarship Troopers<\/strong> ROBERT A HEINLEIN 1959
\nA Canticle for Liebowitz WALTER M MILLER JR 1959
\nSolaris STANSLAW LEM 1961
\nHothouse BRIAN ALDISS 1962
\nA Clockwork Orange ANTONY BURGESS 1962
\nCat\u2019s Cradle KURT VONNEGUT JR 1963
\nMartian Time-Slip PHILIP K DICK 1964
\nDune<\/strong> FRANK HERBERT 1965
\nThe Crystal World JG BALLARD 1966
\nFlowers For Algernon DANIEL KEYES 1966
\nLord of Light<\/strong> ROGER ZELAZNY 1967
\nNova<\/strong> SAMUEL R DELANY 1968
\nPavane KEITH ROBERTS 1968
\nThe Left Hand of Darkness URSULA K LE GUIN 1969
\nRoadside Picnic ARKADY AND BORIS STRUGATSKI 1969
\n334 THOMAS M DISCH 1972
\nDying Inside ROBERT SILVERBERG 1972
\nThe Fifth Head of Cerberus GENE WOLFE 1972
\nTen Thousand Light Years From Home JAMES TIPTREE JR 1973
\nThe Forever War<\/strong> JOE HALDEMAN 1974
\nInverted World CHRISTOPHER PRIEST 1974
\nThe Female Man JOANNA RUSS 1975
\nArslan MJ ENGH 1976
\nThe Ophiuchi Hotline<\/strong> JOHN VARLEY 1977
\nThe Final Programme<\/strong> MICHAEL MOORCOCK 1968
\nKindred OCTAVIA BUTLER 1979
\nEngine Summer JOHN CROWLEY 1979
\nTimescape GREGORY BENFORD 1980
\nNeuromancer<\/a><\/strong> WILLIAM GIBSON 1984
\nDivine Endurance GWYNETH JONES 1984\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n