Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: jr2 on December 19, 2007, 03:48:44 am
Title: Top 100 Sci-Fi stories list
Post by: jr2 on December 19, 2007, 03:48:44 am
Found here (http://home.austarnet.com.au/petersykes/topscifi/lists_short_stories.html)... :yes:
Title: Re: Top 100 Sci-Fi stories list
Post by: karajorma on December 19, 2007, 04:02:22 am
Hmmm. Not read the short story version of Ender's Game but the novel is brilliant. On the other hand I would have ranked Inconstant Moon way above Neutron Star though.
Title: Re: Top 100 Sci-Fi stories list
Post by: NGTM-1R on December 19, 2007, 04:04:18 am
I'm not sure whether to laugh at that site or simply ignore it, based on its lists of novels and the like.
And some of that is sci-fi only in the loosest possible sense.
Title: Re: Top 100 Sci-Fi stories list
Post by: übermetroid on December 19, 2007, 04:04:50 am
The #1 on that list, Nightfall, was actually turned into a good sized book. One of my favorites.
Title: Re: Top 100 Sci-Fi stories list
Post by: Wobble73 on December 19, 2007, 06:20:30 am
And where is "Do androids dream of electric sheep?"
My best and most favourite Sci-fi story
Spoiler:
It was the novel the film "Bladerunner" was based on
Title: Re: Top 100 Sci-Fi stories list
Post by: karajorma on December 19, 2007, 08:42:30 am
And why would a novel appear on a list of short stories? :p
Title: Re: Top 100 Sci-Fi stories list
Post by: perihelion on December 19, 2007, 09:24:01 am
How can any such list not have "Hardfought" or "The Wind from A Burning Woman" in it?
Title: Re: Top 100 Sci-Fi stories list
Post by: Wobble73 on December 19, 2007, 09:43:58 am
And why would a novel appear on a list of short stories? :p
Oh yes! I thought actually "Do androids dream of electric sheep" started as a short story, but became a novel.
Anyway, it's No 1 on the film list! (http://home.austarnet.com.au/petersykes/topscifi/lists_film.html) ;7 :) ;)
Title: Re: Top 100 Sci-Fi stories list
Post by: Mr. Vega on December 20, 2007, 03:59:54 pm
Ok. Nightfall has to be the most overrated short story of all time. Even Asimov himself said he couldn't understand how it got to be so popular. The Ugly Little Boy and the Last Question are by far his best work (aside from the first three Foundation books, of course). And the novel of Ender's Game is way better than the short story. At least Heinlein didn't break the top five.