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Science Fiction - the 100 Best Novels - By David Pringle

Contents FOREWORD BY MICHAEL MOORCOCK AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION BRIEF BIBLIOGRAPHY Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell [1949] Earth Abides by George R. Stewart [1949] The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury [1950] The Puppet Masters by Robert A. Heinlein [1951] The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham [1951] Limbo by Bernard Wolfe [1952] The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester [1953] Fabrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury [1953] Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke [1953] The Paradox Men by Charles L. Harness [1953] Bring the Jubilee by Ward Moore [1953] The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth [1953] Ring Around the Sun by Clifford D. Simak [1953] More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon [1953] Mission of Gravity by Hal Clement [1954] A Mirror for Observers by Edgar Pangborn (1954] The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov [1955) The Long Tomorrow by Leigh Brackett [1955] The Inheritors by William Golding [1955] The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester [1956] The Death of Grass by John Christopher [1956] The City and the Stars by Arthur C. Clarke [1956] The Door into Summer by Robert A. Heinlein [1957) The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham [1957] Non-Stop by Brian Aldiss [1958] A Case of Conscience by James Blish [1958) Have Space-Suit-Will Travel by Robert A. Heinlein [1958) Time Out of Joint by Philip K. Dick [1959) Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank [1959] A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller [1959)

The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut [1959] Rogue Moon by Algis Budrys [1960] Venus Plus X by Theodore Sturgeon [1960] Hothouse by Brian W. Aldiss [1962] The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard [1962] A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess [1962] The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick [1962] Journey Beyond Tomorrow by Robert Sheckley [1963] Way Station by Clifford D. Simak 1963] Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (1963] Greybeard by Brian W. Aldiss [1964] Nova Express by William S. Burroughs [1964] Martian Time-Slip by Philip K. Dick 1964] The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick [1964] The Wanderer by Fritz Leiber [1964] Norstrilia by Cordwainer Smith [1964-68] Dr Bloodmoney by Philip K. Dick [1965] Dune by Frank Herbert [1965] The Crystal World by J.G. Ballard [1966] Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison 1966] Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes [1966] The Dream Master by Roger Zelazny [1966] Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner [1968] Nova by Samuel R. Delany [1968] Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick [1968] Camp Concentration by Thomas M. Disch [1968] The Final Programme by Michael Moorcock [1968] Pavane by Keith Roberts [1968] Heroes and Villains by Angela Carter 1969] The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin [1969] The Palace of Eternity by Bob Shaw (1969] Bug Jack Barron by Norman Spinrad [1969] Tau Zero by Poul Anderson (1970] Downward to the Earth by Robert Silverberg [1970] The Year of the Quiet Sun by Wilson Tucker [1970] 334 by Thomas M. Disch [1972] The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe [1972] The Dancers at the End of Time by Michael Moorcock [1972-76] Crash by J.G. Ballard [1973] Looking Backward, From the Year 2000 by Mack Reynolds (1973] The Embedding by lan Watson [1973]

Walk to the End of the World by Suzy McKee Charnas [1974] The Centauri Device by M. John Harrison [1974] The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin [1974] Inverted World by Christopher Priest [1974] High-Rise by J.G. Ballard 1975) Galaxies by Barry N. Malzberg [1975] The Female Man by Joanna Russ [1975] Orbitsville by Bob Shaw [1975] The Alteration by Kingsley Amis [1976] Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy [1976] Man Plus by Frederik Pohl [1976] Michaelmas by Algis Budrys [1977] The Ophiuchi Hotline by John Varley [1977] Miracle Visitors by lan Watson [1978] Engine Summer by John Crowley [1979] On Wings of Song by Thomas M. Disch [1979] The Walking Shadow by Brian Stableford [1979] Juniper Time by Kate Wilhelm [1979] Timescape by Gregory Benford [1980] The Dreaming Dragons by Damien Broderick [1980] Wild Seed by Octavia A. Butler [1980] Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban [1980] Roderick and Roderick at Random by John Sladek [1980-83] The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe [1980-83] The Unreasoning Mask by Philip José Farmer [1980] Oath of Fealty by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle [1981] No Enemy But Time by Michael Bishop [1982] The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica by John Calvin Batchelor [1983] Neuromancer by William Gibson [1984]

Bought this in a charity shop yesterday. Then bold claim of the title is somewhat tempered inside: it’s the 100 best English language SF novels from 1949 to 1984 (!). Still, here’s the list.

Harrison Ford on Trump: "It scares the shit out of me. The ignorance, the hubris, the lies, the perfidy. [Trump] knows better, but he’s an instrument of the status quo and he’s making money, hand over fist, while the world goes to hell in a handbasket.”

"I'll see you in Hell!"
—Han Solo
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At the behest of corporate lobbyists, Trump's CFPB will block states from erasing medical debt from credit reports.

This comes as the GOP allows ACA subsidies to expire – which could cause millions to go uninsured and medical debt to skyrocket.

A perfect storm of cruelty.

For the first time, mosquitoes have reached Iceland, a clear sign of a planet in rapid flux. As the Arctic warms four times faster than the rest of the world, even the cold's last refuge is no longer mosquito free.
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2. This is how poets were trained in the Classical tradition. ‘Imitatio,’ they called it.

Hunter S. Thompson used to type out THE GREAT GATSBY so he could “know what it was like to live inside a masterpiece.”

Copy a paragraph you admire from your favorite novel. Then replace the nouns and verbs with ones relevant to your own novel project. Modify it further, reworking phrases, replacing prepositions, making it yours. Live a few moments inside the rhythms of another writer’s prose.

Whenever you hear someone invoke the unitary executive, remember the image below.

This was an inevitable result of the unitary executive theory:
Empowering a president to tyrannically destroy institutions that ensured our government reflects the rule of law rather than his personal whim.

With George Santos, Trump finds another convicted congressional Republican to reward The president has now pardoned or commuted the sentences of most of Republican congressmen convicted of felonies in the 21st century.

In the wake of the George Santos rescue, Trump has now pardoned or commuted the sentences of most of the Republican congressmen convicted of felonies in the 21st century. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Federal agency overseeing US nuclear stockpile will furlough most of its workforce starting Monday | CNN Politics The federal agency responsible for overseeing and modernizing the US nuclear stockpile will furlough the vast majority of its staff Monday as the government shutdown drags on, according to the Departm...

The people guarding the US nuclear stockpile are being furloughed today.

Meanwhile, Trump deemed those who helped him start trolling accounts on Bluesky and who disseminated his shitpost over the weekend essential.

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Donald Trump dumps his diaper on American people and their constitutional rights.

North Carolina Republicans just drew a map giving themselves 11 of 14 congressional seats in our 50/50 state. That’s 79% of the seats for one party.

That’s not representation — it’s a brazen attack on democracy and fair elections.

$40 billion now

Guys: the Republic has fallen.

He's asserting that he's not going to abide by budgetary laws, on top of taxing and spending without congressional approval.

The GOP-controlled Congress gives rubber-stamp a bad name. Even if Congress cared, SCOTUS is empowering all of this.

Old enough to remember when kids being anti-semitic was the basis for a federal government assault on higher education

They'd rather do this than pass a budget.

Coral reefs become first environmental system on Earth to pass climate "tipping point," report says Crucial for marine life and the global economy, coral reefs are the planet's first major environmental system to cross a climate "tipping point" as the world warms.

Coral reefs become first environmental system on Earth to pass climate "tipping point," report says

Bleak House by Charles Dickens: A Preview and Reading Schedule Join us starting October 14 to read Bleak House by Charles Dickens with Yiyun Li

#APSTogether - This October - another guided read by the brilliant and sensitive Yiyun Li - Charles Dickens' Bleak House apstogether.substack.com/p/bleak-hous...

Diane Keaton is smiling and looking to her right. She is wearing a black jacket, a white blouse, a black hat and glasses. A headline reads: "1946-2025: Diane Keaton." Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images

Breaking News: Diane Keaton, who played some 100 movie and TV roles and won the best-actress Oscar for “Annie Hall,” has died at 79. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/m...

Oh this is even worse than was shared this morning.

Shoving libraries under AI. Good work, folks shoving AI into libraries. Now they're just one in the same.

In an era we need to really be clear on the necessity and purpose of these democratic institutions, this is five hundred backward steps.

I'm reading A Burnt-Out Case. There's a character named Deo Gratias who's lost all his fingers and toes to leprosy.

Why is it that socialists are interrogated about wanting to help people but billionaires and their political mascots are never interrogated about the fact that they are already hurting people

Pritzker compares Trump to Putin, calls for invoking 25th Amendment for suggesting military use Chicago as "training grounds" After President Trump suggested Chicago should be used as "training grounds for our military," Gov Pritzker said the 25th Amendment should be invoked to remove the president from office, saying "there...

"It appears that Donald Trump not only has dementia set in, but he's copying tactics of Vladimir Putin. Sending troops into cities, thinking that that's some sort of proving ground for war.. is just, frankly, inane and I'm concerned for his health"

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The president said, in a televised speech, that he's sending his new, less restrained, more violent military into US cities to practice their brutality on immigrants and minorities, to better train them to apply that brutality to other countries.

He said this out loud.

I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort

Judging by their speeches, neither Trump nor Hegseth has paid the slightest attention to how actual wars are being fought in the actual world. The “war fighting” and “lethality” they plan is inside their own country and comes from conflicts inside their own minds.

Trump: "The ones that are run by radical left Democrats -- what they've done to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles. They're very unsafe places & we're gonna straighten them out one by one. This is gonna be a major part for some people in this room. That's a war too. It's war from within"

One person having the power to upend entire industries and economic sectors on a whim every day that puts companies out of business and workers out of jobs with no legislative input is an autocracy, regardless of whether that person initially acquired power through an election.

For 26 but especially 2028 it's time for Democrats to make clear that the current Supreme Court will have to be reformed (expanded in number, reformed in structure) to allow popular govt to continue in the United States. Not so much a litmus test as precondition for any other promise to be credible.

NC auditor hires former GOP director in new ‘election integrity’ oversight role Dallas Woodhouse, who led the state GOP from 2015 to 2019, will serve as the election liaison in Auditor Dave Boliek’s office.

NC Auditor Dave Boliek hires Dallas Woodhouse, former GOP director, in new 'election integrity' oversight role #ncpol
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