{"id":625,"date":"2006-07-22T22:46:28","date_gmt":"2006-07-23T02:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/07\/22\/yal-100-science-fiction-books\/"},"modified":"2006-07-22T22:46:28","modified_gmt":"2006-07-23T02:46:28","slug":"yal-100-science-fiction-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/22\/yal-100-science-fiction-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Y.A.L.: 100 Science Fiction Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.phobosweb.com\/features\/100books\/\">Phobos Entertainment &#8211; Features &#8211; 100 Science Fiction Books<\/a><br \/>\nSo just how does one find stellar SF? For starters, why don\u2019t you try out these 100 narrative works. Each one should be part of every SF reader\u2019s\u2014not to mention every SF writer\u2019s\u2014repertoire. Many of these novels are award winners, and most have inspired profound trends in science fiction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s not the list I would have assembled, although there is some definite overlap, but it&#8217;s still interesting to look over. Each book has a short paragraph of description&#8211;just enough to pique your interest, as &#8217;twere. <\/p>\n<p>If this were the canon, I would be doing pretty well&#8211;I&#8217;ve read 94 of these.  Of the remaining six, I&#8217;d put three<footnote>War with the Newts Written by Karl Kapek<br \/>Roadside Picnic Written by Boris Strugatsky &#038; Arkady Strugatsky<br \/>Last and First Man Written by Olaf Stapledon<\/footnote> on the &#8220;should do&#8221; list, two<footnote>Planiverse Written by A.K. Dewdney<br \/>Radix Written by A.A. Attanasio<\/footnote> on the &#8220;if I ran into it&#8221; list, and one<footnote>Guess.<\/footnote> on the &#8220;really couldn&#8217;t bring myself to do it list&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Phobos Entertainment &#8211; Features &#8211; 100 Science Fiction Books So just how does one find stellar SF? For starters, why don\u2019t you try out these 100 narrative works. Each one should be part of every SF reader\u2019s\u2014not to mention every SF writer\u2019s\u2014repertoire. Many of these novels are award winners, and most have inspired profound trends in science fiction. Well, it&#8217;s&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/22\/yal-100-science-fiction-books\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-a5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}