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Just added a new list:  The ISFDB Top 100 Books (Balanced List)

Check it out and let me know what you think.

A new list!  The Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois.

This is the quintessential series of SF anthologies going back to 1984. It's a bit of a departure for WWEnd as we have really kept ourselves confined to novels thus far but I thought it would be kind of fun to add 'em.  So why the short SF?

- TYBSF is widely followed, highly regarded and eminently collectible.

- I want to see what you guys think of anthologies.

- The lists feature is the perfect vehicle for anthologies and I don't have to commit to more than just this list if it doesn't work.

- I've been reading a lot of short SF lately...

So... what's the verdict?  Do you like it?  Should we stick to novels or would you like to see more anthologies on WWEnd?

I've been thinking about an anthologies section for some time now. There are a bajillion of them out there and I've noticed some great looking new ones have been coming out lately that's I've got to have.  I figured you guys might feel the same.  I figured I'd start with the most famous series and we could add more starting with the award winning anthos and other famous series like The Year's Best Fantasy etc.

Hope you like.

Boo-Yah!

David Pringle's Best 100 Science Fiction Novels

Took a bit longer than I had hoped but now you can go to town.  I fare quite poorly with the Pringle list.  So poorly in fact that I'm not going to speak of it again.  Try not to gloat. 

Check it out and let me know what you think of the list.

I've reviewed the Classics of Science Fiction list and here are the missing books:

1. 1932 - Brave New World - Huxley, Aldous
2. 1948 - World of Null-A, The - Van Vogt, A. E.
3. 1946 - Slan - Van Vogt, A. E.
4. 1949 - Humanoids, The - Williamson, Jack
5. 1917 - Princess of Mars, A - Burroughs, Edgar Rice
6. 1924 - We - Zamiatin, Yevgeny
7. 1970 - Solaris - Lem, Stanislaw
8. 1870 - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Verne, Jules
9. 1930 - World Below, The - Wright, S. Fowler
10. 1938 - Out of the Silent Planet - Lewis, C. S.
11. 1941 - Lest Darkness Fall - De Camp, L. Sprague
12. 1946 - Adventures in Time and Space - Healy & McComas
13. 1950 - I, Robot - Asimov, Isaac
14. 1975 - Deathbird Stories - Ellison, Harlan
15. 1912 - Lost World, The - Doyle, Arthur Conan
16. 1920 - R.U.R. - Capek, Karel
17. 1927 - Short Stories of H. G. Wells, The - Wells, H. G.
18. 1967 - Dangerous Visions - Ellison, Harlan
19. 1863 - A Journey to the Center of the Earth - Verne, Jules
20. 1911 - Hampdenshire Wonder, The - Beresford, J. D.
21. 1935 - Odd John - Stapledon, Olaf
22. 1944 - Sirius - Stapledon, Olaf
23. 1975 - Best of Henry Kuttner, The - Kuttner, Henry
24. 1978 - Persistence of Vision, The - Varley, John
25. 1726 - Gulliver's Travels - Swift, Johathan
26. 1889 - Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, A - Clemens, Samuel Longhorne
27. 1920 - Voyage to Arcturus, A - Lindsay, David
28. 1951 - Gray Lensman - Smith, E. E.
29. 1952 - Player Piano - Vonnegut, Kurt
30. 1955 - Of All Possible Worlds - Tenn, William
31. 1971 - Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth, The - Zelazny, Roger
32. 1974 - Before the Golden Age - Asimov, Isaac
33. 1976 - Best of C. M. Kornbluth, The - Kornbluth, C. M.
34. 1976 - The Science Fiction of Edgar Alla Poe - Poe, Edgar Allan
35. 1936 - War with the Newts - Capek, Karel
36. 1945 - That Hideous Strength - Lewis, C. S.
37. 1948 - Who Goes There? - Campbell, John W.
38. 1951 - Illustrated Man, The - Bradbury, Ray
39. 1957 - On the Beach - Shute, Nevile
40. 1961 - Lovers, The - Farmer, Philip Jose
41. 1967 - Past Through Tomorrow, The - Heinlein, Robert A.
42. 1970 - Science Fiction Hall of Fame - Silverberg, Robert
43. 1975 - The Wind's Twelve Quarters - Le Guin, Ursula K.
44. 1975 - The Best of C. L. Moore - Moore, C. L.
45. 1975 - A Martian Odyssey and Other Science Fiction Tales - Weinbaum, Stanley G.
46. 1886 - She - Haggard, H. Rider
47. 1886 - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Stevenson, Robert Louis
48. 1922 - Girl in the Golden Atom, The - Cummings, Ray
49. 1923 - Clockwork Man, The - Odle, E. V.
50. 1927 - Absolute at Large, The - Capek, Karel
51. 1927 - Deluge - Wright, S. Fowler
52. 1943 - Perelandra - Lewis, C. S.
53. 1945 - Animal Farm - Orwell, George
54. 1953 - E Pluribus Unicorn - Sturgeon, Theodore
55. 1955 - Long Tomorrow, The - Brackett, Leigh
56. 1956 - Under Pressure - Herbert, Frank
57. 1957 - The Black Cloud - Hoyle, Fred
58. 1972 - Sheep Look Up, The - Brunner, John
59. 1972 - Again, Dangerous Visions - Ellison, Harlan
60. 1871 - The Battle of Dorking - Chesney, Sir George
61. 1871 - Coming Race, The - Lytton, Edward Bulwer
62. 1872 - Erewhon - Butler, Samuel
63. 1880 - Across the Zodiac - Greg, Percy
64. 1896 - The Island of Dr. Moreau - Wells, H. G.
65. 1909 - Machine Stops and Other Stories, The - Forster, E. M.
66. 1913 - The Poison Belt - Doyle, Arthur Conan
67. 1915 - Herland - Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
68. 1921 - Back to Methuselah - Shaw, George Bernard
69. 1931 - The Weigher of Souls - Maurois, Andre
70. 1932 - To-Morrow's Yesterday - Gloag, John
71. 1946 - Best of Science Fiction, The - Conklin, Groff
72. 1948 - Final Blackout - Hubbard, L. Ron
73. 1948 - The Lensman Series - Smith, E. E.
74. 1952 - Astounding Science Fiction Anthology - Campbell, John W.
75. 1954 - Brain Wave - Anderson, Poul
76. 1954 - Untouched by Human Hands - Sheckley, Robert
77. 1955 - Re-Birth/The Chrysalids - Wyndham, John
78. 1961 - Dark Universe - Galouye, Daniel F.
79. 1971 - Chronopolis and Other Stories - Ballard, J. G.
80. 1973 - Casey Agonistes - McKenna, Richard
81. 1975 - Science Fiction of Jack London, The - London, Jack
82. 1975 - Best of Frederik Pohl, The - Pohl, Frederik

Hmmmm.  Not quite what I was after though it probably does meet the authoritative requirement!

What I'm looking for is a list that will be generally accepted by most fans as "authoritative" because of both the source of the list and the content of the list.

For instance The ISFDB Top 100 Books list has credibility because the source, content and method of selection are know and deemed sufficiently authoritative that we care.  You don't have to agree with all the books included on the list but you can have some confidence that it's not just a list made by some guys over beers.

In this case, I don't know much about translated works but I have a desire to try the best SF/F from foreign climes.  A list of great translated books that I can trust would be a huge help to me and would provide some great content for WWEnd visitors.  There is a whole world of SF out there that I can't access directly but perhaps I can get a taste of what's happening in Japan or Poland or Russia through the few books that get translated.

@Deven Science: If such a list could be found it would be my top priority.  I'm dying to get more MilSF into the site.  Unfortunately I've not been able to find anything other than some small lists on various blogs and I don't know enough about the sub-genre to make my own.  I'll keep looking though.  Anybody got any ideas?