[BigNaruto]

PLEASE RATE IT FROM BEST TO WORST
PLEASE RATE IT FROM BEST TO WORST
(about half did not do this on the Fantasy thread)

Thank you.
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Dune 9.6
Lucifer's Hammer 9.5
Ender's Game 9.4
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress 9.3
Rendezvous With Rama 9.2
A Fire Upon the Deep 9.2
Foundation Triology 9.1
A Deepness in the Sky 9.1
The Andromeda Strain 9.0
Fahrenheit 451 9.0
The Stars My Destination 9.0

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 8.9
The Way Station 8.7
The Postman 8.6
Stranger in Strange Land 8.6
Mote in God's Eye 8.5
The Man in the High Castle 8.3

The Many-Colored Land 7.7
The High Crusade 7.5
The Martian Chronicles 7.4

Similar Threads
Rate fantasy series you've read out of 10
http://www.sffworld.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17480

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http://www.sffworld.com/forums/showthread.php?p=412893

[ArthurFrayn]

PLEASE RATE IT FROM BEST TO WORST
PLEASE RATE IT FROM BEST TO WORST
(about half did not do this on the Fantasy thread)


This feels like a tourist shouting in his native tongue, thinking that people will understand better if he does so. ;)

It wasn't because people are stupid that they didn't rate them, and if you shout at them they'll comply. People probably didn't rate them because,
they just don' wanna. :p

They probably feel, that it was difficult enough to get to 10, without worrying about which of those is ahead of another, in order.

AND, there's an existing top ten list that is still in use:

http://www.sffworld.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=453

OK? CAN YOU HEAR ME?!!! ;)

[BigNaruto]

This feels like a tourist shouting in his native tongue, thinking that people will understand better if he does so. ;)

It wasn't because people are stupid that they didn't rate them, and if you shout at them they'll comply. People probably didn't rate them because,
they just don' wanna. :p

They probably feel, that it was difficult enough to get to 10, without worrying about which of those is ahead of another, in order.

AND, there's an existing top ten list that is still in use:

http://www.sffworld.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=453

OK? CAN YOU HEAR ME?!!! ;)

Listing it from best to worst makes it easier for comparison. It is not hard to do. Just cut and paste your list if it is not in numerical order. And I was not shouting. I put it in bold to get people attention. If I was shouting, I apologize.

[BigNaruto]

Here's a list to make it easier for you to remember what books you have read. It's the Top 100 sci fi books (update frequently) ranked by this website
http://home.austarnet.com.au/petersykes/topscifi/lists_books_rank1.html

1 1 Frank Herbert Dune [S1] 1965
2 2 Orson Scott Card Ender's Game [S1] 1985
3 3 Isaac Asimov Foundation [S1-3] 1951
4 4 Douglas Adams Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy [S1] 1979
5 5 George Orwell 1984 1949
6 6 Robert A Heinlein Stranger in a Strange Land 1961
8 7 Isaac Asimov [C] I, Robot 1950
11 8 William Gibson Neuromancer 1984
9 9 Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 1954
10 10 Robert A Heinlein Starship Troopers 1959
7 11 Aldous Huxley Brave New World 1932
13 12 Larry Niven Ringworld 1970
12 13 Arthur C Clarke 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968
14 14 Philip K Dick Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968
15 15 H G Wells The Time Machine 1895
16 16 Arthur C Clarke Rendezvous With Rama 1973
18 17 Robert A Heinlein The Moon is a Harsh Mistress 1966
17 18 H G Wells The War of the Worlds 1898
20 19 Arthur C Clarke Childhood's End 1954
19 20 Dan Simmons Hyperion [S1] 1989
21 21 Joe Haldeman The Forever War 1974
24 22 Ray Bradbury [C] The Martian Chronicles 1950
22 23 Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse Five 1969
26 24 Neal Stephenson Snow Crash 1992
23 25 Orson Scott Card Speaker for the Dead [S2] 1986
25 26 Niven & Pournelle The Mote in God's Eye 1975
27 27 Ursula K Le Guin The Left Hand of Darkness 1969
28 28 Orson Scott Card Ender's Shadow [S1] 1999
29 29 Isaac Asimov The Caves of Steel 1954
33 30 Jules Verne 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 1870
30 31 Roger Zelazny Lord of Light 1967
32 32 Frederik Pohl Gateway 1977
34 33 Philip K Dick The Man in the High Castle 1962
35 34 Stanislaw Lem Solaris 1961
38 35 Isaac Asimov The Gods Themselves 1972
36 36 Robert A Heinlein Time Enough For Love 1973
31 37 Madeleine L'Engle A Wrinkle In Time 1962
37 38 John Wyndham The Day of the Triffids 1951
42 39 Neal Stephenson Cryptonomicon 1999
40 40 Alfred Bester The Stars My Destination 1956
39 41 Michael Crichton Jurassic Park 1990
44 42 Kurt Vonnegut Cat's Cradle 1963
45 43 Philip K Dick UBIK 1969
47 44 Isaac Asimov The End Of Eternity 1955
41 45 Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange 1962
43 46 Daniel Keyes Flowers for Algernon 1966
51 47 Carl Sagan Contact 1985
49 48 Vernor Vinge A Fire Upon the Deep 1991
46 49 Mary Shelley Frankenstein 1818
50 50 Kim Stanley Robinson Red Mars [S1] 1992
48 51 Walter M Miller A Canticle for Leibowitz 1959
55 52 Jules Verne Journey to the Center of the Earth 1864
53 53 L Ron Hubbard Battlefield Earth 1982
59 54 Neal Stephenson The Diamond Age 1995
52 55 Niven & Pournelle Lucifer's Hammer 1977
54 56 Michael Crichton The Andromeda Strain 1969
58 57 Kurt Vonnegut The Sirens of Titan 1959
56 58 Ursula K Le Guin The Dispossessed 1974
60 59 Harry Harrison The Stainless Steel Rat [S1] 1961
57 60 Iain M Banks Player Of Games [S2] 1988
65 61 Greg Bear Eon 1985
62 62 David Brin Startide Rising [S2] 1983
63 63 Gene Wolfe The Shadow of the Torturer [S1] 1980
61 64 Alfred Bester The Demolished Man 1953
66 65 Peter F Hamilton The Reality Dysfunction [S1] 1996
68 66 Philip Jose Farmer To Your Scattered Bodies Go 1971
64 67 Iain M Banks Use of Weapons [S3] 1990
69 68 Robert A Heinlein The Puppet Masters 1951
67 69 Philip K Dick The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch 1964
74 70 Arthur C Clarke The City and the Stars 1956
71 71 Robert A Heinlein Have Space-Suit - Will Travel 1958
70 72 Robert A Heinlein The Door Into Summer 1956
76 73 David Brin The Uplift War [S3] 1987
75 74 Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale 1985
73 75 John Wyndham The Chrysalids 1955
72 76 Connie Willis Doomsday Book 1992
78 77 Robert A Heinlein Citizen Of the Galaxy 1957
77 78 H G Wells The Invisible Man 1897
79 79 Ursula K Le Guin The Lathe of Heaven 1971
80 80 William Gibson [C] Burning Chrome 1986
83 81 C S Lewis Out of the Silent Planet [S1] 1938
81 82 Mark Twain A Connecticut Yankee in KA's Court 1889
84 83 Clifford Simak Way Station 1963
91 84 Arthur C Clarke The Fountains of Paradise 1979
82 85 Robert A Heinlein [C] The Past Through Tomorrow 1967
88 86 Dan Simmons Ilium 2003
89 87 Edgar Rice Burroughs A Princess of Mars [S1] 1912
99 88 Julian May The Many-Colored Land [S1] 1981
93 89 John Brunner Stand on Zanzibar 1969
95 90 E E 'Doc' Smith Grey Lensman [S4] 1951
85 91 David Brin The Postman 1985
86 92 Greg Bear Blood Music 1985
92 93 Philip K Dick VALIS 1981
90 94 Theodore Sturgeon More Than Human 1953
94 95 Lois McMaster Bujold Barrayar [S3] 1991
87 96 Clifford Simak [C] City 1952
96 97 Stanislaw Lem [C] The Cyberiad 1974
101 98 Edwin A Abbott Flatland 1884
100 99 John Varley Titan 1979
105 100 Robert Louis Stevenson Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde 1886

[ArthurFrayn]

In fact, my list is in relative order from THE Top Ten list I posted above:

1)Forever War -Joe Haldeman
2)Dying Inside -Robert Silverberg
3)Ubik -Phillip K Dick
4)Starmaker -Olaf Stapledon
5)The Pillars of Eternity -Barrington J Bayley
6)Mission of Gravity - Hal Clement
7)Dhalgren -Samuel R Delany
8)Solaris-Stanislaw Lem
9)Dawn-Octavia Butler
10)Childhood’s End -Arthur C Clarke

[Ropie]

Well, here is my top 10 list from the other thread, put into order (and don't say I never do anything for you!):

1. The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury (10)
2. The Fifth Head of Cerberus - Gene Wolf (10)
3. A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M Miller (10)
4. The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K LeGuin (9)
5. Doomsday Book - Connie Willis (9)
6. The Affirmation - Christopher Priest (9)
7. Non-Stop - Brian W Aldiss (9)
8. Grass - Sheri S Tepper (9)
9. Roadside Picnic - Strugatsky Brothers (9)
10. Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang - Kate Wilhelm (8)

[phil_geo]

Startide Rising - David Brin (10)
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card (10)
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (9.5)
The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula LeGuin (9.5)
Legacy of Heorot - Larry Niven et al. (9.5)
Hyperion - Dan Simmons (9.5)
Chung Kuo series - David Wingrove (9.5)
SnowCrash - Neal Stephenson (9)
The Warrior's Apprentice - Lois Bujold (9)
Neuromancer - William Gibson (9)
Slow River - Nicola Griffith (9)
Dune - Frank Herbert (8)
Altered Carbon series - Richard Morgan (7)
Battlefield Earth - Hubbard (6)
Foundation - Asimov (6)
Red Mars - Robinson (5)
Book of the New Sun - Gene Wolfe (5)

<edit:> I added a few series I have read that were not favorites, since I know that some of those series are incredibly popular and it will provide more info about my likes/dislikes.

[BigNaruto]

Thank you for all your rating. Much appreciated.

There seem to be some confusion. This is not a top 10 list. You can list as many as you want from all the sci-fi novels that you have read out of a score of 10.

[ArthurFrayn]

.There seem to be some confusion. This is not a top 10 list.

You're a fun guy, aren't you? ;) I know I'm having fun...

How about this-
rate your favorite SF novels on a value scale of 1-10 -10 being the highest score...
Think that might have worked better?

[Ropie]

There seem to be some confusion. This is not a top 10 list.
There's no confusion, I just don't have the time/desire to list any more than that, sorry. Once you get beyond ten there could be no limit to how far you'd go... Some people even enter every single bit of information on all of their books in to an on-line library database..!!!!