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	<title>Chris' Rants &#187; Books</title>
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		<title>SF Books List</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[About a year ago I posted a link to Roger Ebert&#8217;s 102 movies you must see. I had seen 61, which made me happy.
This year, I&#8217;m doing the same thing with the &#8220;Top 100 Sci-Fi Books&#8221;
Here is the list of those I&#8217;ve read:
To keep things simple I am going to post the ones I have [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>About a year ago <a href='somewhat-movie-literate'>I posted a link</a> to Roger Ebert&#8217;s 102 movies you must see. I had seen 61, which made me happy.</p>
<p>This year, I&#8217;m doing the same thing with the <a href='http://home.austarnet.com.au/petersykes/topscifi/lists_books_rank1.html'>&#8220;Top 100 Sci-Fi Books&#8221;</a><br />
Here is the list of those I&#8217;ve read:<br />
To keep things simple I am going to post the ones I have *not* read yet. This way this post can double as my Amazon wish-list <img src='http://chris.ravenscroft.info/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>13	12	Larry Niven	Ringworld	1970<br />
18	17	Robert A Heinlein	The Moon is a Harsh Mistress	1966<br />
20	19	Arthur C Clarke	Childhood&#8217;s End	1954<br />
21	21	Joe Haldeman	The Forever War	1974<br />
25	26	Niven &#038; Pournelle	The Mote in God&#8217;s Eye	1975<br />
27	27	Ursula K Le Guin	The Left Hand of Darkness	1969<br />
29	29	Isaac Asimov	The Caves of Steel	1954<br />
32	32	Frederik Pohl	Gateway	1977<br />
38	35	Isaac Asimov	The Gods Themselves	1972<br />
31	37	Madeleine L&#8217;Engle	A Wrinkle In Time	1962<br />
37	38	John Wyndham	The Day of the Triffids	1951<br />
40	40	Alfred Bester	The Stars My Destination	1956<br />
44	42	Kurt Vonnegut	Cat&#8217;s Cradle	1963<br />
49	48	Vernor Vinge	A Fire Upon the Deep	1991<br />
50	50	Kim Stanley Robinson	Red Mars [S1]	1992<br />
48	51	Walter M Miller	A Canticle for Leibowitz	1959<br />
52	55	Niven &#038; Pournelle	Lucifer&#8217;s Hammer	1977<br />
54	56	Michael Crichton	The Andromeda Strain	1969<br />
58	57	Kurt Vonnegut	The Sirens of Titan	1959<br />
56	58	Ursula K Le Guin	The Dispossessed	1974<br />
60	59	Harry Harrison	The Stainless Steel Rat [S1]	1961<br />
57	60	Iain M Banks	Player Of Games [S2]	1988<br />
62	62	David Brin	Startide Rising [S2]	1983<br />
63	63	Gene Wolfe	The Shadow of the Torturer [S1]	1980<br />
61	64	Alfred Bester	The Demolished Man	1953<br />
66	65	Peter F Hamilton	The Reality Dysfunction [S1]	1996<br />
68	66	Philip Jose Farmer	To Your Scattered Bodies Go	1971<br />
64	67	Iain M Banks	Use of Weapons [S3]	1990<br />
76	73	David Brin	The Uplift War [S3]	1987<br />
75	74	Margaret Atwood	The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale	1985<br />
73	75	John Wyndham	The Chrysalids	1955<br />
72	76	Connie Willis	Doomsday Book	1992<br />
79	79	Ursula K Le Guin	The Lathe of Heaven	1971<br />
83	81	C S Lewis	Out of the Silent Planet [S1]	1938<br />
81	82	Mark Twain	A Connecticut Yankee in KA&#8217;s Court	1889<br />
89	87	Edgar Rice Burroughs	A Princess of Mars [S1]	1912<br />
99	88	Julian May	The Many-Colored Land [S1]	1981<br />
93	89	John Brunner	Stand on Zanzibar	1969<br />
95	90	E E &#8216;Doc&#8217; Smith	Grey Lensman [S4]	1951<br />
85	91	David Brin	The Postman	1985<br />
94	95	Lois McMaster Bujold	Barrayar [S3]	1991<br />
96	97	Stanislaw Lem	[C] The Cyberiad	1974<br />
100	99	John Varley	Titan	1979				</p>
<p>OK, so if I&#8217;ve got my math right, this means that I&#8217;ve read 57 of the 100. Hurray I still have hours of enjoyment ahead of me!</p>
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