1000 novels everyone must read: Science Fiction & Fantasy: Introduction: Fabulous kingdoms and supernatural dimensions | Books | The Guardian
Argues that SF/F isn’t just “spaceships, elves & vampires” and that “every truly original writer must, by definition, create a new world.”
Yeah, sure, that’s fine and all. But I think the genre changed so dramatically (or arguably was created) in the last 70-80 years, that their definition was too broad and their list - although everything on it was a bona fide classic - are not what I would’ve chosen as must reads before I die.
It was nice, though, to see contemporary authors on there as well like Mieville, Baxter, Pullman and Rowling.
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