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Late to the bandwagon, but this is my wander though James Davis Nicoll's 100 SF/F Books You Should Consider Reading in the New Year.
Some thoughts: A great number of women! Otherwise the diversity is pretty standard, at least within the realms of what I read/circles I follow. Nicoll has more tolerance/love for well-intended early SF/F and the way it influenced the genre. Laudable! I do this for tropes I care about! but I can't and wouldn't want to do it this generally, probably because I don't like most genre tropes. Very little that was entirely new to me is an immediate must-read, complicated by the fact that the library doesn't have most of them in ebook. That said, where we overlap on slightly quieter/more obscure SF/F, like "obscure Cherryh" and "obscure Giffith" and "Elizabeth Lynn <3," is delightful. I suppose my standards for more obscure things still work seeking out is, predictably, arbitrary.
Not for me a profoundly useful list, but a fun one, particularly as a meme.
Bold = read it. (37)
Underlined = read something else by the author and/or on TBR. (46)
Strikethrough = no, ty. (8)
* = I may add this to my TBR because of this list. (13)
( The list )
Some thoughts: A great number of women! Otherwise the diversity is pretty standard, at least within the realms of what I read/circles I follow. Nicoll has more tolerance/love for well-intended early SF/F and the way it influenced the genre. Laudable! I do this for tropes I care about! but I can't and wouldn't want to do it this generally, probably because I don't like most genre tropes. Very little that was entirely new to me is an immediate must-read, complicated by the fact that the library doesn't have most of them in ebook. That said, where we overlap on slightly quieter/more obscure SF/F, like "obscure Cherryh" and "obscure Giffith" and "Elizabeth Lynn <3," is delightful. I suppose my standards for more obscure things still work seeking out is, predictably, arbitrary.
Not for me a profoundly useful list, but a fun one, particularly as a meme.
Bold = read it. (37)
Underlined = read something else by the author and/or on TBR. (46)
Strikethrough = no, ty. (8)
* = I may add this to my TBR because of this list. (13)
( The list )
