NPR conducted a survey of the most popular all-time science fiction and fantasy novels and the results are in. According to the polls, these are the top 100 SF & F novels.
Like the “other” meme from the BBC that sent around last year, there are some bizarre inclusions—entire trilogies and series instead of single novels—which I suspect are inevitable given the nature of the process. I mean, I love Iain M. Banks’ Culture series, but that’s what? Ten books? Hardly fair. But then something like Gene Wolfe’s The Book of the New Sun actually is a single novel published in four volumes.…