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COUNT DOWN OF THE 100 GREATEST SCIENCE FICTION OR FANTASY NOVELS OF ALL TIME
What to read? It is a question asked mostly by women, who comprise the majority of America’s reading public. Males make up some teensy other part. Either sex is challenged by a lack of a path through difficult material. It is difficult to know what is best. Although many have made a distinction between the fantasy and science fiction fields, I see no reason to arbitrary draw such a lien. The novels I find I most enjoy straddle the boundaries of the two, which is not to say that hard science fiction and pure fantasy don’t retain their pleasures, and many books characterized at such found their way to this list.
At the nexus of the two genres is where the human imagination begins to reveal frightful and hopeful things about our own society.
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MOVE OVER VAMPIRES, WE’RE LOVING ANGELS INSTEAD
Forget Twilight’s brooding vampire Edward Cullen — the new romantic hero is sporting a halo. Vampire romances from Twilight to True Blood may have dominated the pop cultural landscape in recent years, but now it appears that angels are taking over.
Our obsession with moody, nocturnal blood-suckers looks like it might be about to bite the silver bullet — and our fanged friends replaced by otherworldly creatures of a more cherubic variety.
Up till now, Twilight author Stephanie Meyer has had the bestseller charts all to her herself, but now it’s no longer a place where angels fear to tread, with authors such as Lauren Kate and Becca Fitzpatrick writing books that tell the stories of young women in love with fallen angels.
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NEIL GAIMAN’S FANTASIES
In “The New Mother,” a children’s story published by Lucy Clifford in 1882, two previously well-behaved little girls turn so bad—dousing the fire and breaking the clock and dancing on the butter—that their mother is forced to go away, and a new mother, a demon with two glass eyes and a horrible wooden tail, comes to take her place. At the story’s end, the girls flee to the forest to live; they miss their mother terribly and long in vain for the chance to redeem themselves. Sometimes, at night, they sneak back to their old cottage, where through the window they can see the glint of the new mother’s glass eyes.
Gothic horror was thoroughly out of fashion in children’s literature when, in the early nineteen-nineties, the writer Neil Gaiman began to work on “Coraline,” a book aimed at “middle readers”—aged nine to twelve—in which he reimagined Clifford’s demon as “the other mother,” an evil and cunning anti-creator who threatens to destroy his young protagonist.
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What did you think of the top 100 Science Fiction book of all time, do you agree with the list?
