Ten Science Fiction/fantasy Books
>> Monday, March 15, 2010
Relax Max did this on his blog and I enjoyed it, even though I did poorly guessing the classics. A large part of that is that I have very eclectic tastes in books (not necessarily the "classics").
These are among my favorites science fiction and/or fantasy books. I wonder how many of these will be recognized among my readers? (Note that Fahrenheit 451 is not one of them; I don't actually own it. The rest of these books I own).
- He walked with the assurance of stature, and most others deferred to him subtly.
- One of the few redeeming facets of instructors, I thought, is that occasionally they can be fooled.
- A merry little surge of electricity piped by automatic alarm from the mood organ beside his bed awakened Rick Dreckard.
- At 10:30 am, sharp, James Eckert pulled up in front of Stoddard Hall on the Riveroak College campus, where Grottwold Weinar Hansen had his lab.
- Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
- Lessa woke, cold.
- In the week before their departure to Arrakis, when all the final scurrying about had reached a nearly unbearable frenzy, an old crone came to visit the mother of the boy, Paul.
- I'm an old man now, but I was already past my prime when Arthur was crowned King.
- Eight chants past midsong: twilight.
- I see in the Lunaya Pravda that Luna City Council has passed on first reading a bill to examine, license, inspect--and tax--public food vendors operating inside the municipal pressure.
One. I know one. I am not well versed in Sci-fi, can you tell?
7. Dune, Herbert
8 is obviously one of the only Camelot retellings that I haven't read. Gak.
Can't we do English lit? I might have a shot.
Hmmm... I only recognize two. #5 is the first line of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. #7 is Dune; it kinda gives it away mentioning Arrakis and Paul.
Wait... Could #3 possibly be the beginning of Phillip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, that Ridley Scott based the movie Blade Runner on?
The closest to English Lit I've done is on Rockets and Dragons, the Mother, though it should be noted that the only English class in college I took (since I tested out of the required classes) was Physics in Fiction and, since it was in conflict with a required class, I took it as an independent study.
So, my "classics" don't necessarily line up with anyone else's.
I should add that every one of these books, on all three blogs, were found either on my ereader or on my "favorite must-have" books shelves I keep in my bedroom. No exceptions.
And, Roy, you're right on all three counts.
I probably could recognize more of these than others. 2 & 5-10.
God. This isn't fair.
Oh?