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[mmcirvin]

Here's a nice page of suggestions of classic stuff to read. Also contains a list of tortured and contradictory definitions of science fiction, and the following priceless quote from J. R. R. Tolkien:

"Fantasy is a natural human activity. It certainly does not destroy or even insult Reason; and it does not either blunt the appetite for, nor obscure the perception of, scientific verity. On the contrary: the keener and clearer is the reason, the better fantasy it will make. If men were ever in a state in which they did not want to know or could not perceive the truth (facts or evidence), then Fantasy would languish until they were cured. If they ever got into that state (it would not seem at all impossible), Fantasy will perish, and become Morbid Delusion."

-- J. R. R. Tolkien, "On Fairy Stories", in "Tree and Leaf", [London: 1964, New York: 1965]

Comments

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Oh, there are lots of problems with that list; several sections of it have weird sampling anomalies, and I found a few factual errors in it, too. ("The Tachypomp" isn't about what they say it's about at all; they seem to have confused it with some other story.)

Le Guin is mentioned, just not in that section.

I think it may have been compiled from reader-submitted odds and ends with varying degrees of detail.

[paracelsvs.livejournal.com]

The biggest problem seems to be that it's a HUGE LIST with MILLIONS OF CATEGORIES.

It's about as useful as a library card index. There's so much in there that there's no way to actually use the information.