----======= THE INTERNET TOP 100 SF/FANTASY LIST =======---Edition Number 234 18th September 2001

r--------------------------------------------------------------------------, | This chart was compiled using votes sent in by 3061 people. If you want | | to vote for a boo , then send a message containing your votes to me at | | tcoo e@maths.adelaide.edu.au. Each line of your message should contain | | a vote for one boo with a score out of 10. For example | | | | 10 Imaginary Boo Title A. Author | | 4 Some Other Title Another Person | | | | indicates that you thought the first boo was brilliant, while the | | second was rather poor. | | | | See http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Cavern/6113/top100.html for more | | information. | L__________________________________________________________________________J =============================================================================== Pos | Title | Type | Author/Editor | Score =============================================================================== 1 Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tol ien 8.90 (1296 2 A Song of Ice and Fire S George R. Martin 8.89 (135) 3 Ender's Game S1 Orson Scott Card 8.65 (1055 4 The Vor osigan Series S Lois M. Bujold 8.60 (132) 5 Roadside Picnic A & B Strugats i 8.49 (72) 6 Krew Elfow F A. Sap ows i 8.48 (33) 7 The Discworld Series S Terry Pratchett 8.44 (145) 8 Dune. S1 Fran Herbert 8.40 (1085 9 The Lions of Al-Rassan Guy G. Kay 8.38 (113) 10 Palindor S1 D.R. Evans 8.36 (29) 11 Tigana Guy G. Kay 8.35 (272) 12 Armor. John Stea ley 8.33 (42) 13 A Fire Upon the Deep Vernor Vinge 8.32 (328) 14 The Hyperion Cantos S Dan Simmons 8.31 (512) 15 The Deed of Pa sennarion S Elizabeth Moon 8.29 (61) 16 The Dragon Never Sleeps Glen Coo 8.27 (22) 17 The Stars my Destination Alfred Bester 8.27 (275) 18 Tales of the Continuing Time S Daniel Keys Moran 8.24 (75) 19 Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes 8.23 (222) 20 The Moon is a Harsh Mistress Robert A. Heinlein 8.22 (495) 21 Replay. Ken Grimwood 8.22 (62) 22 The Annals of the Blac Company S Glen Coo 8.21 (137) ^23 The Nine Billion Names of God C Arthur C. Clar e 8.21 (33) 24 The Hobbit J.R.R. Tol ien 8.21 (797) 25 The Princess Bride William Goldman 8.21 (125) 26 Lord of Light Roger Zelazny 8.20 (286) 27 Bridge of Birds S1 Barry Hughart 8.20 (89) 28 The Coldfire Trilogy S C.S. Friedman 8.19 (51) 29 The Once and Future King T.H. White 8.18 (115) 30 Doors of his Face, Lamps of his Mouth C Roger Zelazny 8.17 (45) ^31 By the Sword Mercedes Lac ey 8.17 (29) 32 Stone of Tears S2 Terry Good ind 8.16 (107) 33 Watership Down Richard Adams 8.16 (162) ^34 The Best of Cordwainer Smith C Cordwainer Smith 8.16 (34) 35 Persistence of Vision C John Varley 8.16 (55) 36 Memory, Sorrow and Thorn S Tad Williams 8.14 (231) ^37 The Demolished Man Alfred Bester 8.14 (243)

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True Names Deathbird Stories The First Chronicles of Amber Snow Crash The Blue Sword 1984 Quarantine Norstrilia The Hero and the Crown A Cloc wor Orange Fiasco Hard to be a God The Last Unicorn The Anubis Gates Startide Rising The Cyberiad Beetle in the Anthill Vlad the Assassin Series The Invincible Player of Games Green Hills of Earth Something Wic ed this Way Comes Alice in Wonderland Soldier of the Mist The Foundation Trilogy The Island of Doctor Death and ... The Boo of the New Sun The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Tea with the Blac Dragon The Dar Elf Trilogy Magic's Pawn Raising the Stones Dying Inside A Wizard of Earthsea Crystal Express The Wheel of Time Series On Stranger Tides The Crystal Cave Arrow's Fall Harpist in the Wind God Stal Ubi Way Station The Fionavar Tapestry A Canticle for Leibowitz Voice of the Whirlwind Futurological Congress Against a Dar Bac ground Neutron Star Cat's Cradle The Tactics of Mista e More than Human Brightness Reef A Song for Arbonne The Door into Summer The Madness Season The Chrysalids A Night in the Lonesome October Expanded Universe The Hitchhi er's Guide to the Galaxy

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Vernor Vinge Harlan Ellison Roger Zelazny Neal Stephenson Robin McKinley George Orwell Greg Egan Cordwainer Smith Robin McKinley Anthony Burgess Stanislaw Lem A & B Strugats i Peter Beagle Tim Powers David Brin Stanislaw Lem A & B Strugats i Steven Brust Stanislaw Lem Iain M. Ban s Robert A. Heinlein Ray Bradbury Lewis Carroll Gene Wolfe Isaac Asimov Gene Wolfe Gene Wolfe C.S. Lewis R.A. MacAvoy R.A. Salvatore Mercedes Lac ey Sheri S. Tepper Robert Silverberg Ursula Le Guin Bruce Sterling Robert Jordan Tim Powers Mary Stewart Mercedes Lac ey Patricia McKillip P.C. Hodgell Philip K. Dic Clifford Sima Guy G. Kay Walter M. Miller Walter J. Williams Stanislaw Lem Iain M. Ban s Larry Niven Kurt Vonnegut Gordon Dic son Theodore Sturgeon David Brin Guy G. Kay Robert A. Heinlein C.S. Friedman John Wyndham Roger Zelazny Robert A. Heinlein Douglas Adams

8.14 8.14 8.13 8.13 8.13 8.12 8.11 8.10 8.10 8.10 8.10 8.08 8.08 8.08 8.08 8.08 8.08 8.08 8.07 8.07 8.06 8.06 8.05 8.05 8.05 8.05 8.05 8.04 8.04 8.04 8.04 8.03 8.03 8.03 8.03 8.03 8.03 8.02 8.02 8.02 8.02 8.02 8.01 8.01 8.01 8.01 8.00 8.00 8.00 8.00 8.00 7.99 7.99 7.99 7.98 7.98 7.98 7.97 7.97 7.97

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^98 Legend. S1 David Gemmell 7.97 (37) 99 The Diamond Age Neal Stephenson 7.96 (139) 100 Spea er for the Dead S2 Orson Scott Card 7.96 (581) ===============================================================================

{SA1} and {SB1} distinguish the first boo s from different series. NOTE 1 : When voting for series, _The Boo of the New Sun_ will refer to the first four boo s. _The Urth Cycle_ includes _The Urth of the New Sun_. Also _The Chronicles of Amber_ refers to all ten boo s. You are also allowed to vote for each boo in the series individually. NOTE 2 : The series below are listed in order of publication rather than internal chronology. A Song of Ice and Fire ---------------------A Game of Thrones A Clash of Kings A Storm of Swords The Hyperion Cantos ------------------Hyperion Fall of Hyperion Endymion Rise of Endymion The Deed of Pa sennarion -----------------------The Sheepfarmer's Daughter Divided Allegiance Oath of Gold

S1 8.89 (135) S2 8.27 (60) S3 8.10 (27)

S1 S2 S3 S4

8.31 7.94 8.26 8.13

(512) (325) (139) (84)

S1 8.22 (61) S2 7.97 (51) S3 8.29 (55)

The Annals of the Blac Company ------------------------------The Blac Company S1 Shadows Linger S2 The White Rose S3 The Silver Spi e S4 Shadow Games S5 Dreams of Steel S6 The Coldfire Trilogy -------------------Blac Sun Rising When True Night Falls Crown of Shadows Memory, Sorrow and Thorn -----------------------The Dragonbone Chair

7.96 7.94 8.21 7.88 8.13 8.00

(137) (88) (88) (68) (74) (70)

S1 8.08 (51) S2 8.19 (46) S3 7.86 (37)

S1 7.85 (231)

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The Stone of Farewell To Green Angel Tower The First Chronicles of Amber ----------------------------Nine Princes in Amber The Guns of Avalon Sign of the Unicorn The Hand of Oberon The Courts of Chaos Vlad the Assassin Series -----------------------Jhereg Yendi Tec la Taltos. Phoenix. Athyra Orca. Dragon. Foundation Series ----------------Foundation Foundation and Empire Second Foundation Foundation's Edge Foundation and Earth Prelude to Foundation Forward the Foundation

S2 8.14 (183) S3 8.06 (185)

S1 S2 S3 S4 S5

7.93 8.13 8.08 8.05 8.08

(431) (317) (302) (306) (305)

S1 S2 S3 S4 S5 S6 S7 S8

7.61 8.03 7.50 8.08 7.64 7.36 7.33 6.51

(123) (74) (61) (64) (54) (51) (38) (6)

The Boo of the New Sun / The Urth Cycle ---------------------------------------The Shadow of the Torturer S1 7.96 (225) The Claw of the Conciliator S2 7.91 (196) The Sword of the Lictor S3 8.04 (176) The Citadel of the Autarch S4 8.05 (175) The Urth of the New Sun S5 7.38 (70) The Dar Elf Trilogy -------------------Homeland Exile Sojourn Wheel of Time Series -------------------The Eye of the World The Great Hunt The Dragon Reborn The Shadow Rising The Fires of Heaven Lord of Chaos A Crown of Swords The Path of Daggers Winter's Heart The Fionavar Tapestry ---------------------

S1 S2 S3 S4 S5 S6 S7

8.05 7.99 8.01 6.99 6.81 6.83 6.90

(780) (632) (643) (233) (215) (196) (175)

S1 7.57 (52) S2 8.04 (48) S3 7.97 (37)

S1 S2 S3 S4 S5 S6 S7 S8 S9

7.92 7.97 7.99 8.03 7.95 7.96 7.84 6.34 5.01

(549) (521) (517) (504) (498) (478) (295) (49) (8)

The Summer Tree The Wandering Fire The Dar est Road

S1 7.83 (186) S2 7.98 (171) S3 8.01 (169)

It is not necessary to read the following series in order, since they are more or less separate novels set in the same universe. Because of this, could you please vote for each of the boo s comprising the series individually (instead of having one vote for the entire series). The Vor osigan Series --------------------Shards of Honor Barrayar The Warrior's Apprentice Borders of Infinity The Vor Game Ethan of Athos Falling Free Brothers in Arms Mirror Dance Cetaganda Memory. Komarr A Civil Campaign Tales of the Continuing Time ---------------------------Emerald Eyes The Armageddon Blues The Long Run The Last Dancer The Discworld Series -------------------The Colour of Magic The Light Fantastic Equal Rites Mort. Sourcery Wyrd Sisters Pyramids Guards! Guards! Eric. Moving Pictures Reaper Man Witches Abroad Small Gods Lords and Ladies Men at Arms Soul Music Interesting Times Mas erade Feet of Clay Hogfather Jingo The Last Continent Carpe Jugulum The Fifth Elephant

8.22 8.16 8.16 8.05 7.80 7.28 7.32 7.98 8.59 7.21 8.60 7.45 7.64

(119) (132) (127) (84) (108) (72) (73) (82) (121) (64) (59) (37) (18)

8.24 7.34 8.21 8.21

(31) (18) (75) (62)

7.53 7.65 7.50 7.79 7.60 7.81 7.38 8.05 7.52 7.63 8.25 7.97 8.02 7.72 8.27 8.02 8.44 7.73 7.60 6.60 6.67 5.48 5.53 5.68

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