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NPR is doing a top 100 sf novels OF ALL TIME!  list.  (hat tip, Isegoria and Scalzi.)  I have my favorites - the perennial favorite post here at perfidy is the top five list post - but of the books actually on the selection list, if I just had to choose, I'd pick these today:

• The Culture Series, by Iain M. Banks
• A Fire Upon The Deep, by Vernor Vinge
• The Hyperion Cantos, by Dan Simmons
• The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy, by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, by Robert Heinlein
• The Mote In God’s Eye, by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
• Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson
• The Stars My Destination, by Alfred Bester
• Starship Troopers, by Robert Heinlein
• The Uplift Saga, by David Brin

For a lot of the books on the NPR list, I would have chosen a different book by the author, but that's just me being picky.

What really startled me, though, was the vastness of the list that I had not read:

• The Acts Of Caine Series, by Matthew Woodring Stover
• Altered Carbon, by Richard K. Morgan
• Beggars In Spain, by Nancy Kress
• The Black Company Series, by Glen Cook
• The Black Jewels Series, by Anne Bishop
• The Book Of The New Sun, by Gene Wolfe
• Children Of God, by Mary Doria Russell
• The City And The City, by China Mieville
• The Codex Alera Series, by Jim Butcher
• The Coldfire Trilogy, by C.S. Friedman
• The Commonwealth Saga, by Peter F. Hamilton
• The Company Wars, by C.J. Cherryh
• The Conan The Barbarian Series, by R.E. Howard
• The Day of Triffids, by John Wyndham
• Deathbird Stories, by Harlan Ellison
• The Deed of Paksennarion Trilogy, by Elizabeth Moon
• The Deverry Cycle, by Katharine Kerr
• Dhalgren, by Samuel R. Delany
• Don’t Bite The Sun, by Tanith Lee
• Doomsday Book, by Connie Willis
• The Eisenhorn Omnibus, by Dan Abnett
• The Elric Saga, by Michael Moorcock
• The Eyre Affair, by Jasper Fforde
• The Faded Sun Trilogy, by C.J. Cherryh
• Fafhrd & The Gray Mouser Series, by Fritz Leiber
• The Farseer Trilogy, by Robin Hobb
• The Female Man, by Joanna Russ
• The Fionavar Tapestry Trilogy, by Guy Gavriel Kay
• The First Law Trilogy, by Joe Abercrombie
• The Foreigner Series, by C.J. Cherryh
• The Gaea Trilogy, by John Varley
• The Gap Series, by Stephen R. Donaldson
• The Gate To Women’s Country, by Sheri S. Tepper
• Going Postal, by Terry Pratchett
• The Gone-Away World, by Nick Harkaway
• The Gormenghast Triology, by Mervyn Peake
• Grass, by Sheri S. Tepper
• Hard-Boiled Wonderland And The End of The World, by Haruki Murakami
• The Hollows Series, by Kim Harrison
• House Of Leaves, by Mark Danielewski
• I Am Legend, by Richard Matheson
• The Inheritance Trilogy, by N.K. Jemisin
• Kindred, by Octavia Butler
• The Kingkiller Chronicles, by Patrick Rothfuss
• Kraken, by China Mieville
• The Kushiel’s Legacy Series, by Jacqueline Carey
• The Last Coin, by James P. Blaylock
• The Last Herald Mage Trilogy, by Mercedes Lackey
• The Last Unicorn, by Peter S. Beagle
• The Lathe Of Heaven, by Ursula K. LeGuin
• The Left Hand Of Darkness, by Ursula K. LeGuin
• The Legend Of Drizzt Series, by R.A. Salvatore
• The Liaden Universe Series, by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
• The Lies Of Locke Lamora, by Scott Lynch
• Lilith’s Brood, by Octavia Butler
• Little, Big, by John Crowley
• The Liveship Traders Trilogy, by Robin Hobb
• Lord Valentine’s Castle, by Robert Silverberg
• Lud-in-the-Mist, by Hope Mirrlees
• The Magicians, by Lev Grossman
• The Malazan Book Of The Fallen Series, by Steven Erikson
• The Manifold Trilogy, by Stephen Baxter
• Memory And Dream, by Charles de Lint
• Memory, Sorrow, And Thorn Trilogy, by Tad Williams
• The Mistborn Series, by Brandon Sanderson
• The Neanderthal Parallax Trilogy, by Robert J. Sawyer
• The Newsflesh Triology, by Mira Grant
• The Night’s Dawn Trilogy, by Peter F. Hamilton
• Novels Of The Company, by Kage Baker
• On Basilisk Station, by David Weber
• Oryx And Crake, by Margaret Atwood
• The Otherland Tetralogy, by Tad Williams
• The Outlander Series, by Diana Gabaldan
• Parable Of The Sower, by Octavia Butler
• The Passage, by Justin Cronin
• Perdido Street Station, by China Mieville
• The Prestige, by Christopher Priest
• The Pride Of Chanur, by C.J. Cherryh
• The Prince Of Nothing Trilogy, by R. Scott Bakker
• Revelation Space, by Alistair Reynolds
• Riddley Walker, by Russell Hoban
• The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
• The Saga Of Recluce, by L.E. Modesitt Jr.
• The Sandman Series, by Neil Gaiman
• The Sarantine Mosaic Series, by Guy Gavriel Kay
• The Scar, by China Mieville
• The Shattered Chain Trilogy, by Marion Zimmer Bradley
• The Snow Queen, by Joan D. Vinge
• Song for the Basilisk, by Patricia McKillip
• The Sparrow, by Mary Doria Russell
• Stations Of The Tide, by Michael Swanwick
• Steel Beach, by John Varley
• Sunshine, by Robin McKinley
• The Sword Of Truth, by Terry Goodkind
• The Swordspoint Trilogy, by Ellen Kushner
• The Thrawn Trilogy, by Timothy Zahn
• Tigana , by Guy Gavriel Kay
• The Time Traveler’s Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
• To Say Nothing Of The Dog, by Connie Willis
• The Troy Trilogy, by David Gemmell
• Ubik, by Philip K. Dick
• The Valdemar Series, by Mercedes Lackey
• The Vurt Trilogy, by Jeff Noon
• Watership Down, by Richard Adams
• The Way Of Kings, by Brandon Sanderson
• The Wheel Of Time Series, by Robert Jordan
• When Gravity Fails, by George Alec Effinger
• Wicked, by Gregory Maguire
• Wild Seed, by Octavia Butler
• The Windup Girl, by Paolo Bacigalupi
• World War Z, by Max Brooks
• The Worm Ouroboros, by E.R. Edison
• The Yiddish Policeman’s Union, by Michael Chabon

Well, I guess I have some reading to do.