Free Flow: Mumbling from P.J. Rodriguez

NPR is asking people to vote for the Top-100 Science Fiction, Fantasy Titles. I used to read such material voraciously, but not so much in the past 20 years. Still, I’d read about 16% of the works, and you’re only allowed to pick ten titles, so I gave it a shot. When you’re limiting yourself this way, it comes down to sentimental favorites and selectings things that aren’t the usual selections.

1. Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
2. I, Robot, by Isaac Asimov
3. The Illuminatus! Trilogy, by Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson
4. Kindred, by Octavia Butler
5. The Lathe of Heaven, by Ursula K. LeGuin
6. The Man in the High Castle, by Philip K. Dick
7. The Riverworld Series, by Philip Jose Farmer
8. Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson
9. The Stand, by Stephen King
10. The Stars My Destination, by Alfred Bester