I can think of others, like 1984, brave new world, flowers for algernon… it’s an opinionated list. They shouldn’t call it “the best of all time” without a credible source.
The book was interesting, partly because of how it came to be (it was originally self-published and gained notoriety and support afterwards; quite the opposite of how publishing normally goes).
Outside of Fifty Shades, that’s not common, especially in modern mass market literature.
Well, books are always better that Hollywood adaptations. But other than watching him sort out how to survive, it had no deep sci-fi thought probing that I would think would warrant it as a much watch scifi classic.
The only ones that are weird not to see are Foundation (though I’ll allow that since I, Robot is here), Left Hand of Darkness and Consider Phlebas.
Other than that, this is great.
I can think of others, like 1984, brave new world, flowers for algernon… it’s an opinionated list. They shouldn’t call it “the best of all time” without a credible source.
The Martian made this list? There was nothing thought provoking about that movie, completly forgetable.
The book was interesting, partly because of how it came to be (it was originally self-published and gained notoriety and support afterwards; quite the opposite of how publishing normally goes).
Outside of Fifty Shades, that’s not common, especially in modern mass market literature.
Well, books are always better that Hollywood adaptations. But other than watching him sort out how to survive, it had no deep sci-fi thought probing that I would think would warrant it as a much watch scifi classic.