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By: An Aside | SFX Magazine’s Top 25 Novels | A Dribble of Ink

An Aside | SFX Magazine’s Top 25 Novels | A Dribble of Ink — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:16:23 +0000

[...] comparison, you can find SFX’s list of ‘Top 100 Authors’ HERE. [...]

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:25:28 +0000

you know, top imagine the man who CREATED cosmic Horror, in its entirety HPL really shoulda scored a little higher, im wondering what basis these authors were judged on, sure lovecraft couldnt form a decent conversation if it bit him in the err bottom, but a little credit where it is due. for instance Steven King based many stories off what is obviously Lovecraftian mythos…sigh and yet rated higher, i guess this is a populatirty contest not a contest of creativity srry Steve, hate to knowck youre work i prefer to leave that to you but geez… to think Rowling almoast outscored Phillip K Dick. that in and of itself is a disaster… swich harlan ellison with Lovecraft and lovecraft with “potter” (has she even written anything else worth reading other then english lessons??? WTF…

By: A Dribble of Ink » Blog Archive » Article | Reflecting on 2008

A Dribble of Ink » Blog Archive » Article | Reflecting on 2008 — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:10:50 +0000

[...] the biggest moments for me in 2008 came in June, when I re-posted SFX Magazine’s list of the top 100 SFF authors of all time, as voted on by their readers. Little did I know that this quick aside (secretly [...]

By: jmaxx30

jmaxx30 — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:38:08 +0000

A list compiled or voted on by people that actually read good sci fi or fantasy would not have Anne McCaffery higher on the list than Stephen Donaldson. Although Hobb, Leguin and Rowling are up there pretty high … that is a good thing. And it’s interesting that Stephen King is in the top 20 … Black House and the Dark Tower Series are some of the best fantasy books ever written. I guess I’m just disturbed by the fact that someone who is arguably one of the best selling fantasy authors of all time (Donaldson), whose novels are referenced in advanced litarature course at some fairly high level universities would be ranked so low on this list. And McCaffery whose novels are nothing more than thinly disguised romance novels would be ranked so high. I agree she should be top 100 but top 50 is pretty ridiculous. Although I think that Terry Brooks and Orson Scott Card are both extremely over rated writers … esp Brooks (who pretty much got famous on a direct rip off of Tolkien). Still thanks for putting this together.

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Score books out of ten. - Page 3 - Science Fiction Fantasy Chronicles: forums — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:22:01 +0000

[...] SFX’s Top 100 Authors [...]

By: ZANZA

ZANZA — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 11:50:58 +0000

CS Lewis, good stuff

By: ZANZA

ZANZA — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 11:49:09 +0000

hey, is Bernard Cornwell on this list?

By: ZANZA

ZANZA — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 11:48:01 +0000

I reckoned the Forever War was class-A shit

By: Seb

Seb — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:42:46 +0000

I agree with Luke, Steven Erikson is magnificent. I think if another Top 100 list will be made 10 years from now he will at least be top 15.

I just finished reading Robin Hobbs latest series, and I have to say I have a hard time seeing what people like so much about her writing. All her books can be summarized by: the main character gets blamed for just about everything, and then there is some type of happy ending. And during this, the word “rebuke” is used about a million times.

By: muscrat

muscrat — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:38:45 +0000

who is terry pratchett, and why is rod serling not on the list?

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NextRead » Lists — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:03:55 +0000

[...] Aiden at A Dribble of Ink points me to SFX’s Top 100 Sci-Fi Authors… [...]

By: Luke

Luke — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:40:23 +0000

Wow, yet another top 100 list that is beyond my comprehension. Being an avid reader of fantasy I fail to see how the magnificent Steven Erikson comes 30th. This is surely some kind of joke? His work is so far ahead of just about anything else I have ever read that it perhaps deserves a classification all of its own.

By: Adam Whitehead

Adam Whitehead — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:39:50 +0000

I’m not sure if you can say it’s a ’small’ vote. More than 3,000 votes were placed, which gives the list roughly six times the validity of the Hugo Awards, and SFX is actually the biggest SF&F mag in Europe (possibly the US as well; are there any US SF mags that sell more than 40,000 copies a month? I’m pretty sure Locus doesn’t).

For me, the list is fascinating for the very fact that it was voted for by ‘normal’ SF fans, the people who only buy a few books a year and aren’t the hardcore well-read lot you encounter on the Internet. From that perspective the list is extremely encouraging, if only for Rowling not winning by a landslide. The question isn’t that Aldiss being at #95 on the list is bad, it’s that him being on the list at all when he’s got maybe four books in print in the UK at the moment is a great achievement.

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:47:11 +0000

Good list. However I am sad to not see Timothy Zahn on the list.

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:11:04 +0000

83. Theodore Sturgeon??? Really??? Stanislaw Lem at 71?? Jules Verne at 47? In terms of quality fiction writing rather than genre writing, their low placing is a travesty. But to place such an influential writer in Science Fiction, Aldiss at 95, is plain offensive. In 20 years time, JK Rowling will not be read, I’m sure Aldiss will be. I’m not saying Aldiss should be first (not even close), but 95 is being silly.
This is a small UK genre magazine showing what is popular now, not who is the best or most influential writer. At least the awful JK Rowling isn’t in the top 10. Asimov, Wells, Dick and Tolkien deserve the Science Fiction/ Fantasy top ten, but Pratchett at number one is undeserved. Nasty to say, but that was a sympathy vote.