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Pastimes : A CENTURY OF LIONS/THE 20TH CENTURY TOP 100
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To: Neocon who wrote (2818)5/15/2000 4:18:00 PM
From: Raymond Clutts  Read Replies (1) of 3246
 
I would agree that "Brave New World" must make the cut and that "The Martian Chronicles" is a better Bradbury choice for an SF list as opposed to a "10 Best of Fantasy List" that would contain "Something Wicked". I would categorize "That Hideous Strength" as fantasy (very memorably so as I read it while on an all night fire watch in a flapping tent in the middle of the night in Idaho) but would exclude it from this list for that reason. I must admit the depth of my ignorance by confessing that I've never read "We" or at least I don't recall it in any case.

So then I would remove "Enders Game" and replace it with "Brave New World." I would also concur with your choice of "Slaughterhouse 5" but it's too difficult for me to choose what it must replace. As for "Stranger In A Strange Land." Well, even our favorite authors have their notable artistic failures.

Finally, I like "Canticle" as well as most of the other single books on this list but didn't choose it because I felt it wasn't representative of a body of work within the genre. I believe that it was the only SF novel Miller wrote. There isn't a single Arthur C. Clarke book anywhere to be found on this list and that is a notable omission.

As for damning all modern art to the deep dark pit it professes to represent, well that is somewhat overstating the case. As I sit in my office I look across my desk at a reproduction of, "Couple Sur St. Paul de Venice" by Chagall. I sometimes let rhetorical excess carry me away and I know that not ALL modern art is puerile pap-just most of it.
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