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What happened to Hyperion and Contact? I added them but I don't see them anymore.

Chip wrote: "What happened to Hyperion and Contact? I added them but I don't see them anymore."

Hyperion is #15 and you are one of the two voters.
Contact is #58 and you are the only voter.

I think books are initially put at the very bottom and then the list is recalculated around every 10 minutes.

There are a lot of books missing from this list. If you wanted to add 100 that would be awesome. The lists by decade are useful for this like SF of the 80s

Thanks for the clarification!

removed Children of Time since published in 2015

looks like "Hitchhiker's Guide ..." is in there twice.

Chris wrote: "looks like "Hitchhiker's Guide ..." is in there twice."

looks like the "remove duplicates" command for editing a list is working, at least for this list, at least for the moment. So duplicates handled.

THX

The Call of Cthulhu as Science Fiction? (94 as of posting)

William wrote: "The Call of Cthulhu as Science Fiction? (94 as of posting)"

I would consider that a bit of a stretch. I think it fits better as horror and fantasy.

removed The Experiment for not having enough ratings

removed Summa technologiae for not having enough ratings

removed Old Man's War for being published in 2005

removed Afterworlds for being published in 2014

Thanks for the curators of this list. Sharing lists (or information in general) is already nice, but curating those over time is not an easy feat - especially if there are tons of edits - and can be very helpful.

Mavis wrote: "The rating requirement prevents most of the best science fiction from being added to the list. I personally thought that Cybernarc and Star Quest and [book:Galaxy 666|..."

if you really feel this way, you ought to add these books to the forgotten list - https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

I see that there was a discussion about H.P. Lovecraft, and what to do. I confess that I haven't read any of his work, and I can't imagine that I ever will. It really seems like an extremely remote possibility that it could qualify as science fiction.

From what I have read on the matter, it doesn't sound as though there would be merit in the debate either, in terms of SF, Fantasy, literary considerations, or moral considerations, Couldn't we just declare the subject utterly irrelevant?

Steve wrote: "I see that there was a discussion about H.P. Lovecraft, and what to do. I confess that I haven't read any of his work, and I can't imagine that I ever will. It really seems like an extremely remote..."

The Call of Cthulhu has been tagged as classics by 970 people, fiction by 888 people, short stories by 714 people, fantasy by 710 people, favorites by 372 people and science fiction by 270 people.

This list does not list a threshold for declaring what is science fiction - unlike some of my other lists.

Classification of a book as fantasy or horror or science fiction or lousy or whatever is an interesting conversation to some folks. As long as no librarian arbitrarily removes a book for this or other lists, I find the conversation to be fine.

Sorry to bother but The War of the Worlds shows up near the beginning of page 3 (#210 at the moment of my writing this comment) despite being from the 19th century