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Compiled by www.newscientist.com, scientists and writers got together to list 10 brilliant lost classics of SF. (Please refrain from adding to the list)
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10 books · 7 voters · list created October 16th, 2013 by Lit Bug (Foram) (votes) .
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message 1: by David (new)

David removed two self-published books added by their authors


Lit Bug (Foram) David wrote: "removed two self-published books added by their authors"

Thanks David - I wasn't able to keep a tab since I created this list.


message 3: by Mitchell (new)

Mitchell Friedman Looks like the link at newscientist isn't at all useful since it doesn't have the list. And this list is supposed to have 10 brilliant lost classics - instead it has 12 books including

The Exile Empire from 2014
Gateway from 2014
and New Maps Of Hell: A Survey Of Science Fiction

I suppose Gateway could have been intended to be Gateway


message 4: by Mitchell (new)

Mitchell Friedman Recovering the page from google cache, I find the following

1 Dark Universe as selected by Richard Dawkins
2 The Journey of Joenes as selected by James_E_Lovelock
3 The Cyberiad as selected by Sean Carroll
4 Random Acts of Senseless Violence as selected by William Gibson
5 New Maps Of Hell: A Survey Of Science Fiction as selected by Robert May
6 We as selected by Margaret Atwood
7 Last and First Men as selected by Stephen Baxter
8 Floating Worlds as selected by Kim Stanley Robinson
9 The Listeners as selected by Seth Shostak
10 Earth Abides as selected by Freeman Dyson


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