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robert piepenbrink  writes: |
Not sure about the hippies, OFM. Certainly my eyes tend to glaze over when I read Clarke. But you know, I just picked up a cheap copy of Sands of Mars for a re-read. It's been about 50 years. At his best, Clarke put the science in science fiction. I'd say he struggled with plot and characterization, but I don't think it was so much trying and failing as not being what interested him. I still think of Tales from the White Hart as optimum Clarke. It's a short story collection, and each short story imagines a different scientific advance and its consequences. That's sufficient plot for a short story, and personalities would only have gotten in the way. There are perfectly good SF authors who won't do well on the poll because novels weren't their best work. It would be even worse if we were polling for best fantasy novel. |
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| VOTING RESULTS | |||
| Answer | Votes | % | Chart |
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne) | 56 | 17% |  |
|---|---|---|---|
2001: A Space Odyssey (Arthur C. Clarke) | 41 | 12% | |
Armor (John Steakley) | 10 | 3% | |
At the Mountains of Madness (H. P. Lovecraft) | 29 | 9% | |
Canticle for Liebowitz, A (Walter M Miller Jr) | 23 | 7% | |
Childhood's End (Arthur C Clarke) | 15 | 5% | |
Clockwork Orange, A (Anthony Burgess) | 20 | 6% | |
Contact (Carl Sagan) | 9 | 3% | |
Day of the Triffids, The (John Wyndham) | 15 | 5% | |
Door Into Summer, The (Robert A. Heinlein) | 13 | 4% | |
Dragonflight (Anne McCaffrey) | 13 | 4% | |
Dune (Frank Herbert) | 54 | 16% | |
Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card) | 25 | 8% | |
all of the above | 1 | 0% | |
none of these/no opinion | 3 | 1% | |
this is ridiculous | 0 | 0% | |
not my genre | 2 | 1% | |
not my cup of tea | 0 | 0% | |
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