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Jan. 19th, 2010 10:24 amSo, I came across this list of Top 100 SFF novels of all time, and as with most lists there's room for error and disagreement but some of the books just strike me as very odd inclusions. (For one thing, there's a shit-ton of Heinlein and while I respect the guy I don't think he was all that great. There's also a shit-ton of Gene Wolfe, whose work I can't assess as I haven't read it.)
I mean, do we collectively think Nabokov's Pale Fire is SFF? I realise genre definitions are a little bit fluid, but I think one's definition of either SciFi or Fantasy would have to be pretty fucking broad to include Pale Fire.
In other news, Serious Eats has released the Top 10 Googled Recipes of 2009, which I suppose is anthropologically fascinating, but all I can think is that I should clearly learn to master these ten foods:
( Cheap protein, carbs, and pleasure foods. )
To sum up: I feel I have mastered these, which is why for my next trick I will make a German dish involving eggs poached in mustard sauce. Because life is short, that's why.
I mean, do we collectively think Nabokov's Pale Fire is SFF? I realise genre definitions are a little bit fluid, but I think one's definition of either SciFi or Fantasy would have to be pretty fucking broad to include Pale Fire.
In other news, Serious Eats has released the Top 10 Googled Recipes of 2009, which I suppose is anthropologically fascinating, but all I can think is that I should clearly learn to master these ten foods:
( Cheap protein, carbs, and pleasure foods. )
To sum up: I feel I have mastered these, which is why for my next trick I will make a German dish involving eggs poached in mustard sauce. Because life is short, that's why.
